The Next Generation High Performance Storage System

Intransa's breakthrough technology delivers high performance data throughput, with maximum availability and protection.

The PCU100 StorStac Controller is the next generation system that delivers the industry's most economical, high performance, high availability and scalable storage solution. Combined with the power and ease of use of StorControl Storage Management, StorStac is the industry's best storage value.

Product Overview

The StorStac Storage system is comprised of the 10 GigE Performance Controller Unit 100 (PCU100) and the StorStac Storage Capacity Enclosures (SCE). The StorStac Storage system can be deployed with up to four networked 10 GbE PCU100 StorStac Controllers and is architected to grow from a single, 3.75TB SCE through to 1,000TB and beyond. All StorStac PCU100s are preloaded with Intransa StorStac OS software.

The StorStac Storage system provides best-in-class system fault tolerance, based on Intransa's advanced N-Way active/active scalable architecture.

The high capacity, high performance StorStac PCU100 system starts with as little at 3.75TB of RAID-protected storage, and is architected to grow through to 1,000TB and beyond. StorStac PCU100 systems deliver up to 3,000 MB per second throughput. The PCU100 front-end controller supports 10GbE single front end ports and dual back-end 10GbE ports for high availability and outstanding throughput.

Delivering scalable storage and high availability, the StorStac PCU100 system can start with a single StorStac SCE with 3.75TB of RAID-protected storage and is architected to grow to 1,000TB of capacity in a single system.

For scalable performance and high availability, the StorStac PCU100 system starts with a single 10 GbE front end controller and can grow up to 4 PCU100s.

Delivering scalable storage and high availability, the StorStac PCU100 system can start with a single StorStac SCE and grow up to 15 SCE, providing up to 180 TB of capacity.

Software

• StorStac OS
• StorStac Management
• StorStac StorCluster
• StorControl Snapshot
• StorControl StorAR (optional)

The StorStac Storage System includes StorStac OS software that delivers fail-over, load-balancing, volume management, snapshots and replications. The StorStac Storage System comes preloaded with up to four networked PCU20 StorStac Controllers and with the StorStac OS software.

Reliability and Availability

All major components are hot-swappable, Field Replaceable Units (FRUs). Each Intransa StorStac Controller has redundant connections to the disk enclosures, and provides data availability and accessibility by supporting multiple physical mirrors with flexible mirror management.

Management

StorControl is a powerful Graphical User Interface (GUI) for rapid volume creation without requiring knowledge of the underlying data structures. The integrated StorControl Command Line Interface (CLI) is also provided to allow users to create scripts for rapid automated provisioning of storage.

Host Operating Systems Supported

The StorStac Controller supports all major host operating systems and initiators, ensuring flawless installations across all applications and server environments.

• Microsoft™ Windows™ 2000/ XP/ Server 2003 and R2
• Solaris 10
• Redhat™ Linux EL 3, 4 and RH9
• SuSe Enterprise 9
• HP-UX 11i
• Novell Netware 6.5
• AIX 5.3.0.0
• VMWare ESX 3.01

Key Features & Benefits

• Up to four active/active Performance Controller Unit 100's (PCU100) per StorStac System, each with 4 GB cache memory
• Additional PCU100s are easily added to the StorStac System
• Up to four 10 GbE host port connections per StorStac System
• Up to eight dedicated 10 GbE ports to connect to StorStac Storage Capacity Enclosures (SCE)
• A StorStac System can start with as little as 3.75TB SCE and grow through 1,000TB or more storage capacity
• Intransa SCEs support 250, 50 and 750 GB 7200 RPM SATA-II drives
• Each StorStac PCU100 delivers up to 750 MB per second (MB/s) throughput
• A four PCU100 StorStac System provides up to 3,000 MB per second throughput
• Storage virtualization and online, on-demand volume expansion
• RAID Levels: RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
• RAID policy can be set at disk level
• High available, redundant configurations
• System storage can dynamically grow and be provisioned to hosts without disrupting applications or users
• Global hot sparing disk drives

Operating Environment

Temperature:
10 to 35°C (50 to 95°F) – operational
-40 to 60°C (-40 to 149°F) – non-operational

Humidity:
20% - 80% non-condensing

Altitude:
-50 to 10,000 ft. (-16 to 3,048 m)

Shock:
41 G, 2 ms max impulse +z

Vibration:
0.25 G; 3 to 200 Hz

Power

Frequency:
50-60 Hz

AC Voltage:
100-240VAC, single phase

Power Consumption:
335W (steady state); 750W (maximum)

Heat Dissipation:
1200BTUs/hr

Emissions

FCC Class A
EN 55033 Class A
CE Mark
ICES-003 Class A (for Canada)

Safety

UL 1950
CSA 22.2-950
EN 60950

Other

RoHS

Dimensions PCU100

Height:
3.4 in, 8.64 cm, with bezel attached

Width:
17.5 in, 44.43 cm

Depth:
29.31 in, 74.4 cm

Weight:
59 lbs, 26.8 kg

PCU100

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