LSI Enterprise RAID Features

If your business demands enterprise-proven RAID solutions, look no further. The LSI® MegaRAID® 6Gb/s SAS portfolio delivers the highest server RAID performance available today. It’s real enterprise RAID – from the market leader you can trust.

	Enterprise RAID LSI enterprise RAID products offer industry leading end-to-end data protection and performance, enabling you to accelerate key, business-critical applications while lowering overall costs.		SAS Technology LSI SAS solutions provide the connectivity, scalability, performance, and manageability required for your enterprise storage environment. Our 6Gb/s SAS solutions include the latest generation of SAS and ROC technology and provide unprecedented performance to support enterprise applications.
	Enterprise RAID Features and Performance LSI MegaRAID controllers deliver the reliability, availability, serviceability, usability, and manageability your business needs to succeed today. These products provide superior RAID performance (465,000 RAID 5 Random IOPS) to support enterprise IT and cloud environments; along with 2.7GB/s sequential read and 3.2Gb/s sequential write throughput for video edit/broadcast applications.		MegaRAID Advanced Software Options MegaRAID CacheCade® Pro 2.0 software allows for dynamic R/W caching on HDD arrays using SSDs, CacheCade software for Read Caching on HDD arrays using SSDs, MegaRAID Fast Path software for I/O acceleration of SSD arrays, MegaRAID Recovery software for rapid data recovery, and MegaRAID SafeStore™ software for data security.

MegaRAID Advanced Software Options

MegaRAID Advanced Software Options are designed to enhance performance and provide advanced data management and protection for 6Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS controllers.

MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software

• Dynamic Read and Write caching of hot spot data for significant reduction in I/O latency
• Accelerates I/O performance of existing HDD arrays using SSDs as high-performance cache
• Optimized for real-world workloads of transaction-intensive applications

Features Read and Write caching software for 6Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS controller cards Leverages SSDs in front of HDD volumes to create high-capacity, high-performance controller cache pools Automatic, dynamic "Hot" classification of data being written and being read RAID 1, 10 SSD Write Cache protection Configuration through MegaRAID Storage Manager with standard virtual drives

Benefits Accelerates performance of existing HDD arrays with small upfront investment Read and Write caching of hot spot data for significant reduction in I/O latency Simple, intuitive management tools to assign and manage CacheCadeâ„¢ SSD pool Faster I/O performance from SSD cache reduces need to short-stroke large number of HDDs, yielding lower TCO

MegaRAID Fast Path Software

• Provides high-performance I/O acceleration for SSDs connected to a 6Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS controller
• Supports full optimization of SSD volumes to deliver up to 3X improvement in read and write I/Os per second (IOPS) compared to controllers without FastPath enabled

Features Provides high-performance I/O acceleration for SSDs connected to a 6Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS controller Boosts performance of 2208-based MegaRAID controllers to more than 465,000 IOPS and 2108-based MegaRAID controllers to more than 150,000 IOPS Accelerates performance up to 3X that of MegaRAID controllers not using FastPath software

Benefits Supports full optimization of SSD virtual disk groups to deliver up to a 3X improvement in read and write IOPs compared to MegaRAID controllers not utilizing MegaRAID FastPath software Performance levels reached with this solution are equivalent to those of much costlier Flash-based adapter card solutions Improves the performance of existing web servers or can provide the same performance with fewer web servers, lowering the total cost of ownership

MegaRAID Recovery Software

• Snapshot functionality enables rapid file and volume-level data recovery capabilities should accidental or malicious data deletion or infection occur
• Rapid recovery of lost data from disk can occur within minutes, helping to minimize the downtime experienced by users
• Meets a growing need for more frequent restore points and reduced recovery times

Features Uses snapshots to enable rapid file and volume-level data recovery capabilities Inexpensive disaster recovery software for Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses Captures snapshots of source volume data at designated points in time to help restore data from those points should accidental or malicious data loss or corruption occur

