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Dell PowerVault MD3220 Series Technical Manualbook
Technical Guide Book for PowerVault MD3200MD3220
the firmware, and protect data until it can be written safely to the hard disk drives. The MD3200's
architecture is designed to excel in multi-host systems environments. Its I/O system core provides built-in
hardware XOR for high-speed RAID parity calculations – enabling it to easily handle very compute-intensive
tasks. Each RAID controller contains 2GB of cache for a total of 4GB of cache in a dual controller
configuration which is mirrored with the other controller's cache for high availability. In the event of a
power failure, the controllers are protected with battery assisted persistent cache backup which destages
cache to non-volatile media for indefinite safe keeping.
Each controller has a 36-port 6 Gb/s SAS expander that provides access to the drives in the MD3200 or
MD3220 enclosure. The SAS expanders enable each controller to access all of the drive ports,
active/active drives loops that provide both controllers redundant access to all attached disk drives.
Each controller has the following external connections:
Four 6Gb SAS ports for host connectivity
One 6 Gb/s SAS port for drive enclosure expansion for additional capacity
One Ethernet management ports for LAN out-of-band management
One PS/2 serial interface for service
Figure 2.
MD3200 RAID Controller Module View – LEDs
Location
LED Term
1
Power
Color
Icon
General Behavior
OFF = No power applied
l
Green
ON = Power is applied
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