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Lowers Management Costs and Extends ROI
A cornerstone of StoneFly Business AdvantageTM, StoneFly Network Storage Management provides key functions users have come to expect in an IP SAN: Centralized management, storage consolidation, access control, storage provisioning, volume management and mirroring. These features built into the
Storage Concentrator®, powered by the StoneFusion® Intelligent Network Platform, reduce the total cost of ownership by lowering management costs and increasing storage utilization.
By adding block-level storage intelligence to the IP networking core, Storage Concentrators deliver all the benefits of SANs, including increased storage utilization through storage consolidation, feature-rich managed storage capabilities,
rapid deployment of new storage and SAN-based backup capabilities.
Storage Concentrators enable storage provisioning, which turns physical disks into virtual storage units, or logical volumes. These logical volumes are presented to the host as local SCSI disks. Each logical volume points to physical storage in disk
arrays by blocks. StoneFly’s Storage Concentrators also facilitate advanced storage management functions, such as synchronous mirroring through StoneFly Reflection and FailOver Clustering.
StoneFusion Intelligent Network Storage Platform
StoneFly’s IP SANs are based on the company’s patent-pending storage networking foundation architecture, StoneFusion. An intelligent iSCSI storage packet routing technology, the StoneFusion Intelligent Networking Platform effectively standardizes
message/file and storage I/O onto an Ethernet/IP network to ultimately “converge” existing networking and storage architectures.
Storage Concentrators operate directly in the data path (in-band) between the servers and storage devices, and also provide disaster recovery and business continuance support, such as FailOver,
mirroring and backup/restore.
About StoneFly Networks
StoneFly Networks® is the innovator of powerful, cost-effective data protection and management for departments, workgroups and mid-tier organizations via the StoneFly Business AdvantageTM solutions suite.
Storage Concentrator i3000 Benefits:
- Centralizes storage management, control, and monitoring of logical storage volumes
- Easy-to-use HTML-based management interface
- Works regardless of the type of storage devices or network locations of the physical storage devices involved
- Built-in StoneFly Reflection for local and campus synchronous mirroring of Storage Concentrator volumes TM
- Built-in StoneFly Snapshot to protect against loss of critical data
- Centralizes access and control, allowing administrator to designate which physical storage devices are accessible to individual hosts
- Isolates departmental and work group storage from data center storage while delegating management authority to personnel at the workgroup or departmental level
- Maximizes utilization of storage resources and eliminates waste by making the storage available on the IP network
- Allocates Fibre Channel SAN storage to servers on the IP network
- Allows administrator to quickly respond to changes in storage requirements
- Supports a wide range of software, including StoneFly Replicator®, StoneFly Replicator® CDP, and StoneFly Business AdvantageTM
Storage Concentrator i3000 Specifications
PROTOCOLS & STANDARDS
iSCSI (IETF)
IP (RFC 791, 894, 1092)
TCP (RFC 793)
ICMP (RFC 792, 950, 1256)
SCSI-2 and SCSI-3
Fibre Channel
INITIATORS: All iSCSI compliant initiators
TARGETS
Parallel SCSI (Per Port): Up to 15 storage targets
Fibre Channel (Per Port): Up to 127 storage targets per Fibre Channel Loop or any number in a switched fabric
LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT:
Volume Size: Minimum 1 GB, Maximum 2 Terabytes
Maximum Number of Sessions : 128*
MIRRORING:
Built-in StoneFly Reflection Synchronous mirroring
MANAGEMENT
Telnet (RFC 854)
HTML
HTTPS
IEEE
IEEE 802.3 (10/100 Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3z (Gigabit Ethernet)
PORT CONFIGURATION:
One management port (Gigabit Ethernet)
I/O ports:
• 2 iSCSI (Gigabit Ethernet) I/O ports
• 2 Parallel SCSI or 1 Fibre Channel (1 Gbps)
DIMENSIONS: 19" W x 30.1" L x 1.9" H (482 mm W x 765 mm L x 48 mm H)
FRONT PANEL: Switches: Power; LEDs: System Status and Power On Indicators
CONSTRUCTION: 1U height 19" rackmount chassis (IEC 297)
WEIGHT: max 39 lbs (17.7 kg) depends on configuration
POWER: 110/260 VAC, 7A/4A, 60/50Hz each unit
POWER SUPPLY: 550 W
SYSTEM COOLING: 4x8 cm fan assembly
OPERATING TEMPERATURE: 50º to 95º F (10º C to 35º C)
STORAGE TEMPERATURE: -40° to 149°F (-40° to 65° C)
RELATIVE HUMIDITY: 8-80% non-condensing
ALTITUDE: -50 to 10,000 feet (-16 to 3048 meters)
REGULATORY
FCC 47 CFR Part 15, Class A
CSA C1088, Class A
UL 60950, CUL 60950
CE Mark (EN455022 Class A/EN455024)
WARRANTY
One year 7/24 phone/Web technical support
One year factory warranty; additional maintenance plans available
*Some initiators require more than one session
Complete IP SANs for Under a Penny a Megabyte
StoneFly Networks offers complete Scalable IP SANs, which include Storage Concentrators and back-end storage from a single source provider. StoneFly IP SANs are designed to
give IT professionals a simple, intelligent, yet affordable entry to the benefit of storage area networking. High-quality RAID storage options are available from 1 TB to 12.6 TB or larger.
- Modular configuration protects your investment—add only what you need
- Enterprise class features and functionality with a cost effective, expandable package
- Includes StoneFly ReflectionTM synchronous mirroring and StoneFly Snapshot
- Web enabled GUI allows for central storage management over any standard web browser
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Affordable storage that can be increased as your data grows
- Enterprise-class RAID built around the latest advanced ATA and Serial ATA high-speed disk drives
- "Next Generation" performance, reliability and high data availability
- Fibre Channel or SCSI interface options
- Unsurpassed fault tolerance
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