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March 11th, 2014 10:00
what's history of PowerVault MD Series storage?
Hi, I would like to know the history of PowerVault MD Series storage, was it bought by Dell from another company? Then who is that company? LSI?
please help on this.
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March 11th, 2014 11:00
Dell OEM's the controllers and enclosures from LSI/Engenio (written all over the firmware and software).
But since then LSI sold the Engenio division to Netapp.
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March 11th, 2014 12:00
Hello zhouzengchao,
What Dev Mgr has stated is correct.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
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March 11th, 2014 20:00
thank you, Dev Mgr.
So I should supposed to be able to find technical related documents about MD storage on NetApp or LSI, am I right?
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March 12th, 2014 09:00
That would be highly unlikely as the units have been fairly heavily OEM'd (firmware changed/customized to meet Dell's requirements/needs). You might find docs that explain some of the pure hardware (minus the raid controllers), but if you're looking for technical documents, I'd suggest to look on the Dell support site. Details about inside the raid controller or other components won't be readily available.