IBM 88554RU Installation Guide - Page 95
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT200 Storage Server
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For a complete list of supported Fibre Channel hardware, see http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/compat/machines/x455.html#Storage Note: Check the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for the currently certified storage solution with FAStT for Microsoft clustered configurations and for updates to certified solutions: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/search.mspx The IBM TotalStorage FAStT200 Storage Server The FAStT200 Storage Server is a 3U rack-mountable Fibre Channel RAID controller and disk drive enclosure. It targets the entry and midrange segment of the FC storage market. A typical use of the FAStT200 would be in a two-node cluster environment with up to 66 Fibre Channel disk drives attached to the Storage Server. Two models are available: The FAStT200 Storage Server, with a single RAID controller The FAStT200 High Availability (HA) Storage Server, which contains two RAID controllers and can therefore provide higher availability Both models feature hot-swap and redundant power supplies and fans, and you can install up to 10 slim-line or half-high FC disk drives. If you need to connect more than 10 disks, you can use the EXP500 FC storage expansion enclosures. Each EXP500 can accommodate 10 additional disk drives, and up to five EXP500s are supported on the FAStT200. This means that the maximum supported number of disk drives is 60. Hot-swappable and redundant components provide high availability for the FAStT200 Storage Server. A fan or a power supply failure will not cause downtime, and such faults can be fixed while the system remains operational. The same is true for a disk drive failure if fault-tolerant RAID levels are used. With two RAID controller units and proper cabling, a RAID controller or path failure will not cause loss of access to data. Each RAID controller has one host and one drive FC connection. The FAStT200 HA model can use the two host and drive connections to provide redundant connection to the host adapters and to EXP500 enclosures. Each RAID controller unit also contains 128 MB of battery-backup cache. The IBM TotalStorage FAStT600 Storage Server The FAStT600 Storage Server is a 3U rack-mountable Fibre Channel RAID controllers and disk drive enclosure. It targets the entry and midrange segment of Chapter 3. Planning 81
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