Qsan Showcases 10GbE iSCSI P500Q System

P500Q high availability systems from Qsan Technology, Inc. will be showcase at VMworld Europe 2010.

They are VMware ready and embedded with advanced data protection features including QSnap writeable snapshot, volume cloning, and QReplica remote replication.

It is also able to achieve higher IOPS than VMware can support 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 datastores 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. 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 10GbE iSCSI offloaded engine
• Green storage designs: auto disk spin down, advanced cooling mechanism, and 80 PLUS energy-efficient power supplies
• Advanced data protection: RAID 6, 60, QSnap writeable snapshot, Windows VSS support, volume cloning, QReplica remote replication
• Flexible volume management for multiple applications and environments: virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V, Citrix), cloud storage, SQL, Exchange, surveillance, file backup, email, boot from SAN, and etc.
• High connection availability: load balancing and failover
• Extendable capacity up to 144TB

The virtualization applications are driving the adoption of 10GbE in recent years. The shipments of 10GbE products grow in volume, and causing price to drop faster. 10GbE is becoming an affordable solution. For complete integration and optimization in virtualization and cloud applications, Qsan provides affordable high availability storage solutions with complete data protection features.