StoreWay™ Optima4600

Mid-range storage
StoreWay™ Optima4600
The ideal solution for entreprise environments
StoreWay Optima4600 offers
availability, capacity and performance
for virtualized entreprise applications
• Fibre Channel 8Gb/s, iSCSI 1 or
10Gb/s host connections
• SAS 6Gb/s back-end with up to 960
drives, 2.5’’ or 3.5’’ form factor
• Improved architecture and latest
processor technology doubling the
performance
• Performance and efficiency improved
by SSD cache and block level
auto-tiering
• Storage adapted to virtualized
environments
• Complete software offer with thin
provisioning, snapshot, local and
remote replication, performance
optimization, virtual cache
partitioning
A highly performant architecture
Optima4600 is designed to build highly
performant and capacitive storage solutions.
Its architecture leans on multi-core
processors of the latest generation and offers
four times the internal throughput of the
already powerful Optima3600.
Optima4600 offers up to 48 host connectivities
in Fibre Channel and iSCSI. SSD, SAS and NLSAS disk drives can be connected through 32x
SAS 6Gb/s links, bringing a great flexibility
to build performant and highly capacitive
solutions. Optima4600 supports upto 960 drives
and a user capacity of 2,8 PBytes.
Improved efficiency of Optima4600
Autonomic data allocation improves the
efficiency of the storage by the analysis of
the frequency of access to data and, according
to the defined policy, the launch of an
immediate or programmed data migration of
blocks of data, from SAS or NL-SAS drives to
SSD drives or vice-versa. This feature allows
to limit the number of disk drives to the
useful capacity and to reach the required
performance by taking benefit of the SSD
drives for the frequently used data.
SSD cache significantly improves performance
of transactional applications by moving hot
data into the SSD cache.
High availability and reliability
Full redundant architecture with dual RAID
controllers, mirrored cache, quadruple power
supplies and fans, makes Optima4600 guarantee
a 99,999% availability. Cache continuity is
achieved by flash backup and controllers,
disk drives, power supplies can be hot swapped
undisruptively.
Optima4600 tolerates a single disk failure in
RAID-1/10, RAID-5/50 and a double disk failure
in RAID-6 or RAID Triple Mirror. Super-Phoenix
self healing technology reduces the number of
disk drive replacement by repairing and
recovering from suspected drive failures.
Data protection is achieved by local
replication or snapshot software and by
remote replication between Optimas, whatever
the model of Optima. Virtual Cache
Partitioning achieves quality of service by
allocating cache segments to an application
and garanteeing its performance whatever the
load of the other applications.
Performance Monitor displays real time
performance of Optima4600 and Performance
Navigator analyzes performance evolution and
predicts future saturations. Performance
Optimizer detects bottlenecks and manages data
migration to unloaded pools to balance the
disks load and optimize the behaviour of the
Optima4600.
Virtualized environments
Optima4600 is well fitted to VMware or
Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized environments.
In addition to the basic VMware and Site
Recovery Manager certifications, a vSphere WEB
client, a vCenter plug-in, vStorage APIs for
Array Integration(vAAI) and vStorage APIs
for Storage Awareness (VASA) are available.
Also a plug-in Path Selection Architecture
(PSA) is integrated in StoreWay Multipath
for VMware.
Ease of installation and
Administration
Optima Storage Manager manages all Optimas of
a site from a central point. It manages the
configuration of the disk array and all the
optional software. Each Optima can also be
configured by a manager embedded in the disk
array. Migration from an existing storage to
Optima4600 is easily achieved off-line by a
Data Migration feature. It allows a quick
start of the exploitation of the new storage
with the existing data. Optima4600
connectivity ensures interoperability with
Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and
VMware. Server data access is secured by
Storeway Multipath software available for
Windows, Linux, VMware and AIX.
Optima4600 software offer
Optima4600 natively embeds Thin Provisioning
ans Power Saver. Thin Provisioning optimizes
the disk capacity and adapts this capacity to
the increasing needs of the applications by
managing thresholds at the LUN or pool level.
Power Saver saves power consumption by
stopping unactive disks, eg back-up drives
outside of the back-up windows.
