Fibre Channel Integrated Storage Solution for SANS Now Shipping.Now available and shipping to IBM's Technology Group (TG) distribution channel is the ProFibre Storage Array DF1100R RAID subsystem. It features RAID hardware and software technology from Mylex (an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) company). It utilizes fault-tolerant redundancy features such as hot swappable See hot swap. drives, dual cabling, dual RAID controllers and interface modules, and dual power Units and cooling components, which allows the 10-bay ProFibre Storage Array to ensure high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. . The Mylex SANArray Manager enhances manageability and data availability by enabling configuration, monitoring, and management of network RAID from anywhere in the world via the Internet. PATHpilot provides redundant path management and support for transparent failover/failback to optimize data availability for SAN and clustered-server environments. System administrators can daisy chain Connected in series, one after the other. Transmitted signals go to the first device, then to the second and so on.  A SCSI Daisy Chain Both internal and external SCSI devices are daisy chained together. ProFibre Storage Array enclosures to build mass storage systems containing up to 80 high-capacity, high-performance Fibre Channel disk drives. Such orders-of-magnitude scalability, from gigabytes to terabytes, protects initial storage investments and allows for easy migration to higher-capacity, standard 19-inch rack configurations. The ProFibre Storage Array DF1100R supports RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 0+1 and JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks , as well as Windows server platforms. Suggested list pricing starts at $9,225, excluding disk drives. |
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