Detailed specifications, Raid, Caching – Dot Hill Systems SANnet II 200 User Manual

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Detailed Specifications

RAID

RAID levels

0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 1+0, 3+0 and 5+0. Enhanced RAID Levels
supported with logical volume implementation.

Maximum number of logical drives

8

RAID level dependency to each logical
drive

Independent. Logical drive configured in different RAID levels
can co-exist in an array

Maximum number of drives for each logical
drive

31 (RAID 3 or 5); 45 (RAID 0 or NRAID); 44 (RAID 0+1)

Logical drive identification

Unique, controller randomly generated logical drive ID; Logical
drive name user-configurable

Maximum partitions of each logical drive

32

Maximum number of logical drives in a
logical volume

8

Maximum number of logical volumes

8

Maximum number of LUN per host ID

Up to 32, user configurable

Concurrent I/O

Supported

Tag command queuing

Supported

Dedicated spare drive

Supported

Global spare drive

Supported

Co-existing dedicated and global spare
drives

Supported

Auto-rebuild onto spare drive

Supported

Auto-scan of replacement drive upon
manually initiated rebuild

Supported

Auto-rebuild onto failed drive replacement

Supported. With no spare drive assigned, the controller will auto-
scan the failed drive and starts to rebuild automatically once the
failed drive has been replaced.

Background firmware download

Firmware can be downloaded during active I/Os. Administrator
may find appropriate time to reset controller later.

Auto recovery from logical drive failure

Supported.
Caused when a user accidentally removes the wrong disk and
causes a 2

nd

disk failure of a logical drive with one previously

failed disk

Caching

Write-back cache

Supported

Write-through cache

Supported

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