
55
Cluster RAIDYNE® (installed on the GDT76x8RN or GDT76x3RN controllers).
In addition to disk chaining, RAID 0 and RAID 1, RAIDYNE® allows you to install
and control Array Drives of the types RAID 4 (data striping with dedicated parity
drive), RAID 5 (data striping with distributed parity) and RAID10 (a combination
between RAID 0 and 1).
Includes also functions to support Microsoft Cluster Server.
Note: RN Series ICP Controller with RAIDYNE® can be upgraded with the Cluster
Module to the corresponding GDT76x8RN or GDT76x3RN controllers.
Unlike pure software solutions, e.g., Windows NT, the ICP Controllers a pure hardware RAID
solutions. All ICP Controllers are equipped with a hardware which is particularly well suited
for disk arrays. The ICP Controller firmware uses this hardware with extreme efficiency and
therefore allows you to configure disk arrays that do not load the host computer (whereas
all software-based RAID solutions more or less reduce the overall performance of the host
computer.).
The basic concept of the ICP Controller firmware is strictly modular, and
consequently, in its functioning it appears to the user as a unit construction
system.
Kommentare zu diesen Handbüchern