Alfa Computers - Mylex eXtremeRAID 3000

PCI to Fibre Channel RAID Controller

The eXtremeRAID 3000 fibre channel solution, best suited for SAN applications, offer full featured RAID with uncompromising fault tolerance, data availability, longer cable lengths, higher data transfer rates and the ability to attach up to 252 drives for capacities up to 18.1 Terabytes.

Performance/Features
The eXtremeRAID 3000 delivers unparalleled performance and is capable of sustaining disk transfer rates of over 90MB/sec and sustained cache transfer rates of over 180MB/sec. It's dual fibre loops for drive-connect provide redundant connections to give extra fault-tolerance for high-data availability applications. The split memory architecture provides for a cache (ECC for data, parity for execution code) size of 32MB and 64MB for optimum throughput. It uses the fastest (233MHz) RISC processor on a PCI-based RAID solution, up to two 100MB/sec Fibre channel loops, and a 64-bit, 33MHz PCI interface to provide extreme performance for servers.

Adding to the performance story is Mylex's proven, award-winning RAID firmware. The eXtremeRAID 3000 uses driver technology that has won Mylex more TPC-C benchmarks than any other RAID controller worldwide. With this technology, the eXtremeRAID 3000 provides the highest performance and most flexible RAID solution available.

Flexible Massive Storage & Fault Tolerance
The eXtremeRAID 3000, with two fibre loops, supports up to 252 drives allowing system configurations of over 18.1 Terabytes of high performance storage per controller. Using multiple eXtremeRAID 3000s, extremely large systems can be created.

The eXtremeRAID 3000 solution provides full RAID level 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50 and JBOD configuration capabilities.

Mylex's eXtremeRAID 3000 has a multitude of fault detection and fault tolerance features, as well as new functions to ease setup, flexibility and management. Immediate RAID Availability (background initialisation) enables other setup tasks to be performed while the rest drives are being initialised. On line RAID Expansion allows users to add drives to existing arrays and restripe data across all the drives. The additional storage space created by the new drive expands the capacity of the existing logical drive or creates an additional logical drive. The copy drive group feature provides users with a method of transferring the contents of one logical drive to another in a single step.

Exceptional Ease of Use and Manageability
The eXtremeRAID 3000's comprehensive storage management capabilities come from Mylex's Java based Web Array Manager ™ (WAM) and the industry leading Global Array Manager ™ (GAM). These RAID management utilities allow users to remotely configure and monitor RAID subsystems using industry standard protocols. WAM/GAM is rich in management features, allowing users to easily manage their online storage.

CONTROLLER SPECIFICATIONS
RISC Processor	StrongArm SA 110
Speed	233MHz
PCI	2.2
Flash	1MB
Cache	32 to 256MB
Battery Backup	Yes
Drives per Controller	252
PCI Bus	64 bit, 66MHz
PCI Hot Plug	Yes

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
PCI Card	Full length
Power Requirements	+5.0v (+-5%) 3.5 A (max); 22.5 watts
Temperature	0 to 50º C
MTBF	200,000 Hr.
Warranty	Three years
Certification	FCC Class B, CE, UL, PC99, PC99A, SDG 2.0, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Novell, SCO OSR/ UnixWare, Solaris 7

SCSI SPECIFICATIONS

	Supports SCSI1, SCSI2, Ultra SCSI, and Ultra2 SCSI Low Voltage Differential (LVD) devices
	Up to 80MB/sec burst data rate
	Automatic SCSI bus termination
	One Wide Ultra2 SCSI LVD channel
	Supports up to 1.08TB (using 72GB drives)
	15 devices per controller

FIBRE CHANNEL(S) SPECIFICATIONS

	Drive channels: Dual external Fibre (FC-AL) at 100MB/sec per channel
	Sustained cache transfers: over 180MB/sec
	Burst transfers: Up to 100MB/sec per channel
	Sustained disk transfers: over 90MB/sec
	126 devices per channel; 252 devices per controller
	Supports up to 18.1TB (using 72GB drives) per controller

RAID FAULT TOLERANT AND FLEXIBILITY FEATURES

	RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50, JBOD
	Transparent disk drive rebuild
	Mylex Online RAID expansion (M.O.R.E.)
	Up to 32 controllers per system (NT)
	Logical drive size of 2TB, 32 logical drives/ controller
	Immediate RAID Availability; background initialisation
	Variable stripe size per controller
	Variable cache line size per controller
	Up to eight non-disk devices per controller
	Drive roaming during power off
	SAF-TE and SES enclosure management
	Automatic error recovery
	Write-through or write-back cache support
	Automatic detection of failed drives
	Automatic rebuild of hot spare drive
	Hot drive swapping support
	Support for SMART capable drives
	Configuration data stored on disk and NVRAM
	PCI Hot Plug (Windows 2000, Windows NT NetWare)

RAID MANAGEMENT

	Web Array Manager (WAM) - Browser based Java applet and application - Create, manage, expand and monitor programs - Error statistics and performance information
	Global Array Manager (GAM) - Client server GUI interface - Create, manage, expand and monitor programs - Error statistics and performance information
	RAID EzAssist: BIOS resident - RAID configurator

SYSTEM DRIVER SUPPORT

	Windows 2000 - Professional edition, server and advanced server
	Windows NT server 4.0 and Enterprise edition
	NetWare 4.11 and above, 5.x and SMP with NWPA
	SCO UnixWare 7.x
	UNIX OSR 5.0.4, 5.0.5
	DOS 6.x and above
	Solaris 7 (x86)
	Linux

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