x3650 w/ SAN/IQ
SAN/iQ® INTEGRATED WITH IBM's
x3650 SERVER
The combination of the IBM System x3650 Server and LeftHand Networks’ SAN/iQ® software provides a scalable, highly available, full featured SAN that leverages the ease-of-use and cost benefits of the iSCSI network protocol. SAN/iQ runs on the IBM x3650 to create “storage modules,” which are then aggregated together forming a storage pool managed from a single intuitive GUI. By utilizing x3650 servers as storage modules within a SAN, LeftHand Networks breaks through the proprietary, special-purpose storage hardware barrier to offer an iSCSI SAN with an enterprise-class feature set, running on an industry-standard hardware platform from a world leader in server platforms.
The IBM x3650 delivers enterprise-class performance, uptime and manageability for a variety of deployments and applications. Built on high-performance serial-attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives, the combination of x3650s and SAN/iQ is well suited for high I/O and transactional applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server.
Highly Available Hardware
The IBM x3650 provides enterprise-class high availability and performance. Highlights include:
- 6 hot-swappable disk drives
- Dual NIC connectivity with failover
- Dual power supplies
- Robust power and cooling diagnostics
- Write cache battery-backed units (BBU)
- SAS Drives (10k and 15k RPM)
- ServeRAID 8k Controller
Additional high availability and redundancy capabilities, including advanced SAN/iQ Network RAID, failover, remote copy, and snapshot, are enabled with LeftHand SAN/iQ software.
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