SANRAD and emBoot team to deliver iSCSI diskless boot.SANRAD Incorporated and emBoot Inc. announced recently a cost-effective joint solution that allows storage administrators to use SANRAD's iSCSI V-Switch in conjunction with emBoot's netBoot/i software to enable servers to boot off the IP SAN using any standard Ethernet network interface, eliminating the need for internal server disk drives. The SANRAD and emBoot solution extends Windows-based network booting Network booting is the process of booting a computer from a network rather than a local drive. This method of booting is used by diskless workstations, often in an effort to centralise management of disk storage, which supporters claim can result in reduced capital and maintenance using iSCSI into a wide range of storage, including Fibre Channel, FC SAN and SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. . By using the V-Switch and netBoot/i combination, businesses can now cost-effectively create Windows-based server farms, grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal deployments and disaster recovery plans using standard IP networks and heterogeneous storage infrastructures. This new combination of V-Switch and netBoot/i also brings companies an extremely affordable way to implement server provisioning strategies that can lower operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales through centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. data consolidation and enable rapid deployment and assignment of blade servers. "The ability to extend netBoot/i into Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI 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 storage infrastructures by using SANRAD's V-Switch allows our customers to use netBoot/i in a wider range of enterprise applications," said Carl Foggin, Director of Business Development for emBoot. "As our first certified iSCSI hardware vendor, SANRAD is well positioned in the iSCSI world with solid hardware, easy management, top storage services functionality and a great price point that will allow companies to leverage their existing storage and develop server provisioning strategies with confidence." With storage services onboard the V-Switch, server deployment is easy--administrators simply create a snapshot of a single netBoot/i boot volume and copy the volume to multiple iSCSI targets, allowing servers to be operational in minutes rather than hours. This efficiency, when combined with reduced hardware costs from not needing to deploy multiple HBAs, enables organizations to leverage shared storage with less complexity, reduced acquisition costs and lower maintenance costs. "Using the V-Switch as the local or remote iSCSI target for netBoot/i, businesses can easily perform diskless (network) boot on Windows-based servers and desktops from any storage that exists in the enterprise, enabling fast, efficient and easy storage provisioning of blades or diskless server applications," said Zophar Sante, Vice President of Market Development at SANRAD. "The combination of our technologies simplifies large-scale blade server implementations, enables rapid bare metal 1. bare metal - New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools recovery and easily consolidates, centralizes and protects corporate data." netBoot/i provides the ability to network boot Windows servers See Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. and desktops from an iSCSI target remotely located over a standard IP network, without requiring iSCSI HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. hardware. netBoot/i includes a Windows software initiator driver, a system snapshot tool for copying local boot volumes to iSCSI targets and all the necessary server components to set up an iSCSI network boot environment. netBoot/i supports VMware, CHAP authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , shared boot volumes, target redirection, and conforms to the latest iSCSI draft (20). SANRAD's award-winning iSCSI V-Switch allows organizations to build robust and high-performance IP SANs that include volume creation, storage pooling and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , security, multi-pathing and remote data replication to ensure 24/7 access to storage and data resources at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Enabling all-in-one iSCSI storage networking for full availability and seamless management of stored information across standard Ethernet networks, iSCSI V-Switches deliver a complete storage continuity solution that is easy to deploy with excellent price/performance. SANRAD iSCSI V-Switches combine a truly interoperable, multiple-port iSCSI gateway with comprehensive storage services for full block based data access, network volume management, storage continuity and traffic optimization, delivering a new dimension in the availability of vital business information using iSCSI SANs. |
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