Qsan Technology Announces AegisSAN LX Series

Qsan Technology Inc, announced its 60-bay ultra-high density SAN, the AegisSAN LX.

The 19 4U system features 60 hot-swappable SAS and SATA disk drive bays, dual active controllers and fully modular components as well as software designs including QiSOE (Qsan hardware iSCSI offload engine), QThin (thin provisioning), QSnap (copy-on-write snapshot) and QReplica (remote replication).

It was designed by Qsan to address the IT administrators pressures around storage, archiving and protection of an increasing amount of business data; most immediately the cost of footprint draining the IT budget. With this latest system, organisations can save up to 65% in rack space and reduce power consumption by 50%. The system offers scalability and supports up to 240 HDDs for bulk storage to meet the requirements of big data applications.

The 60-bay series also includes virtualisation and data protection features. Its dual-active controllers plus fully redundant and hot swappable modules enable the system to provide true HA for mission-critical applications. In addition the series supports vSphere 5 VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration), Citrix and Hyper-V for highly virtualised environments. The built-in data protection features include QSnap, the copy-on-write snapshot, QReplica, remote replication via the built-in iSCSI port and BBM, the battery backup module to keep cache data safe in the event of a power outage. The system also includes functions such as volume cloning, Windows VSS, and N-way mirror for all-round data protection.

“It enables data capacity applications to benefit from high performance while also delivering scalability and HA,” said Danisales director, Qsan. “With hardware RAID and QiSOE, our AegisSAN LX 60-bay system offers outstanding IO/s and throughput, along with cache mirroring and online firmware upgrade and has been designed to include a plethora of features which guarantee reliability.”

It offers two interface options: iSCSI and FC.

Available products include:

• the P600Q (with 2x 10GbE ports + 2x 1GbE ports per controller),

• F600Q (with 4x 8Gb FC ports + 2x 1GbE ports per controller) and

• P400Q (with 6x 1GbE ports per controller).

Available worldwide from the companys network of reseller partners at the following starting prices:

• AegisSAN LX P600Q-D460: $34,800 (MSRP, diskless)

• AegisSAN LX F600Q-D460: $32,800 (MSRP, diskless)

• AegisSAN LX P400Q-D460: $29,600 (MSRP, diskless)