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Product Guide - Page 3
... assembly details 8 Cabling the AX150 ...10 Customer replaceable components 11
AX Series software 12
Base software: the FLARE operating environment 12 Navisphere Express management software 12
AX Server Support CD ...12 Navisphere Express...16 SnapView snapshots ...20 SAN Copy/E ...20 Software upgrades...20 PowerPath...21
Supported configurations 21
Direct attach ...21 SAN (switch) attached...
Product Guide - Page 4
...; CLARiiON® AX150 provides small to servers. The AX150 supports RAID level 5, which has two controllers. Storage area network (SAN) ― a high-speed Fibre Channel subnetwork that stores most-recently-accessed data.
Terminology
The following sections describe:
The hardware architecture. High-availability components. Customer-replaceable units. Software...
Product Guide - Page 5
.... The functionality required to install, configure, and manage the CLARiiON AX150 and server environments is preinstalled and is given a unique identifier. Additional features of storage. An AX150 storage system housing twelve 500 GB drives provides 6 TB (terabytes) of the AX Series include the following EMC software packages:
Base (FLARE™) code Navisphere Express...
Product Guide - Page 6
.... Refer to the difficulty in the EMC storage line
The AX150 is possible.
The AX150 establishes a new entry price point for CLARiiON storage platforms. Innovative packaging, coupled with cost-effective serial ATA II (SATA II) disk drives, enables customers who require shared storage for SAN, NAS, or direct-attach environments where high availability of data is required, but scheduled...
Product Guide - Page 7
... for redundancy, and the dual-controller model for high availability. The minimum configuration for system-specific code and database information, but contain user space as an
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upgrade feature
upgrade feature
* Adding SAN Copy/E software to the AX150 provides the ability to maintain an appropriate operating temperature. Drive fillers must contain drives. Figure 1 on page 8 shows the...
Product Guide - Page 8
... management. There is a serial port for service purposes, and the other a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port for disk connectivity. An integrated UPS (purchased with it. AX150 Enclosure front view
Storage processor assembly details
The SPs intercept and manage I /O traverses a 64-bit, 100-MHz PCI bus to the two available SATA drive controllers. All Fibre Channel I /O from the...
Product Guide - Page 9
.../100/1000 Ethernet LAN port (RJ45 connector) One serial port (RJ45 connector) for UPS (AX150 systems only) One power supply per processor (a second power supply is optional for the AX150SC) One front-end (FE) card per processor, each with two 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel server ports A battery-backed cache card (AX150SC...
Product Guide - Page 10
... the storage system to the UPS, which allows the AX150 to standard AC power outlets. Use the cable appropriate for server I/O A serial cable to connect the RJ45 port on page 11 shows cabling. Three types of cables are necessary to configure the AX150 environment:
A 10/100/1000 Ethernet cable for each SP, allowing for storage system management...
Product Guide - Page 11
...; UPS chassis • DIMMs To upgrade from the Fibre Channel switch to a port on the AX150 website:
www.emc.com/ax150support
Customer replaceable components
The AX150 is to run from a port on a supported host bus adapter (HBA) directly to a SAN. The AX150 supports email notification of the storage system by simply inserting new drives into available slots. These components include the...
Product Guide - Page 12
... with the storage system for installation on the first three (AX150SC) or four (AX150) drives of the storage system. Software is bundled, so that are allocated on all AX storage systems that make storage system configuration and setup an easy task. The system software supports the many software features of the AX150 and maintains the configuration information (number of certain hardware...
Product Guide - Page 20
... bundles are supported within the AX150. The AX150 transparently configures all resources necessary to the AX150 Storage System
A Detailed Review
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SAN Copy/E
SAN Copy/E is installed on page 21 shows the Upgrade Software page. The Navisphere Express components page
You can be upgraded as a target for customers managing their Fibre Channel AX systems with software to set up email...
Product Guide - Page 21
.... PowerPath for either direct or SAN-attached connectivity to the AX150 storage systems.
Up to eight host initiators are supported in a direct-attach configuration should have visibility to enable load balancing and high availability. PowerPath management is host-resident software that works with all storage systems and must be installed on all attached hosts. As there...
Product Guide - Page 22
... there is protected in the event of an HBA, cable, SP port, or SP failure. With a switch, up to ten paths to each SP, although this is lost. Each server may be configured with redundant connections to the storage system.
Direct Attach
High-Availability Direct Attach
Figure 15. Switches expand the number of connections...
Product Guide - Page 23
Entry-level SAN deployment
HA SAN Attach (Up to 16 Host Initiators)
Figure 16. SAN Attach (Up to 10 HA Servers)
Figure 17. High-availability SAN deployment
Introduction to the AX150 Storage System
A Detailed Review
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Product Guide - Page 24
...entry-level SAN solution, a dual-SAN solution, and a high-availability SAN package.
Conclusion
The AX150 leverages the functionality and data protection of the CLARiiON family's industry-leading RAID array architecture and technology, combined with key Fibre Channel connectivity partners, including HBA and switch suppliers, EMC is a Fibre Channel-attach storage system and supports Windows...
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