Qsan 10GbE iSCSI Solutions Pass VMware Certification

The virtualization applications are driving the adoption of 10GbE in recent years. The shipments of 10GbE products grow in volume, causing the price to drop faster. 10GbE is becoming an affordable solution. Qsan Technology, Inc. has positioned itself as iSCSI storage solution expert in SMB market. For complete integration and optimization in virtualization and cloud applications, Qsan’s P500Q 10GbE iSCSI high availability systems have passed VMware Ready Hardware Certification Program. Now, all P500Q and F300Q series are VMware Ready.

Qsan P500Q high availability systems are not only certified by VMware but also able to achieve higher IOPS than VMware can support, which is great for virtualization and cloud applications. With up to 220K IOPS, IT administrators can install multiple VMware ESX servers in a shared Qsan storage system without performance impact. The VMware ESX servers can access the same data stores to boot and run virtual machines, to utilize more out of the storage investments, and reduce the management effort. Qsan P500Q systems are designed on its own invented technology and embedded with advanced data protection features. The P500Q systems are for critical requirements, such as non-stop service, high reliability, scalability, sustainability, cloud computing, and virtualization.

Qsan P500Q features:

Fully redundant and hot pluggable designs: RAID controllers, power supplies, fan modules, battery backup modules and JBOD expansion
Up to 220K IOPS and 1300MB/Sec. throughput
Hardware 10Gb iSCSI offloaded engine
Green storage designs: auto disk spin down, advanced cooling mechanism, & 80 PLUS energy-efficient power supplies
Advanced data protection: RAID 6, 60, QSnap writable snapshot, Windows VSS support
Flexible volume management for multiple applications & environments: virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V, Citrix), cloud storage, SQL, Exchange, surveillance, file backup, email, boot from SAN, etc.
High connection availability: load balancing and failover
Expandable capacity up to 144TB