Dell PowerVault 770N Owner's manual

Dell PowerVault
770N and 775N
Storage Servers
The Dell™PowerVault™770N and 775N
Network Attached Storage Servers
offer powerful consolidated storage
that is designed to be easy to use, cost-
effective, scalable and quickly
deployed in network environments.
Powerful and Scalable Performance
The Dell PowerVault 770N and 775N Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers are ideal for those looking to
consolidate storage or manage large archived files. They connect to existing local area networks (LANs) or storage
area networks (SANs) offering simple deployment and powerful performance that can ultimately help you
conserve IT resources and lower your total cost of ownership.
The ability to scale capacity with SCSI, fibre channel or SAN-based storage makes the PowerVault 770N and 775N
incredibly flexible solutions that can be redeployed as your business needs change. Plus, deploying a common storage
architecture helps to reduce the complexity of storage consolidation and simplify your storage management. For
optimum performance, the PowerVault NAS servers use a Microsoft®Windows®powered operating system.
If system redundancy and rack density are the most critical factors in choosing a storage solution, the PowerVault
775N is your ideal choice with dual Intel®Xeon™processors, dual embedded Gigabit NICs, three PCI-X slots, and a
Dual Channel RAID on the motherboard (ROMB) all in a 2U rack dense form factor. If expandability is key, the
PowerVault 770N is the answer, with eight I/O channels and one embedded 10/100/1000 NIC.
Availability
Helping to keep your data continuously available, the PowerVault 770N and 775N enable you to add storage to your
network while your other systems are running. They are equipped with optional redundant hot-plug power supplies and
fans along with support for hot-plug hard drives. They also provide battery backup for cache memory, and Dell
ActiveArchive™point-in-time copy gives you up to 250 snapshots to dramatically reduce your backup window.
The optional clustering capabilities of the PowerVault 770N and 775N allow you to build an infrastructure for optimum
availability. When you implement a NAS on SAN solution you get added reliability with redundant failover fibre-
channel components and improved disaster recovery and business continuity. And the array-based disaster recovery
available with Dell/EMC®fibre-channel and SAN solutions offloads the host processing requirements so there is no
impact on host performance.
Simplicity
The PowerVault 770N and 775N storage servers are designed with manageability and simplicity in mind. They can
be deployed right out of the box anywhere in your enterprise in as little as 15 minutes and can be managed via a
Web browser.
The PowerVault 770N and 775N also feature advanced management capabilities to make your life easier, including
Multiple Device Management, an administration tool that enables you to manage data in multiple appliances from a
central location and Dell’s Server Appliance Kit (SAK) Status Reporting that provides real-time memory, capacity,
operating system revisions and system information monitoring.
The PowerVault 770N and 775N’s powerful performance and incredible flexibility make them an ideal choice for your
storage consolidation, network infrastructure storage applications and optimised file serving.
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Storage solutions. Easy as
Great Ways To Use NAS
➤
Centralised data storage for multiple
servers
providing local or remote
access to other offices/clients
➤Optimise the performance of
application
servers by off-loading the
file serving burden
➤Staging area for multi-
server/client disk-to-disk backup
➤Cost-effective digital graphics
library for Mac and UNIX (CAD)
environments
➤Low-cost digital archive to help
decrease access times compared
with those of microfilm and paper
Dell PowerVault 770N
Dell PowerVault 775N

PREMIER ENTERPRISE
CONSULTING SERVICES
Dell Technology Consulting – solutions design and production
readiness
Testing and tuning at Dell’s Application Solution Centre
PREMIER ENTERPRISE
DEPLOYMENT SERVICES
Dell Financial Services
Customised e-procurement web pages
Custom Factory Integration
On-site installation
PREMIER ENTERPRISE
SUPPORT SERVICES
Base Service
1 year’s service during local business hours for customers
