Dr. Value's Storage Lecture Program
Session Menu
- Preparing for data volume increase or rapid changes in business environments
- Advantages of centralized data management
- Response level stays the same even when access attempts spike
- High reliability that will not stop business operations
- Flexible capacity management
- Easy operation with a rich tool line-up
- Dramatic reduction in required space for backups due to update differential backups
- Reliable operation and support
Great features of the D/E series Part 2-high reliability that will not stop business operations
Duplexing of all components
All the components such as adapters for host communications (HA), disk drive access adapters (DA), Xbar, cache memory, power supplies, fans, disk drives, maintenance processors, and clocks are duplexed; therefore, failure of a single part will not cause the system to stop. System operations are further secured by duplex fiber channel interfaces on the paths to disk drives.
RAID-6 dramatically improves storage reliability and availability
Now that the disk capacity is 100 times larger than what it was 10 years ago, new technologies are required to handle it. RAID-6 creates two independent parity generation equations based on data information to record individual parities (P and Q). By doing so, it is possible to restore a disk while maintaining redundancy, and furthermore, it is possible to handle the situation even when two disks fail at the same time.
For this reason, RAID-6 can provide reliability that is over 1,000 times higher than RAID-5 and over 100 times higher than RAID-1.
Also, in performance-focused systems such as S2800, different types of RAID such as RAID-6 and RAID-1 can be mixed.
With RAID-6, storage reliability and availability are dramatically improved.
To borrow VALUMO's terms, it can be described as "autonomy."
In the NEC Storage D/E series, complicated calculations for the above purposes are performed by an LSI, and this LSI is patent pending.
Proprietary "Phoenix technology"
When there is a delay in disk responses for some reason, that disk is isolated and its operations are automatically checked. Meanwhile, other disks make responses instead of that isolated disk; therefore, access delays from the server can be minimized. If there are no abnormalities in the isolated disk as a result of self-diagnosis, it is automatically returned to its original configuration.
