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Chapter 1 RAID introduction
1.1
Features
Sans Digital EliteRAID and TowerRAID Series iSCSI storage is a high-performance RAID.
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4 bay solutions
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EliteRAID /B: 1U 4 bay iSCSI (Gigabit LAN x2) Rackmount
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8 bay solution
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EliteRAID B: 2U 8 bay iSCSI (Gigabit LAN x2) Rackmount
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TowerRAID TR8I: 8 bay iSCSI (Gigabit LAN x2) Tower
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16 bay solution
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EliteRAID B: 3U 16 bay iSCSI (Gigabit LAN x4) Rackmount
Sans Digital EliteRAID and TowerRAID Series features:
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Front-end 2 GbE or 4 Gbe NIC ports, support Microsoft MPIO and SCSI3 Clustering.
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iSCSI jumbo frame support.
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RAID 6, 60 ready.
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SATA II drives backward-compatible.
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One logic volume can be shared by as many as 32 hosts.
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Host access control.
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Configurable N-way mirror for high data protection.
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On-line volume migration with no system down-time.
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HDD S.M.A.R.T. enabled for SATA drives.
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Header/data digest support.
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Microsoft VSS, VDS support.
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Support MPIO and MC/s
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Support LACP 802.11ad and trunking (B only)
With proper configuration, Sans Digital can provide non-stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance
by using RAID technology and advanced array management features. The controller features are slightly
different between the backplane solution and cable solution. For more details, please contact Sans Digital
or email to “[email protected]”.
EliteRAID and TowerRAID Series iSCSI solution connects to the host system in iSCSI interface. It can be
configured to any RAID level. The controller provides reliable data protection for servers and RAID 6.
The RAID 6 allows two HDD failures without producing any impact on the existing data. Data can be
recovered from the existing data and parity drives. (Data can be recovered from the rest disks/drives.)
1.2
Terminology
The document uses the following terms:
RAID
RAID is the abbreviation of “Redundant Array of Independent Disks”. There are
different RAID levels with different degree of the data protection, data
availability, and performance to host environment.