Large Capacity PowerVault MD3 Serial Attached SCSI NAS Device MD3400

PowerVault MD3 Serial Attached SCSI Storage Series MD3400

Technology that delivers high performance and high capacity storage

Consolidate your storage with the new PowerVault MD3 12 Gb Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) array. The 12 Gb MD3 SAS array family is ideal for entry-level storage consolidation that requires high availability, high performance, business continuity, ease of use and reliability. Designed for increased versatility, the MD3 series supports multiple drive types, advanced software features, and optional 2U or high-density 4U chassis.
Powervault MD32x0 Series - Get affordable enterprise-class features
Get affordable, enterprise-class features

The PowerVault MD3 SAS array has the following features:
Higher performance: With the new 12 Gb SAS Array 10, performance is up to 2x.
Controller options: Total throughput up to 16 GB11.
Dynamic Disk Pool (DDP): Improved DDP capability to support 20 disk pools and up to 120 SSDs.
Thin provisioning: Allocate and consume physical storage capacity in a disk pool as needed.
SSD Cache: Improves application execution speed by caching previously read data (provided only with high-performance tiering).
vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) support: Integrate array commands with VMware in a host environment.
Try it first: Use the 90-day trial software license for your specific software to determine which advanced features are right for your environment.
PowerVault MD3 Array Series - Protect your data
Protect your data

Take advantage of these additional PowerVault options to keep your important information safe:

Remote Copy: Copy data to any location, including mirrored thin provisioned pools.
Snapshots: With point-in-time copies of your data, you can easily recover files that were accidentally deleted or changed.
Virtual Disk Backup (VDC): Fast, seamless virtual disk migration and disk-based backup and recovery by fully replicating source data.
Self-Encrypting Drive (SED): With drive-level encryption, unauthorized users cannot use the data even if the drive has been removed from the enclosure.
Instant Secure Erase: Permanently and securely delete data when changing the purpose of the SED or phasing out the SED.
Reduce the time it takes to manage your data

The PowerVault MD3 SAS Series delivers affordable primary storage, allowing you to add capacity and software as needed. This design connects your storage directly to your data infrastructure. It is compatible with Microsoft® Hyper-V®, Citrix® XenServer®, and VMware® ESX. In addition, the MD Series storage arrays also support vSphere® Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA).

Simplify physical and virtual resource management with MD Storage Manager and PowerVault VMware vCenterTM Plug-in 5.0.
MD Storage Manager VMware vCenter Plug-In 5.0
MD Storage Manager
With wizard-based array configuration and single-platform management, MD Storage Manager alerts you to problems and launches its Recovery Guru to troubleshoot and resolve problems automatically.
VMware vCenter Plug-In 5.0
Monitor, manage, configure, and optimize storage to improve performance and availability in your virtual infrastructure. You can also implement the Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) to simplify disaster recovery management with a centralized recovery plan and VASA to create profiles that map to volumes and virtual machines.

Upgrade with the Advanced Feature Key Pack to meet your priorities.

Data protection
Data protection:

Make sure your data is protected with snapshots, VDCs, and remote replication.
high performance
high performance:

Data is constantly growing at an alarming rate, but performance should not be affected as a result. This package includes a high performance layer, a solid state drive cache, and an additional hard drive capacity license.
Speed ​​up recovery with dynamic disk pooling.

Dynamic disk pools protect data by dynamically distributing data inside the drive pool. In the event of a drive failure, DDP will determine critical data and dynamically rebalance the data so that the array can be restored to a better state faster than in a typical RAID environment. DDP can now support up to 20 disk pools and up to 120 SSDs.

Technical Parameters

storage
driver

MD3400: Up to twelve (12) 3.5" SAS, Nearline SAS, Solid State Drive, SED
MD3420: Up to 24 (24) 2.5" SAS, Nearline SAS, Solid State Drive, SED
MD3460: Up to sixty (60) 2.5" or 3.5" SAS, nearline SAS, solid state drive, SED

MD3400
3.5" -- 15,000 RPM SAS drives with capacities up to 300 GB, 450 GB1 and 600 GB1
3.5" -- 7,200 RPM near-line SAS drives with capacities up to 500 GB, 1 TB1, 2 TB1, 3 TB1, 4 TB1, 6 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB
3.5" -- 10,000 RPM SAS hard drive with a capacity specification of 600 GB
Solid state drive (SSD) with capacity specifications of 200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB (WI); 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB (MU); 800 GB, 1.6 TB (RI) (mounted in 3.5" hard drive bay )

