UltraBand 2000

UltraBand makes use of premium high-performance server and storage hardware from leading industry vendors

Up to 10 Dell PowerEdgeTM cache blades Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5130 2.0GHz, 1333FSB 4GB ECC fully buffered DIMM memory 2 x 16 port Gigabit Ethernet switch (10 internal ports) Fiber-channel switch (Brocade Silkworm 3014) with 10 internal fabric ports and 4 x 1Gb/2Gb auto-sensing uplinks DRAC/MC chassis management module for lights out management (LOM) Hot-pluggable redundant power supplies (2+2)

The EMC CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series storage array with 2Gbps Fiber Channel (FC) host interfaces and FC disk drives Each enclosure has 30 high-performance disk drives, 146GB, 10K RPM The Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture provides near-infinite scalability of storage capacity and throughput – through chaining additional disk drive extension shelves in each CX3 storage array and adding additional CX3 arrays to the SAN.