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Vista Storage FibreArray eXtreme
•Data Sheet: FibreArray eXtreme
When business continuity is non-negotiable and maximum performance, availability and functionality is required without compromise or trade-off, FibreArray eXtreme is the storage solution of choice.
Why should I choose a Raidtec FibreArray eXtreme Product?
In the age of information explosion, IT Managers are under increasing pressure to provide the intense service levels demanded of business-critical applications. SLAs are more demanding than ever, high availability requirements continue to challenge organizations both financially and operationally, and regulatory compliance places more demands on information lifecycle management. FibreArray eXtreme SAN Storage Arrays meet and exceed present and emerging high-end storage challenges and are uncompromising in performance delivery, availability and functionality.
Enterprise environments demand best of breed performance both in routine day-to-day operations and during sudden peaks in I/O demand. FibreArray eXtreme arrays accommodate sustained and peak performance requirements with ease. The solutions are also highly resilient in environments where system downtime with data unavailability is not an option. Ease of system management is also of paramount importance to the IT Manager today. FibreArray eXtreme offers effective, centralized storage management with the ability to self-diagnose, self-optimize, self-configure and self-heal when required.
Increased performance, availability and functionality demands at the high-end are complicated by a decline in IT budgets and resources. Most IT organizations are now required by their management to do far more with far less than ever before. The economics of acquisition have always and continue to be central to Raidtec pricing policy.
Key Benefits Include:
- Uncompromised Availability - With redundant hot swap disks, PSUs and fans as standard and optional dual RAID controllers for failover and failback, FibreArray eXtreme is No Single Point of Failure compliant.
- Price/Performance Ratio - Raidtec's FibreArray eXtreme products offer Enterprise class performance of up to 800MB/s at a mid-range price point.
- Scalability - Supports up to 32TB using 224 of the latest 146GB Fibre Channel drives.
- Resilience - RAID Off-Load Engine (ROLE) architecture provides high speed memory caching, RAID 5 parity generation and cache coherency. FibreArray eXtreme also features Configuration on Disk (COD) whereby a backup copy of array configuration is stored for added data integrity. Optional battery backed cache memory module eliminates data loss due to system failure. New High Density Enclosure Design - Robust 3U rackmount enclosure with 16 drive bays.
- Interoperability - FibreArray eXtreme 3000 SAN Storage Arrays are fully interoperable with leading storage infrastructure suppliers, including host bus adaptors, disk drives, FC switches, software and server OS.
- Flexibility - FibreArray eXtreme products may be combined with Raidtec's FibreArray Elite systems to provide customers with the benefits of both Fibre Channel disks (high I/Os and reliability, for mission critical data) and SATA disks (higher capacity and lower cost, for fixed content data) in a single, integrated storage solution, and all managed & monitored from the same management console.
- SANfinity™ Web - manages multiple FibreArray Systems from a single management console. SANfinity's RAID wizard supports multiple virtual volumes to allow simplified configuration of up to 64 RAID volumes (LUNs). Each volume can have a unique application profile, RAID level and Local or Global Spare assignment. [See SANfinity Datasheet for full details].
- FC Access™ - provides secure SAN volume management, LUN masking, LUN sharing and SAN firewall features.
•Data Sheet: FibreArray eXtreme
