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Labs Gallery: Dot Hill 2722 Provides Solid Storage in a Small Form Factor

Labs Gallery: Dot Hill 2722 Provides Solid Storage in a Small Form Factor
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Matthew Sarrel
Matthew Sarrel
Jun 17, 2009
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Labs Gallery: Dot Hill 2722 Provides Solid Storage in a Small Form Factor

by Matt Sarrel


SAS Drives

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The Dot Hill 2722 is equipped with 24 15,000-rpm SAS drives.


Rear View

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Here you see the 2722 from behind, with redundant power supplies and storage controllers.


Hot-Swappable

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Each of the two controllers is hot-swappable and contains supercapacitors and compact flash memory for cache backup.


Diagnostic and Management Utility

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The QLogic SANsurfer diagnostic and management utility displays plenty of helpful information about the attached Fibre Channel SAN.


RAIDar

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The RAIDar management GUI opens to the System Overview page, which shows the status of various components at a glance. The menu bar running across the top (including View, Provisioning, Configuration, Tools and Wizards) puts all functions a maximum of two clicks away.


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Help

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Context-sensitive help is thorough and informative.


Rear Graphical View

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The rear graphical view makes troubleshooting very easy. Here, green checks indicate that everything is operational.


Front Graphical View

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The front graphical view also aids in troubleshooting. Clicking on a disk causes an orange LED to flash on the physical drive.


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