Fibre Attached Storage

Fibre attached SANs at this point in time are certainly the SAN of choice when the client has a need for fast storage. Sure we can consider iSCSI SANs, however if a database is involved and the client is look for the highest IOPS then we tend to point to a Fibre Attached SAN with fast drives.

Generally speaking databases are not that large so we tend to recommend utilizing either Fibre or SAS drives drives within the SAN.

Two manufacturers come to mind: NexSAN and iQstor. Two very different solutions; one supporting SAS and the other Fibre drives.

NexSAN SASBoy.

• High Performance SAS Storage (15K SAS)
• High transaction performance
• NexSAN's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs.
• High capacity – up to 4.2 TB in only 3U
• Dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity
• Transaction speeds up to 50,000 IOPS from cache and 2,500 IOPS

iQstor iQ2880 :

• High Performance Fibre Storage (choice of 10K or 15K Fibre)
• Single or Dual RAID Controllers
• Full 4GB Fibre
• Capacity: Up to 240 drives, using expansion chassis
• Software solution sets - SnapShots, Replication, Volume Copy, Volume Manager Virtualization etc.

I will discuss each one of these RAID solutions in more detail in the following blogs.

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