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PowerVault MD36x0f

PowerVault MD3600f Fibre Channel Array Series

Add high-throughput, highly efficient Fibre Channel storage to your data center with Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3 Fibre Channel array series.

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GREAT FOR

Data centers that require Fibre Channel throughput and easy scalability along with streamlined data management, protection and recovery.

Storage

Hard Disk Drives
Hot pluggable hard drives

MD3600f – Up to twelve (12) 3.5 inch SAS, Near-line SAS and SSD drives
MD3620f – Up to twenty-four (24) 2.5 inch SAS, Near-line SAS and SSD drives
MD3660f – Up to sixty (60) 2.5 inch &/or 3.5 inch SAS, Near-line SAD and SSD drives

MD3600f

3.5"--15,000 RPM SAS drives available in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB

3.5" 10,000 RPM SAS drives available in 300GB, 600GB and 900GB

3.5"--7,200 RPM Near-line SAS drives available in 500GB, 1TB, 2TB 3TB and 4TB

Solid State Drive (SSD) available in 200GB and 400GB (available with 3.5" HDD carriers)

MD3620f

2.5"--15,000 RPM SAS drives available in 146GB and 300GB

2.5"--10,000 RPM SAS drives available in 600GB and 900GB

2.5"--7,200 RPM Near-line SAS drives available in 500GB

2.5 -- Solid State Drive (SSD) available in 200GB and 400GB

MD3660f

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 MD3600f/MD3620f Support Matrix (in English) for the most current list of supported hard drives.
See PowerVault MD3660f Support Matrix (in English) for the most current list of supported hard drives on the dense array.

Expansion Capabilities
MD3600f and MD3620f expands up to 192 drives with the MD1200 and MD1220*
MD3660f expands up to 180 hard drives with two of the MD3060e dense enclosures*

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)


Connectivity

RAID and Controllers

Hot swappable controllers

Single Controller Models (MD3600f and MD3620f)
Supports up to 64 servers when configured with a Fibre Channel switch

Dual Controller Models (MD3620f, MD3620f, and MD3660f)
Supports up to 64 servers when configured with Fibre Channel switches

MD3060e contains two hot-swappable enclosure management modules (EMMs).

Controller features
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 alongside existing RAID configurations

RAID Levels
Support for RAID levers 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

Compatible Routers
Qlogic ISR 6240 (provides Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity)

Management

Array Management
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

MD3600f and MD3620f 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 consumer physical storage capacity as needed
  • Try and Buy licensing - 90 day trial license of premium feature software


MD3660f Standard Features:
• SAME features as MD3600f
• High Performance Tiering-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* or192* hard drives
• Remote Replication - providing business continuity and disaster recovery
• SSD Cache - accelerates application performance by utilizing SSD drives as extended controller read cache*

Back-Panel Connectors

Host Connectivity
Four 8Gb/s SFP ports per controller, compliant with FC-FS2, FC-PI-2, FC-AL-2, FCP, FC-LS2, FC-PH-3

Expansion Connectivity
One x4 6Gb SAS (8088 mini connector)

Remote Management
One RJ-45 1Gb Ethernet

Service Management
One PS/2 Serial

Chassis

Height x Width x Depth
MD3600f: 8.68cm (3.42") x 44.63cm (17.57") x 56.1cm (22.09")
MD3620f: 8.68cm (3.42") x 44.63cm (17.57") x 50.8 (20")
MD3660: 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
MD3600f: 29.3kg (64.59 lbs.) (maximum configuration)
MD3620f: 24.2kg (53.35 lbs.) (maximum configuration)
MD3660f: 105.23kg (232 lbs.) (maximum configuration)
MD3060e: 105.23kg (232 lbs.) (maximum configuration)

Operating System

Microsoft® Windows®, Linux, VMware®, Microsoft Hyper-V™
See PowerVault MD3600f/MD3620f Support Matrix (in English) for a list of currently supported operating system
See PowerVault MD3660f Support Matrix (in English) for list of currently supported operating systems for the dense array

Regulatory

PowerVault 3600f Regulatory Model: E03J
PowerVault 3600f Regulatory Type: E03J001
PowerVault 3620f Regulatory Model: E04J
PowerVault 3620f Regulatory Type: E04J001
PowerVault 3660f Regulatory Model: E08J
PowerVault 3660f Regulatory Type: E08J001


Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
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