High Performance Fibre Channel Storage System

N/Ar E4400 storage system, designed for high-performance computing environments such as video editing/post production, e-commerce, CAD/CAE and data warehousing. A full Fibre Channel storage system designed to handle the ever-growing storage needs of today's enterprise applications, N/Ar E4400 system offers dynamic scalability, high availability, and optimal performance for both transaction- and throughput-oriented workloads. In addition, the centralized storage management software of N/Ar E4400 product further supports enterprise storage consolidation in storage area networks (SANs).

The new MetaStor E4400 system maximizes customer purchasing power by offering best prices today while taking advantage of decreasing technology costs and drive costs in the future. With flexibility to scale capacity, performance and host connections independently, customers are able to procure storage on an as-needed basis.

New features of N/Ar E4400 system:

HotScale technology enables online expansion for highest availability LSI Logic's innovative HotScale technology assures that Fibre Channel loops remain intact, even during reconfiguration, enabling customers to scale capacity and connectivity dynamically. With HotScale technology, additional drives, drive modules and servers can be added on-the-fly with no system downtime, improving data availability and flexibility.

Connectivity offers SAN-ready configuration and scalability up to 16 terabytes Eight Fibre Channel host connections can be configured as four redundant-path host attachments for a SAN-ready system without the need for a separate switch or hub. In addition, to meet the most demanding capacity requirements, N/Ar E4400 system can support up to 220 drives per command module, allowing for 16 terabytes of storage capacity.

Optimized for both high throughput and transaction-intensive workloads, the E4400 storage system delivers 350 MB/second sequential read performance and 60,000 cached I/Os per second. Most storage systems feature either high throughput or high transaction rates, but the feature rich MetaStor E4400 system is optimized for both. Because of its high performance, the system can dynamically handle workload changes created by multiple applications and varying workloads operating simultaneously. This makes N/Ar E4400 system ideal for storage consolidation and the unpredictable traffic encountered by internet and application service providers.

SANtricity Storage Manager software offers easy, safe storage management SANtricity software provides secure, centralized management of storage resources via an easy-to-use, Java-based graphical user interface. Key to the software is the SANshare storage partitioning feature which enables a single storage array to be partitioned into as many as eight virtual storage systems, each supporting multiple hosts and each capable of functioning as a boot device. SANtricity Storage Manager software also assures data security by protecting the storage array from unintentional or unauthorized data access and control by a newly introduced or rogue server.

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