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SANRAD
Overview
The common thread
apparent in almost all small to large storage management solutions
is the process of detaching storage devices from servers and
networking these storage resources via a storage area network (SAN).
The reasons for "going networked" are basic - networked
storage systems are far easier to manage and maintain, the data is
simpler to replicate and protect, and the storage and data can be
more easily shared, expanded, and precisely allocated to clients and
their applications.
The question facing
most IT professionals isn’t whether "to network - or not to
network", the question is "how to network?" Network
and system administrators are still coping with their everyday
challenges, and don’t want the decision they made on "how to
network" taking up more resources or creating additional
problems.
A new standard for
networking storage is emerging to simplify the task of building,
managing and expanding a SAN. The IETF committee and industry giants
worked together to create the new iSCSI standard storage protocol
for building IP based SANs. This new storage protocol resides on top
of TCP / IP over Ethernet. Ethernet switches and HBAs are common
and, when combined with iSCSI to build a SAN, provides small to
enterprise class computing environments with a simple, cost
effective, high performance, and feature rich architecture for
supporting almost any business application.
SANRAD develops and provides products
and technology for building SANs. All SANRAD virtualization switch
products provide protocol bridging, storage routing, switching and
virtualization within a highly scalable architecture. The iSCSI V
Switch ™ 3000 is a member of SANRAD’s Virtualization Switch
Family and is designed to build SANs based on the iSCSI protocol
running over Ethernet and supports fibre-channel, iSCSI, or SCSI
based storage systems.
The iSCSI V Switch™ 3000 is a
network-centric storage management and virtualization solution. It
resides between Gb. Ethernet networked hosts and diverse fibre-channel,
iSCSI or SCSI storage systems within a SAN. Installation requires no
unique host agents or additional special hardware. It provides a
single, easy-to-use storage connection and storage virtualization
platform for IT professionals responsible for administering and
providing small to enterprise class storage resources to diverse
hosts across a LAN, MAN, or WAN.
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Contact:
Zophar Sante’, SANRAD, Inc.
Zophar@SANRAD.com
or 510-521-2424
www.sanrad.com
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