The Sun StorEdge 6920 system is a standalone storage system with up to 65 terabytes of storage. The system is a single point for management and monitoring and is host-platform independent. It provides graphical and command-line interfaces to help administrators manage the storage, as well as data services to help them provision the storage. The system design supports high availability, high performance, flexible configurations, and scalability.
The system provides the following user interfaces:
The management software, labeled SE6920 Configuration Service in the GUI, provisions and maintains the storage for data hosts.
The monitoring software, labeled Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment in the GUI, checks for system updates, which can then be installed at the user's request or, if the installation is non-disruptive, automatically.
The monitoring software also automates the transmission of alerts, which can be sent to an email address, to a pager, or to diagnostic software running on a management host on the network. A trial version of the Sun StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager software is included with each system to allow you to view the topology of your storage network and check on the capacity of storage elements. This software can also collect alerts from multiple storage devices, including one or more Sun StorEdge 6920 systems on the same network.
You can also monitor the system using third-party management tools such as Tivoli or BMC PATROL software.
The Sun StorEdge Remote Response feature provides the following features:
The system is supported in both storage area network (SAN) and direct attached storage (DAS) configurations and has 2 to 28 primary and alternate Fibre Channel (FC) ports, for the following purposes:
You do not need to use any front-end switches, unless you want to connect more than the maximum number of hosts supported by the ports on the system's SRCs.
The minimum system has two controller trays, each with a minimum of seven disks, in a single base cabinet with 16 ports. As your storage requirements increase, you can expand the capacity of the system in the following ways: