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Solidium® External Storage System - 212MC2

External Storage System 212MC2

A flexible and high performance hardware platform for DAS, NAS, and SAN

The Solidium® Storage Server 212MC2 is a flexible hardware platform with support for a broad range of business applications from industry-leading software vendors. Support for up to two high-performance dual-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors, twelve SAS or SATA hard drives, and flexible network connectivity provides room for capacity growth and efficient application processing. The robust software support available today enables the freedom to configure the 212MC2 as an application server with internal storage (DAS) or as a dedicated networked storage appliance (NAS or SAN). Contact us today to learn more.

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Features for the Soldium® Storage Server 212MC2
Support for up to 12 hot-swappable SAS or SATA drives in a 2U form factor
Supports Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors
Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS144e provides hardware support for RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50
Dual 1Gb NIC's provide fast access to iSCSI or network attached data

Product specifications for the 212MC2
Raw storage capacity	Up to 12 7.2K 1TB SATA drives for 12TB Up to 12 10K 400GB SAS drives for 4.8TB Up to 12 15K 300GB SAS drives for 3.6TB
Data Drive bays	12 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) Hot Pluggable
Processor	5400 series (quad core) Intel® Xeon® processor, up to 1333MHz FSB with 12MB L2 Cache
Memory capacity	8 slots, expandable to 32GB maximum
Memory type	Fully buffered DIMM technology (FBDIMM) memory DDR2-677 FBDIMMs
HDD	3.5" SAS or SATA for the twelve data drives, and up to two optional 2.5" SAS or SATA boot drives (internally mounted) NOTE: For specific drive family and capacities supported, please refer to the 212MC2 Tested Hardware and OS List (THOL)
DIMM slots	Eight 240-pin FBDIMM sockets
Enclosure controller	On-board Vitesse** VSC410 micro-controller
Client connectivity	Client connectivity via Internet Protocol Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Dual Gb/s Ethernet
PCI	212MC2R: One PCI Express* (PCIe) x8 slot, two PCIe x4 slots, one PCI-X slot 212MC2: Two PCIe x8 slots, two PCIe x4 slots, two PCI_X slots
Chassis Specifications:
Form factor	2U rack-mount chassis, supports low-profile PCI add-in cards only
Height	87.9 mm, 3.46 in
Width	447 mm, 17.6 in (across body of chassis)
Depth	707 mm, 27.83 in (from rack posts to max extremity of chassis)

Software Support

Features	Benefits
Microsoft Windows® Unified Data Storage Server 2003 w/SP2 Microsoft Windows® Storage Server 2003 R2	Dedicated software platform based on Microsoft Windows for Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices serving file and block level data
Red Hat Enterprise Linux SuSE Linux Enterprise Linux	Next-generation platform for open enterprise computing
American Megatrends StorTrends ITX	Processing performance to meet the demanding needs of storage virtualization
FalconStor IPStor NSS, CDP, and VTL	Software Appliance Kits to enable Network Storage Services, Continuous Data Protection and Virtual Tape Library functionality
Open-E Data Storage Server (DSS) Wasabi Storage Builder for IP-San Wasabi Storage Builder for NAS	All-in-one software for centralized IP-Storage management iSCSI and NAS storage management and middleware software that enables organzations to build IP-based storage solutions using standard platforms

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