Compaq Smart Array 5300A RAID Controller (3X-KZPDC-DF/BE)

Designed and tested with industry-standard ProLiant Servers for greater reliability and performance, and enhanced to include support for AlphaServers, this controller is ideal for the distributed workgroup server or centralized departmental server.

• Advanced RAID level (3X-KZPDC-DF only) - Advanced Data Guarding
   
• High-performance architecture
   
• Innovative modular design
   
• High capacity
   
• Two-channel models support up to 28 drives
   
• Four-channel models support up to 56 drives
   
• Multiple battery-backed cache options
   
• Support on OpenVMS Version 7.3-1/V7.3-2
   
• Support on Tru64 UNIX V5.1A with PK4 and NHD5 and V5.1B with PK2

• High-performance, fifth generation architecture offers the new hardware RAID engine, and a new performance memory architecture for increased performance over previous controllers
   
• Advanced Data Guarding (RAID ADG) offers breakthrough level of fault protection of RAID volumes up to 2 TB and a total of 56 disk drives in a RAID volume. RAID ADG provides fault protection greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 and only consumes the capacity of two disk drives for distributed parity data. RAID ADG protects against any two disk drive failures. This higher level of protection is ideal to protect large logical volumes and with high capacity disk drives where a failed drive rebuild time may be significant.
  NOTE: RAID ADG is a standard feature of the 3X-KZPDC-DF only.
   
• Recovery ROM protects against a ROM failure or corruption
   
• Ultra160 SCSI technology delivers high performance and data bandwidth up to 160 MB/s bandwidth per channel
   
• Up to four channels provides the highest storage capacity per PCI slot in the industry
   
• Mix-and-match LVD SCSI compatibility protects investments and lets users deploy drives as needed
   
• Battery-backed cache protects cached data in the event of a power outage, server failure, or controller failure; redundant, replaceable batteries provide additional protection
   
• 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI interface boosts bandwidth up to a 533 MB/s total transfer rate
   
• 64-bit memory addressing supports servers with greater than 4 GB of memory
   
• Online Management Features Online Capacity Expansion, Online RAID Level Migration, Online Stripe Size Migration, Online Spares, User Selectable Read/Write cache, User Selectable Expand and Rebuild Priority

• Wide Ultra160 SCSI (160 MB/s bandwidth) per channel
   
• High-performance 64-bit architecture, featuring a super-scalar RISC processor
   
• New RAID XOR engine
   
• New performance memory architecture providing tri-directional data flow for improved performance
   
• 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI bus (533-MB/s bandwidth)

• Four-channel models support up to 56 hard drives
   
• Two-channel models support up to 28 hard drives

• Online RAID Level Migration
   
• Online Capacity Expansion
   
• Global Online Hot Spare

• S.M.A.R.T. – Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology detects possible hard disk failure before it occurs, allowing replacement of the component before failure occurs.
   
• Drive Parameter Tracking monitors drive operational parameters, predicting failure and notifying the administrator.
   
• Dynamic Sector Repairing continually performs background surface scans on the hard disk drives during inactive periods and automatically re-maps bad sectors, ensuring data integrity.
   
• Smart Array Cache Tracking monitors integrity of controller cache, allowing pre-failure preventative maintenance.
   
• Environment Tracking for External Storage System monitors.

• Advanced Data Guarding (RAID ADG) – This is the highest level of fault tolerance. It allocates two sets of parity data across drives and allows simultaneous write operations. This level of fault tolerance can withstand two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss. It is a standard feature with the 3X-KZPDC-DF only.
   
• Distributed Data Guarding (RAID 5) – This allocates parity data across multiple drives and allows simultaneous write operations. It is recommended for up to 14 hard drives.
   
• Drive Mirroring (RAID 1, 1+0) – This allocates half the drive array to data and the other half to mirrored data, providing two copies of each file.
  It is a high-performance RAID.

• Minimizes downtime, reconstructs data, and facilitates a quick recovery from drive failure.
• Recovery ROM – provides a unique redundancy feature that protects from a ROM failure. A new version of firmware can be flashed to the ROM while the controller maintains the last known working version of firmware. If the firmware becomes corrupt, the controller will revert back to the previous version of firmware and continue operating. This reduces the risk of flashing firmware to the controller.
   
• On-Line Spares – Up to four spare drives can be installed prior to drive failure. If a failure occurs, recovery begins with an On-Line Spare and data is reconstructed automatically.
   
• ECC-Protected Cache Memory – Removable, battery-backed cache memory protects data, up to four days, in the event of power failure, server hardware failure or controller failure. In addition, an exclusive design that includes redundant and replaceable batteries for greater cache protection is provided.
   
• 128-MB and 256-MB cache modules also feature Chip Recovery, protecting the cache memory from a single chip failure and multi-bit errors from any single memory chip.

• Common data formatting between generations of products
   
• Data migration between servers and external storage enclosures

• OpenVMS V7.3-1 /OpenVMS V7.3-2
   
• Tru64 UNIX V5.1A / TruCluster UNIX V5.1A with PK4 and NHD5 (non-shared)
   
• Tru64 UNIX V5.1B / TruCluster UNIX V5.1B with PK2 (non-shared)
   

• Compaq Array Configuration Utility XE (ACU-XE)*
  • Easy to use Wizards for configuration
  • Powerful Web based configuration utility for all Smart Array controllers
  • Provides a graphical view of drive array configurations
  • Allows management of multiple arrays over a secure internet connection from anywhere in the world
  • Runs online on Tru64 UNIX V5.1A and V5.1B and OpenVMS V7.3-1 and OpenVMS V7.3-2
• Option ROM Configuration for Arrays (ORCA)
  • Offline configuration utility
• AlphaServer Drive Firmware Upgrade Utility for SmartArray Controllers
  • Ensures selected disk drive firmware is populated with latest version of firmware

* OpenVMS requires the following minimums: ACU-XE Configuration Utility B0126; HP OpenVMS Management Agent kit V3.02

• Care Pack Integrated Hardware / Software Service Packages
   
• Care Pack Hardware Service Packages
   
• Care Pack Software Service Packages
   
• Care Pack Installation Service Packages

• Hardware Maintenance Agreement
   
• Software Maintenance Agreements
   
• Installation Service (Per Call Time and Materials)