Promise Technology M500p, M500i, M500f, M300p, M300i, M300f Features and Benefits, Feature Benefit

VTrak M-Class Product Manual

All M-Class enclosures include a mid-plane, RAID controller, power and cooling units; and enclosure processor all in one cable-less chassis design. Multiple fans and power supplies provide redundancy to ensure continued usage during component failure. The RAID controller is hardware based and controls all logical drive functions transparently to the host system. VTrak appears to the computer’s operating system as a standard SCSI drive or drives.

Features and Benefits

Feature	Benefit
M500f/i/p: 3U 19-inch wide	Installs easily in any standard rackmount.
enclosure
M300f/i/p and M200f/i/p: 2U 19-	Installs easily in any standard rackmount.
inch wide enclosure
Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5,	Allows system to be tuned for maximum
10, and 50	performance.
Supports online logical drive	Lets you add disk drives to an existing
(array) expansion	logical drive without interrupting data
	accessibility
Supports online RAID migration	Allows you to convert a logical drive from
	one RAID level to another without
	interrupting data accessibility
Supports Serial ATA drives	Allows you to use existing SATA disk drives.
Supports logical drive migration	Allow you to seamlessly move your existing
from other Promise RAID products	logical drives to VTrak without recreating
	them.
S.M.A.R.T. monitoring	Warns of disk drive degradation and
	potential failure.
Up to 25K IOPS (over two Fibre	High processing rate.
Channel or two iSCSI ports)
1 Gb or 2 Gb sustained bandwidth	High data thoughput.
(Fibre Channel)
Up to 1 Gb/sec sustained	High data thoughput.
bandwidth (iSCSI)

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