ADAPTEC 700i SERIES
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Adaptec® IP SAN Storage Server 700i Series
Enterprise-Class iSCSI Storage Systems
Product Highlights
SAS or SATA, scalable to 52TB
High performance, up to
386MB/s throughput
Easy to manage with Adaptec
Storage Manager
Synchronous mirrored volumes
with automatic failover
Seamless back-up and recovery
via application-consistent
snapshots
Tight integration with Adaptec
RAID controllers
Ideal for use with Windows,
Linux and VMware
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Overview
Businesses streamline their IT infrastructure
by moving from a piecemeal approach where
each server has its own direct attached storage
(DAS) to one where an iSCSI RAID storage
system is used to provide disk capacity to
multiple servers through an IP-based storage
area network (IP SAN). This consolidated
storage has the economic benefit of being
easier to administer than DAS, freeing time
for IT personnel to focus on more strategic
projects. Because storage is easily apportioned
to servers as needed, while they are up and
running, there is no need to over-provision
them with disks when they are installed,
saving money. The risk of a business
disruption because a server runs out of disk
capacity is minimised.
The RAID storage system provides
significantly better storage to the servers
than DAS. It is faster because it uses multiple
hard drives in parallel to provide increased
performance. RAID technology is utilised
to ensure that data will not be lost, and
that business operations will continue
uninterrupted, when a hard drive fails. Back-
ups complete significantly faster because
the back-up server can access the data to be
protected directly from the RAID storage
system, without burdening critical business
servers.
Adaptec 700i Series storage systems provide
your Windows or Linux application servers
with enterprise-class iSCSI storage that is
economical, flexible, scalable and easy to
manage. They are designed for ultimate
uptime, and grow modularly with your needs.
Flexible and Scalable
The Adaptec 700i Series by Adaptec
delivers higher performance because data
is spread over multiple disks, permitting
disk operations to be performed in parallel.
Adaptec 700i Series storage systems are 1U
rackmount units that contain four hot-
swappable 250GB, 500GB or 750GB SATA II
hard drives for a total capacity of 1TB, 2TB
or 3TB. A unit is also available with four
hotswappable 300GB SAS drives for a total
capacity of 1.2TB. Add capacity modularly
using up to eight 2U Adaptec SANbloc S50
expansion chassis, each of which houses up
to 12 hot-swappable drives, to reach total
combined capacities as high as 52TB. Mix
and match SATA II and SAS drives within
the SANbloc S50 to optimise around highest
capacity or highest performance. Up to four
Gigabit Ethernet ports are available to handle
demand from one to 512 servers with class-
leading performance of up to 386MB/s while
providing path redundancy to the storage
system.
Modular, expandable iSCSI disk capacity from 1TB to 36TB per storage system
