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Product Brief

LSI Syncro CS 9271-8i

Solution Provided

Fully redundant shared storage and application failover for two-node single-system Cluster-in-a box systems

In the Box

• Two (2) Syncro CS 9271-8i HA controllers with

CacheVault (each includes CV power module, CV clip

and remote cable)

• Quick Install Guide

• Two (2) LP Brackets

• Resource CD

Controller Physical Dimensions

MD2 Low Profile (6.6” x 2.536”)

Controller External Connectors

Two Mini-SAS SFF8087 internal connectors

Device Support

Up to 96 6G SAS and/or NL-SAS dual-ported HDDs and SSDs (w/SCSI-3 PR)

Up to 31 6G SAS enclosure/expander devices

Maximum of 120 dual-ported SAS devices in the HA storage domain. Please see on-line compatibility matrix on lsi.com.

Host Bus Type

Data Transfer Rates

Up to 6Gb/s per port

I/O Processor/SAS Controller

LSISAS2208 Dual-Core RAID on Chip (ROC)

Cache Memory

1 GB 1333MHz DDRIII SDRAM

Cache Protection

MegaRAID CacheVault flash cache protection (included)

Key High Availability Features

• Dual Active HA w/shared storage across 2 server nodes

• Server Storage Cluster HA topology support

• Write Back HA cache mirroring

• Up to 64 virtual drives with Shared host access

• Up to 64 virtual drives with Exclusive host access

• Planned/Unplanned failover modes

Key RAID Data Protection Features

• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 6

• RAID spans 10, 50 and 60

• Auto resume after loss of system power during

array rebuild

• Single controller Multipathing (failover)

• Single controller Load Balancing

• Configurable stripe size up to 1MB

• Fast initialization for quick array setup

• Check Consistency for background data integrity

• Patrol read for media scanning and repairing

• 64 virtual drive support per controller (64 total in HA

domain)

• Up to 64TB LUN support

• DDF compliant Configuration on Disk (COD)

• S.M.A.R.T support

• Global and Dedicated Hot Spare Support

–Automatic rebuild

–Enclosure affinity

• Enclosure management

–SES (inband)

Controller Operating Temperature

Maximum ambient: Controller Card with included CacheVault module: 55°C

Controller Operating Voltage

+3.3V, +12V

Controller MTBF (Calculated)

1,251,284 hours

Hardware Warranty

3 years, free technical support, advanced replacement option

Regulatory Certifications

EN55022, EN55024, EN60950, EN 61000-3-2, EN 61000-3-3; FCC Class A, Class B; UL1950; UL; CSA C22.2; VCCI; RRL for

MIC; BSMI;C-tick; RoHS; WEEE

RAID & HA Management

SSD Optimization

of HDD volumes to create high-capacity, high-

performance controller read cache pools

• MegaRAID Fast Path Software designed to provide

high-performance I/O acceleration for SSD arrays

connected to 6Gb/s MegaRAID SAS controllers

• Up to 32 SSDs (6G SAS) in a CacheCade Read SSD pool

• Up to 64 CacheCade virtual drives (The total # of HDD VD

+ CacheCade VDs in the HA domain must not exceed 64)

• Up to 512GB CacheCade Read volume capacity in the

HA domain

OS Support

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and 6.4

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 and SP3

Ordering Information

LSI00392