The XE7100 is a 5U ultra dense storage chassis targeted at Object, file and safety and security workloads. This solution is comprised of:
- 5U chassis with support for 100 x 3.5" hard drives
- Fits into a Dell standard 1070MM rack.
- Uses independent Boot and Storage capacity disk controllers.
- Single or dual node offerings
- Single node increases platform flexibility by growing to a full width solution with additional PCIe options and additional power.
- Single node supports up to 100 internal drives.
- Dual node supports up to 50 internal drives per node.
- Both single/dual node offerings support up to 2 NVMe (7MM) drives for caching, journaling, and logging along with 2 SATA hot plug drives for boot.
Dell recommends the following configuration options for XE7100 solutions :
- Use a stripe size of 1 MB at the RAID level.
- Format drives with Windows Server with a 1MB chunk size.