Qsan Redundant iSCSI and 10GbE RAID Controllers

Since established in 2004, Qsan has positioned itself as iSCSI storage solution expert from cabling to backplane solutions. Qsan showcased P300H (Redundant iSCSI RAID controllers) and P500H (Redundant 10GbE iSCSI RAID controllers) in Computex Taipei 2009 exhibition.

Qsan storage solutions are designed and dedicated for SMB IP SAN market. With iSCSI nature and Qsan’s advanced features, Qsan iSCSI RAID controllers are ideal solutions and offer more flexibility for IT administrators in designing storage solutions for SMB environments. By implementing iSCSI solution, IT administrator can reserve flexibility for the future, including adding more server/PC connections, scalable capacity expansion, virtualization, no distance limitation, easy migration, interoperability, and etc.

P300H iSCSI Redundant RAID Controller

At Computex Taipei 2009, Qsan’s partners, Enhance Technology, Inc., evServ, and PetaStor, Inc. presented the latest redundant controller storage solutions – UltraStor ES3160, i424R-SG4, and AL-8241i-D which are integrated with Qsan’s P300H iSCSI GbE (x8)-SAS/SATA II redundant controllers.
 
Qsan Latest P300H iSCSI Redundant RAID Controller
With Qsan P300H iSCSI redundant controllers installed, the storage solutions can provide users for dual active protection, high bandwidth cache mirroring, seamless management, multiple target nodes, high availability/ load-balancing, and high performance. Qsan redundant controllers are designed on its own invented technology which provides active-active controller configuration, and doesn’t compromise to the performance. P300H IOPS is up to 200K.

Qsan is always pursuing reliability, stability, lower cost, and higher performance. Qsan iSCSI RAID controllers are embedded with rich features, such as flexible drive number support from 4 ~ 8 bay tower, 1U4, 2U8, 3U12, 3U16, and 4U24 subsystems, writable snapshot, SAS JBOD expansion, RAID 6, jumbo frame, access control, disk auto spindown, iSNS, CHAP authentication, online migration, web GUI management, etc. And with the Qsan smart power saving technology of disk auto spindown supported, the whole subsystem with fully loaded hard drives can achieve high power efficiency and save the overall hard drive power cost.

It is also painless and quick to integrate into your current chassis designs. Qsan’s support team can shorten your project time by providing fast design capability and overall reliability test. The overall cost is very effective. With low price tag, rich advanced features support, and numerous OS/HBA/iSCSI initiators/HDD support, Qsan iSCSI RAID controllers are ideal for the SMB market applications, such as virtualization server, surveillance, online file backup, email storage, SQL server, Exchange, boot-from-SAN server installation, web server, CRM and etc. Qsan also provides customization services for hardware and firmware feature adjustment.

According to Daniel Lin, Sales Director of Qsan Technology, Inc., "Qsan iSCSI RAID controllers have been proven and installed in various applications and environments. And the iSCSI market has been growing rapidly at nearly 60% annually. We are proud and confident to provide the best price-performance solutions to our customers."