Maxtronic Launches 3U FC-SAS/SAS-SAS Redundant RAID Subsystems
| Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 6, 2008 – 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-6601R and SS-6602R offers 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel to SAS or 3Gb/s SAS to SAS interface for 3U 16 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-6601R and SS-6602R 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.
Dual Active-Active Redundant Architecture
Bridged with one dedicated x4 SAS channel between 2 RAID controllers, Arena SS-6601R/SS-6602R supports dual active-active redundancy or single architecture to ensure the non-stop, flawless and reliable operation. When integrated into an enclosure of all major components are fully redundant and hot-swappable, it immediately transforms to a highly robust, incredibly fault-tolerant and failure-free enterprise-class storage system. Arena SS-6601R/SS-6602R also supports Multipath I/O( MPIO ). It is a fault tolerant technique by creating multiple physical I/O paths between the host server system and its connected mass storage subsystem, in this case, SS-6601R/SS-6602R. This makes it possible when one system fails or is being swapped, the operation system can route the I/O through alternative path to another system transparently to the application or the users and avoid any data looses or video frames drops.
Snapshot benefit: Host and Application Independent
Because the snapshot is done at the array and block level by leveraging the computing power of the RAID system, it is host-independent, and application-independent. It may cause less performance impact comparing to host-based snapshot software solutions. User is also allowed to restore data by using snapshot restore function.
Concurrent Access to the Same Disk Group and Online Switch Preferred System
No separation of disk groups is required for Arena SS-6601R/SS-6602R. It allows simultaneously accesses of two logical disks under a single disk group. Provided exclusively by Arena redundant RAID systems, users can now choose to create a single disk group from a large array pool while still have their storage protected by the active-active fail-over / fail-back mechanism.
Users are allowed to manage the RAID systems from a variety of user interfaces, including command line interface (CLI) over local console and secure shell (SSH), LCD panel, and web-based graphical user interface (GUI) - RAIDGuard™. Any important or abnormal systems events are recorded and sent out through built-in emailing system to notify the administrator without any pre-installed software or agent installed. Maintenance tasks, like capacity resizing, disk scrubbing, and disk roaming are not only online executable, but can be pre-scheduled to perform periodically without further human interference. Non-interruptive firmware updating function seamlessly and automatically synchronized the firmware image onto both controllers in the case of redundant systems. With all the comprehensive management utilities, little effort will be required to configure, reconfigure and monitor the array on the systems.
Key features Highlights:
l IOP 341 based to support 4G FC or 3G SAS for host interface.l 3U Rackmount for 16bays SAS/SATA hard disk
l Comprehensive RAID levels: 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60
l Dual active-active redundant or single architecture
l Support Snapshot & Windows® VDS and MPIO
l Seamless Fail-over / Fail-back F/T
l Concurrent access to the same Disk group
l Non-interruptive FW upgrade
l Expansion SAS port to extension up to 120 hard disks (RAID + JBOD)
l Multiple RAID levels and stripe size per disk group
l Selective storage presentation (SSP)
l RAIDGuard™ Central for centralized manage multiple RAID
About MaxTronic
MaxTronic Int’l Co., Ltd. is a worldwide RAID and NAS provider in design, manufacturing and marketing of full series of RAID solution, including Fibre, SAS, SCSI, eSATA, PCI-e, iSCSI to SAS/SATA-disk based interfaces. We offer high performance, high reliability and user-friendly Storage. MaxTronic provides hardware and software customization services for customers to fulfill different kinds of applications and environments. With field-proven technology, Arena RAID systems are recognized as the most efficiency products in the market. For more information, please visit www.maxtronic.com.tw