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NetApp E2600 Storage System

Affordable, reliable, and flexible storage

The Challenge intensive bandwidth applications benefit

KEY BENEFITS
Organizations of all sizes struggle from the E2600’s ability to sustain
Streamlined Performance to deliver consistent performance high read and write throughput, while
Efficiency while meeting escalating capacity database-driven transactional appli-
Equally adept at throughput for requirements and increasing space cations benefit from its responsiveness
high-bandwidth applications and restrictions. For entry-level and mid- and linear scalability. The E2600 delivers
IOPS to transactional databases, range environments especially, these on performance efficiency with its ability
the NetApp® E2600 is well suited challenges must be met with minimal to maximize disk I/O cost effectively.
for a wide range of workloads. cost and complexity.
Intelligent cache tiering, using the SSD
Modular Design The Solution Cache feature, enhances performance
Three distinct disk shelves allow The E2600 storage system is a stream- by leveraging the superior performance
custom configurations optimized lined performance solution designed of SSD media for the most frequently
to meet performance and capacity with robust flexibility that makes it a accessed blocks of data.
requirements. great fit for wide-ranging requirements. Modular Design
Its streamlined performance is equally
Interface Flexibility Understanding that each site is
adept at supporting high-bandwidth
The SAS host interface is tailored different, the E2600 offers multiple
and transaction-intensive workloads.
to high-performance, low-latency drive technologies and disk shelf
The E2600’s multiple disk shelf options
server connections; iSCSI and options to seamlessly fit into any
enable custom configurations that
FC interface options enable the environment. Its 24-disk shelf
can be optimized and seamlessly fit
E2600 to seamlessly integrate maximizes performance per U while
into any environment. And the E2600’s
into any IT environment. minimizing power consumption. For
fully redundant I/O paths, advanced
capacity-hungry environments, the
protection features, and extensive
60-disk shelf maximizes rack density
diagnostic capabilities deliver high
with support for up to 180TB in just
levels of availability, integrity, and
4U. And the 12-disk shelf is a great fit
security. The E2600 best-in-class price/
for cost-conscious organizations that
performance design delivers on simple
need to deploy both performance and
SAN storage for today’s cost-conscious
capacity drives. All three shelves support
entry-level and midrange environments.
E2600 controllers or can be used for
Streamlined Performance Efficiency expansion, enabling optimized configu-
The E2600 storage system continues rations that best meet performance,
a heritage of streamlined performance capacity, or cost requirements.
that can support any workload. Data-
Full-time storage administrators
appreciate the extensive configuration
flexibility that allows optimal performance
tuning and complete control over data
placement; part-time system administrators
love the intuitive interface and wizards
designed to simplify their tasks.

Interface Flexibility While the E2600 offers both standard as data-at-rest encryption, proactive
Today’s infrastructures offer a wide RAID and DDP volume groups, a monitoring, background repair, and
variety of connectivity options, and key concept of DDP is the dynamic extensive diagnostic features; data is
the E2600’s interface flexibility fits rebalancing of data during changes in fully protected when it reaches the
right in. Its SAS interfaces provide a the number of drives, whether adding storage system.
high-speed, low-latency connection drives or in the case of when a drive
fails. Unlike a traditional RAID volume Intelligent Cache Tiering
tailored to high-performance direct-
attached solutions. iSCSI and FC group’s rigid configuration with a specific Using SSD Cache provides intelligent
interface options enable the E2600 number of drives, Dynamic Disk Pools cache tiering capability to identify and
to seamlessly integrate into existing can optimize from a minimum of 11 host the subset of the data that is hot
data centers with established storage to the maximum number of drives on the SSDs. Because this caching
networks. supported by the E2600 system. is data driven and works in real time,
there is nothing to manage or maintain.
Seamless Protection: Dynamic Key tenets of DDP technology: Users are not required to set up
Disk Pools complicated policies to define the
• Elimination of complex RAID
Patent-pending Dynamic Disk Pools trigger for data movement between
management
(DDPs) greatly simplify traditional RAID tiers.
• No idle spares to manage
management by distributing data, parity • No reconfiguring of RAID when Proven Data Replication
information, and spare capacity across expanding and Disaster Recovery
a pool of drives, also enabling easier • Faster rebuild times associated with
capacity expansion and greater data With NetApp E-Series SANtricity
DDP following a failure of a drive (or remote mirroring, customers have a
protection. DDP offers continued multiple drives) when compared to
performance and seamless data proven and efficient disaster recovery
traditional RAID schemes schema for maintaining access to
protection by quickly recovering a
failed drive up to eight times more When data is entrusted to your storage, business-critical data in the event of
quickly than traditional RAID. protecting it is essential. Beyond DDP, site outages. Available for both FC and
the E2600 has advanced protection IP networks, SANtricity remote mirroring
technologies built into SANtricity®, such provides highly available data storage
E2600 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
All data in this table applies to dual-controller configurations.

