...And Demos 1.7 Million iSCSI IO/s Solution

Chelsio
Communications
Inc .
demonstrated a 2.1 million IOPs solution during Storage Networking
World 2012 in Santa Clara, CA.

Built with
off-the-shelf hardware and showcasing the Chelsio Unified Wire
adapters and Unified Storage Server (USS) software, the demo showed
resellers and system integrators how to easily construct a high
performance unified SAN and NAS target solution. The demo included
five iSCSI initiators (running MS Windows Server 2012) accessing the
iSCSI target through a generic 10GbE switch. The iSCSI target server
includes a single Chelsio T4 Unified Wire adapter, four PCIe SSDs
from Micron Technology, Inc. and Chelsio’s USS software.

Iometer
benchmarking software is used to show the R/W performance of the
system. Chelsio is achieving 2.1 million IOPs to RAMDisk, and 1.7
million IOPs to SSDs.

"Our
USS software and offload silicon technology enables an extremely
cost-effective, high performance storage target solution,"
said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. "Chelsio’s
high performance iSCSI silicon enables Ethernet to permanently
supplant FC and absorb another protocol, using generic TCP/IP and
without reinventing a slew of new protocols or requiring an
infrastructure forklift upgrade – exactly what the industry needs.
We’re continuing to push the price-performance curve and delivering
industry-leading solutions for the high performance storage market."

Chelsio USS Software
supports CIFS/SMB, NFS, RDMA, FTP, HTTP, Lustre, iSCSI, FC, thin
provisioning volumes, volume cloning, snapshots, instant restore from
snapshots, volume encryption, remote replication, compression, shared
storage HA, system monitor and alert, back-ups, and other features.

Additional features
of USS:

Ease-of-Use:
Use the Web-based GUI or CLI Interface to configure and deploy block
and file storage. This also includes the ability to easily configure
the supported RAID cards right from within USS.

Low TCO:
USS provides some of the lowest cost per GB solutions in the
industry. Users can add storage to the solution with no additional
software licenses.