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DELL POWERVAULT NX3500
A Dell Technical Guide
Version 1.0
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  • Page 1 DELL POWERVAULT NX3500 A Dell Technical Guide Version 1.0...
  • Page 2 THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. © 2011 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this material in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. For more information, contact Dell.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Controllers ...................... 6 Cache ......................6 Backup Power Supply ..................6 PowerVault NX3500 Software Tools ............. 6 NAS Replication ..................... 8 PowerVault NX3500 hardware, environmental, and technical specifications 9 Networking ..................... 11 Configuration Overview ................. 12 PowerVault NX3500 system glossary ............13...

  • Page 4: Product Overview

    The PowerVault NX3500 incorporates Dell Scalable File System, a high performance, high availability file system based on proven technology. The PowerVault NX3500 also offers affordable data protection features, including user-restorable snapshots, asynchronous replication, and NDMP backup capabilities.

  • Page 5: Powervault Nx3500 Clustered Solution

    2. PowerVault NX3500 Clustered Solution The PowerVault NX3500 is deployed as a clustered NAS solution that aggregates multiple storage controllers and presents a NAS storage pool to UNIX, Linux and Windows clients as one virtual file server. This is an enterprise-class storage solution, optimal for a wide range of applications and deployment environments.

  • Page 6: Powervault Nx3500 Solution Architecture

    Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays 3. PowerVault NX3500 Solution Architecture The PowerVault NX3500 system is based on a NAS gateway architecture with the hardware residing on three physically separate components: PowerVault NX3500 controller0 • PowerVault NX3500 controller1 •...

  • Page 7: Powervault Nx3500 Physical Configuration

    NFS export directories. 5. PowerVault NX3500 Physical Configuration The NX3500 is available in a 3U rack mount configuration: 1U PowerVault NX3500 controller0 •...

  • Page 8: Controllers

    Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays 6. Controllers In the clustered solution, each PowerVault NX3500 controller has two connections to the client network: two connections to the storage area network and two controller back-to-back connections for the cluster's internal network.
  • Page 9 IP allocation for their NAS controllers before executing NASCU. PowerVault NX3500 NAS Manager lets you configure NAS network IP addresses and create and manage volumes and shares. You also use the NAS Manager to set up snapshots and replication, engage NDMP backup, and monitor NAS file system performance.

  • Page 10: Nas Replication

    10. NAS Replication Block-based NAS replication is a feature that uses snapshot technology in the PowerVault NX3500 file system. Replication is volume-level and can be used to replicate volumes on the same or another PowerVault NX3500 system. After the initial replication, changes to the stored data are recorded to the target volume.

  • Page 11: Powervault Nx3500 Hardware, Environmental, And Technical Specifications

    Refer to PowerVault MD storage array specifications for expansion support Storage controllers Dual controllers operate in an active-active environment mirroring each other’s cache. Each controller contains 12 GB cache protected by the PowerVault NX3500 backup power supply Management Dell PowerVault NAS Manager graphical user interface, CLI interface...
  • Page 12 Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays PowerVault NX3500 and Dell Scalable File System Technical Specifications: Attribute Max Value (2-node) Max system 192 TB size Max file size 4 TB Max files ~32 Billion files Number of ~34 Billion directories...

  • Page 13: Networking

    To achieve complete data distribution and to maintain high availability, each of the controllers in the PowerVault NX3500 cluster system must have access to the other controller in the system. The internal network achieves this goal.

  • Page 14: Configuration Overview

    NAS Controller Discovery – You enter the MAC address of the embedded NIC 1 for each PowerVault NX3500 controller. Embedded NIC 1 MAC address can be found on the system identification panel underneath the front bezel of your PowerVault NX3500s or in the front panel LCD menu.

  • Page 15: Powervault Nx3500 System Glossary

    Controller pair – Two NAS controllers that are configured as pair in a PowerVault NAS clustered system. Cache data is mirrored between the paired NAS controllers. Dell Management Application (DMA) – Data Management Application is also known as a Backup Application Server.
  • Page 16 NAS (CIFS and/or NFS) services, which is comprised of a pair of NAS controllers, a BPS, a PowerVault storage subsystem and the NAS Manager. Standby controller – A server appliance that is not installed with the PowerVault NX3500 DSFS software. For example, a new or replacement controller from the Dell factory is considered as a standby controller.
  • Page 17 Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays PowerVault NAS system – A highly-available and scalable NAS system, comprised of pairs of NAS controllers, a BPS, a PowerVault storage subsystem and the DSFS software, providing NAS (CIFS and/or NFS) services.

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