SANBlaze With New 25/50/100Gb iSCSI Adapters

SANBlaze Technology, Inc. announced its 7.5 release of its VirtuaLUN storage emulation software.

New features include: 25/50/100G iSCSI support on Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. and QLogic Corp./Cavium adapters, a NVMe conformance test suite, and a test manager feature to enable automated testing.

With SANBlaze’s iSCSI 25/50/100Gbs support, customers can test on Mellanox ConnectX4 and QLogic FastLinQ adapters, in addition to the adapters already supported. The NVMe conformance test suite allows users to test for compliance with NVMe standards. The test manager feature allows users to create automated test suites that simplify the testing process.

“With our new iSCSI adapter support, NVMe conformance test suite, and automated test suites, we are committed to serving our customers with the latest technology to ensure best testing practices,” said Vince Asbridge, president, SANBlaze. “We highly value and listen to our customers, so each new release of the SANBlaze VirtuaLUN includes direct customer feedback in addition to technological advances.“

The SANBlaze VirtuaLUN emulator provides a means to test and exercise your storage hardware or software with emulated devices, saving the expense of populating your test environment with scratch disks, JBODs or arrays. Direct insertion of the SANBlaze into a backplane or drive slot allows for error injection and ‘bad drive’ test conditions for testing of storage software. The VirtuaLUN emulates FC, FCoE, SAS and iSCSI targets such as disk drives and tapes for R/W performance testing environments, with no initiator side software changes required.

The system can also emulate hundreds of initiator ports, providing the ability to simulate hundreds of hosts for applications such as load testing, login density testing and boot storms.

VirtuaLUN emulation systems are available in a number of configurations and system sizes, as well as a software only version deployed on customer hardware. SANBlaze appliance options of 1U and 3U systems provide varying options for port density and memory configurations.

The software is available to run in a GUI via a web browser, or by a command line interface (CLI), or via scripts. SANBlaze will add support for RDMA and RoCEv2/iWarp protocols to 25/50/100G in 2017.