Benefits Provides IT organizations with new levels of data protection and improved business continuity Rapid recovery of lost data from disk can occur within minutes, helping to minimize the downtime experienced by users and eliminating the lengthy process of restoring data from tape Satisfies need for more frequent restore points and reduced recovery times

MegaRAID SafeStore Software

• Helps secure a drive's data from unauthorized access or modification
• Local key management in the controller is designed to protect data from security breaches with minimal cost and complexity
• Instant Secure Erase feature allows users to instantly and securely render data on SED drives unreadable, reducing the time and cost associated with secure drive erasure

Features Together with self-encrypting drives (SEDs), SafeStore helps secure a drive's data from unauthorized access or modification resulting from theft, loss or repurposing of drives Auto-Lock feature locks the drive and secures the data on the drive the moment a drive is removed from a system or a drive or system is stolen Instant Secure Erase feature allows users to instantly and securely render data on SED drives unreadable

Benefits Provides high level of security for data, while preserving system performance and ease-of-use Auto Lock with Local Key Management locks the SED using an authentication key to protect against any type of insider or external theft of drives or systems Instant Secure Erase feature saves businesses time and money by simplifying decommissioning of drives and preserving hardware value for returns and repurposing

The Broadberry CyberStore SSD Caching Kit significantly accelerate application I/O performance of hard-disk-drive-based arrays by intelligently caching frequently accessed, or hot spot, data to solid-state drives (SSDs).

We offer several SSD Caching Kits available with different IOPS (In Outs Per Second), SSD can make storage operate up to 8x faster than the HDD-only solution, although actual performance may vary depending on your exact situation.

RAID controller cards will cache data from the system temporarily until it has been written to the storage media successfully. While data is cached, it can be lost in the event of a power failure. CacheVault flash cache protection modules safeguard the integrity of cached data through storing cached data in non-volatile flash cache storage. Cache protection provides you with peace of mind, safe in the knowledge that your data is protected.

Configure an Open-E DSS powered Active-Active cluster solution and benefit from these advantages over a single unit:

• Doubles your overall performance
• Eliminates a Single Point of Failure
• Self-Validation of the system!

What is Open-E Active-Active Failover

The Open-E DSS V7 Active-Active Failover Feature Pack allows you to simultaneously run volumes in the active mode on two nodes - providing high availability of data. In the event of a node failing, the other node takes over automatically whilst all application services continue ruinning without interruption.

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Trusted Platform Module technology is designed to deliver hardware-based, security related functions. A TPM chip is a secure crypto-processor that is designed to execute cryptographic operations. As the chip features a multitude of physical security mechanisms to protect it from tampering, malicious software is not able to interfere with the security functions of the TPM. With TPM technology you are able to:

• Generate, store and limit the use of cryptographic keys.
• Utilise TPM technology for platform device authentication by using the TPM’s unique RSA key, which is burned into itself.
• Aid in ensuring platform integrity through taking and storing security measurements.

With remote server management cards, IT admins can maintain full control over a server without an on-site presence being required. Via the management cards, all console screen information and keyboard and mouse functionality are exported to a remote session, which can be managed from anywhere in the world.

ZeusRAM Enterprise Class SSD

STEC ZeusRAM solid-state drives (SSDs) deliver DRAM-like read and write speeds with the persistent data storage of flash.

ZeusRAM is an enterprise-class, power-safe and flash-backed DDR3 RAM drive that is targeted for high write transactional environments requiring fast write commit capabilities to speed up end user application throughput of NAS and unified storage appliances. During the warranted life of the product, enterprise applications can write to ZeusRAM at extremely high speeds, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, year after year and the drive will not wear out — even under the most write-intensive workloads.

STEC’s PowerSafe technology provides critical data protection with instant data backup and recovery in the event of power interruption. ZeusRAM has the additional advantage of being hot-pluggable, so SSDs can be swapped in and out without system downtime.

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