Wasabi With a New iSCSI SAN Appliance

Wasabi Systems today announced the availability of its new VMX iSCSI SAN appliances,
complete storage solutions that offer unprecedented performance,
flexibility and scalability for the price. 

The enterprise level
storage architecture of the VMX arrays combine affordable,
high-capacity SATA drive technology with multiple GbE interfaces,
making highly reliable, accelerated data access a reality for virtual systems. High speed, high reliability SAS drives are also available.

Delivering
scalable storage capacity and a flexible SAN infrastructure, Wasabi VMX
is designed to virtualize storage from the data path without imposing
any performance penalties. The VMX 2000e
is an entry level system that provides up to 12 TB of raw storage
capacity and up to 220 MB/sec of sustained read and write operation and
the VMX 2000sx
offers further scalability of up to 60TB raw capacity and over
400MB/sec I/O performance. Both models utilize a 2U/12 drive rack
mounted chassis.

"We are very excited about what our VMX series means to virtual storage," said Frank G.  Logan, Wasabi’s President and CEO
.  "Our powerful appliances deliver best-in-class performance right out
of the box, at a really remarkable price point. And it’s low cost
without compromise; our product line scales from 2 to 60 Terabytes of
raw storage for less than $2.00 per GB average using our SATA-based
systems."  

Key features of the Wasabi VMX series include:

• Ease of Use: Graphical user interface offers an easy to follow step by step
  means of configuring and managing each system over any web-browser.
• Data Protection: Application flexible advanced RAID and volume management. RAID levels 0,1,10,5 and 50 supported in 2000e with RAID 6, 60 and 61 added in 2000sx.
• Reliability: Both models utilize dual, hot-swappable power supplies and hot
  swappable cooling fans internally. Additionally, each configuration
  uses Seagate ES SATA drives for enterprise class reliability.
• Performance:
  With the VMX 2000e series benchmarked at up to 220MB/Second sustained
  read and write performance and the dual-core VMX 2000sx series
  sustaining up to 400 MB/Second, even the most demanding applications
  are handled with ease.
• Flexibility: High
  performance applications are optimized using high speed 3 Gbps SAS
  drives or create high capacity utility storage using 1TB SATA drives.
• Visibility:Thorough measurement of temperature, fan speed, access and reporting
  ensure each system is safe and operating within limits. Automatic
  notification of system problems is provided via email or SNMP.

The highly flexible appliance family of products starts at $5999 for 2TB system. The Wasabi VMX solutions will be available beginning in
March.

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