Proware EP-3164-GAS3 iSCSI RAID Storage

EP-3164-GAS3 Dual iSCSI RAID Controllers

Supports: 4x 10GbE ports - 3Gb/s SAS or SATA 3.5" Disk Drives - 3u 16 bay expands to support 64 drives

Overview

The Proware EP-3164 series iSCSI RAID subsystem features two 10 Gigabit ports on each controller to increase system efficiency and performance. It features high capacity expansion, with 16 hot-swappable SAS / SATA II hard disk drive bays in a 19-inch 3U rackmount unit, scaling to a maximum storage capacity in the terabyte range. The EP-3164D series also supports Dual-active controllers which provide better fault tolerance and higher reliability of system operation.

Features

• Front-end 4 x 10GbE iSCSI Offload ports support independent access, fail-over and load-balancing (802.3ad port trunking, LACP)
• High data bandwidth of system architecture by powerful 64-bit RAID processor
• Supports iSCSI jumbo frame
• Supports Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO)
• Local N-way mirror: Extension to RAID 1 level, N copies of the disk
• Global and dedicated hot spare disks
• Write-through or write-back cache policy for different application usage
• Dedicated or shared cache allocation for volume usage
• Supports greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• Supports manual or scheduling volume snapshot (up to 32)
• Snapshot rollback mechanism
• On-line volume migration with no system down-time
• Online volume expansion
• Instant RAID volume availability and background initialization
• Remote replication to second system
• Supports S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives

Additional features

Windows VSS
Volume Config. Restore
Disk Scrubbing
Volume Scrubbing
Remote Replication
Volume Cloning
Multiple Connections per session
Multiple Nodes

Unsurpassed Data Availability

• RAID 6 capability provides the highest level of data protection
• Supports snapshot-on-the-box w/o relying on host software
• Supports Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS)
• Management GUI via serial console, SSH telnet, Web and secure web(HTTPS)
• Event notification via Email and SNMP trap
• Menu-driven front panel display

Specifications