IRON WMX 6400 Series: Scale-Out, Multi-Network Storage Controller System
IRON WMX 6400 Series systems contains two, three or four WMX Storage Controller Heads (SCH) and provides the complete active-active foundation for Enterprise class high-availability storage array. It is available in configurations supporting up to four Storage Controller Heads (SCH), with a maximum of 16 front-end 40/56GbE LAN ports and 128 SAS2 6Gbps ports supporting up to 480 drives.
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| | WMX-6400H2 | WMX-6400H3 | WMX-6400H4 |
Storage Controller | # Storage Controller Heads (SCHs) per System | Two 6400 Series, Active/Active N+1 | Three 6400 Series, Active/Active N+N | Four 6400 Series, Active/Active N+N |
Storage Capacity Support | Storage Throughput Support - Flash Pool (IOPS/MB/s) | 375 (4K 70R/30W Random) / 1500 | 750 (4K 70R/30W Random) / 3000 | 1500 (4K 70R/30W Random) / 6000 |
Storage VP Capacity (External)- # DAE Arrays | Supports 1-8 JBOD Arrays, Use IRON DAE-J4200, J4400 or any 3rd party Windows Certified Disk Array Enclosures |
Storage VP Capacity (External)- # Disks (TB) | Up to 480 (1,920TB) |
Ports-Front End | Network ports (per SCH) – Ethernet (Standard) | 4x 40GbE QSF | 4x 40GbE QSF | 4x 40GbE QSF |
Network ports (per SCH) – Ethernet (Optional) | 2x 10GbE SFP+ or 2x 40GbE-QSF |
Network Storage Protocols Supported | Unified Storage - SMB Direct 3.0 (w/RDMA), CIFS, iSCSI, NFS |
Network ports (per SCH) (Optional) | Fibre Channel & InfiniBand |
Ports-Back End | SAS 6Gbps x4 (# Ports/SCH) – Ext. DAE Exp. | 8 Mini-SAS SFF8088 (4x8=32 ports, 6Gb/s SAS2.1 compliant) |
Hardware Configuration | Form Factor | 2x 2U, 4U | 3x 2U, 6U | 4x 2U, 8U |
System memory/CPU/cores per SCH | 128 GB/Dual/ 20C |
Flash Cache, NVMe (Optional) | 512GB, 1TB |
License | Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 (Embedded) per SCH | Single Server host license, plus 2 VM license for storage and disk management tools |