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Galaxy G3G12 / G3G16 Installation and Hardware Reference Manual
28 Section 2 Installation / Connectivity
1.4 Features and Benefits
Highlights
• Models include Single or Dual channel active/active, failover/failback RAID controllers
• 12 or 16 hot-swappable drive bays in a robust rackmount chassis with redundant, hot-swappable
power and cooling modules
• Support for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) 3 Gb/s drives simultaneously in
the same system—choose the drive that is best suited to your application
• Dual Fibre Channel and SAS host ports provide high-availability SAN and cluster-friendly
platform
• JBOD expansion support through a 3 Gb/s SAS x4 port—up to four Galaxy 3G JBOD systems
• Simplified remote management with a comprehensive embedded web-based management via
Ethernet— Galaxy Array Manager ,. Command Line Interface/Utility via RJ-11 Serial Port
• Support for the latest RAID technology—RAID 6 and 60—Protection from a catastrophic
double drive failure
• Resilient data protection features such as Data Migration, SMART monitoring, and Media Scan
• LUN Mapping and Masking bring flexibility for multiple application and OS support on the
same storage subsystem
• Open architecture, industry’s most comprehensive support for SAS and SATA hard drives and
standards-based management interfaces including SNMP, CIM, and WBEM
• Support for the industry standard Disk Data Format (DDF from SNIA) ensures interoperability
and drive roaming even among different RAID vendors
• Compatible with leading SAS and SATA hard drives, host bus adapters, switches and operating
systems
Subsystem and Controller Features
• Controllers: Dual-controller configuration or single-controller configuration. Dual-controller
subsystems feature Active/Active, Failover/Failback.
• Drive Support: Up to twelve 3.5" x 1" hard disk drives: SAS 3Gb/s, SATA II 3Gb/s and
1.5Gb/s. SATA drives require an AAMUX Adapter in dual I/O module configuration (dual-
controller) subsystems.
• Supports any mix of SAS and SATA II 3Gb/s or 1.5Gb/s drives simultaneously in the same
system. Staggered physical drive spin-up.