The 2TB solution is a great entry level system into SAN. This system will allow the attachment of eight servers. You will have to provide FIBRE HBA's for the servers and FIBRE connections from server to SAN switch. You have an unlimited server license in this bundle. If you want more than eight servers we can add another 16 port switch. The only weak point is this system is the fact that we only use one switch and one SAN control computer, however both the switch and SAN control computer are both high availability systems with hot swappable parts. This keeps the costs down. Should any part of the system fail you will not lose data, just replace the part. You can make this system more redundant by adding a second switch and second SAN control computer. The systems as is can expand up to 15.5 TB and unlimited servers.  

COSTS: Please e-mail for a quote on FIBRE or SATA drive SAN system

This price includes site planning, complete installation and training of your people (6) anywhere in the continental United States other destinations around the world are subject to additional travel expenses. We can speak and train in most foreign languages. 

Warranties: We will warranty this system for a period of 5 years. All failed parts replaced in 24 hours. Other service plans are available, but we feel this is sufficient.

Performance: 80,000 IOPS 560 MBPS

Performance can be increased by a factor of 560MBPS by adding more SAN control computers (SDS)

Entire system is contained in one 42U rack cabinet. System can expand to 5TB in the one unit. Additional cabinets can be added for 15.5TB expansion.

Schedule a web cast demonstration of this SAN

Enterprise level  SAN RAID system components

• 1 Redundant high availability (HA)  1U RIO RAID 4 host and 4 drive channels
• 2GB FIBRE to FIBRE 2GB  
• 800MBPS throughput
• 2 GB cache
• 80,000 IOPS
• RAIDar in-band over SAN RAID management software
• 2 16 drive 3U JBOD enclosure FIBRE to FIBRE 2GB
• 32 74GB 10,000 RPM hard discs 2GB FIBRE
• 2.2 TB Level 5 RAID with one hot spare per JBOD

SAN control server and software

SAN Server features

• 4U rack mount with redundant 300 watt power supplies
• Dual 1.6. GHZ processors
• 2GB RAM
• Dual 18GB mirrored hard drives (Hot swap)
• Windows 2000 server
• 4 2GB Fiber HBA's

• Non-disruptive, capacity allocation
• Secure and flexible disk space provisioning (repudiates unauthorized access and discovery)
• Device, protocol and switch-agnostic storage network management
• Block-level disk virtualization (in-band)
• Read and write caching (network-wide)
• Protocol bridging (e.g., Fibre Channel to SCSI)

• Uniform consolidated management from a central console (drag-and-drop GUI)
• Flexible Storage Domains:
  • Map storage assets to departmental requirements and workloads
  • Facilitate accounting and charge-backs
• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) intended for 3rd party software integration
• Extensive I/O monitoring tools (graphical and textual)
• Comprehensive network discovery and diagnostic utilities to simplify configuration, and quickly isolate potential problems

• Dynamic Network Managed Volumes
  • Appears to clients as largest addressable disk (e.g., 2 terabytes), but only consume physical space as needed
  • Are automatically allocated space just-in-time
  • Never need resizing or repartitioning
• Local and remote data replication (bi-directional)
  • Volume-level point-in-time snapshot (full copy or space-saving difference-only view)
  • Synchronous (real-time) remote mirroring
    - Asynchronous (store and forward) IP-based remote mirroring.

• Host-based alternate pathing drivers to ensure diverse routes to mirrored data.
• Client-side block-level caching that accelerates I/O performance of LAN-attached systems.
• Laptop and desktop IP-based remote mirroring and restoration services to ensure a recovery image is always available at a central site.

Silkworm 3800HA switches

SilkWorm 3800 Enterprise Fabric Switch
The Brocade SilkWorm 3800 16-port, auto-sensing Fibre Channel switch significantly increases performance and functionality for Storage Area Networks (SANs). Based on third-generation Brocade ASIC technology, the SilkWorm 3800 combines 1 Gbit/sec and 2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel throughput with new features that greatly enhance switch operation. As a result, organizations can enjoy the advantages of higher security, availability, and performance, as well as centralized data management.
High Availabilty Throughout the Fabric
The SilkWorm 3800 meets high-availability requirements with redundant, hot-pluggable components, automatic path rerouting, and extensive diagnostics. Leveraging the Brocade networking model, the SilkWorm 3800 provides a SAN fabric capable of delivering overall system availability greater than 99.999 percent - the "five nines" of availability. Brocade Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) enables the fabric to automatically isolate problems and reroute traffic around failed links onto alternate paths - ensuring availability for mission-critical enterprise applications.
Industry-Leading Performance
The SilkWorm 3800 provides high performance with all ports capable of operating at 1 and 2 Gbit/sec (full-duplex) to enable 32 Gbit/sec of uncongested switch throughput. Auto sensing and speed matching of 1 and 2 Gbit/sec traffic ensures interoperability between current 1 Gbit/sec devices and next-generation 2 Gbit/sec devices. To provide even higher performance - as well as simplified management - Brocade ISL Trunking creates an 8 Gbit/sec data path between switches.
Intelligence within the Switch
Wire-speed Frame Filtering enables new capabilities such as hardware-enforced World Wide Name (WWN) zoning for improved security and manageability.
Open SAN Management
The SilkWorm 3800 simplifies management by leveraging the Brocade Fabric OS, an embedded real-time operating

42U rack mount cabinets

MATERIALS AND FINISH
-Panels and Doors powder coated Black or Light Grey (RAL 7035), or President Blue.
-Frame made of especially designed aluminum extrusions and powder coated Deep Grey (RAL 7037), Black, or natural anodized.

 ACCESSORIES
-Cable management accessories
-AC Mains channel
-Earth continuity kit
-Castors with foot-operated brakes
-Captive mounting hardware