With its intuitive management interface, this array is extremely easy to deploy, configure, manage, and monitor. Affordable enterprise-class features and functionality, such as dual hot-swap power and cooling, hot-swap redundant RAID controllers with mirrored cache, hot-swap disk drives, and dynamic LUN and capacity expansion, the Sun StorageTek 3510 FC Array is the standout array in its class.
Key Benefits
Primary storage 2U array
Enterprise-class features and performance
NEBS Level 3 certification AND MIL-STD-810F compliance
The Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array supports high-performance 2 Gb Fibre Channel throughout its architecture, including the midplane, drives, and host/drive ports. Fibre Channel means fast, especially for high-end throughput. This array is hungry for bandwidth-hogging and transaction-intensive applications.
Good things come in small packages
The powerful 2 Gb Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array is designed to cut costs through its modular building-block approach and high port count. Its flexibility multiplies your options. For example, connect up to four dual path or eight single path servers to a dual controller tray, without using switching. And skip the extra cabling, not to mention the extra power and cooling costs.
Scalability through modularity
A smart choice for growing storage environments, this array scales to meet your business needs. It stacks up to 30 TB of raw capacity in one rack. That's great for a 2U array that's dense enough to save floor space. Its building-block approach reduces costs and can vastly simplify your upgrade to an entry-level Storage Area Network. Scalability through modularity, across the StorageTek family, substantiates your investment protection.
Rugged Reliability for Higher Availability
Don't try this with just any drive
To the telcos, the Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array is "carrier-class" NEBS Level 3-certified for the most pristine data centers. But ask the military and it's a rugged, field-ready MIL-STD-810F-compliant Fibre Channel array -- ready for harsh conditions, including altitude, temperature, humidity, shock, vibration, and salt fog corrosion. It's cleared for land vehicles, planes, and ships. It also does an exceptional job of protecting and delivering your customer's data under "normal" conditions.
What does it take to deliver fail-safe, continuous, online protection?
Hot-swap redundant dual active RAID controllers, non-disruptive controller firmware upgrades (with dual RAID controllers via SSCS), dual hot-swap redundant load-sharing/load-balancing power supplies, hot-swap redundant electrically isolated redundant cooling fans, hot-swap redundant interface cards, and support for RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 3+0, and 5+0. All in a 2U array.
Flexibility Pays Off
Customize your solution
When you have more options, you can expect better results in line with your goals: lower operating costs, higher throughput and availability, or meeting new service demands quickly, for example. Just look at the options the Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array gives you: Single or dual RAID controller configurations, support for up to 1024 LUNs, 10K or 15K rpm disk drives, 36 GB, 73 GB, 146 GB, or 300 GB drive capacities, AC or DC power supplies, expansion unit capability, JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Drives) trays, and a variety of tuning parameters that allow you to accommodate a wide variety of application and server storage requirements. Plus, it supports direct attach storage (DAS) and storage area network (SAN) environments.
Host connectivity
Each Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array RAID controller can support up to four direct-attached host I/O ports. In dual controller configurations, you get up to eight direct-attached host I/O ports.
Serviceability that saves time
The Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array is an extremely reliable storage system designed with redundant, hot-swappable field-replaceable units (FRUs) for easy serviceability. The FRUs include disk drives, RAID controllers, power supplies/fans, Lithium/Ion batteries, and health and status LEDs. You can pull them from the front or rear of the system. In addition, the array firmware can be upgraded nondisruptively, eliminating downtime for firmware upgrades.
Time-saving manageability
The Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array is easy to deploy, manage, and expand with a common management interface. It gives you hundreds of configuration and management options that help you precisely match the array to your changing storage needs. Online capacity expansion and remote monitoring are standard. You can set up the array in minutes on a browser-based GUI or terminal menu interface. And, a single GUI can manage all Sun StorageTek 3000 Family arrays.
Throughput up, lights out, costs down
After remote configuration and monitoring, the next step is lights-out management. If you're not already using lights-out management, you can cut a lot of time, complexity, and cost of your admin bottom line. The Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array features Sun's Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM). It lets you use a network or serial connection for monitoring and reporting system and component status, saving time and money.
Cost-Effective Expandability
Standard interfaces
The Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array utilizes a 2 Gb Fibre Channel interface -- internally to the drives and externally to the host ports. With a dual RAID controller configuration, the array can support a maximum of eight direct-attached hosts in a non-redundant path mode or four direct-attached hosts with redundant pathing.
Raw capacity
The Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array supports high-performance 2 Gb Fibre Channel throughout its architecture, including the midplane, drives, and host/drive ports. Raw capacity up to 8 expansion units 32.4 TB (using 300 GB drives)
Controller card cache and algorithms
The Sun StorageTek 3510 FC array supports single or dual redundant Fibre Channel disk array controllers. Each 2 Gb Fibre Channel controller has 1 GB of battery-backed data cache with intelligent caching algorithms.
Software options optimize your focus
Just think what you could do with this many software and hardware options on storage arrays that are easy to deploy, manage, and expand -- all with one management interface.
