Dell PowerVault 530F User's Guide - Page 21

The Dell™ PowerVault™ 530F is a storage area network (SAN) appliance that provides enhanced storage management features between host servers and storage subsystems. This chapter describes features of the PowerVault 530F and details hardware and system configurations. The PowerVault 530F offers the following features: Local/remote mirroring Snapshot Copy (point-in-time copy) Logical unit number (LUN) management Booting a server through the PowerVault 530F Each PowerVault 530F is equipped with the following hardware components: Three system processors 512 megabytes (MB) of system memory One PCI (peripheral component interconnect) SCSI (small computer system interface) RAID (redundant array of independent disks) adapter for the internal system drives Two internal SCSI disk drives - these drives are connected to a PCI RAID adapter and are pre-configured as a mirror set; this configuration provides fault tolerance in the event of a single-disk failure Two high-speed Gigabit Ethernet adapters - these can be configured to connect PowerVault 530F systems together for data mirroring over an IP network NOTE: Only the adapter in slot 2 is enabled. Slot 3 is currently disabled. See Figure 1-1 for slot locations. support.dell.com Introduction 1-1