Release Notes

Table 2. Storage Center Scalability Guidelines for SC9000, SC8000, SC7020F, SC7020, SC5020F, SC5020,
and SC4020 Storage Systems (continued)
Storage Center Object Supported Maximum
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)
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
Live Volumes
● 500 Live Volumes
● 150 Live Volumes with Auto-Failover
QoS Profiles
● 100 Volume QoS Profiles
● 100 Group QoS Profiles
● 100 Volumes per Group QoS Profile
Thin Import 10 volumes (maximum simultaneous imports)
Table 3. Storage Center Scalability Guidelines for SCv3000 Series Storage Systems
Storage Center Object Supported Maximum
Drives
● SCv3000 – 208 drives total, 192 drives per SAS chain
● SCv3020 – 222 drives total, 192 drives per SAS chain
Disk Folder 10 disk folders
Server
● 250 servers (Total number of servers includes physical servers, virtual servers, and server
clusters)
● 250 server folders
● 500 server HBA initiator ports (Total number of HBA initiator ports includes all physical and
virtual ports that are visible to the SAN)
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