Promise Technology VTrak E310sD VTE310SD Prospecto

* Allows users to balance the LUNs on two controllers and distribute the controller resources evenly to handle the I/O load
** Assume each HDD is 0.5kg
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©2006 Promise Technology, Inc. Specifications subject to change without notice.

Promise Technology, with a track record of over 18 years of storage products development and over 10 years experience in supplying high 
quality RAID storage products, is highly recognized as a premier high quality and dominant RAID storage supplier in the industry with a 
comprehensive storage product line offering including Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) PCIe RAID HBAs, rack mount 
storage systems with FC/SAS/iSCSI and SCSI SAN and DAS storage network connectivity, NAS systems for SOHO and SATA ASICs. 

Milpitas, CA
Tel: 1-408-228-1400
E-mail: sales@promise.com  

Dortmund, Germany
Tel: 49-02-31-56-76-48-0
E-mail: sales-de@promise-emea.com   

Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
Tel: 886-3-578-2395
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Tokyo, Japan
Tel: 81-03-5823-1021
E-mail: sales-jp@promise.com.tw  

Beijing, China
Tel: 86-10-8857-8085 or 8095
E-mail: sales-china@promise.com  

Rome, Italy
Tel: 0039-06-3671-2626
E-mail: sales-it@promise-emea.com  

Son,  The Netherlands
Tel: 31-40-235-2600
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Workingham United Kingdom 
Tel: 44-0-870-112-59-77 
E-mail: sales@promise-emea.com 

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Controllers

Dual Controller Configuration (E310s- Dual)  /  Single Controller Configuration, Upgradeable (E310s - Single)

Automatic Failover/Failback RAID Controllers; Active/Active with LUN Affinity*.

Drive Support

Up to twelve 3.5” x 1” hard drives: SAS 3Gb/s, SATA II 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s -- direct connect in single I/O controller configuration 

or uses the Promise SATA MUX Adapter in dual I/O controller configuration; Staggered physical drive spin-up

Supports any mix of SAS 3Gb/s, SATA II 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s drives simultaneously in the same system; Direct SATA LED support 

External I/O Ports (per 

controller)

Four 3Gb/s SAS x4 host ports; One external 3Gb/s SAS x4 port for JBOD expansion (up to 4 VTrak J-Class JBOD Systems)

Supports Mini-SAS Connector (SFF-8088)

Data Cache

Mirrored and Shared 512MB predictive data cache (max. upgrade to 2GB - must be purchased through Promise);  

Automatic write cache destaging; 72-hour battery backup

Command Queue Depth

512 commands per VTrak controller

RAID Levels

RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 – Any combination of these RAID levels can exist at the same time

RAID Flexibility

Configurable RAID stripe size: 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K and 1MB stripe size per disk

Background task priority tuning: adjustment of minimum I/O reserved for server use during all background tasks

Hot spares

Multiple global or dedicated hot-spare drives with revert options

Max Logical Drives per subsystem

256 in any combination of RAID levels and array types

Max Logical Drives per array

32 logical drives (LUNs); Supports LUN Carving by allowing an array to be divided into multiple logical drives; 

RAID level, stripe size, sector size and cache policy can be configured per LUN. Supports out of order logical drive deletion 

and re-creation out of order logical drive deletion and re-creation

Max LUNs per Target ID

Up to 256

LUN Masking and Mapping

Supports up to 128 initiators based on SAS WWPN

Disk data formats

Supports Disk Data Format (DDF) for industry wide standardization and drive roaming between VTrak systems

Background Activities

Media Patrol; Background synchronizing; Foreground initialization; Rebuild; Redundancy Check; SMART condition polling; 

OCE (Online Capacity Expansion); RLM (RAID Level Migration); 

Priority Control, Rate Control and watermarking per BGA in Disk and NVRAM

RAID Robustness

Physical Drive Error Recovery: PDM (Predictive Data Migration): Replace un-healthy disk member in array, and keep array on 

normal status during the data transition between healthy PD and replaced PD, Bad Sector Re-mapping, Media Patrol, SMART, 

Intelligent error recovery mechanisms for erroneous RAID members, RAID 5/6 inconsistent data Prevent (Write Hole Table), Data 

Content Error Prevention (Read/Write Check Table) NVRAM event logging

SCSI Commands

Supports extensive SCSI command set equivalent to SCSI/FC hard disk drives; 

Variable sector size (512Byte to 4kB) to break OS 2TB limitation; 16Byte CDB support for 64-bit LBA address

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Linux (Red Hat, SuSE)

Multi-Path I/O support

PerfectPath™ Manager – based on Microsoft MPIO architecture. (Windows only)

Management Tools

Operating System independent; Localized in multiple languages; SSL Security support; WebPAM PROe, Web based GUI, via

Ethernet port; Command Line Interface and Utility via Serial Port or Ethernet (Telnet); Auto, Express and Advanced 

configuration support for novice and skilled users. Seamless software failover and failback on management Ethernet port

Management Interfaces/Protocols

Embedded Web server and mgmt support – No host agent is needed; Ethernet, RJ-11 Serial Port; CIM/WBEM,SNMP,SSL,SLP,Telnet

Event Notification

Email, NETSEND, audible (buzzer), and visible (LEDs) alarms

Voltage

100-240 Vac Auto-Ranging

Current (Maximum)

8 A @ 100 Vac; 4 A @ 240 Vac (current rating with two power cords)

Frequency

50-60 Hz

Power Supply

Dual 400W, hot swap and redundant with PFC, N+1 design

Power Consumption  

157.8 Watts (under load w/o HDD)  /  468 Watts (under load with SAS HDD)

Operating Temperature

5°~40°C (-40°~60°C non operational)

Relative Humidity

Maximum 95% 

Vibration

Random, 0.21 grms, 5-500Hz, 30Mins, X, Y, Z axis

Dimensions (H x W x D)

8.8 x 44.4 x 56.1 cm (3.5 x 17.5 x 22.1in) 

Weight

Net weight (system only): 26 kg (57 lbs) without drives, 32 kg (71 lbs) with 12 drives**

Gross weight (including carton): 29kg (64 lbs) without drives

Safety

CE, FCC Class A, VCCI, C-Tick , cUL, TUV, CB, BSMI

Warranty

Three years complete system limited warranty

Support

24 x 7 email and phone support (English only); 24 x 7 access to Promise support site – drivers, firmware, compatibility