Data Storage Solutions – STORTRENDS 3500i
Dual Controller SSD Hybrid/Full Flash Storage Appliance
The StorTrends 3500i is the industry’s first Solid State Drive (SSD) Hybrid storage array that combines SSD Caching, SSD Tiering and Automatically Tuned Volumes (ATV). These three patented technologies provide the ultimate combination of extreme performance and optimal capacity to meet the budgetary needs of your organization. Each 3500i unit is configured specifically to meet each users’ performance and capacity requirements. Users can run the free StorTrends iDATA Tool to generate a comprehensive report identifying capacity utilization, IOPS usage, reads versus writes for volumes, network bandwidth performance, server statistics and application information. The detailed report will help identify environments’ performance metrics and provide insight on the type of configuration best suited for the infrastructure
The StorTrends 3500i is designed to not merely support Flash (SSD) drives, but to automate their performance and turn that into huge benefits and savings for your company. Its versatility, deep feature set and outstanding performance mean that the StorTrends 3500i is perfectly suited for the most demanding applications including high performance databases, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP), cloud storage and mixed workload environments.
Features & Specifications
| iSCSI Support | Yes |
| Advanced Snapshot Module | Yes |
| Asynchronous Replication | Yes (Snapshot Assisted) |
| WAN Data Services (WDS) | Yes |
| Thin & Exact Provisioning | Yes |
| Auto Tiering / Information Lifecycle Management | Yes |
| Capacity Expansion with StorTrends 3202j JBOD | Yes |
| ManageTrends™ Web-based GUI | Yes |
| RAID Support | Robust RAID-RT™ with RAID 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 |
| SSD Caching Support | Yes |
| SSD Tiering Support | Yes |
| Tier Residency Support | Yes |
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| Hardware | StorTrends 3500i Dual Controller SAN |
| Form Factor | 3U, 16 bay |
| Weight | 96 lbs (43.5 kg) |
| Dimensions | 17.2” x 5.2” x 25.5” (437 mm x 132 mm x 648 mm) |
| Power Supply Redundant | Yes |
| Power Supply Hot-swappable | Yes |
| Hard Drive Bays | 16 |
| Hard Drive Interface | NL-SAS, SAS, Solid State Drive (Flash) |
| Drive Configuration Options | Available in Hybrid and Full Flask (SSD) Configurations |
| CPU | Four (4) Intel® Six (6) Core processors with two (2) processors per controller |
| Memory | 64 GB (32 GB per controller) |
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