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MacroSAN MS5500 is a storage product which is oriented to large and medium size data centers. It integrates lots of advanced design concept and architecture technology to provide safe, reliable, flexible storage platform. MS5500 supports maximum 24 controllers and dual controllers supports maximum 768GB cache. It can guarantee data safety by symmetric dual-active, replication, mirror image and snapshots. Furthermore, based on open data storage platform (ODSP), MS5500 can realize interface development, customized function development and function migration. MS5500 reaches the leading level in performance, reliability, function and management.
According to different configurations, MS5500 can be classified as MS5520 and MS5580.

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Highlights

Leading Cache Capability

MS5500 adopts advanced technologies such as Intel new multi-core processor technology, a new generation of PCI-E 3.0 bus, SAS high-speed technologies and supports 10/40Gb/s iSCSI, 8/16Gb/s FC and 10Gb/s FCoE host interfaces. Dual controllers support max. 768GB cache and is comparable to high-end storage specification to meet the user's demands for performance.

Stable and Reliable
MS5500 adopts fully redundant architecture to guarantee system reliability. Main components including chassis of controller, controller, power supply, fan, battery and host interface card adopt modularized design and support online plug in and online replacement. When individual component has a failure, it can realize rapid fault isolation and replacement to avoid more damages to the whole system.

Specific IDDC+CRAID technology help to reduce 80% of system downtime and 80%-95% of data reconstruction time. CRAID allows up to 3 disk failures in a RAID5 array with no data loss. Cooperating with the disk power control technology, IDDC can sequent the disk power up to avoid the power overload that normally is caused by simultaneous electrifying of lots disks.

Multi-Dimensions Expansion

By revolutionary CloudSAN horizontal SAN expansion architecture, MS5500 can horizontally expand to 24 controllers to form a large-scale and parallel storage system. 

MS5500 built-in heterogeneous virtualization engine can integrate IP SAN and FC SAN storage devices into MS5500 unified storage resource pool. By integration of different brands and different architectures products, the customer is unnecessary to concern the devices management and only pay attention to the storage resource management. It efficiently lowers management difficulty and maintenance cost, greatly increase resource utilization rate.

Rich Software Functions

MS5500 provides rich data protection functions including data snapshots, data reproduction, data mirroring, symmetric dual-active storages and so on. Based on these features, MS5500 can provide the solutions to protect the data from online to near line, from local to remote, and easily provide multi-level and cross-region storage solution for the users.