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• Comprehensive, Centralized Management Capability

The controller provides a wide range of management capabilities: Configuration Management,
Performance Management, Logical Unit Number (LUN) Management, Security Administration,
and Firmware Update Management.

• Management Options via RS-232 and Ethernet (Telnet)

A RS-232 port and Ethernet port are included to provide local and remote management capabilities.
SNMP is also supported.

• Data Security with Dual-Level Protection

Non-host based data security is maintained with scalable security features including restricted
management access, dual-level protection, and authentication against authorized listing (up to 256
direct host logins per host port are supported). No security software is required on the host
computers.

• Storage Virtualization and Pooling

Storage pooling enables different types of storage to be aggregated into a single logical storage
resource from which virtual volumes can be served up to multi-vendor host computers. Up to 1024
LUNs are supported.

• SES (SCSI Enclosure Services) Support for Enclosure Monitoring

Status information on the condition of enclosure, disk drives, power supplies, and cooling systems
are obtained via the SES interface.

• Absolute Data Integrity and Availability

Automatic drive failure recovery procedures are transparent to users.

• Hot-Swapable and Redundant Components

The controller utilizes redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and a hot swappable fan module
that contains redundant cooling fans.

1.2 The Controller Hardware

The basic controller (See Figure 1–1.) includes:

• A chassis enclosure (with a minimum of 2.56 GB cache memory)

• 10 SAS connectors that connect the controller to the drive enclosures

• Connector(s) for host Infiniband or Fibre Channel (FC-8) connection(s)

• Serial connectors for maintenance/diagnostics

• Ethernet RJ-45 connector

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