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Increased storage capacity: Solutions directly attach to servers
 PowerVault MD1200Customers seeking versatility and high-capacity storage for mainstream applications with optimal performance in sequential (streaming) applications. Select |  PowerVault MD1220Customers seeking a direct-attached, energy-efficient storage array that provides the performance to satisfy demanding applications. Select | PowerVault MD3200 Array SeriesConsolidate your storage in a affordable PowerVault™ MD3 array-series designed for maximum performance and capacity. Select |
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Customers seeking versatility and high-capacity storage for mainstream applications, with optimal performance in sequential (streaming) applications. | Customers seeking a direct-attached, energy-efficient storage array that provides the performance to satisfy demanding applications. | Integrating high-performance, high-capacity storage into existing rack enclosures while simplifying data management, protection and recovery. |
Storage
| Up to twelve (12) hot-pluggable SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) at 7200, 10K and 15K rpm and SAS Solid State Drives (SSDs) 3.5" SAS HDDs 15,000 RPM 6Gb/s SAS drives available in 300GB*, 450GB* and 600GB* 7,200 RPM (Nearline) 6Gb/s SAS drives available in 500GB*, 1TB*, 2TB* and 3TB* Maximum Capacity (per enclosure) 36TB* using twelve 3TB* 7,200 RPM 6Gb/s SAS disk drives Expansion Capabilities PERC H800 Host-RAID adapter enables expansion to 8 enclosures (4 enclosures per port) | Drives Up to twenty four (24) 2.5-inch hot-pluggable SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) at 7200, 10K, 15K rpm and SAS Solid State Drives (SSDs). 2.5" SAS HDDs 15,000 RPM 6Gb/s SAS drives available in 73GB* and 146GB* 10,000 RPM 6Gb/s SAS drives available in 146GB*, 300GB* and 600GB* 7,200 RPM (Nearline) 6Gb/s SAS drives available in 500GB* 2.5" SAS SSDs 3Gb/s SSDs available in 150GB* Maximum Capacity (per enclosure) 14.4TB* using twenty four (24) 600GB* 10K RPM 6Gb/s SAS HDDs Expansion Capabilities PERC H800 enables expansion to 8 enclosures, 4 per port | Drives MD3200: Up to Twelve (12) 3.5" SAS, NL SAS and SSD MD3220: Up to Twenty-four (24) 2.5" SAS, NL SAS and SSD MD3260: Up to Sixty (60) 2.5” or 3.5”SAS, NL SAS and SSD MD3200 3.5”--15,000 RPM SAS drives available in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB 3.5"--7,200 RPM Near-line SAS drives available in 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 3TB MD3220 2.5"--15,000 RPM SAS drives available in 73GB and 146GB 2.5"--10,000 RPM SAS drives available in 146GB and 300GB 2.5"--7,200 RPM Near-line SAS drives available in 500GB 2.5"--Solid State Drive (SSD) available in 149GB (available in 3.5” HDD carriers) MD3260 3.5"--7,200 RPM Near-line SAS drives available in 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 3TB 2.5"--15,000 RPM SAS drives available in 73GB and 146GB 2.5"--10,000 RPM SAS drives available in 146GB and 300GB 2.5"--7,200 RPM Near-line SAS drives available in 500GB 2.5"--Solid State Drive (SSD) available in 149GB (available in 3.5” HDD carriers) MD3060e 3.5" --7,200 RPM Near-line SAS drives available in 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 3TB 2.5"-- 15,000 RPM SAS drives available in 73GB and 146GB 2.5"--10,000 RPM SAS drives available in 146GB and 300GB 2.5"--7,200 RPM Near-line SAS drives available in 500GB 2.5"--Solid State Drive (SSD) available in 149GB (available in 3.5” HDD carriers) See PowerVault MD3200/MD3220 Support Matrix for the most current list of supported hard drives http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/md3200/ See PowerVault MD3260 Support Matrix for the most current list of supported hard drives on the dense array http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/md3260/en/index.htm Expansion Capabilities Up to 192 drives with MD1200/MD1220 expansion enclosures on the MD3200 & MD3220 arrays Up to 180 drives with MD3060e expansion enclosures on the MD3260 array |
Connectivity
