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| Form factor |
DE2000H 2U24 SFF controller enclosure (Machine Type 7Y71): 2U rack mount. DE2000H 2U12 LFF controller enclosure (Machine Type 7Y70): 2U rack mount. DE240S 2U24 SFF expansion enclosure (Machine Type 7Y68): 2U rack mount. DE120S 2U12 LFF expansion enclosure (Machine Type 7Y63): 2U rack mount. |
| Controller configuration | Dual active-active controller configuration with automatic load balancing. |
| RAID levels | RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10; Dynamic Disk Pools. Note: RAID 3 can be configured only through the CLI. |
| Controller system memory | 16 GB per system (8 GB per controller). Cache mirroring between the controllers. Flash-backed cache protection (includes battery for destaging to flash). |
| Expansion enclosure support |
DE2000H 2U24 SFF controller: 3x DE120S or 3x DE240S DE2000H 2U12 LFF controller: 3x DE120S or 3x DE240S Expansion enclosures may be mixed up to a maximum of 3 expansion enclosures. |
| Drive bays |
Up to 4 enclosures per system (Controller unit with up to 3 expansion units): • Up to 48 LFF hot-swap drive bays (Up to 4x 2U12 LFF enclosures) • Up to 96 SFF hot-swap drive bays (Up to 4x 2U24 SFF enclosures) Intermix of 2U24 SFF and 2U12 LFF enclosures is supported. |
| Drives |
2U24 SFF drives: 10K rpm SAS HDDs, 10K rpm SAS FIPS HDDs, SAS SSDs (1 DWD), SAS SSDs (3 DWD), SAS FIPS SSDs (3 DWD) 2U12 LFF drives: 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs, 7.2K rpm NL SAS FIPS HDDs, SAS SSDs (3 DWD), SAS FIPS SSDs (3 DWD) |
| Storage capacity |
All SFF drives: Up to 1.47 PB (96x 15.36 TB SFF SSDs) All LFF drives: Up to 864 TB (48x 18TB LFF HDDs) |
| Host operating systems | Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere |
| Standard software features | Dynamic Disk Pools, SSD read cache, snapshots (up to 128 targets), volume copy, thin provisioning (DDP only), encryption (requires optional FIPS drives), and data assurance. |
| Optional software features | Snapshots (up to 512 targets), asynchronous mirroring. |
