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Are enhanced resiliency features built into the new disk shelf?

April 26, 2017built disk Enhanced features resiliency shelf

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Are enhanced resiliency features built into the new disk shelf?

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Doug: The DS4243 is designed to provide greater resiliency, fault isolation, and recovery than any previous NetApp disk subsystem. In addition to the SAS capabilities already mentioned, it features redundant components and busses, nonvolatile event logs, and nondisruptive firmware updates. All supported configurations provide either dual-path connections or multipath HA (MPHA) except for the FAS2040, which has limited SAS ports. In addition, the DS4243 features out-of-band management capabilities that provide frame array class resiliency, the first of its kind in a modular storage enclosure. The features complement the in-band resiliency capabilities of the SAS protocol.