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Putting Serial Attached SCSI to Work for You
6. Scalable, SAN with SAS/SATA disk drives
Application: IP SANs with the flexibility to choose the performance of SAS disks or
low-cost, high-density SATA disk drives
This solution combines a Gigabit Ethernet switch, an iSCSI host bus adapter (HBA), and
an external array that can be used with SAS or SATA disks to build a complete SAN.
Solution Elements:
Servers
Optional iSCSI HBAs (one or many)
Optional software iSCSI initiator
Gigabit Ethernet Switch
12-Drive SAS/SATA RAID external enclosure with single or dual controller options
Adaptec: Leading the Transition to Serial Attached SCSI
As the worldwide leader in SCSI technology, Adaptec is bringing its 24 years of expertise
in development and continual improvement of SCSI to SAS. We are developing one of
the industry’s broadest families of SAS and SATA products, including, HBAs, RAID
controllers and external storage disk array, based on our Flexible Storage Architecture
(FSA). FSA allows our customers to easily and seamlessly mix and match drives, creating
storage solutions that offer the right balance of cost, performance, and connectivity for
any network, infrastructure, and storage opportunity.
When you choose Adaptec for your SAS solutions, you get the expertise of the most
trusted name for SCSI technology and products you know will integrate easily with each
other and with your existing networks and infrastructures. You can even take advantage
of a single software management and driver set throughout your configuration.
Adaptec offers you the simplest, most reliable transition to SAS. To learn more about
Adaptec Trusted SAS solutions, visit www.adaptec.com.
SERVER 2
STANDARD NIC
(using software intitator)
SERVER 1
ISCSI HBA
ISCSI HBA
SAS/SATA
STORAGE ARRAY
ETHERNET SWITCH
STANDARD NIC
(using software intitator)
ETHERNET SWITCH