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StoreWay™ Optima4600
Technical Specifications
GLOBAL CHARACTERISTICS
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS (Cont'd)
Rack chassis version
Weight
Disk Array Controller Unit
Disk Enclosure Controller Unit
47Kg
29kg
Height standard EIA
Disk Array Controller Unit
Disk Enclosure Controller Unit
4U or 4 EIA
2U or 2 EIA
Total Storage Capacity
Disk modules (hot swap)
RAID capability
Interface to host
Max number of port to host
Max number of channels to disks
Power Supply Redundancy
Fan Redundancy
4U base including controllers, add
2U disks drawers;
12x3.5’’ slots drawer or 24x2.5’’
slots drawer; maximum 960 disks
(whatever the drawer type)
Up to 1.1 PB SAS or 3.8 PB NL-SAS
3 to 960 disks
RAID0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and Triple
Mirror
8 or 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel, 1 Gb/s
iSCSI, 10Gb/s iSCSI
8 or 16/48x FC, 4/24x iSCSCI 1Gb/s,
4/24x 10Gb/s
32x SAS 6Gb/s links
Yes
Yes
POWER
Power consumption (basic chassis)
Power consumption (add-on disk encl.)
Voltage
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS
CONTENT OF BASIC CHASSIS
RAID controller
Cache memory per RAID controller
Host Port Extension
Disk Port Extension
Hot-Plug Power Supply
Battery Backup (BBU ou SPS)
Host Management
Operating constraints
Dual controller FC 8 or 16Gbps,
iSCSI 1Gb or 10Gb, combo FC+iSCSI
1Gb or 10Gb
24GB or 48GB per controller (96GB
max total for the Optima4600)
8ports FC 8 or 16Gbps HPE, 4ports
iSCSI 1 or 10G HPE (6 HPE max)
8ports SAS 6Gb (4 DPE max)
(total HPE+DPE=8)
Yes
BBU for copy of cache in flash on
the controller in case of power down
LAN TCP/IP, FC SES, snmp, smis
provider, email events
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2003
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Unix
Other OS
Disk Port Extension
Cache memory upgrade
Hard Disk Drives 7.2Krpm
Hard Disk Drives 10Krpm
Hard Disk Drives 15 Krpm
Solid State Drives
Yes including WSFC clusters
Yes including WSFC clusters
Yes including MSCS clusters
RHEL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7
RHEL 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
AIX 5.3, AIX 6.1, AIX 7.1 including
ARF for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris
VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0, 4.1, ESXi 5.0,
ESXi 5.1
REGULATORY & SAFETY
Regulatory compliance
Host Port Extension
5-40°C, 10%-80%
SOFTWARE CERTIFICATION
OPTIONS ON TOP OF BASIC CHASSIS
Additional RAID controller /SP
FC : 1100W ; iSCSI 1G : 1090W; iSCSI
10G : 1130W
3,5’’ SAS15k 315W; NL-SAS 260W ;
2,5’’ SAS10k 310W
DAC : 4 plugs ; DE : 2 plugs AC100 à
240V; 50/60 Hz
UL, CSA, CE, FCC
WARRANTY
Upgrade Host Port extensions or Disk
Port Extensions
Up to 6x 8ports FC 8 or 16Gbps HPE,
up to 4x 4ports iSCSI (6 HPE max)
Up to 4x 8ports SAS 6Gb (4 DPE
max) (total HPE + DPE = 8)
Upgrade 24GB to 48GB per controller
3,5’’ : 2TB, 3TB, 4TB
2,5’’ : 300 GB, 600GB, 900GB, 1.2TB
2,5’’ : 300GB;
2,5’’ and 3.5’’ : 200GB and 800GB
Standard warranty
Warranty extension
3 Years, Parts only (CRU) for
hardware
Bull Global Care : bronze, silver or
gold (according to localisation)
STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
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Storage Management
Multi-path Management
StoreWay Optima Manager
StoreWay Multipath for Windows and
Linux
StoreWay Multipath for VMware
StoreWay Multipath for AIX
LUN mapping/Multi-server storage accessYes
Performance Monitoring
Performance Monitor, Performance
Navigator, Performance Optimizer,
Performance Monitor Suite,
Performance Optimizer Suite
(options)
Snap Shot
Dynamic snap volume (included with
Local Data Replication)
Local Data Replication
Local data replication (option)
Remote Data Replication
Remote data replication/Consistency,
Data Migration (options)
Other
Thin Provisioning, Power Saver
(included with hardware)
SSD cache, Virtual Cache
Partitioning, SQL replication,
Volume WORM , SecureEraser (options)
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Size of Rack chassis (HxWxD)
Disk Array Controller Unit
Extension module rack size (HxWxD)
175.4 x 480 x 602.5 mm
87.8 x 482x 513.2 mm
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