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The Dell™ PowerVault™ 530F is a storage area network (SAN) appliance that provides
enhanced storage management features between host servers and storage sub-
systems. This chapter describes features of the PowerVault 530F and details
hardware and system configurations.
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The PowerVault 530F offers the following features:
Local/remote mirroring
Snapshot Copy (point-in-time copy)
Logical unit number (LUN) management
Booting a server through the PowerVault 530F
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Each PowerVault 530F is equipped with the following hardware components:
Three system processors
512 megabytes (MB) of system memory
One PCI (peripheral component interconnect) SCSI (small computer system
interface) RAID (redundant array of independent disks) adapter for the internal
system drives
Two internal SCSI disk drives — these drives are connected to a PCI RAID
adapter and are pre-configured as a mirror set; this configuration provides fault
tolerance in the event of a single-disk failure
Two high-speed Gigabit Ethernet adapters — these can be configured to connect
PowerVault 530F systems together for data mirroring over an IP network
NOTE: Only the adapter in slot 2 is enabled. Slot 3 is currently disabled. See
Figure 1-1 for slot locations.