Promise Technology M300p User Manual

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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. 
Features and Benefits 
Feature
Benefit
M500f/i/p: 3U 19-inch wide 
enclosure 
Installs easily in any standard rackmount.
M300f/i/p and M200f/i/p: 2U 19-
inch wide enclosure 
Installs easily in any standard rackmount.
Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 
10, and 50
Allows system to be tuned for maximum 
performance.
Supports online logical drive 
(array) expansion
Lets you add disk drives to an existing 
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 
from other Promise RAID products
Allow you to seamlessly move your existing 
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 
Channel or two iSCSI ports)
High processing rate.
1 Gb or 2 Gb sustained bandwidth 
(Fibre Channel)
High data thoughput.
Up to 1 Gb/sec sustained 
bandwidth (iSCSI)
High data thoughput.