DELL AX4-5 Storage Array

Dear>

 

I need to know details of AX4-5 Storage Array.

 

is it ok for data storage.

 

one more thing i need to know what is Disk Processor Enclosure and Disk Array Enclosure.

 

Best Regards

Faisal 

Some info can be found here.

A few pointers:
- the single storage processor version cannot support additional enclosures unless you first upgrade to dual processor.
- the expansion tier license adds support for; sas drives, allows connecting up to 64 hosts (w/o the license it's 10 hosts), and connecting additional enclosures
- the expansion enclosures are not the same as the CX-series enclosures, so you can't mix and match with the CX series or upgrade at a later time to a CX (you'd have to just buy a CX and migrate data)
- it supports 7200rpm SATA drives (750 or 1TB), 10k rpm SAS drives (400) and 15k rpm SAS drives (146 or 300)
- the single storage processor unit doesn't have any write cache (at all)
- the first 4 drives are 17GB smaller for the OS of the array
- the system supports up to 60 harddrives (over the disk processor enclosure and up to 4 additional disk array enclosures) in any desired combination of drives (the first 4 drives in the first enclosure do need to be identical though and can't be changed from SAS to SATA or SATA to SAS after purchase)

You can expand by adding drives in existing enclosures (if they aren't fully populated yet) and daisy chaining additional enclosures. This is done on the fly (if adding more than 1 enclosure it's probably a good idea to just do 1 at a time though).

I hope this helps some.

What do you mean "is it ok for data storage"?

It's a SAN, what else would it be for?

DPE is the enclosure that has the storage processors (as well as disks) in it.

DAE only has drives (and link controller cards to connect it to the storage processors).

plz send me the step by step procedure to configure Dell AX4-5

using Navisphere with two 6850 power edge server of cluster

 

Best Regards

 

faisal 

Did you purchase a remote or onsite installation with your AX4-5? If so, call Dell support and they can get you in touch with someone that can schedule this installation (isn't a queue and has to be scheduled ahead of time).

If you didn't purchase this, you can find some info here. You'd want to follow the link for registering for downloads as well.