SAN-Fire

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Architecture

Running on architecture trusted by the most demanding applications, the subsystem is capable of a high level of performance. Its 64-bit separate-bus backbone is built around the dedicated XOR engines running at twice the data bus speed. The calculation of parity and distribution of data can be optimized with the free association between individual logical arrays and different optimization modes.

High Performance

Featuring a 64-bit 133MHz memory bus, the unparalleled bandwidth makes the subsystem's high data throughput more than sufficient for small-to-medium sized servers or workstations. Data can be distributed at the burst rate up to 1066MB/sec The dual independent PCI bus design virtually eliminates all imminent bottlenecks on IO traffic, providing sufficient throughput for a wide range of applications on SCSI-based PCs, single-user workstations, NT, Linux, or Unix-based servers. These applications include disk-to-disk backup, Video on Demand, CCTV, and stream editing.

Intelligent Drive Handling

Media Scan is an innovative Intelligent Drive Handling function that can be used for data retrieval from degraded or damaged hard drives. If two bad blocks occur on two member drives of an array, the integrity of the stored data will be endangered. Intelligent Drive Handling capabilities can be used to retrieve data from the damaged sectors. Media Scan is able to handle low quality drives in both the degraded mode and during the rebuild process. Other Intelligent Drive Handling features, which provide further data security, include the transparent resetting of hung hard drives, Power-failure management and bad drive handling during LD expansion.

SAN Management

• LUN Masking access control over terminal emulation or GUI manager, configurable filter entry variables
• Up to 1024 LUNs supported

Management

• Firmware-embedded Java-based GUI RAID manager
• Centralized management of multiple arrays over in-band or Ethernet
• Real-time event notification over Email, LAN broadcast, or SNMP traps
• Host-side SES emulation with pass-through to back-end SES emulation
• SNMP 2.0 MIBs with get and set commands
• Firmware-embedded utility via LCD keypad or RS-232C port

Drive Interface

• 3.5", 1" high 1.5Gbps SATA disk drives
• 16 hot-swappable drive trays
• Automatic bad sector reassignment
• Dedicated bandwidth to each connected drive

Host Interface

• Auto-negotiate FC-AL, point-to-point, and switched fabric
• Concurrent I/O commands
• Tagged Command queuing up to 256
• Variable stripe size per logical drive
• Optimization setting for random or sequential I/Os

Maintenance & Availability

• Li-ion battery support
• Immediate array availability
• Drive roaming, array configuration on drives
• Controller voltage and temperature self-diagnostics

Auto switch cache policy and Auto shutdown

• When a RAID controller detects conditions exceeding preset thresholds, the following actions will be exerted to protect the hardware:
  1. Automatically flush cached data and switch the array's caching mode from write-back to write-through
  2. Commence an auto shutdown
• What is remarkable is all environmental thresholds associated with this mechanism are user-configurable and that caching mode changes back to write-back once normal condition is restored.

How do you get SAN-Fire?
Loyola Enterprises Inc. is the primary integration solution provider for SAN-Fire.
Loyola is SBA 8(a) certified with a GSA IT schedule for simplified SAN-Fire accessibility.