SANbox 6140
Low-Cost SAN Connectivity
The SANbox 6140 is designed to provide Low-Cost SAN connectivity to all servers in the enterprise. Now all servers in the enterprise can gain the benefits of SANs at under $100 per server. It leverages existing Ethernet infrastructure and free iSCSI initiators from leading OS vendors to extend the benefits of SANs across the enterprise, including:
- Consolidation of Storage (Replace DAS)
- Data Protection
- Centralized Management
- Dynamic Asset Management
- Higher Storage Utilization
IT Manager’s can now cost effectively support remote and departmental applications such as Exchange, IIS, SQL, and MySQL on SANs with improved performance, centralized management and better asset management.
SANBox 6140 is ideal for connecting 1U, Blade and HPC Clustered servers to SANs. Each of these server platforms is designed to lower the cost of running production applications. Now these platforms can be connected to the SAN to improve the performance of storage, the availability of the applications and improve the protection and security of the data.
Optimized for Virtual Servers and Asset Redeployment
SANbox 6140 offers support to dynamically connect up to 512 iSCSI initiators, giving IT manager the flexibility to support the changing demands of their businesses.
Breakthrough Ease of Use
- Installation wizards with intuitive user interfaces to expedite installation and configuration.
- CLI that can be scripted to allow use of the SANbox 6000 Series in preconfigured rack servers
Key Features
- Dual 2Gbps FC ports
- Dual 1Gbps iSCSI Ethernet ports
- Dual management ports: serial & Ethernet
- Support for iSCSI, FCP-SCSI
- Configuration wizards for ease of installation
- Support for Ethernet Jumbo frames and VLAN
- SNMP and SMI-S agents
- Inter-operable with all FC-SW-2 compliant FC switches
- Support for configuring up to
- 512 servers
- 64 FC Target Ports
- 1024 LUNs per FC Port
Powered by proven QLogic iSCSI and Fibre Channel ASICs
- Protocol processing in hardware for better performance
- Interoperates with server and storage products from all major OEMs
OS support
- Windows 2003, Linux, RedHat, SuSE, Solaris, VMWare, MAC OSX-10
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