The RA3000 is a fully integrated UltraSCSI RAID subsystem for use with Microsoft Windows NT, OpenVMS, and Tru64 UNIX operating systems. The RA3000 ensures continuous access to critical applications and data through controller failover, hot swap components, fail over to hot spares, automatic monitoring, and event notification. The RA3000 is currently supported on x86 based Windows 2000 and Windows NT servers, Tru64 UNIX, Microsoft Windows NT Alpha, OpenVMS, Novell NetWare, HP-UX, IBM AIX and SUN Solaris. The RA3000 is positioned as a low cost storage solution and a companion to the RA7000,RA800,Enterprise Storage Array ESA10000 and ESA12000 solutions. Like all StorageWorks products, the RA3000 scales and expands.
Users can start small and expand as their business needs grow.
Supports two independent hosts or one independent cluster Support for up to 24 disk drive SBBs. Up to 873 GB total capacity. It communicates with the storage controller and provides the user with both a logical and physical representation of the storage array. The client can be directly connected to the RA3000 controller by a serial line from the PC or by a SCSI bus to the host computer that is connected to the controller.