Xyratex Storage Systems Announces Support for Full 2Gb Fibre-Channel RAID Controllers in the RS-1600-FC Disk Enclosure.Business Editors HAVANT, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2001 Xyratex today announced the latest enhancement to it's new range of Salient RS Fibre-Channel disk enclosures, the RS-1600-FFX2. The RS-1600-FC announced earlier this year is a FC disk array incorporating up to sixteen one or two-gigabit Fibre-Channel drives in just three standard units Standard units may refer to:
Within the RS-1600-FFX2, each SANArray(TM) FFx-2 controller provides two 2Gb Fibre-Channel ports, which can auto negotiate for connection to 1Gb and 2Gb host adapters supporting Fibre-Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL (Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop) See Fibre Channel. FC-AL - Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop. ) or point to point connections. The RS-1600-FFX2 also incorporates dual, switchable FC-AL hub modules between the RAID controllers and the host or Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric. For entry point configurations, this enables up to four host or fabric ports to be simultaneously connected to all of the controller ports in a single or dual RAID enclosure. For higher bandwidth applications, the hub modules can be disabled, enabling up to four full duplex point to point connections with the SAN fabric. "Our incorporation of the IBM Mylex SANArray(TM) FFx-2 controllers offers our OEMs and Systems Integrators excellent flexibility to create leading entry point and mid-range SAN solutions. Support for 1Gb and 2Gb drives along with arbitrated loop and point to point host connections eases the problems of fabric integration and the built in hubs enable our partners to build very cost effective, resilient entry point SANs," said Jon Haley, Sales and Marketing Manager for storage at Xyratex. Performance testing with dual-active SANArray(TM) FFx-2 controllers and 2Gb drives in the RS-1600-FFX2 has shown bandwidth performance of over 360 megabytes per second (unit) megabytes per second - (MBps, MB/s) Millions of bytes per second. A unit of data rate. 1 MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes per second (not 1,048,576). (MB/s) (sustained sequential reads from disk) and transaction performance of close to 100,000 IOs per second (IOPS IOPS Input/Output Per Second IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second (server performance measurement) IOPS International Organization of Pension Supervisors IOPS Information Operations Planning System IOPS Internet Official Protocol Standards ). A system can support up to 112 devices allowing expansion to over 8 terrabytes (TB) of data (7 terrabytes RAID 5 protected) using 73-gigabyte (GB) drives. Availability of data is critical in today's SAN environments and the RS-1600-FFX2 meets this demand with dual redundant disk paths, expansion connections, Loop Resiliency Circuits (LRCs), hub modules, RAID controllers, power supplies and fan modules. In addition, cache coherency between controllers ensures that write operations are always complete and successful in the event of a controller failure. The RS-1600-FFX2 has been designed for integration into heterogeneous SAN environments. Configuration and monitoring of the arrays is performed via Xyratex Distributed Array Management software, which currently provides support for Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM), Linux(TM), Solaris(TM), AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. (TM), IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. (TM), and HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. (TM) operating systems. This software allows true remote administration of the array from any HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. with e-mail reporting of alerts. SANmapping(TM) provides allocation and masking of RAID Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) to host World Wide Names (WWNs), allowing Unix and Microsoft(TM) hosts to share consolidated RAID controller resources without any additional software. "The announcement of the Xyratex 2Gb High End RAID subsystem (RS-1600-FFX2) is a leading edge development in the advanced storage subsystem market. It enables complete 2Gb fibre channel SANs to be deployed with improved levels of performance and availability. Xyratex has again proven that they can deliver world class products that deliver superior levels of performance, functionality and quality," Andy Norman, Managing Director Sagitta Performance Systems. About Xyratex Xyratex is a world technology leader in developing OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and solutions for the high-speed networking, digital broadcasting and data storage marketplaces. Products and services available from Xyratex include future-ready storage subsystems, analysis technology for data communications and enterprise networks, and a leading range of fibre channel support tools. Xyratex is recognized for its strong technology base and commitment to providing a highly responsive customer-focused service, investing significantly in research and development to help customers stay ahead in the technology race. The result is an expanding range of long-term partnerships with many of the most influential companies in the worldwide IT marketplace. Founded in 1994 in a management buyout Management buyout (MBO) Leveraged buyout whereby the acquiring group is led by the firm's management. management buyout See going private. from IBM, the company employs over 500 people working at locations in the United States, Europe and South East Asia. For further information please visit our website at www.xyratex.com, or contact us by phone at UK 44-2392-496383, U.S. (CA only) 619/667-3840 or U.S. (outside CA) 800/642-7808. |
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