Enhanced RAID Inc.’s Xanadu 200 and 300 Disk Arrays

RAID Incorporated announced several enhancements to its Xanadu 200 and 300 Series solutions to address the needs of HPC, big data and virtualized environments.

The new SANtricity management features include improved data protection, performance, and management capabilities. With these innovative features, customers can also leverage the 99.999% available Xanadu 200 and 300 Series to deliver worry-free solutions to address traditional IT environments such as virtualized infrastructures and Microsoft applications, providing them with the versatility to serve additional customer segments to help further expand their business opportunities.

New features in Xanadu 200 and 300 Series include:

• Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) is a new technology that provides customers with enhanced data and performance protection. It reconstructs failed drives, returning a storage system to optimal conditions following a drive failure up to eight times faster than with traditional RAID architectures. It can also reduce the performance impact from a drive failure by nearly 60%. This data protection technology enables big data customers to maintain performance continuity and reduce overall storage system costs. DDP also delivers storage simplification for worry-free OEM deployments in traditional IT applications.
• Additional data protection capabilities are provided by enhanced SANtricity Snapshot technology that enables customers to schedule more frequent and flexible snapshots, helping to improve RPO and RTO. They increases data availability and reduces the amount of time and money an organization needs to allocate to recover information.
• VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration is available across the Xanadu 200 and 300 Series. This provides customers with tighter integration between the storage array and VMware tools to help manage their storage environments. The added integration offers customers in virtualized environments increased flexibility, more efficient use of server resources, along with increased performance and scalability.
• Thin provisioning capabilities enable organizations to enhance overall efficiency by increasing storage utilization and reducing administrative costs.
• Active-active LUN ownership enables customers to standardize and simplify system configurations since LUN ownership to each controller does not have to be done manually. This feature also balances the load automatically across both controllers, which helps optimize performance.