Release Notes

Storage Center Scalability Guidelines
The following scalability guidelines are the maximum recommended design guidelines for storage systems running Storage Center 7.3.
Table 2. Storage Center Scalability Guidelines for SC9000, SC8000, SC7020F, SC7020, SC5020F, SC5020, and SC4020 Storage
Systems
Storage Center Object Supported Maximum
Drives
• SC9000 – 1024 drives total, 192 drives per SAS chain
• SC8000 – 960 drives total, 168 drives per SAS chain
• SC7020F or SC7020 – 606 drives total, 192 drives per SAS chain
• SC5020F or SC5020 – 222 drives total, 192 drives per SAS chain
• SC4020 – 192 drives total, 168 drives per SAS chain
Disk Folder 10 disk folders
Server
• 500 servers (Total number of servers includes physical servers, virtual servers, and server
clusters)
• 500 server folders
• 1000 server HBA initiator ports (Total number of HBA initiator ports includes all physical and virtual
ports that are visible to the SAN)
Volume
• 500 TB maximum volume size (or the maximum addressable storage space, whichever is less)
• 2000 volumes
• 500 volume folders
Deduplication 1 PB data ingestion limit (SC4020 – 500 TB data ingestion limit)
Live Volume 500 Live Volumes
Thin Import 10 volumes (maximum simultaneous imports)
QoS Profiles
• 100 Volume QoS Profiles
• 100 Group QoS Profiles
• 100 Volumes per Group QoS Profile
Data Instant Replay (Snapshots)
• Snapshots:
• SC9000 – 32,000 snapshots
• SC8000 – 16,000 snapshots
• SC7020F or SC7020 – 16,000 snapshots
• SC5020F or SC5020 – 8000 snapshots
• SC4020 – 8000 snapshots
• 1000 snapshot profiles
• 100 snapshot history profiles
• 200 consistency groups
• 100 volumes per consistency group
• SC5020F or SC5020 – 50 volumes per consistency group
• SC4020 – 40 volumes per consistency group
Replications
• Source replications:
• SC9000 – 1000 source replications
• SC8000 – 500 source replications
• SC7020F or SC7020 – 1000 source replications
• SC5020F or SC5020 – 500 source replications
• SC4020 – 500 source replications
• 2000 target replications
• SC4020 with Fibre Channel front-end ports – 1000 replications
• SC4020 with iSCSI front-end ports – 230 replications
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