Overview:
You can consolidate block and file data affordably with the Dell PowerVault™ NX3500. By expanding the PowerVault MD platform to include NAS capability, the PowerVault NX3500 lets you cut complexity, manage your data more easily, and expand capacity as needed.
The PowerVault™ NX3500 utilizes Dell Fluid File System and the MD back end for Internet SCSI (iSCSI), Common Internet File System (CIFS) and Network File System (NFS) access to block and file data, enabling a single file share to scale up to the capacity of the MD deployment, currently 389TB of usable capacity.
- Powerful: Consolidate block and file data with high-availability unified storage
- Flexible: Easily add or modify iSCSI-, NFS- and CIFS-based storage as needs grow
- Secure: Built-in data protection features like snapshots and replication help provide security and data integrity
- Certified VMware compatibility: Tested and certified to be compatible with VMware ESX release 5.0, 4.1 and 4.0
The answer is unified storage
Take control of that avalanche of unstructured file data from file intensive user shares, rich content and virtual environments. PowerVault™ NX3500 can help provide unified storage with scale-up NAS for PowerVault MD iSCSI arrays.
Take charge of your file data.
Deploy versatile unified storage by integrating high-performance NAS with MD32x0i and MD36x0i iSCSI arrays and MD12x0 expansion enclosures. The PowerVault NX3500 with Dell Fluid File System is designed to help optimize file-access performance and hardware utilization while helping eliminate capacity and file-share size constraints.
- A single file share can scale up to 389TB.
- The system supports up to 192 SAS, NL SAS and SSD drives.
- The comprehensive and intuitive NAS Manager helps reduce the time needed to create and manage multiple volumes and shares.
- A wizard-based installation tool automates the initial setup and configuration process.
The NX3500 can be a flexible and practical alternative to Windows® file servers. Dell Fluid File System is a high-performance, highly optimized file system that helps you save time and IT resources.
Pay as you grow.
Scale easily with a system designed for smaller deployments that have increasing iSCSI-, NFS- and CIFS-based data storage needs. With PowerVault™ NX3500, you can help prevent the data silos and server sprawl often created by the increasing amount of file data (email, video, MP3 user home directories).
You can start small and still enjoy the value of high performance unified storage. And as your storage needs grow, you can dynamically add or modify block and file capacity as needed without disrupting existing applications and storage systems.
Built-in data protection
Easily protect your file data with PowerVault NX3500. Features such as snapshots, replication and backup support, safeguard file shares and are included in the base price.
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File snapshots
Easily manage efficient snapshot capabilities for file data. |
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Data replication
Implement easy-to-use asynchronous data replication for fast and accurate disaster recovery. |
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User-restorable snapshots
Restore previous versions of files directly from a snapshot directory without contacting IT personnel. |
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NDMP backup
Easily integrate your NX3500 system into network backup environments with Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) standard backup support. |
Key Benefits:
High performance NAS for the PowerVault MD platform
The PowerVault NX3500 works with PowerVault MD32x0i and MD36x0i storage arrays to help provide affordable unified storage with iSCSI, CIFS and NFS access to block and file data. If you need to manage an ever-increasing amount of unstructured (file) data, this easy-to-use solution is ideal. The PowerVault NX3500 can give you more flexibility than traditional unified storage because it has no architectural limits to file-system size. You can scale a single share to the full capacity of your PowerVault MD deployment.
The PowerVault NX3500 incorporates the high performance, highly optimized Dell Fluid File System and offers affordable data protection features. When combined with a PowerVault MD iSCSI array, it gives you the flexibility and cost of ownership advantages of unified storage.
Pay-as-you-grow scalability
There's an avalanche of unstructured data headed your way. File intensive user shares, rich content and virtual environments demand ever-increasing amounts of storage. But now you can avoid the costs and headaches of continually adding–and having to manage–more file storage systems.
A flexible and practical alternative to Windows file servers
Managing multiple file servers and namespaces can consume your resources. The PowerVault NX3500 lets you consolidate so you can store more data and manage it more easily. It uses Dell Fluid File System to optimize file-access performance and hardware utilization, and eliminates the capacity constraints typical of file systems.
The PowerVault NX3500 features an easy, wizard-based NAS configuration utility for initial setup. A web-based user interface, NAS Manager, conveniently enables you to configure NAS storage, create and modify volumes and shares, and monitor performance. The PowerVault NX3500 NAS Manager also lets you set up alerts, snapshots and replication, and supports NDMP backup.
