Intransa StorStac System
PCU20

Performance Controller Unit 20

The StorStac Storage System is comprised of 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 2 GbE PCU20 StorStac Controllers and 15 SCEs. All StorStac PCU20s are preloaded with Intransa StorStac OS™ software.

The Next Generation High Performance Storage System
Intransa's breakthrough technology delivers high performance data throughput, with maximum availability and protection.

The PCU20 StorStac Controller is the next generation system that delivers the industry's most economical, high performance, high availability and scalable storage solution. Combined with the power and ease of use of StorControl Storage Management, StorStac is the industry's best storage value.

Product Overview
The StorStac Storage system is comprised of 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 2 GbE PCU20 StorStac Controllers and 15 SCEs. All StorStac PCU20s are preloaded with Intransa StorStac OS software.

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

The high capacity, high performance StorStac PCU20 system supports up to 180 TB of capacity, delivering up to 800 MB/s per second throughput and up to 160,000 IOPs. The PCU20 front-end controller supports two teamed and aggregated 1 GigE single front end ports and dual back-end 1 GigE ports for high availability and high performance.

For scalable performance and high availability, the StorStac PCU20 system starts with a single PCU20 and can grow up to 4 PCU20s. Delivering scalable storage and high availability, the StorStac system can start with a 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 20's (PCU20) per StorStac system, each with 4GB cache memory
• Two fully teamed 1 GbE front-end ports and two 1 GbE backend ports
• Additional PCU20s are easily added to the StorStac system
• Up to four 2 GbE host port connections per StorStac system to increase performance
• Up to eight dedicated 1 GbE ports to connect to StorStac Storage Capacity Enclosures (SCE)
• Up to 15 Intransa Storage SCEs with up to 180 TB capacity per StorStac System providing scalable capacity
• Intransa SCE supports 500 GB, 750 GB SATA II drives operating at 7200 RPMs and 7,200 RPM SATA drives
• Each StorStac PCU20 provides up to 200 Megabytes per second (MB/s)
• StorStac System including the PCU20s has up to 800 MB/s
• Each StorStac PCU20 deliveres up to 40,000 I/O operations per second (IOPs)
• StorStac system with PCU20s provides up to 160,000 IOPs
• Storage virtualization and on-line, on-demand volume expansion
• RAID levels include RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
• 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 Management
• 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 PCU20 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 high data availability and accessibility by supporting multiple physical mirrors with flexible mirror management.

Management
StorStac 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 Windows 2000/2003 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
-40 to 60°C (-40 to 149°F) – non-operational

Humidity:
20% - 80% non-condensing

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

Shock:
31 G, 2.6 ms max impulse +z

Vibration:
0.26 G; 5 to 350 Hz

Power
Frequency:
50-60 Hz

AC Voltage:
100-240VAC, single phase

Power Consumption:
175W (steady state); 345W (maximum)

Heat Dissipation:
600BTUs/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 PCU20
Height:
1RU, 1.68 in, 4.2 cm

Width:
17.6 in, 44.6 cm

Depth:
With optional bezel: 22.7 in, 57.6 cm
Without optional bezel: 21.5 in, 54.6 cm

Weight:
26 lbs, 11.8 kg