The SGI® Total Performance 9400 (TP9400) is a highly scalable RAID storage subsystem designed for the extended midrange market and demonstrating performance second to none in the industry. Supporting more than 20TB of fast storage in a 19-inch rack enclosure, the TP9400 can grow from as little as 72GB to whatever size your enterprise requires without disruption to normal processing activities. Engineered for continuous availability, all active components may be configured redundantly and installed 'hot' as customer replaceable or expansion units.
Features:
- Full RAID support, implemented in hardware with custom ASICs for performance
- Total Fibre Channel design, including all fibre dual-ported disk drives
- Four Fibre Channel loops support I/O operations up to 110,000 cached reads per second
- Scalable to a maximum configuration supporting I/O reads up to 1.4GB/sec, writes up to 956MB/sec and up to 440,000 cached reads per second
- Direct attachment of up to 8 host systems using optical fibre cables
- Full support for all SAN topologies
- Dual active controllers with up to 1GB redundant cache and dual battery backup
- User-friendly GUI or command line interface software for installation and management
- In-band and out-of-band management, including email event notification
- Up to 110 drives in each rack. 36GB, 73GB and 181GB drives available
- Support for system and file clustering, including heterogeneous access for SolarisTM, Windows NTTM, WindowsTM and LinuxTM
- Host failover software supports logical volume management and load balancing