MD3420
2.5" -- 15,000 RPM SAS hard drive with a capacity specification of 300 GB1
2.5" -- 10,000 RPM SAS drives with capacity specifications of 146 GB, 300 GB1, 600 GB1, 900 GB1, 1.2 TB1 and 1.8 TB
2.5" -- 7,200 RPM near-line SAS drives with capacities up to 500 GB1, 1 TB1 and 2 TB
2.5" -- Solid state drive with capacity specifications of 200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB (WI); 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB (MU); 800 GB, 1.6 TB (RI)

MD3460
3.5" -- 7,200 RPM near-line SAS drives with capacities up to 500 GB, 1 TB1, 2 TB1, 3 TB1, 4 TB1, 6 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB
2.5" -- 15,000 RPM SAS hard drive with a capacity specification of 300 GB1
2.5" -- 10,000 RPM SAS drives with capacity specifications of 146 GB, 300 GB1, 600 GB1, 900 GB1, 1.2 TB1 and 1.8 TB
2.5" -- 7,200 RPM near-line SAS drives with capacities up to 500 GB1, 1 TB1 and 2 TB
2.5" -- Solid state drive with capacity specifications of 200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB (WI); 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB (MU); 800 GB, 1.6 TB (RI) (mounted in 3.5" hard drive bay in)

MD3060e
3.5" -- 7,200 RPM near-line SAS drives with capacities up to 500 GB, 1 TB1, 2 TB1, 3 TB1, 4 TB1, 6 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB
2.5" -- 15,000 RPM SAS hard drive with capacity specifications of 146 GB1, 300 GB1, 600 GB1
2.5" -- 10,000 RPM SAS drives with capacity specifications of 146 GB, 300 GB1, 600 GB1, 900 GB1, 1.2 TB1 and
1.8 TB
2.5" -- 7,200 RPM near-line SAS drives with capacities up to 500 GB1, 1 TB1 and 2 TB
2.5" -- Solid state drive with capacity specifications of 200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB (WI); 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB (MU); 800 GB, 1.6 TB (RI) (mounted in 3.5" drive bay in)

See the Dell PowerVault MD Series Support Matrix at: Dell.com/Support

Expansion capability 2
Expands to 192 hard drives with MD1200/MD1220 expansion enclosures on MD3400 and MD3420 arrays
Up to 180 hard drives can be expanded through the MD3060e expansion enclosure on the MD3460 array

Connectivity
Hot swap controller
The MD34x0 and MD38x0x controllers are not compatible with previous generation arrays (MD32x0x and MD36x0x).

Single controller model:
MD3400/MD3420: Directly connect up to two high availability (HA) configuration servers or eight non-HA configuration servers to a single MD3400 or MD3420 storage system. Provides a 4 GB cache controller.

Dual controller model: MD3400/MD3420/MD3460
Connect up to four HA configuration servers or eight non-HA configuration servers directly to a single SAS storage system. An optional 4 GB or 8 GB cache controller is available.

The MD3060e includes two hot-swappable enclosure management modules (EMM)

Controller characteristics
Four 12 Gbps SAS ports (MD3400/MD3420/MD3460) per controller; dual controller models for a total of eight ports
Each controller includes a 4 GB or 8 GB battery backing cache
Dual controllers operate in an active-active environment, mirroring each other's caches
Provides cache protection through flash for permanent data protection
Dynamic Disk Pool (DDP) 3 eliminates the need for complex RAID management while optimizing data protection and can be used with existing RAID configurations
MD3460 high density array requires dual controller

RAID
Support RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, and 6
In RAID 0, 10, each group contains up to 180/1924 physical disks.
In RAID 5 and 6, each group contains up to 30 physical disks.
Up to 512 virtual disks
DDP3
Operating system options
Microsoft® Windows®, Linux, VMware®, Microsoft Hyper-V®
See the PowerVault MD3200/MD3220 Support Matrix for a list of currently supported operating systems.
Chassis contains items
Chassis (height x width x depth)

MD3400: 8.68 cm (3.42") x 44.63 cm (17.57") x 60.20 cm (23.70 inches)
MD3420: 8.68 cm (3.42") x 44.63 cm (17.57") x 54.90 cm (21.61 inches)
MD3460: 17.78 cm (7.0") x 48.26 cm (19.0") x 82.55 cm (32.5")
MD3060e: 17.78 cm (7.0") x 48.26 cm (19.0") x 82.55 cm (32.5")

weight

MD3400: 29.30 kg (64.6 lbs) (maximum configuration)
MD3420: 24.22 kg (53.4 lbs) (maximum configuration)
MD3460: 105.20 kg (232.0 lbs) (maximum configuration)
MD3060e: 105.23 kg (232 lbs) (maximum configuration)

Rack support for MD3400 and MD3420:
Dell ReadyRailsTM II fixed rail for toolless installation in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded holes, or with tools in 4-post tapped hole racks.

