Enhance Technology Adding Ultrastor 4200 FC/iSCSI SAN Storage

Enhance Technology, Inc. announced the latest addition to the ULTRASTOR GEN4 platform.

The ES4200 series expands the company’s next generation SAN platform with a more cost-effective solution designed to leverage enterprise 3.5″ drive technology without compromising features or reliability.

The VMware certified ES4200 series incorporates workflow enhancing software features including native VAAI support for VMware environments, thin provisioning, remote replication capabilities and snapshots. Host connection options include 10GbE iSCSI, 1GbE iSCSI and hybrid FC/iSCSI.

The ES4200 series combines a 4U, 24 disk form factor with 3.5″ enterprise or nearline SAS HDDs adding greater density over previous models, resulting in lower storage costs per terabyte.

“SAS drive technology delivers the highest level of value and performance for most data environments,” said Aaron Eskridge, channel sales manager, Enhance Technology, “We are still seeing a large demand for spinning disks in primary and secondary storage applications.”

The ES4200 series features Enhance Technology’s GEN4 storage platform which offers 50% more processing power and adds hardware iSCSI offload acceleration for an increase in performance, for use in high I/O data environments. New software features include native VAAI support for tighter VMware integration, asynchronous array-based replication capabilities and thin provisioning for improved disk utilization and non-disruptive capacity expansion.

The ES4200 family will include a hybrid model that offers both 8Gb FC and 1GbE iSCSI protocols for maximum versatility in the datacenter. Users have the flexibility to leverage both technologies and provide business-wide storage support with one system.

“The ability to access FC and iSCSI volumes from a centralized, HA storage system solves a lot of issues for the small and medium business. IT administrators can effectively address performance requirements while keeping costs low. Combine that with thin provisioning, array-based replication, expandable capacity (up to 384TB) and you have a powerful all-in-one SAN storage solution for the SMB,” stated Eskridge.

ES4200 family of SAN solutions offer:

• VMware Integration: ES4200 features vSphere 5 certification and native VAAI support providing integration with VMware environments. VAAI enables hardware-based acceleration of key storage operations – reducing resource utilization for improved physical server performance.
• Reliability: It offers high reliability and scalability for mission critical, enterprise applications. Equipped with dual active-active storage controllers and redundant, load-balancing power supplies, the ES4200 is a choice for 24/7 data availability for SMBs.
• Flexibility: The ES4200 leverages ULTRASTOR GEN4 technology to offer enhanced features such as thin provisioning, array-based replication capabilities and snapshots providing point-in-time data protection and restore features.
• Lower Storage Costs: Available in a range of enterprise or nearline SAS capacities, the ES4200 delivers lowe cost-per-terabyte. In addition, when deployed with ES4200JS JBOD expansion shelves – for SMB applications such as Share Point deployments, databases, virtualization, CRM systems and cloud computing.