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Maxtronic Launches PCIe SAN Solution |
Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 30, 2008 – MaxTronic Int’l Co., Ltd., a global supplier in high-performance RAID and enterprise-class RAID and storage solutions, today announce the PCI-e SAN Solution. The entry cost, speedy and scalable PCI-e SAN solution is the new alternative comparing the traditional High cost FC SAN solution; the first PCI-e SAN solution in the storage market. Overview
PCI-e SAN is providing a manageable structure for storage system; the original FC solution is containing different devices, disk array, HBA card and switch from different vendors. There will be some compatibility and high cost in original FC solution. Now Arena offers a total solution which integrates PCI-e RAID system, PCI-e switch, re-drive card and RAID Guard X GUI without compatibility issue. |  |
To compare with current FC SAN, Arena PCI-e SAN solution have as the following benefits. PCI-e x 4 data transfer rate reaches 1000MBs better than FC 400MBs, x4 PCI-e provided 1GBps host-transferring bandwidth which delivers high performance for heavy duty storage applications. The PCI-e SAN total solution contains Switch, RAID system and re-drives card, no extra high price HBA card and switch needed. PCI-e Switch can connect 7 sets PCI-e RAID with RAID function setting, it can keep heavy data loading IO, also provide cascade function up to 4 layers. The entry cost, speedy and scalable PCI-e SAN solution is the new alternative comparing the traditional High cost FC SAN solution; this is the first PCI-e SAN solution in the storage market. |
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Launches FC/SAS-SAS Redundant RAID |
| Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 31, 2007 – MaxTronic, Int’l Co., Ltd., a global supplier in high-performance RAID and enterprise-class RAID and storage solutions, today announce the FC-SAS and SAS-SAS redundant RAID systems to enable RAID controllers fault- tolerance while still improving the overall performance and efficiency. |
Overview
Arena SS-8801R and SS-8802R offers 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel to SAS or 3Gb/s SAS to SAS interface for 4U 24 bay Rackmount unit. Equipped with Dual Active-Active Redundant technology, Arena RAID systems provide highly dependable reliability, cost-effective flexible scalability, and user-friendly comprehensive manageability. The SS-8801R and SS-8802R are readily devoted to help to expand the horizon of the current and future storage markets in IO-intensive transactions, heavy-duty engineering computing, sophisticated work flow processing and media broadcasting. Key features Highlights: IOP 341 based to support 4G FC or 3G SAS for host interface. 4U Rackmount for 24 bay SAS/SATA hard disk Dual active-active redundant or single architecture Seamless Fail-over / Fail-back F/T Expansion SAS port to extension up to 120 hard disks (RAID + JBOD) Concurrent access to the same Disk group Non-interruptive FW upgrade Multiple RAID levels and stripe size per disk group Comprehensive RAID levels: 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60 Advanced and comprehensive online RAID management Support Windows® VDS and MPIO Selective storage presentation (SSP) RAIDGuard Central for centralized manage multiple RAID
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Announces to Support VDS Hardware Provider |
| | Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 5, 2007 – Maxtronic, Int’l Co., Ltd., a global supplier in enterprise-class RAID and storage solutions, now supports VDS (Virtual Disk Service) 1.1, the latest version of VDS hardware provider, to enhance management ability on Arena RAID storage systems. Microsoft® VDS 1.1 adds new storage management interface to support iSCSI SANs and multi-path IO features which allows users enable better and wider Arena RAID storage solution under Microsoft® Windows Server 2003 R2, Storage manager for SANs or later. |
VDS Hardware Provider Overview
Instead VDS defines a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide a standardized and single interface to manage disks and RAID volumes. The unified programming interface defines how the management software would communicate with Arena RAID system and has two sets of providers: - A built-in software provider that allows users to manage disks at operating system level.
A hardware provider that is supported by third party vendor to translate VDS instruction to hardware specific command for their own RAID systems. As the result, anyone can use one compatible storage application to manage any hardware that supplies a VDS hardware provider.
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