Chelsio: Unified Storage Server 2.1 Software ($5,168 for Single Seat)

Chelsio Communications, Inc. announced the Unified Storage Server (USS) 2.1 software, adding new features that enable more than one million IOPS performance with new levels of reliability and scalability for low cost Ethernet storage in enterprise data centers and cloud computing installations.

 
Among the new features included in USS 2.1 are HA, iSCSI scalability, and live migration for storage networks. Together with integrated support for Chelsio T4 Unified Wire 10GbE adapters, the company is delivering a scalable and reliable storage solution with greater performance and lower costs than comparable FC solutions.
 
For example, hybrid cloud service provider Vivavo, Inc. is deploying Chelsio USS 2.1 to create a single HA head that scales to 500TB installation with high performance, ease of use and integration.

 "Chelsio’s USS software has proven to be a tremendous asset to enabling high performance, scalability and high reliability for storage clouds," said Francis Au, executive director of Vivavo. "The combination of USS and the T4 adapters is a powerful, scalable solution for our cloud storage applications."
 
The new features of USS 2.1 include:

• HA, including dual-node HA and nested RAID support
• iSCSI Scaling, leveraging multiple distributed iSCSI targets for up to one Petabyte of storage capacity
• Live Migration, enabling swap out for higher capacity storage disks without disconnecting or affecting clients and applications
• Lustre over RDMA support for targeted HPC applications
• Support for range of RAID and SSD cards
• Enhanced support for 4-port 10GbE and 40GbE T4 Adapters to enable fat pipe into storage targets

The USS software supports iSCSI target, CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTP, thin provisioning volumes, volume cloning, snapshots, instant restore from snapshots, volume encryption and replication compression.

A single-seat USS 2.1 license is US list priced at $5,168.