Intransa StorStac System
PCU100

Performance Controller Unit 100

The Next Generation High Performance Storage System
The PCU100 StorStac Controller is the next generation system that delivers the industry’s ultra high performance, high availability and scalable storage solution. Combined with the power and ease of use of StorStac Storage Management, StorStac is the industry’s best storage value.

Product Overview
The StorStac Storage System is comprised of the 10 GbE Performance Controller Unit 100 (PCU100) or the 2 GbE Performance Controller Unit 20 (PCU20) and the StorStac Storage Capacity Enclosures (SCE). The StorStac Storage system can be deployed with up to four networked 10 GbE PCU100 or 2 GbE PCU20 StorStac Controllers and 15 SCEs. All StorStac PCU100s and PCU20s are preloaded with Intransa StorStac OS software.

The StorStac Storage system provides best-in-class system fault tolerance, based on Intransa’s advanced N-Way active/active scalable architecture.

The high capacity, ultra high performance StorStac PCU100 system supports up to 180 TB of capacity, delivering up to 3,000 MB per second throughput. The PCU100 front-end controller supports 10GbE single front end ports and dual backend 10Gbe ports for high availability and outstanding throughput.

Delivering the best flexibility in the industry, StorStac systems can scale independently for performance and high availability by adding additional controllers, or for capacity and increased disk spindles by integrating additional SCE, or both simultaneously, to meet any customer requirement.

For scalable performance and high availability, the StorStac PCU100 system starts with a single 10 GbE front end controller and can grow up to 4 PCU100s.

Delivering scalable storage and high availability, the StorStac PCU100 system can start with a single StorStac SCE and grow up to 15 SCE, providing up to 180 TB of capacity.

Key Features & Benefits

• Up to four active/active Performance Controller Unit 100’s (PCU100) per StorStac System, each with 4 GB cache memory
• Additional PCU100s are easily added to the StorStac System
• Up to four 10 GbE host port connections per StorStac System
• Up to eight dedicated 10 GbE ports to connect to StorStac Storage Capacity Enclosures (SCE)
• Up to 15 Intransa SCEs providing up to 180 TB capacity per StorStac System
• Intransa SCEs support 7200 RPM 250 GB, 500 GB and 750 GB SATA II drives
• Each StorStac PCU100 provides up to 750 Megabytes per second (MB/s)
• StorStac System with PCU100 has up to 3,000 MB/s
• Linear IOPS scalability up to the maximum number of disk drives supported
• Storage virtualization and online, on demand volume expansion
• RAID Levels: RAID 0, 1, 10 and 5
• RAID policy can be set at disk level
• High availability redundant switch configurations
• System storage can dynamically grow and be provisioned to hosts without disrupting applications or users
• Global hot sparing disk drives

Software

• StorStac OS
• StorStac Manager
• StorStac StorCluster
• StorStac Snapshot
• StorStac StorAR

The StorStac Storage System includes StorStac OS software that delivers fail–over, load-balancing, volume management, snapshots and replications. The StorStac Storage System comes preloaded with up to four networked PCU100 StorStac Controllers and with the StorStac OS software.

Reliability and Availability
All major components are hot-swappable, Field Replaceable Units (FRUs). Each Intransa StorStac Controller has redundant connections to the disk enclosures, and provides data availability and accessibility by supporting multiple physical mirrors with flexible mirror management.

Management
StorControl is a powerful Graphical User Interface (GUI) for rapid volume creation without requiring knowledge of the underlying data structures. The integrated StorStac Command Line Interface (CLI) is also provided to allow users to create scripts for rapid automated provisioning of storage.

Host Operating Systems Supported
The StorStac Controller supports all major host operating systems and initiators, ensuring flawless installations across all applications and server environments.

• Microsoft Windows2000/2003
  R2 Server and XP
• Solaris 10
• Redhat Linux EL 3, 4 and RH9
• SuSe Enterprise 10
• HP-UX 11i
• Novell Netware 6.5
• AIX 5.3.0.0
• VMWare ESX 3.01

Operating Environment:

Temperature
10 to 35° C (50 to 95° F) – operational
-10 to 32° C (-40 to 149 ° F) – non-operational

Humidity
20% to 80% non-condensing

Altitude
-50 to 10,000 ft (16 to 3,048 m)

Shock
41 G, 2 ms max impulse +z

Vibration
0.25 G; 3 to 200 Hz

Power:

Frequency
50 to 60 Hz

AC Voltage
100 to 240 VAC, single phase

Power Consumption
335 W (steady state); 750 W (maximum)

Heat Dissipation
1200 BTUs/hr

Emissions:
FCC Class A
EN 55033 Class A
CE Mark
ICES-003 Class A (for Canada)

Safety:
UL 1950
CSA 22.2-950
EN 60950

Other:
RoHS

Dimensions PCU100 2U:

Height
3.4 in (8.64 cm) with bezel attached

Width
17.6 in (44.43 cm)

Depth
29.8 in (75.7 cm)

Weight
59 lbs (26.8 kg)