| Support for the following configurations: Unified mode (single path) for daisy chaining of up to 8 enclosures per PERC H800 (4 enclosures per port, single path) Unified mode (redundant path) for daisy chaining up to 4 enclosures per PERC H800 (4 enclosures connected to both ports via redundant path cabling) Split mode with dual Enclosure Management Modules providing direct connectivity to drives 0 though 5 and a separate connectivity to drives 6 through 11. | Support for the following configurations: Unified mode (single path) for daisy chaining of up to 8 enclosures per PERC H800 (4 enclosures per port, single path) Unified mode (redundant path) for daisy chaining up to 4 enclosures per PERC H800 (4 enclosures connected to both ports via redundant path cabling) Split mode with dual Enclosure Management Modules providing direct connectivity to drives 0 though 11 and a separate connectivity to drives 12 through 23. | Hot Swappable controllers Single Controller Models (MD3200 and MD3220) Directly connect up to two high-availability (HA)-configured servers or eight non-HA-configured servers to a single MD3200 or MD3220 storage system Dual Controller Models (MD3220i, MD3220i, and MD3260i) Directly connect up to four high-availability (HA)-configured servers or eight non-HA-configured servers to a single MD3200 or MD3220 storage system MD3060e Contains two hot-swappable enclosure management modules (EMMs) Controller features Each controller provides four 6 Gbps SAS ports (a total of eight for dual controller models) Each controller contains 2GB of battery-backed cache Dual controllers operate in an active-active environment mirroring each other’s cache Cache protection is provided via flash memory for permanent data protection Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) eliminates the need for complex RAID management while optimizing data protection, and can be used along side of existing RAID configurations Dual controllers required for the MD3260 dense array RAID Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 6 Up to 192 physical disks per group in RAID 0, 1, 10 Up to 30 physical disks per group in RAID 5, 6 Up to 512 virtual disks |
Operating System
| Refer to RAID Card for details on supported Operating Systems: PERC H800 | Refer to the PERC RAID Card details for supported Operating Systems PERC H800 | 64-Bit Microsoft Server 2003/2008, 64-Bit Windows Win7, RHEL 4/5, SLES 10/11, OEL v4/v5 Microsoft Windows: 64-bit Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 Linux: RHEL 5/6; SLES 10/11; OEL 5/6; CentOS 5/6; Debian Squeeze; Fedora 16/17; openSUSE 12; Ubuntu 10/11/12 UNIX: Solaris 10/11 x64; OpenSolaris 2009.06 x64; OSX 10.6/10.7/10.8 Hypervisors: VMware ESX 4.0/4.1/ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1, Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 | Microsoft® Windows® , Linux, VMware® , Microsoft Hyper-V™ See PowerVault MD3200/MD3220 Support Matrix for a list of currently supported operating systems |
Chassis
| Height 8.7cm (3.43 inches) Width 48.2cm (18.98 inches) Depth 59.4 (23.39 inches) Weight 28.39 kg (62.6 lb) (maximum configuration) 8.84 kg (19.5 lb) (empty) | Height: 8.7cm (3.43 inches) Width: 48.2cm (18.98 inches) Depth: 54.1 (21.30 inches) Weight: 23.31 kg (51 lb) (maximum configuration) 8.61 kg (19 lb) (empty) |
* IOPS performance achieved using Fusion's new Virtual Controller feature | Chassis (height x width x depth) MD3200: 8.68cm (3.42") x 44.63cm (17.57") x 56.1cm (22.09") MD3220: 8.68cm (3.42") x 44.63cm (17.57") x 50.8 (20") MD3260 177.80mm (7.0”) x 482.60mm(19.0”) x 85.50mm(32.5”) MD3060e: 177.80mm (7.0”) x 482.60mm (19.0”) x 85.50mm (32.5”) Weight MD3200: 29.3kg (64.59 lbs.) (maximum configuration) MD3220: 24.2kg (53.35 lbs.) (maximum configuration) MD3260 105.23kg (232 lbs.) (maximum configuration) MD3060e: 105.23kg (232 lbs.) (maximum configuration) MD3060e Dense Enclosure EBOD expansion enclosure designed for use with the MD3 dense array series only (MD3260, MD3260i, MD3660i, MD3660f) Dimensions are identical to the dense array series (MD3260, MD3260i, MD3660i, MD3660f) Each MD3 dense series array controller has one 6 Gb/s SAS Out port for connections to the MD3060e enclosure expansion for additional capacity (max 2 per dense array) For systems without premium feature activation, the physical disk limit is 120. MD3060e Contains two hot-swappable enclosure management modules (EMMs) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power
