Enterprise Products PowerEdge 6400 PowerEdge 6450 PERC 2/DCGreg Bennett (PE6XX0) Eric Cannell (PE8450/LCM) Kris Meier (RAID) Kevin Noreen (Clustering) Jeremy Ramsey (Racks) ESP Product MarketingDell ConfidentialDell Confidential Page Page 2 2 AgendauServer Product Portfolio uGartnerGroup Magic Quadrant uRoadmap Update uPowerEdge 6400/6450 Positioning uPowerEdge 6400/6450 Overview u4-way vs. 2-way Architecture uRAID Update uConclusionDell ConfidentialDell Confidential Page Page 3 3 Department PowerEdge 4400 PowerEdge 4300Enterprise PowerEdge 6400 PowerEdge 6300File no announced plansPowerEdge 635072GB storage 6 PCI slots2 power cords Avg. price=1.4614U14UDell ConfidentialDell Confidential Page Page 1515 CompatibilityuManagement nAll RAID products are supported under OpenManage Array Manager nVendor unique utilities will be delivered with RAID products as well lFAST for ROMB, PERC 2 lPowerConsole for PERC 2/DCuCoexistence nPERC 2/DC coexists with ROMB, PERC 2/SC, and PERC 2uMigration nPERC 2/DC is based on AMIs data format nROMB and PERC 2 are based on Adaptecs data formatOpenManage Array Manager ROMBPERC 2/SC PERC 2/DC PERC 2Dell ConfidentialDell Confidential Page Page 1616 PERC 2/DC Product PositionuPERC 2/DC is Dells add-in RAID solution across all new platforms where moderate storage expandability is requireduPERC 2/DC increases performance of our low end add-in RAID solution nBBU enables write back caching nH/W XOR increases RAID 5 write performance nMultiple Channels enables greater per adapter bandwidthuPERC 2/DC is Dells multi-channel SCSI based clustering solution across all new platformsuPERC 2/DC complements ROMB platforms by offering a full featured add-in RAID solution at a price $100s less than the competitionRAID Price Comparison$0$500$1,000$1,500$2,000$2,5001234RAID ChannelsDell Add-in RAIDDell ROMB Compaq Add-in RAIDIBM Add-in RAIDHP Add-in RAIDPE 2450 PE 2400PE 4400PE 6400ROMBPERC 2/DCPERC 2PE 6450PE 8450Dell ConfidentialDell Confidential Page Page 1717 uTwo Ultra 2 SCSI Channels u64 bit/33 MHz PCI u64 MB or 128 MB SDRAM Cache uOn Board Battery Back Up nUp to 48 hrs Cache retention on power failure uI960RN 100 MHz Processor uHardware XOR uRAID levels 0,1,5,10, and 50 uUnified RAID and Cluster Firmware uPowerVault 20x and 21x support nUp to 2*8*36=576 GB per controller uMarble and PowerConsole configuration utilities uWindows 2000, NT4, NW 4, NW 5, Linux uMSCS Cluster Support uAvailable beginning December 1999 on 8450, 4400, 2400PERC 2/DCDell ConfidentialDell Confidential Page Page 1818 Platform Support845064506400440024502400PERC 2 PERC 2/SCPERC 2PERC 2VailPhase IPhase IIROMBROMB= Platform RTSPERC 2/DCPERC 2/DCPERC 2PERC 2PERC 2PERC 2/DCPERC 2/DCPERC 2/DCROMBPERC 2/DC