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LSI Corporation has announced the LSI Engenio 7900 Storage System, the newest member of the Engenio line of modular storage systems. The 7900 system provides midrange customers with the scalability, adaptability and availability features they need to support large-scale consolidation projects and ever-changing requirements.
The new system also supports advanced replication and management services, including thin provisioning, based on fifth-generation LSI StoreAge SVM (Storage Virtualisation Manager) software.
“The new economics of storage require large-scale consolidation of data,” said Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. “Effective consolidation isn’t just an issue of bigger and faster. Storage systems must also offer users the ability to manage a wide variety of concurrent applications under unpredictable load conditions. The 7900 storage system delivers on these requirements by putting enterprise performance and features into the hands of midrange users.”
Based on LSI seventh-generation XBB2 architecture, the new system delivers 6.4 GB/s on sustained reads from disk, a 4X performance improvement over the previous generation. It also provides the balanced performance and massive throughput necessary to support the concurrent, mixed application workloads typical of today’s virtual server environments.
The 7900 storage system features a modular design and multi-dimensional adaptability, which keeps initial cost low and allows customers to seamlessly adapt to evolving infrastructure, capacity and application requirements. Users can add or field-replace host interfaces, including 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) and 20 Gb/s InfiniBand, and grow capacity with linear scalability up to 256 FC or SATA drives at initial release. Subsequent releases will scale to 480 drives and support future technologies including 8 Gb/s FC, 10 Gb/s iSCSI and 40 Gb/s InfiniBand. The system will add support for solid state drives in the first half of 2009.
The new system is also designed to ensure continuous access to data with high reliability and availability features, including fully-redundant, active-active I/O paths from host to drives with automated failover, cache mirroring and extensive online administration and maintenance capabilities. Stored data is protected with enhanced features such as proactive drive health monitoring, hardware-assisted RAID 6 and persistent cache backup.
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