| Two fully redundant power supplies Wattage: 600 W Heat dissipation: 188 W Voltage: 100-240 VAC, auto sensing Frequency: 50/60 Hz Amperage: 8.6 A at 100 V, 4.3 A at 240 V Available Drive Power (per slot) Supported drive power consumption (continuous): up to 1.16 A at +5V up to 1.6 A +12V | Two fully redundant power supplies Wattage: 600W Heat dissipation: 188W Voltage: 100-240VAC Frequency: 50/60Hz Amperage: 8.6 A at 100 V, 4.3 A at 240 V Available Hard Drive Power (per slot) Supported drive power consumption (continuous): up to 1.2 A at +5V up to 0.5 A +12V | Wattage 600 W peak output Heat Dissipation (max) 150 W Input Voltage Range 90 to 264 VAC Frequency range 47 to 63 Hz Maximum Input Current at Rated Power 55 A for 10ms or less, 25 A for 10-150ms Available hard drive power 3.5" drive: 25 Watts 2.5" drive: 12 Watts |
Management
| 2 EMM modules provide redundant enclosure management capability | EMMs 2 EMM modules provide redundant enclosure management capability | 2nd generation multi-protocol Modular Disk Storage Manager, Java based user interface Multi-path graphical software provides failover management of redundant data paths between the server and storage array MD3200 and MD3220 Standard Features: Dynamic Disk Pools-Optional configuration to RAID disk management VAAI support- Available for customers using VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration, vCenter Plugin- Available for customers using Vmware vSphere VASA- vStorage API for Storage Awareness, available for use in conjunction with the vCenter Plugin SRA-Sight Recover Manager, available for use with vCenter Plugin ALUA-Active Active LUN Access Supports Self Encrypting Drives (SED) that provide an additional level of data protection Thin Provisioning- Allocate and consume physical storage capacity as needed Try and Buy licensing- 90 day trial license of premium feature software MD3260 Standard Features Same features as MD3200 High Performance Tier-increases array IO performance SSD Cache-accelerates application performance by utilizing SSD drives as extended controller read cache Optional Premium Features Snapshots: Up to 128 snapshots per virtual disk and 512 per system Snapshots Plus Virtual Disk Copy: Up to 512 simultaneous virtual disk copies High Performance Tier (HPT)firmware upgrade increases array IO performance* Additional Hard Drives - capacity up to 180* or 192* hard drives SSD Cache: accelerates application performance by utilizing SSD drives as extended controller read cache* |
Environmental Operating Conditions
| Temperature: Operating: 10° to 35°C (50° to 95°F) with maximum temp gradation of 10°C per hour Storage: -40° to 65°C (-40° to 149°F) with temp gradation of 20°C per hour Relative humidity: Operating: 8% to 85% (non-condensing) with maximum humidity gradation of 10% per hour Storage: 5% to 95% (non-condensing) Altitude: Operating: -16 to 3048 m (-50 to 10,000 ft) Storage: -16 to 10,600 m (-50 to 35,000 ft) BTU per hour: 1181 | Temperature Operating: 10° to 35°C (50° to 95°F) with maximum temp gradation of 10°C per hour Storage: -40° to 65°C (-40° to 149°F) with temp gradation of 20°C per hour Relative humidity Operating: 8% to 85% (non-condensing) with maximum humidity gradation of 10% per hour Storage: 5% to 95% (non-condensing) Altitude Operating: -16 to 3048 m (-50 to 10,000 ft) Storage: -16 to 10,600 m (-50 to 35,000 ft) BTU per hour 1147 |
Regulatory
| Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page Dell and the Environment | Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page Dell and the Environment | Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page Dell and the Environment | PowerVault 3200 Regulatory Model: E03J PowerVault 3200 Regulatory Type: E03J001 PowerVault 3220 Regulatory Model: E04J PowerVault 3220 Regulatory Type: E04J001 PowerVault 3260 Regulatory Model: E08J PowerVault 3260 Regulatory Type: E08J001 Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets (In English) Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page (In English) Dell and the Environment (In English) |
Environmental
| Temperature Operating: 10° to 35°C (50° to 95°F) with a maximum temperature gradation of 10°C per hour Relative humidity Operating: 20% to 80% (non-condensing) with a maximum humidity gradation of 10% per hour Altitude Operating: -16 to 3048 m (-50 to 10,000 ft) Note: For altitudes above 2950 feet, the maximum operating temperature is de-rated 1°F/550 ft. |