Owners Manual
SCv3000 and SCv3020 Storage System
Technical Specications
This appendix contains the technical specications for the SCv3000 and SCv3020 storage system.
Technical Specications
The technical specications of the SCv3000 and SCv3020 storage systems are displayed in the following tables.
Drives
SAS hard drives
SCv3000 Up to 16 3.5-in. hot-swappable hard drives (12 Gb SAS)
SCv3020 Up to 30 2.5-in. SAS hot-swappable hard drives (12 Gb SAS)
Storage Controllers
Storage controllers
Up to two hot-swappable storage controllers with one I/O card slot and one optional
mezzanine card per storage controller.
Each storage controller has an internal battery backup unit. Write cache is mirrored
between the two storage controllers. If a power failure occurs, the battery backup
unit provides power to the storage controller so that the write cache can be saved to
an SSD within the storage controller.
Storage Connectivity
Congurations
SCv3000 Supports a total of 208 drives and up to 192 drives on a single SAS chain.
The SAS chain supports up to sixteen SCv300 expansion enclosures, eight SCv320
expansion enclosures, or three SCv360 expansion enclosures.
SCv3020 Supports a total of 222 drives and up to 192 drives on a single SAS chain.
The SAS chain supports up to sixteen SCv300 expansion enclosures, eight SCv320
expansion enclosures, or three SCv360 expansion enclosures.
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
Controller Two hot-swappable storage controllers
Management RAID management using the Dell Storage Manager
Back-Panel Ports Connectors (per Storage Controller)
Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or SAS front-end connectors Connection to a Fiber Channel fabric, iSCSI network, or a direct connection to
servers with SAS HBAs
Ethernet connectors MGMT – 1 Gbps embedded Ethernet port used for Storage Center management
SAS back-end connectors 12 Gb SAS ports for connections to expansion enclosures
NOTE: SAS connectors are SFF-8644 compliant.
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