Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide

• Software — System software is pre-installed, which supports record linkage and context-based lossless data compression methods.
• Hardware/VM — The hardware and virtual appliances that support the DR Series systems are listed below:
  • DR2000v system: a VM template in various capacities for ESX and HyperV that can be deployed on existing VM infrastructure.

  • DR4000 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two power supplies for power redundancy, and two cabled 2.5-inch SAS drives for the operating system. The operating system is installed on two 2.5–inch internal drives that are in a RAID 1 configuration in the DR4000 system.

  • DR4100 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.

  • DR6000 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.

  • DR4300e system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.

  • DR4300 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.

  • DR6300 system: Includes twelve 3.5–inch SAS or Nearline SAS chassis drives that are hot-swappable, two power supplies for power redundancy, and includes two 2.5-inch drives that are hot-pluggable in the rear.

  • NOTE: For the DR4000, DR4100 and DR6000 systems, there is a global hot spare for both OS and data drives. For the DR4300e, DR4300 and DR6300 systems, there is a dedicated hot spare for data drives only (and not for OS drives).
  • NOTE: For slot locations for the twelve 3.5–inch drives in the hardware appliance-based DR Series system types, see the topic, “DR Series System and Data Operations.”
• Expansion shelf—The hardware system appliance supports the addition of external Dell PowerVault MD1200 (for DR4000, DR4100, DR6000 systems) and MD1400 (for DR4300e, DR4300, DR6300 systems) data storage expansion shelf enclosures. Adding an expansion shelf provides additional data storage for the DR Series system and also requires a license. Each added expansion shelf enclosure must be equal to or greater than each DR Series system internal drive slot capacity (0–11). For more information, see the topic, “Expansion Unit Limits,” in the Dell DR Series System Interoperability Guide and the related Expansion Shelf topics in this guide.

The internal system drive capacity and available physical capacities of the DR Series system vary, depending on the system type and the drives installed. For details, see the Dell DR Series System Interoperability Guide, which describes the internal system drive capacity and available physical capacity (in decimal and binary values) in the hardware DR Series systems. It also includes the available capacities per virtual machine operating system (OS) for the DR2000v.