who have in-house support, troubleshooting and repair
Telephone technical hardware support
On-site service with next business day response1
24x7 online and e-mail hardware support at
support.euro.dell.com
Dell Premier Enterprise Bronze Support
3 years’ service during local business hours for
non-critical systems
On-site service with next business day response1
Telephone technical hardware support
24x7 online and e-mail hardware support at
support.euro.dell.com
Optional network operating system support
Dell Premier Enterprise Silver Support
3 years’ service for systems running time-sensitive
applications
24x7 on-site service with 4-hour response1
Telephone technical hardware support
24x7 online and e-mail hardware support at
support.euro.dell.com
Software and storage support resolutions
Dell Premier Enterprise Gold Support
A comprehensive 3-year, 24x7 proactive support service
with direct access to Dell’s Enterprise Expert Centre
Technical account management services
On-site service with 4-hour response1
Telephone technical support from Dell’s Gold Queue
Software and storage support resolutions
Seamless support with key third-party vendors
Customer-defined call priority
Change notification services
Online and e-mail hardware support at support.euro.dell.com
Optional Upgrades
Remote monitoring
On-site troubleshooting
On-site engineer and parts
Customer training
2-hour response 6-hour repair on-site service1
Dell PowerVault 770N and 775N Storage Servers
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Storage solutions. Easy as
FEATURES PowerVault™770N PowerVault 775N
Operating system Microsoft®Windows®powered OS based on Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Network protocols CIFS/SMB, NFS, NCP, AFP, WEBDAV, HTTP
Network security Microsoft Active Directory Authentication, Microsoft Domain Services, Novell®Directory Services
(NDS) and NetWare®3.x bindery synchronisation via Microsoft Directory Synchronisation Services
(MSDSS), UNIX/NFS User Name Mapping via Network Information Service (NIS) or local Personal
Computer Network File System (PCNFS), Macintosh
®
User Authentication Map (UAM) account name
and password login using the clear-text password or Apple’s RandNum Exchange method of security
Transport protocols TCP/IP, IPX, NetBEUI, AppleTalk®
Server emulation Microsoft Windows 2000, Novell NetWare 3.x, 4.x, 5.x (via IPX),
AppleShare®6.0, NFS 2.0 and 3.0, HTTP 1.1
Supported clients Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT®/2000/XP; Novell NetWare clients for Windows; Red Hat®Linux®
7.x and 6.2; Macintosh System 7.6 and 7.5.5; MacOS 9.x and 8.x, Sun™Solaris™8, 7 and 2.6
Clustering Windows (CIFS) and Unix®(NFS)
RAID levels RAID 0 (Disk Striping), RAID 1 (Disk Mirroring), RAID 5 (Disk Striping with Parity),
RAID 1+0 (Striped mirrors – Direct attach JBOD only), RAID 5+0 (Direct attach JBOD only)
Multiple device management Administer and manage data in multiple appliances from a central location
Dell SAK status reporting Real-time performance monitoring, system version data and low-level system information
Optional file Reporting, screening and trending to help ease storage resource management
management software
Network connectivity PowerVault 770N Single 10/100/1000
PowerVault 775N Dual 10/100/1000
Processors One or two Intel®Pentium®1.8GHz or 2.4GHz
Memory 512MB to 3GB 133MHz ECC DDR SDRAM with 2-way interleaving and optional failover DDR memory
Number of OS drives Two
Capacity of each OS drive 18GB
PCI-X expansion slot options Intel®PRO100+ Dual Port, Intel PRO 100S, Intel PRO 1000 Gigabit Fibre Intel PRO 1000XT Gigabit,
Broadcom 10/100/1000 Cu Gigabit, Broadcom SSL, PERC3/DC, PERC3/QC, up to one Qlogic 2200
(tape backup only), up to two Qlogic 2310 (Dell/EMC
®
kit), up to two Emulex 9002 (Dell/EMC kit)
Number of PCI expansion slots Seven Three
Number of internal data drives Six Three
Maximum raw storage capacity 876GB 438GB
Maximum usable 730GB (RAID 5) 292GB (RAID 5)
storage capacity
Maximum total capacity (SCSI) 17.2TB 16.8TB
Maximum total capacity Over 40TB Over 40TB
(Fibre Channel)
Form factor 5U rack-mount or tower 2U rack-mount
Dimensions (H x W x D)
8.56" x 18.9" x 24.75" 3.3" x 19" x 27.5"
(21.7cm x 48.0 cm x 62.9 cm) (8.56 cm x 48.26 cm x 69.85 cm)
Weight Maximum 40.9kg (90 lbs) Maximum 25kg (55 lbs)
Power 730 W (AC) 500 W (AC)