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Coraid SR2421datasheet
Coraid SR2421datasheet
Coraid SR2421datasheet
SUMMARY Access speed > 200 MB/sec sustained throughput Dual 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections 24 hot swap 3.5 SATA disks Coraid RAID controller provides JBOD or RAID 0,1,5,6,10 with automatic global spares Continuous RAIDShield testing fixes disk soft failures Any capacity SATA disk Simple command line interface Syslog status messages MAC filtering restricts volume access to authorized servers RAID configuration stored on each disk allowing disk portability Coraid open RAID algorithm, your data is not captive to a proprietaryRAID controller
Unlimited Storage
The SR2421 storage appliance accepts RAID class 3.5 SATA disks. There are no limits to how many servers can be attached to a LUN. There are no constraints to how big an AoE storage network can be expanded. Each time a new EtherDrive Storage Appliance is added to the storage network, more processing power is added and therefore aggregate throughput and IOPS performance of the storage system is also increased.
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EtherDrive SR2421
Scale- out Vir tual Storage
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EtherDrive SR2421
Scale- out Vir tual Storage
Simple Network Connection
EtherDrive Storage is block storage just like a hard disk drive, but located on the network. A software driver in the host/initiator automatically discovers AoE storage LUNs connected to its network connections. Discovery is performed periodically by the software driver. AoE is not a connection based protocol. This allows the initiator to flood Ethernet frames to all available ports on the host and storage without any multi-path I/O (MPIO) configuration. AoE automatically provides bandwidth aggregation by using all available ports without complex link bonding or link aggregation. AoE is tolerant of dropped packets. Each packet is uniquely tagged and all packets are acknowledged. This allows AoE to provide automatic fault tolerance without any user configuration. If a NIC or Ethernet cable or switch goes down, packets are already being flooding to other used ports so storage I/O is always present. AoE LUNs are identified by a simple shelf number and LUN number scheme. Each EtherDrive appliance is assigned a unique shelf address when first installed on the SAN. Up to 65,000 shelf addresses are available. Then RAID LUNs are created and numbered. For example, LUN 2.1 is the first LUN in Shelf #2. No worldwide names are required, no IP addresses, no complex mapping, just an easy to understand LUN numbering scheme. Each AoE LUN created in the EtherDrive Storage appliance, is presented as a single instance of the LUN, no matter how many Ethernet ports or path connections being used between the initiator and the storage. This makes AoE simple to use. AoE devices can be formatted (or partitioned and formatted) with any filesystem (i.e. EXT3, NTFS, FAT32, XFS, JFS, GFS, etc.). If the AoE volume is to be simultaneously shared by more than one host, a cluster filesystem like GFS must be used.
AoE devices are not natively Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, but they can be used with a NAS Gateway server that provides NFS (or SMB/ CIFS) File level sharing. Coraids NAS Gateway product is an example of a server providing file sharing services using an unlimited pool of AoE storage devices. Servers can attach directly to EtherDrive storage using standard CAT6 GigE cables (auto-polarity sensing is provided by the SR2421) or by connection to an Ethernet switch. A separate dedicated AoE SAN is highly recommended and for best performance the network and host NICs should support 9K jumbo Ethernet frames.
Server
AoE SAN
Ethernet Switch
EtherDrive Storage
Initiator Port Flooding Yeilds
Automatic bandwidth aggregation No Multi-Path IO configuration Automatic path fault tolerance Scalable performance
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SPECIFICATIONS
3.5 Disk Type Control Interface Network Interface Number of simultaneous hosts accessing storage Storage Access Speed RAID Types Supported RAID class SATA disk drives RS-232, KVM or EtherConsole, command line interface Two GigE, RJ45 No limit > 200MBytes/sec with 9K jumbo frames RAID 0 (striping) RAID 1 (mirroring) RAID 5 (striping with parity) RAID 6 (Reed-Solomon) RAID10 (striping over mirrors) JBOD (just a bunch of individual disks) MAC address filtering, only allowed MAC addresses can access specified volumes 100-240 VAC, 50/60Hz Redundant hot swap power modules 3 hot swap fans < 620 Watts, heat load < 2100 BTU 17.2 x 6.9 x 25.5 inches, 70 lbs w/o disks 24 Limited only by Disk Capacity up to 65,536 shelves per network (983,040 disks) 50-95 degrees F (10-35 degrees C) 20%to 90%(non-condensing) 36 Month AoE drivers are available from CORAID for Linux, XEN, ESX, and Solaris
Storage Security (optional) Power Supply Cooling Power Consumption with disk drive Shelf Dimensions Disk Drives per Shelf Shelf Storage Capacity Expansion Operating Temp Relative Humidity Warranty Hypervisor/Operating System
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