Promise Technology M300p User Manual
VTrak M-Class Product Manual
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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.
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
enclosure
enclosure
Installs easily in any standard rackmount.
M300f/i/p and M200f/i/p: 2U 19-
inch wide enclosure
inch wide enclosure
Installs easily in any standard rackmount.
Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5,
10, and 50
10, and 50
Allows system to be tuned for maximum
performance.
performance.
Supports online logical drive
(array) expansion
(array) expansion
Lets you add disk drives to an existing
logical drive without interrupting data
accessibility
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
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
from other Promise RAID products
from other Promise RAID products
Allow you to seamlessly move your existing
logical drives to VTrak without recreating
them.
logical drives to VTrak without recreating
them.
S.M.A.R.T. monitoring
Warns of disk drive degradation and
potential failure.
potential failure.
Up to 25K IOPS (over two Fibre
Channel or two iSCSI ports)
Channel or two iSCSI ports)
High processing rate.
1 Gb or 2 Gb sustained bandwidth
(Fibre Channel)
(Fibre Channel)
High data thoughput.
Up to 1 Gb/sec sustained
bandwidth (iSCSI)
bandwidth (iSCSI)
High data thoughput.