| Primary Storage – SAN/NAS
Over the past few years there has been a shift in the Primary Storage market away from Direct Attached Storage (DAS), and towards iSCSI. Mercury Storage has the broadest line of iSCSI SAN/NAS solutions that we’ve seen. Some of our vendors offer both iSCSI & FC to bridge what data environments demand. Get what you need, and add as you grow.
EqualLogic
Hifn
AMI’s StorTrends
Compellent Technologies
iStor Networks
Zetera
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Fit: 1-112TB
Sweet Spot: 4-35TB
Native: Replication, Auto-Balancing, Snapshot, Security or Device Management Software.
Options: HA (99.999%), RAID 1, 5, 50. SATA2, SAS. Coming: Thin Provisioning, RAID6, 1TB SATA2! |
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EqualLogic - Has anticipated what customers ask for by creating from the ground up a SAN architecture that will allow a SAN to grow seamlessly. With each array you get additional capacity and additional bandwidth & IO. The leader in iSCSI SAN’s EqualLogic offers a sure foundation. Highest End-User rating in the industry! Scale with ease.
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>> EqualLogic website
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Fit: 1-100TB
Native: Replication, Auto-Balancing, Snapshot, CDP, Security or Device Management Software.
Options: HA (99.999%), RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 10+N, 5, 50 & 6. SATA-2, SAS. . |
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AMI’s StorTrends – Both SAN & NAS in one unit, with enterprise performance. NAS only offer as well. CDP. ILM features are native. Add capacity as your grow (either SAT or SAS drives). Volume Replication (Synchronous, Asynchronous, Snapshot-assisted, Journal-assisted, Replication Wizard, WDS/WAN optimization/Deduplication, Failover / Failback, One to Many Replication), Advanced Snapshots, VSS-based backup support for Windows® 2003 Servers, iSCSI tape support.
>> AMI’s StorTrends website
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Fit: 1-500+TB (Raw)
Sweet Spot: 8-300TB
Thin Provisioning, Virtualization, On-The-Fly Storage Management and Administration, Automated Tiered Storage (ILM), Thin Replication, Unlimited Snapshots, Enterprise Management Software,
Options: HA (99.999%). RAID 5-5, 5-9,10. Boot from SAN, Robust Replication (Many to One, One to Many) |
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Compellent Technologies – Provides a highly scalable FC & iSCSI SAN architecture that can grow from one to hundreds of terabytes on a single platform. Automated Tiered Storage solution eliminates time consuming data classification and the repetitive manual transfer of data between tiers. Thin provisioning delivers the highest storage utilization possible by eliminating allocated but unused capacity. An intuitive interface spans the entire set of technologies, capabilities and configurations for simplified management and greater ease of use.
>> Compellent website
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Fit: 5-11TB (Raw)
Sweet Spot: High Bandwidth/IOPS
Native: Device Management Software, Jumbo Frame & QoS Support, Ready for Windows, Linux & MAC.
Options: RAID 0, 1, 10, 5. 2GB or more Cache |
iStor Networks - Offers what many high bandwidth demand users have been looking for. A very high performance iSCSI SAN (>800MB/Sec & >80,000 IOPS/Sec). The cost of an 11.2TB SAN is less than $15,000. It doesn’t include some of the key Enterprise features that some SAN’s offer – it is designed to fit in as an “easy to run SAN for high performance demands”. Watch for their results at SMI Lab 8 Plugfest – August 2007.
>> iStor website
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