Storageflex Fi240 Fibre Channel RAID
Overview
Storageflex™
Fi240 is Storageflex’s High Performance Fibre Channel RAID
solution for mission critical
Applications. Designed with redundancy throughout all components,
Storageflex Fi240 provides maximum uptime for un-interrupted
computing. Dual Hot Swappable Active-Active Mirrored Cache RAID
Controllers connects to the SAN and provides Dual Data Path
Connectivity for up to 240 Hot Swap Fibre Channel
or Fibre Channel Attached SATA (FATA) Drives. Fault Tolerance Storage of up to
72TB with Fibre Channel
Disks or 240 TB with Fibre Channel Attached SATA (FATA) Disks.
· Cable-less Design
· Two 4Gbit Fibre Channel Interfaces per raid controller, Four FC Interface Maximum
· Single or Dual Active RAID Controllers with up to 2GB Cache each, 4GB Cache Total
· 1,024 LUNS/Hosts
· Choice of Fibre Channel and SATA Disks
· Hot Swap Controllers, Power, Fans and Disks
· Online RAID (Dynamic LUN) Expansion
· Predictive Drive Failure Analysis
· Cluster Ready
· Included RAID Management and Monitoring Software with Web Browser
· Included Storage Virtualization and Provisioning
· Optional Snapshot
· Optional Volume Copy Mirroring
· Optional Remote Replication - Asynchronous
Photo of Main System with RAID Controller
(Dual Controller Optional) and 15 Hot Swap Drive Bays expandable to 240
Drives.
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Features
Scalability
Investment Protection
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Applications
Comparisons
FC
Disk
Benchmark
FATA Disk Benchmark
Specifications
· Optional SAN Management of System and Topology
· Automated capacity growth
· Database Agents
· Multipath Agent
Ultimate in Scalability!
Start with as few as 15 Hot Swap Fibre Channel Drive Bays and expand with 15 drive bays at a time. Maximum capacity of 240 disks totaling 72TB with Fibre Channel Disks or 240 TB with Fibre Channel Attached SATA (FATA) Disks.
Convergence of Fibre Channel and iSCSI
Storageflex Fi240's Host Connection Configurations include Fibre Channel, iSCSI or both. Storageflex Fi240 is configurable for simultaneous access for Fibre Channel and iSCSI for the ultimate in investment protection.
Applications
With the most scalable architecture in capacity, types of disks and host connectivity, Fi240 is ideally suited for Mission Critical Online Storage with Hot Swap Fibre Channel and/or SATA Disks yet low cost enough for larger capacity disk based backup and archives.