Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Got SAS? Get high performance iSCSI from the PS3800XV

The PS3800XV uses 15,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives to deliver high performance for databases and online transaction processing applications.

With a 16 drive chassis, a full configuration of these 146 GB SAS drives provides a 2.3 TB, high-performance iSCSI SAN built on fully redundant, hot-swappable enterprise hardware. Built-in software functionality includes automatic load balancing, snapshots and replication, multi-path I/O, consistency sets, and much more.

Seamlessly integrated with all other PS Series storage arrays, the PS3800XV expands your ability to optimize performance and capacity using storage pools and tiers matched to application demands. And with online data movement between tiers, you gain flexibility to adjust without disruption as your business evolves.

The PS3800XV offers high performance, advanced functionality, and complete protection. Self-managing and expandable online, it maintains 99.999% application and data availability.

PS3800XV Highlights:

  • 15,000 RPM, 146 GB SAS drives
  • 16 drive chassis
  • Dual controller modules, each with 64-bit dual core RISC processor
  • Battery-backed and mirrored RAID cache
  • Automatic RAID 5, RAID 10, and RAID 50 configuration
  • Highly flexible, space-efficient volume snapshots
  • Auto-capable volume replication
  • Complete storage solution with heterogeneous OS support
  • Automatic load balancing
  • Scales without service disruption
  • Fully interoperable with the entire PS Series product line
  • 2.3 TB of raw capacity
  • 60,000 IOPS and 300 MB/sec
  • EqualLogic Multi-path I/O