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Rubrik: World-wide News/Products & News SANRAD:
iSCSI For Windows Support IP
SAN Solution For Microsoft's Enterprise-Class And Mid-Tier Customer Base (04.09.03)
- SANRAD Incorporated, specialist in developing and delivering intelligent
iSCSI SAN solutions and a member of Microsoft's iSCSI development program,
announced that their iSCSI V Switch supports the entire Microsoft Windows
operating environment including the recently released Windows Server 2003 and
Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL
Server. As part of SANRAD's ongoing commitment to Microsoft and Windows
enterprise customers, SANRAD is immediately shipping their iSCSI IETF RFC
compliant iSCSI V Switch to companies installing IP based storage area
networks for Windows.
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"Windows
Server 2003 embodies new and enhanced storage capabilities and features that
promote improved data availability," said Zane Adam, Director of Product
Management and Marketing of the Enterprise Storage Division at Microsoft
Corp. "The Windows Server 2003 platform coupled with iSCSI IP-based SAN
technology from storage partners like SANRAD will provide customers a robust,
integrated solution for managing data and storage together." The
combination of Windows 2003 new array of storage management features and
SANRAD's iSCSI V Switch storage architecture delivers a highly available,
scaleable and easy to manage IP SAN solution for Microsoft's enterprise-class
and mid-tier customer base who require performance, security, investment
protection and reliability within a networked storage architecture. By using
Windows and an iSCSI V Switch, users can consolidate servers and diverse
storage systems in an easy to manage storage area network (SAN). Windows
optimizes cluster services for the deployment of mission critical
applications over economical iSCSI /IP SANs. Yariv Glazer of system
integrator YaGUSA together with Pradip Patel, of the ITcom at University of
Michigan have been using Windows clusters with SANRAD's iSCSI V Switch to
operate a new messaging service. "The new messaging system utilizes
three Windows dual-node clusters connected using iSCSI to a failover pair of
fault-tolerance iSCSI V Switches," comments Mr. Patel, "This close
to a terabyte of multi-pathed and mirrored Fibre Channel disk storage
provides voice mail storage space for the campus. The voice mail system is
considered mission critical by the University. The configuration must be
available 24x7 and comply with Telco specifications of less than 10 minutes
of downtime per year or 99.999 % availability. The combination of Windows-clustered
servers, redundant active/active V Switches with multiple connections to the
servers, and multi-path connections between the V Switches and the mirrored
FC disk systems provide a highly available architecture. The V Switch's
in-band volume virtualization provided clustered servers with a shared volume
and enabled simple volume configuration, storage allocation and the addition
of more disk drives and servers without having to interrupt critical
applications." (ma) SANRAD Contact:
Yuval Shilansky, Regional Sales Manager Tel. (00972-3) 767-4844, Fax (00972-3) 647-4104 E-Mail: yshilan@sanrad.com Web: www.sanrad.com |