E2660 (DE6600) E2624 (DE5600) E2612 (DE1600)

Maximum raw capacity 240TB with expansion to 768TB 28.8TB with expansion 700.8TB 48TB with expansion 768TB

Form factor 4U/60 drives 2U/24 drives 2U/12 drives

Maximum disk drives* 180 using only 60 drive shelves 192 192
192 with expansions shelves 120 SSDs
75 SSDs: 25 SSDs/60-drive shelf

Drive types supported 2/3/4TB NL-SAS 7.2k FDE/non-FDE 600/900GB,1.2TB SAS 10k FDE/ 2/3/4TB NL-SAS 7.2k FDE/
600/900GB,1.2TB SAS 10k non-FDE non-FDE
FDE/non-FDE 400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB SSD
400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB SSD non-FDE
non-FDE 800GB SSD FDE
800GB SSD FDE

System ECC memory 4GB

Base ports for host I/O Four 6GB SAS

Additional ports for host I/O Four 6GB SAS

Eight 8GB FC
Eight 1GB iSCSI
Four 10GB iSCSI

Operating system SANtricity 11.10

High-availability features Dual active controller with automated I/O path failover
Supports Dynamic Disk Pools and traditional RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10 simultaneously
Redundant, hot-swappable storage controllers, disk drives, power supplies, and cooling fans
Dynamic Disk Pools dynamic rebalancing for change in drive counts up or down
Automatic RAID rebuild following a drive failure
Mirrored data cache with battery backup and destage to flash
SANtricity proactive drive health monitoring identifies problem drives before they create issues99.999%
availability (with appropriate configuration and service plans)

Operating systems Microsoft® Windows Server®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,
VMware® ESX®, Oracle® Solaris, HP HP-UX, Apple® Mac® OS

Software features Standard Optional Extended-Value Software

SANtricity Remote Mirroring SANtricity Disk Encryption
SANtricity Volume Copy
SANtricity Snapshot™
SANtricity SSD Cache
SANtricity Thin Provisioning Data
Assurance (T10P1)
Dynamic Disk Pools
Dynamic volume expansion
Dynamic capacity expansion
Dynamic RAID-level migration
Dynamic segment size migration
Event monitoring
Proactive drive heath monitoring
Nondisruptive firmware upgrades
Media scan with autoparity check
and correction
*Based on same form factor disk shelves. All models are capable of reaching 192 disk drives when configured with intermixed drive shelves.
E2600 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS cont’d
Dimensions and weight E2660 system shelf E2624 system shelf E2612 system shelf
DE6600 disk shelf DE5600 disk shelf DE1600 disk shelf
Height 7.0" (17.78 cm) 3.47" (8.81 cm) 3.4" (8.64 cm)
Width 19" (48.26 cm) 19" (48.26 cm) 19" (48.26 cm)
Depth 32.5" (82.55 cm) 19.6" (49.78 cm) 21.75" (55.25 cm)
Weight 232 lb (105.2 kg) 57.32 lb (26 kg) 59.52 lb (27 kg)
E2660 system shelf E2624 system shelf E2612 system shelf
Typical Maximum Typical Maximum Typical Maximum
KVA 0.899 1.109 0.337 0.487 0.283 0.433
Watts 890 1097 333 482 281 429
BTU 3036 3745 1138 1644 957 1464
DE6600 disk shelf DE5600 disk shelf DE1600 disk shelf
Typical Maximum Typical Maximum Typical Maximum
KVA 0.782 0.992 0.225 0.375 0.172 0.322
Watts 774 982 223 371 170 318
BTU 2641 3350 761 1267 580 1086

across campus, the state, or the world • Target to improve storage utilization Proven Reliability
and simplifies the management of data rates up to 33% The E2600 is based on a field-proven
replication to meet the application service • Experience simple installation and design architected to provide high
levels of both virtual and traditional setup with one-time management at reliability and availability. Its redundant
environments. volume creation components, automated path failover,
• Have automatic growth management and online administration keep organi-
Storage Efficiency of usage expansion to maximum zations productive 24/7/365. And the
Thin provisioning eliminates overprovi- storage E2600’s advanced protection features
sioning of storage by automatically and extensive diagnostic capabilities
allocating storage internally, only as Intuitive Simple Management
deliver high levels of data integrity.
it is actually used, while reporting NetApp SANtricity storage management
full allocations to hosts, significantly software combines robustness
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estimates without interrupting storage system I/O.
• Decrease the frequency of error-prone
emergency out-of-space activities

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