Demartek Publishes Evaluation of NetApp FAS3240

Demartek announces its evaluation of the NetApp FAS3240 unified storage system, showing FC, FCoE, iSCSI and NFS storage traffic running simultaneously.

This storage system was able to handle multiple file and block protocols simultaneously including NFS, iSCSI, FC and FCoE, and supported the bandwidth allocation capabilities of DCB known as Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS). It also provides traditional FC data access on separate FC connections within the same storage controller.

"We were able to provide enough of a workload to fill one 10GbE connection with a mixture of NFS, iSCSI and FCoE traffic while at the same time providing a full line rate 8Gb FC protocol workload," said Dennis Martin, Demartek President. "In addition, we were able to adjust the bandwidth priority of the DCB Ethernet traffic by setting the FCoE bandwidth priority in the DCB Ethernet switch."

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