1. About the Appliance

The appliance comprises five nodes in a 19-inch 3U rackmount server chassis. The appliance deploys into a universal and easy-to-use software-defined infrastructure solution that combines virtualization and storage. It allows you to create and manage virtual machines and offers object, block, and file storage, including a local repository for cloud backups.

The appliance comes in several models that vary by storage capacity:

Model Raw storage, TB Usable storage*, TB
Capacity Performance
SDI-5060 60 31 18
SDI-5120 120 62 36
SDI-5150 150 77 45
SDI-5180 180 93 54

* With the recommended redundancy scheme. Erasure coding 3+2 is recommended for capacity; replication=3 is recommended for performance.

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