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SGI InfiniteStorage 5100 Data Sheet

SGI InfiniteStorage 5100
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Optimum Performance Efficiency and Density

Key Features
Easy installation, low
maintenance, and affordable
Modular design: choice of
shelves, drives, I/O
Tunable performance,
both IOPs and bandwidth

SGI InfiniteStorage 5100 (IS5100) is a RAID storage
system, which combines optimum price/performance
and flexibility with industry leading reliability. A choice of
host interfaces and drive technologies are available in an
affordable external storage platform. IS5100 provides a
cost-effective storage platform with next-generation
12 Gb/s SAS back-end technology and ultra-low power
consumption. IS5100 delivers performance, flexibility and
scalability without sacrificing simplicity and availability and
perfectly complements SGI® UV™ server and Rackable®
rackmount server environments.

Optimum Performance Efficiency and Density
IS5100 delivers high density storage in a 60 drive 4U
standard enclosure with an optimum mix of IOPs
and throughput to provide sustainable performance that
is a considerable improvement over previous generation
technology. With up to 4,000 MB/s sustained I/O Bandwidth
and 210,000 IOPs (bursts), IS5100 delivers impressive
throughput for bandwidth-intensive and IOPs demanding
applications.

Automatic Data Migration with SGI DMF for
Storage Tiering
IS5100, with SGI’s DMF, is an ideal primary or secondary
tier storage solution for tiered virtualization implementations
as DMF continuously monitors and moves data automatically
among storage devices with different performance and
price characteristics. It is also ideal as a front-end for active
archive architectures.

SSD Caching
Intelligent cache tiering, which uses the SSD Cache
feature, enhances performance by leveraging the superior
performance of solid-state drive (SSD) media for the most
frequently accessed blocks of data. Customers have nothing
to manage when they use the SSD Cache feature because
the caching is data driven in real time. Users are not required
to set up complicated policies to define the trigger for data
movement between tiers. SSD Cache accelerates data
access through the caching use of solid-state disks in the
drive trays to enhance performance, and it is expandable
to up to 5TB per storage system.

Infinite Storage System Manager (ISSM)
featuring next generation RAID platform with
Dynamic Disk Pools
The ISSM software now supports asynchronous mirroring
of thin provisioned volumes as well as on-the-fly expansion,
reconfiguration, and maintenance without interrupting
storage system I/O. Dynamic Disk Pools (DDPs) enable
dynamic rebalancing of drive count changes, whether
drives are added or a drive fails. DDPs greatly simplify
traditional storage management with no idle spares to
manage or reconfigure when drives are added or fail; thus
the IS5100 can automatically configure, expand, and scale
storage. With the IS5100, maintenance can be scheduled
less often.