MD3060e high density cabinet
EBOD expansion enclosures are only compatible with MD3 high density array series (MD3260i, MD3460, MD3860i and MD3860f)

Same size as the high-density array series (MD3260i, MD3460, MD3860i, and MD3860f)

The controller on the MD3 High Density Series array is equipped with a 6 Gbps SAS output port (MD3260i) or a 12 Gbps SAS output port (MD3460, MD3860i and MD3860f) for connection to the MD3060e expansion enclosure for additional capacity (per A high-density array supports up to 2 expansion enclosures). For systems that do not have advanced features activated, the physical disk limit is 120.

The MD3060e includes two hot-swappable enclosure management modules (EMM)
Power option 5
power

MD3400/MD3420: AC power supply - 600 W peak output; DC power supply - 700 W (2U array supports DC power supply)
MD3460: AC power supply - 1,755 W (high-density array does not support DC power)

Heat dissipation (maximum)

MD3400/MD3420: 2,047 BTU/hour
MD3460: 5,988 BTU/hour

Voltage
MD3400/MD3420: 100 to 240 V AC; 48 V DC
MD3460: 220 V AC, auto range, 50 Hz/60 Hz

battery
MD3400/MD3420/MD3460: 6.0 V DC, 100 mAh, 7.26 W lithium battery

Frequency Range
50/60 Hz
management
Second generation multi-protocol modular disk storage manager 

Use a Java-based user interface

Multipathing graphics software provides failover management of redundant data paths between servers and storage arrays

MD3400/MD3420 standard features:
DDP3: Optional configuration for RAID disk management
VAAI support: for customers using VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration
vCenter Plug-in: For customers using VMware vSphere
VASA (vStorage API for Storage Awareness): Suitable for use with the vCenter plug-in
SRA (Sight Recover Manager): suitable for use with the vCenter plug-in
ALUA (Active-Active LUN Access)
Support for Self-Encrypting Drives (SED): Provides a higher level of data protection
Thin provisioning: allocate and use physical storage capacity as needed
Trial and purchase license: 90-day trial license for advanced feature software

MD3460 standard features

Same function as MD3400

High-performance tiering: Improve array I/O performance
SSD Cache: Improves application performance by using SSDs as an extended controller read cache

Optional advanced features
Snapshots: Up to 128 snapshots per virtual disk and up to 512 snapshots per system
Snapshots and virtual disk backups: back up to 512 virtual disks simultaneously
High Performance Layered (HPT) Firmware Upgrade Improves Array I/O Performance 6
Additional hard drive: capacity can be expanded to up to 1807 or 1928 hard drives
Remote replication: asynchronous and synchronous
SSD Cache: Improves application performance by using SSDs as an extended controller read cache
Environmental parameters
MD3400/MD3420 temperature
Operating temperature: 10 °C to 35 °C (50 °F to 95 °F), the maximum temperature difference per hour does not exceed 10 °C without direct sunlight
Supports fresh air cooling with a maximum operating temperature of 35 °C

Relative humidity

MD3400/MD3420:
Operating relative humidity: 5% to 95%, maximum dew point temperature is 33 °C (91 °F). The atmosphere must always be non-condensing
MD3460: Operating relative humidity: 5% to 95% (non-condensing), maximum dew point temperature is 33 °C (91 °F).

Altitude

MD3400/MD3420
Working elevation: -16 meters to 3,048 meters (-50 feet to 10,000 feet)
Note: At altitudes above 2,950 feet, the maximum operating temperature drops 1 °F per 550 feet.
MD3460
Working elevation: –30.5 meters to 3,000 meters (-100 feet to 9,840 feet)
Note: At altitudes above 2,950 feet, the maximum operating temperature drops 1.8 °F per 1,000 feet.