The PowerVault MD3000i is a high-performance iSCSI SAN designed to deliver storage consolidation and data management capabilities in an easy-to-use, cost-effective solution.
- Consolidate up to sixteen (16) fully redundant servers, expand to support up to 90TB of data.
- Wizard based installation, intuitive management and advanced data protection software.
The PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI SAN with dual Ethernet ports, redundant hardware and proactive notification can deliver the availability required of business critical applications like Microsoft™ Exchange and SQL. Support for 16 servers and modular scalability offer seamless growth to support your needs today and in the future.
Built for Availability
The Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI provides functionality needed to help provided availability and protection needed, without adding complexity
Redundant components: Support redundant active/active RAID controllers, management ports and power/cooling to provide real security at the hardware level
Automated drive failure detection: Capable of automatically rebuilding a failed drive using an available hot-spare drive.
Intelligent battery monitoring: Intelligent software notifies you before the battery fails, helping to reduce unplanned downtime.
Hot-pluggable components: Remove and replace disk drives, storage controllers, power supplies, and cooling fan modules while the system remains running - without impacting operations.
RAID Levels: Supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5 and 6 offering flexibility in data protection and system performance characteristics.
Premium management functionality: Snapshot and virtual-disk copy capabilities that support hourly, real-time backups of your entire data environment.
Simple Yet Powerful Storage Management
TheMD3000idirect attached storage array delivers a seamless suite of intuitive task-based management capabilities. The Modular Disk Storage Manager can help automatically configure the system for optimal performance and availability.
Multi-host management: Flexibility to manage the entire network from a single console
Recovery guru: A support tool to help diagnose system problems and help determine an appropriate recovery procedure
Enhanced data protection: Optional snapshot and virtual disk copy features
Advanced Data Management
For advanced availability, the PowerVaultMD3000idirect attached storage array offers optional backup and data protection features: snapshot and virtual disk copy (VDC).
Snapshots are point-in-time copies of the data, so if a file is accidentally altered or deleted, it can be recovered easily by reverting to a previous state. Snapshots can be taken instantaneously, minimizing application downtime.
Virtual disk copy (VDC) is a full, replicated copy of a source data taken at a discrete point in time, enabling quick and seamless virtual disk relocation, and disk-based backup and recovery.
Excellent Drive Flexibility
The PowerVault™ MD family enables organizations to mix SAS and SATA drives delivering excellent flexibility to align data requirements with drive capabilities, speed, capacity and cost, to help optimize your storage environment.
SAS for Performance SAS can deliver the speed, performance and reliability to satisfy mainstream single server applications. SAS performance makes it ideal for demanding server applications such as email or database applications that store active and frequently changing information.
NEW Nearline SAS - Performance of SAS, Capacities of SATA The new 7.2K RPM SAS drives leverage the performance efficiencies of SAS making it ideal for customer who are looking for the low cost per GB but can't sacrifice performance. In everyday usage situations customers can see up to a 30% performance increase with the 7.2 RPM SAS drive over the 7.2 RPM SATA drives.
SATA for Capacity SATA disk drives deliver a compelling cost-per-Gigabyte alternative to SAS. SATA drives are ideal high capacity applications where data is accessed and modified less frequently, such as digital imaging, file archiving, audio/video storage, or back-up to disk applications.
NEW Energy Efficient SATA - Superior GB per Watt Solution: The new 5.4K RPM SATA drive offers customers a high capacity, energy efficient alternative to traditional SATA drives. Ideal for capacity intensive applications in a power constrained environments. This 5.4K RPM SATA drive can reduce power consumption up to 30% with less than a 10% degradation in random I/O performance over some 7.2K RPM SATA drives.
Active RAID Controllers
RAID controllers are the brains that govern everything that occurs within the PowerVaultMD3000idisk storage enclosure, performing necessary calculations, controlling I/O performance operations, handling communication with management applications, and storing firmware. The PowerVaultMD3000idirect attached storage array was designed to incorporate twin active/active RAID controllers with mirrored cache for high-availability. If one controller should fail, the surviving controller can handle the full processing load until its mate is brought back online.
Hot-Pluggable Technology
Dell's PowerVaultMD3000idirect attached storage array allows you to remove and replace redundant components without disruption to operation. In the rare event of component failure, disk drives, storage controllers, power supplies, and cooling fan modules are all hot-pluggable - you can remove and replace them for easy repair while the system remains up and running. The PowerVaultMD3000idisk storage array enclosure contains two integrated power supply and fan modules - if one is removed the other can handle the demand, virtually eliminating downtime to your storage array.
Hot-Spare Drives
If a physical disk should fail in the PowerVaultMD3000istorage array, the lost data can be automatically reconstructed onto a hot-spare drive using redundant data found on the surviving disks. When the failed disk is removed, a new physical drive can be inserted in its place, which is used as a new hot spare for other disks that might fail.
