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FlexLine FLX280 enterprise storage system

The FlexLine™ 200/300 series capacity storage systems are open systems disk-based data management solutions that provide enhanced online data protection and fixed content storage on a cost-effective platform. Their excellent throughput performance provides rapid access to your archived data, increasing its value to your business and helping to drive topline growth.

The modular design helps lower your total cost of ownership by enabling you to choose the performance level and mix of technologies appropriate for your business needs. You can build on existing platforms and easily add capacity when your storage needs grow. The FlexLine 200/300 Series has an important place in your information lifecycle management strategy; providing a strong alternative to storing fixed content and data protection information on higher cost modular and enterprise disk.


Business Benefits 
   The FlexLine 200/300 series capacity solutions provide opportunities for increasing revenue. Give your customers, partners and suppliers access to historical fixed content archive data that was previously offline.
   Saving money is easy with the FlexLine 200/300. A large capacity and low cost arrays help keep costs down while meeting performance and access requirements.
   The FlexLine 200/300 Series helps reduce business and regulatory risk by providing an online platform for compliance applications not requiring WORM storage. Replication and mirroring of volumes to local or remote sites provides advanced protection for critical business information.

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Spec Summary
  
Maximum burst I/O rate:148,000 I/O per sec
Maximum sustained I/O rate (Fibre Channel):53,200 I/O per sec
 
Related Documents
Product Collateral
FlexLine™ 200 Series and 300 Series storage systems offering collateral (pdf 2.28MB Apr 2005)
Flexline family online storage systems offering collateral (pdf 98K Jan 2005)
 
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ApplicationsTop

Disaster recovery
With Remote Volume Mirror, the FLX280 storage system has complete synchronous and asynchronous disk mirroring functionality. It can be used as a local mirror for sharing or distributing data, or at a remote site for rapid disaster recovery.

Online transaction processing
The FLX280 storage system has the extremely high I/O performance needed to support the most demanding online transaction processing requirements. High availability capabilities like path failover and mirroring work to keep critical data available.

Storage consolidation
The FLX280 storage system has the capacity and management to consolidate storage for multiple workgroups or departments. With SANtricity® Storage Manager software, management and configuration tasks are centralized with an easy-to-use interface.

Features and IT BenefitsTop

Increased ROI
Modular pay-as-you-grow scalability enables you to buy what you need today and expand as your storage needs change.

Simplified management
SANtricity software suite for FlexLine 200 and 300 storage systems provides non-disruptive online storage management capabilities. You can manage the disk subsystem from your IT shop floor or from remote locations.

Higher availability
The FLX280 storage system helps you increase the availability of business applications through online administration, redundant components and dual I/O paths with transparent failover.

Improved customer service
The FLX280 system’s throughput speed accelerates transaction rates, which helps you improve staff productivity and customer service.

 
PricingTop

Pricing varies depending on configuration and selected options. Product pricing does not include associated implementation service costs. Contact the "How to Buy" help desk at 1-800-275-4785 (01-303-673-2800) for more information.

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SoftwareTop
SANtricity software suite for FlexLine™ 200 Series and 300 Series storage systems
SANtricity software suite is a complete disk management suite for FlexLine™ 200 and 300 Series storage systems. It has five components: SANtricity Storage Manager, SANshare Storage Partitioning, SnapShot Copy, Internal Volume Copy and Remote Volume Mirror software. Together these tools provide all of the management, replication and data sharing capabilities needed to implement enterprise-class disk storage in an Open Systems environment.
 
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FLX280 disk system - dual rackFLX280 disk system - single rack

 
SpecificationsTop
Performance
 
Maximum burst I/O rate:148,000 I/O per sec
Maximum sustained I/O rate (Fibre Channel):53,200 I/O per sec
Maximum sustained I/O rate (SATA):6,000 I/O per sec
Maximum sustained I/O rate (Blade):12,800 I/O per sec
Maximum sustained throughput:795 MB/sec
Total cache size:2 GB
Capacity
 
Maximum number of drives:224 or 120 blades
Compatible arrays:Fibre Channel: FLA200, FLA300
SATA: FLC200
blade: FLC250
Drive capacity:Fibre Channel: 36 GB, 73 GB, 146 GB or 300 GB
SATA: 250 GB
blade: 1.25 TB
Maximum number of arrays :16 or 12 blade arrays
Connectivity
Host interface:2 Gb/sec
Host connections:8 FC-AL direct attach or 4 FC-SW SAN attach
Drive interface:2 Gb/sec
Drive connections:4 Fibre Channel
Availability
 
Redundant components:Storage controllers, Fibre Channel drive loops, power supplies and cooling fans
Hot-swap components:Disk drives, storage controllers, power supplies, cooling fans and battery backup
High-availability features:Automatic drive failure detection and rebuild using global hot spare drives, cache battery backup
RAID levels supported:0, 1, 3, 5 and 1+0
Compatibility
 
Supported operating systems :Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Linux, NetWare
Management
 
Storage management software :SANtricity 9.1 Storage Manager
Standard features:Drive intermix capability
Online storage management
Dynamic volume expansion
Dynamic capacity expansion
Dynamic drive configuration and migration
Premium features :SANshare Storage Partitioning
(up to 64 partitions)
SnapShot Copy
Internal Volume Copy
Remote Volume Mirror
Mechanical
Control module
Height:6.9 in (17.5 cm)
Depth:24.8 in (63.0 cm)
Width:19.0 in (48.3 cm)
Unit height:4u*
Weight:89.0 lb (40.4 kg)
Environmental
 
Temperature:+50° to +104° F (+10° to +40° C)
Heat dissipation:2,904 Btu/hr (based on 1.12 kVA or 851 W power consumption)
Power
 
International:230 V, 10 A, power connection as required
U.S. and Japan:115 V, 15 A, NEMA 5-15
Regulatory Compliance
 
Electromagnetic compliance:FCC (47 CFR 15, Subpart B) Class A
CE (EN55022 Class A, EN55024, EN61000-3-2, EN61000-3-3)
VCCI (CISPR 22) Class A
Canada (ICES-003) Class A
Safety:UL 1950
CAN/CSA 22.2 No. 950
EN 60950
 
 

*Rack space is measured in height and expressed as a u. One u is 1.75 in (4.45 cm) in height.


 
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