Dell Fluid File System
Dell Fluid File System is a distributed file system that presents a storage pool as a single file system with a single IP address to the client(s). It uses cache efficiently to provide fast, highly reliable reads and writes and optimizes file access performance and hardware utilization. Dell Scalable File System also incorporates volume management, cluster management for transparent fail-over, and non-disruptive scalability.
Affordable data protection
The PowerVault NX3500 also includes user-restorable snapshots and replication. You can use these built-in features to protect both new and existing file shares.
Highly available hardware
With its dual active-active file controllers and backup power supply, the PowerVault NX3500 gives you data protection and excellent performance with no single point of failure.
Technical Specifications:
| PowerVault NX3500 |
| Controller |
Intel Xeon processor 3400 series |
| Protocol support |
Server: CIFS (SMB 1), NFS v3, NDMP V4, SNMP
Client: NTP, iSCSI, DNS, Active Directory, LDAP, NIS (Network Information Service) |
| Storage arrays supported |
Dell PowerVault MD3200i series (MD3200i, MD3220i)
Dell PowerVault MD3600i series (MD3600i, MD3620i) |
| Storage controllers |
Dual controllers operate in an active-active environment mirroring each other's cache. Each
controller contains 12GB memory protected by the PowerVault NX3500 backup power supply. |
| Expansion capability |
Scale up to 192 drives with MD iSCSI arrays and expansion enclosures. Refer to PowerVault MD storage array specifications for expansion support. |
| Management |
Dell PowerVault NAS Manager graphical user interface, CLI interface |
| Front-end NAS connectivity |
Two 1Gb IP ports per controller for front-end CIFS/NFS connectivity |
| Backend storage array connectivity |
Two 1Gb IP ports per controller for back-end iSCSI connectivity |
| Snapshot capability |
Redirect-on-write snapshots |
| Replication capability |
Asynchronous 1-to-1, Many-to-1 replication for disaster recovery |
| Wattage |
400 W |
| Voltage |
100–240 VAC, 50/60 Hz |
| Heat dissipation |
1666 BTU/hr maximum |
| Maximum inrush current |
Maximum inrush current under typical line conditions and over the entire system ambient operating range, the inrush current may reach 25 A per power supply for 10 ms or less. |
| Backup Power Supply |
Wattage: 500 W (output)
Voltage: 120V or 230V models |
| Physical (each controller) |
Height: 4.29 cm (1.69 in),
Width: 43.4 cm (17.09 in)
Depth: 61.26 cm (24.12 in) |
| Weight (each controller) |
15 kg (33.02 lbs) |
Physical
(backup power supply, 120 V and 230 V Models) |
Height: 4.2 cm (1.65 in.)
Width: 43.4 cm (17.09 in.)
Depth: 72.3 cm (28.46) |
Weight
(backup power supply, 120 V and 230 V Models) |
30.0 kg (66.1 lb) |
| Temperature |
Operating* 10° to 35°C (50° to 95°F) with a maximum temperature gradation of 10°C per hour
Storage –40° to 65°C (–40° to 149°F) with a maximum temperature gradation of 20°C per hour |
| Relative Humidity |
Operating 8% to 85% (noncondensing) with a maximum humidity gradation of 10% per hour
Storage 5% to 95% (noncondensing) |
| Maximum vibration |
Operating 0.25 G at 3–200 Hz for 15 min
Storage 0.5 G at 3–200 Hz for 15 min |
| PowerVault NX3500 and DSFS Technical Specifications |
| Max system and share size |
389 TB usable (RAID 6 plus global hot spare) |
| Max file size |
4 TB |
| Max files |
~32 billion |
| Number of directories |
~34 billion |
| Max NAS volumes |
512 |
| Max snapshots per volume |
512 |
| Max snapshots per NX3500 system |
10,000 |
| Cache size per NX3500 system with 2 quad-core CPUs |
24 GB (12 GB per controller) |
| File name length |
255 bytes |
| Max NFS mounts |
1024 |
| Max CIFS shares |
1024 |
| Max CIFS client concurrent connections |
400 (200 per controller) |
| Max local users per NX3500 system |
300 |
| Max Quota rules per NX3500 system (user quotas) |
65,536 |
| Max quota rules per volume |
256 |
| Max block level replication policies |
256 |
| Max directory depth |
1,024 |
*NOTE: For altitudes above 2950 feet, the maximum operating temperature is derated 1°F/550 ft.
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