| Form factor |
2U rack mount |
Controller
configuration |
Dual controller (known as node canister) configuration. |
| RAID levels |
RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10; Distributed RAID 5 and 6. |
| Controller cache |
16 GB per system (8 GB per node canister). V3700 XP is upgradeable to 32 GB (16 GB per node canister). Cache mirroring between the node canisters. Flash-backed cache protection (includes battery). |
| Drive bays |
Up to 264 SFF drive bays per storage system:
- 24 SFF drive bays in the expansion enclosure; up to 10 expansion enclosures
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| Drive technology |
SAS and NL SAS HDDs and SAS SSDs. Intermix of HDDs and SSDs is supported. |
| Drive connectivity |
Dual-ported 12 Gb SAS drive attachment infrastructure.
Controller unit with two node canisters (ports per one node canister):
- 1x 12 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion port for the attachment of the expansion enclosures
Expansion unit with two expansion canisters (ports per one expansion canister):
- 2x 12 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion ports for the daisy chained attachment of the expansion enclosures
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| Drives |
SFF drives:
- 300 GB, 600 GB, and 900 GB 15K rpm SAS HDDs
- 900 GB, 1.2 TB, 1.8 TB, and 2.4 TB 10K rpm SAS HDDs
- 2 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs
- 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB, and 3.2 TB SAS SSDs
- 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, and 15.36 TB read-optimized SAS SSDs
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| Storage capacity |
Up to 4.055 PB (264x 15.36 TB SAS SSDs) |
| Host connectivity |
Standard ports (per control enclosure with two node canisters):
- 4x 1 Gb iSCSI host ports (UTP, RJ-45) (2 ports per node canister)
- 4x 12 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (2 ports per node canister; V3700 V2 XP only)
Optional additional ports on host interface cards (per control enclosure with two node canisters):
- 8x 12 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (4 ports per node canister)
- 8x 1 Gb iSCSI host ports (UTP, RJ-45) (4 ports per node canister)
- 8x 10 Gb iSCSI or FCoE SFP+ host ports (SW fiber, LC) (4 ports per node canister)
- 8x 16 Gb FC SFP+ host ports (SW or LW fiber, LC) (4 ports per node canister)
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| Host operating systems |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 and 12; VMware vSphere 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5. |
| Standard software features |
Virtualization of internal storage, Thin Provisioning, One-way Data Migration, FlashCopy snapshots (up to 64 targets), and Embedded GUI. |
| Optional software features |
FlashCopy snapshots upgrade (up to 2048 targets), Easy Tier, and Remote Mirroring. |
Performance
(V3700 V2 / V3700 V2 XP)* |
- Up to 168 000 / 390 000 cache read IOPS
- Up to 65 000 / 114 000 disk read IOPS
- Up to 17 000 / 29 000 disk write IOPS
- Up to 32 000 / 54 000 disk mixed (70% read/30% write) IOPS
- Up to 4.2 / 6.3 GBps sequential disk read throughput
- Up to 1.1 / 1.7 GBps sequential disk write throughput
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| Configuration maximums** |
Per system:
- Maximum number of storage pools: 1024
- Maximum number of logical volumes: 2048
- Maximum logical volume size: 256 TB
- Maximum number of drives in a RAID array: 16
- Maximum number of RAID arrays: 128
- Maximum number of drives in a distributed RAID array: 128 (including up to 4 spares)
- Maximum number of distributed RAID arrays: 10
- Maximum hot spare drives: No limit
- Maximum number of host ports: 2048
- Maximum number of hosts: 256
- Maximum number of host ports per one host: 32
- Maximum number of snapshots: 2048 (requires an optional license)
- Maximum number of remote mirroring relationships: 2048 (requires an optional license)
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| Cooling |
Redundant cooling with the fan modules that are built into power supplies. |
| Power supply |
Two redundant hot-swap 800 W AC power supplies. |
| Hot-swap parts |
Node canisters, expansion canisters, SFP/SFP+ transceivers, drives, power supplies with fans. |
| Management interfaces |
2x 1 GbE ports (UTP, RJ-45) in a primary/redundant configuration.
Web-based GUI; SSH CLI; SMI-S; SNMP and email notifications. |
| Security features |
Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Secure Shell (SSH), user level security, LDAP authentication |
