Qsan Technology SAN Storage Systems

Qsan Technology's SAN Storage, RAID Controllers, iSCSI SAS, JBOD & Fibre Channel storage systems are designed for high availability, non-stop and mission critical services, applications demanding high IOPS / throughput, and flexible storage planning with cost effectiveness for small and medium enterprises solutions. Qsan's technology is aimed to make business data smart enough to be always available under any unexpected circumstances, efficient enough to utilise any IT investment, and easy retrieval during the whole ILM (information lifecycle management).

Qsan 3U 10GbE iSCSI-SAS HA Systems Features:

Two 10GbE iSCSI ports per controller

Up to 220K IOPS & 1300MB/Sec. throughput

Fully redundant & hot pluggable designs: RAID controllers, power supplies, fan modules, battery backup modules, & JBOD expansion

Hardware 10Gb iSCSI offloaded engine

Green storage designs: auto disk spin down, advanced cooling mechanism, & 80 PLUS energy-efficient power supplies

Advanced data protection: RAID 6, 60, QSnap writeable snapshot, Windows VSS support

Flexible volume management for multiple applications & environments: virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V, Citrix), cloud storage, SQL, Exchange, surveillance, file backup, email, boot from SAN, & etc.

High connection availability: load balancing & failover

Extendable capacity up to 128TB

High Availability

P500Q iSCSI system is specially designed for high availability applications. The P500Q has fully redundant components including redundant RAID controllers, power supplies, fan modules, battery backup modules and SAS JBOD expansion ports.

All of these components are hot-swappable to create a high availability platform and provide non-stop services.

Special features in firmware are RAID 6, 60 support, QSnap writable snapshot, Windows VSS support, and volume configuration restoration. All these features are designed to add an extra layer of protection to your valuable data.

To raise the bar higher, P500Q can upgrade firmware without system down time. Both firmware image and volume handling are well protected by the redundant RAID controllers. When one RAID controller is down or disconnected, the other RAID controller will take over all tasks immediately and seamlessly.

Performance

P500Q IOPS is 220,000 at maximum, much higher than other storage systems within the same segment in the current market; besides, its throughput is 1300MB/Sec. at maximum.

Applications

The optimized IOPS and throughput are capable of providing run-time critical online services, such as SQL, Exchange, and high-end surveillance storages. Furthermore, with the 10GbE iSCSI interface, P500Q is ideal for virtualization environments - VMWare, Hyper-V, and Citrix. System supports Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003R2; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 R2; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; Solaris 10; Mac OS X. All Qsan systems are ideal for the following applications:

Server virtualization : vMotion, clustering

Network convergence in data centers

Cloud computing storage

VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) applications

Mission critical applications : transaction processing, email, database, etc

Video editing & post processing

IP-based surveillance system : for example: hospitals & airports

High performance computing : blade server, medical imaging, astrophysics and meteorology

QReplica

QReplica is a remote replication tool that helps users replicate data through LAN or WAN from subsystem to subsystem. Data protection and backup solutions play an important role in storage system. This compact application (available with P600 & Q600) keeps your data center away from data loss or disasters with the following feature highlights: