Is Chaparral's RIO grande? (Top Technology Showcase).Chaparral Network Storage has added a new storage system to its family of storage solutions, the RIO DISK Storage Subsystem The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. , a 2Gbit Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel disk system offering 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. , performance, and a modular design In the context of systems engineering, modular design — or "modularity in design" — is an approach aiming to subdivide a system into smaller parts (modules) that can be independently created and then used in different systems to drive multiple functionalities. with integrated software-management tools. With capacities ranging from 288GB to 17TB, the scalable storage system offers up to 347GB per U. Additionally, the storage system will be available with 36GB or 73GB Fibre Channel drives in a 16-drive 4U enclosure and is scalable to 246 drives. The RIO DISK subsystem is ideal for enterprise performance and mission critical environments such as rich-media, video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. , and scientific data analysis that require high bandwidth streaming operations. The storage subsystem can sustain 760MB/sec data throughput in a RAID-5 configuration. The fault-tolerant storage solution provides an active-active controller configuration, allowing the user to meet the high-availability requirements of many enterprise applications. In addition, the controller is host- and OS-independent, therefore, no special host software is required. Chaparral recently developed a new platform, code-named Liberty, as a general-purpose platform for multiple storage applications. The first implementation of the Liberty architecture, RIO, offers a blade and mid-plane design that provides a baseline for a high-availability/performance RAID engine and storage platform. RIO is integrated into a 1U-form factor and provides two RAID controllers A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. connected through a highly available mid-plane to 16 2Gbit FC interfaces (eight host ports, eight disk ports). The FC modules are separated from the RAID controller intelligence by different Liberty blades, all leveraging the Liberty interconnect system. The storage subsystem is targeted for businesses in the mid-range IT environment that require enterprise-class capability with capacities ranging from 1TB to 20Th across one to 300 servers. RIO's modularity minimizes service times and adds scalability in terms of connectivity, capacity, and performance. Because of the high number of host connections offered by RIO, data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. is enabled for up to eight direct-attached host computers. When deployed in a SAN environment, many more hosts can have access to data. The RIO DISK Storage Subsystem is currently available for purchase from Chaparral's distributors and value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. worldwide. www.chaparralnet.com |
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