USED PCU20
The Next Generation High Performance Storage System
Intransa's breakthrough technology delivers high performance data throughput, with maximum availability and protection.
The PCU20 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 2 GigE Performance Controller Unit 20 (PCU20) and the StorStac Storage Capacity Enclosures (SCE). The StorStac Storage system can be deployed with up to four networked 2 GigE PCU20 StorStac Controllers and is architected to grow from a single, 3.75TB SCE through to 1,000TB and beyond. All StorStac PCU20s are preloaded with Intransa StorStac OS software.
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 PCU20 system starts with as little at 3.75TB of RAID-protected storage, and is architected to grow through to 1,000TB and beyond. StorStac PCU20 systems deliver up to 880 MB per second throughput. The PCU20 front-end controller supports two teamed and aggregated 1GbE single front end ports and dual back-end 1GbE ports for high availability and high performance.
For scalable performance and high availability, the StorStac PCU20 system starts with a single PCU20 and can grow up to 4 PCU20s. Delivering scalable storage and high availability, the StorStac PCU20 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.
Key Features & Benefits
- Up to four active-active Performance Controller Unit 20 (PCU20) controllers per StorStac System, each with 4GB cache memory
- Two fully teamed 1 GbE front-end ports and two 1 GbE back-end ports
- Additional PCU20s are easily added to the StorStac System
- Up to four 2 GbE host port connections per StorStac System
- Up to eight dedicated 1 GigE ports to connect to StorStac Storage Capacity Enclosures (SCE)
- Multiple StorStac Storage Capacity Enclosures (SCEs) providing between 3.75 and 12TB capacity can be added per StorStac System, architected to grow to 1,000TB or more
- Intransa SCEs support 250, 500 & 750 GB 7,200 RPM SATA-II drives
- Each StorStac PCU20 controller provides up to 220MB/second throughput
- A four PCU20 StorStac System provides up to 880MB/second throughput
- Each StorStac PCU20 controller delivers linear IOPS scalability up to the maximum number of disk drives configured
- Storage virtualization and on-line, on-demand volume expansion
- RAID levels include RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
- RAID policy can be set at disk level
- Highly available, redundant configurations
- System storage can dynamically grow and be provisioned to hosts without disrupting applications or users
- Global hot sparing disk drives
Software
- StorStac OS
- StorStac Management
- StorStac StorCluster
- StorStac Snapshot
- StorStac StorAR
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 high data availability and accessibility by supporting multiple physical mirrors with flexible mirror management.
Management
StorStac is a powerful Graphical User Interface (GUI) for rapid volume creation without requiring knowledge of the underlying data structures. The integrated StorStac 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 2000/2003 R2 Server and XP
- Solaris 10
- Redhat Linux EL 3, 4 and RH9
- SuSe Enterprise 10
- HP-UX 11i
- Novell Netware 6.5
- AIX 5.3.0.0
- VMWare ESX 3.01
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:
31 G, 2.6 ms max impulse +z
Vibration:
0.26 G; 5 to 350 Hz
Power
Frequency:
50-60 Hz
AC Voltage:
100-240VAC, single phase
Power Consumption:
175W (steady state); 345W (maximum)
Heat Dissipation:
600BTUs/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 PCU20
Height:
1RU, 1.68 in, 4.2 cm
Width:
17.6 in, 44.6 cm
Depth:
With optional bezel: 22.7 in, 57.6 cm
Without optional bezel: 21.5 in, 54.6 cm
Weight:
26 lbs, 11.8 kg
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