The Engenio 3994 storage system combines the most advanced 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel technology with our time-proven designs for enterprise-class RAID storage to create a fully-featured storage system optimized for the unique requirements of the mid-range customer. Its robust functionality, affordable entry-point, online scalability, intuitive administration, bullet-proof reliability, and exceptional performance value sets a new standard for mid-range disk.
Dual-active 3994 controllers and up to 16 Fibre Channel or SATA drives are integrated within a new RoHS-compliant, 3U, rack-mountable controller enclosure. It has eight 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel host ports for direct host or fabric SAN attachment, four 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel switched-loop drive ports for capacity expansion, and supports 4GB of battery-backed cache. Up to six additional expansion drive enclosures are supported for a total capacity of 112 drives.
3992 Storage System
The LSI Engenio 3992 storage system shares all of the 3994’s best features (4 Gb/s connectivity, feature-rich functionality, and uncompromising availability and reliability), yet offers fewer host connections (four) and reduced cache (2GB) for the entry-level and lower mid-range markets.
SANtricity Storage Manager Software
SANtricity® Storage Manager software configures and administers the 3994 and 3992 storage systems. With SANtricity software, you can achieve maximum utilization of the purchased capacity through extensive configuration flexibility and custom performance tuning. SANtricity software allows continuous access to user data during administrative tasks, including configuration, reconfiguration, expansion, and maintenance of the system.
The fully-integrated replication features found in SANtricity software extend its unparalleled functionality and create even more powerful storage. With multiple replication offerings (snapshot, volume copy, and remote volume mirror), you can choose the method that best meets your data utilization and protection requirements.
Open systems-optimized performance powers faster applications for maximum productivity
Robust, yet intuitive, storage management software ensures complete control over your rapidly growing storage environment.
Fully redundant I/O paths, automated failover and online administration create “always-on” availability to keep your data accessible.
Modular “pay-as-you-grow” scalability lowers acquisition and expansion costs by enabling you to buy only want you need when you need it.
Extensive compatibility and ability to auto-negotiate 4, 2, or 1 Gb/s Fibre Channel speeds results in minimal or no impact on existing storage network and protects your infrastructure investment.
Support for high-performance Fibre Channel and high-capacity SATA (Serial ATA) disk drives enables a single storage system to satisfy primary and secondary storage requirements.
Multiple replication options provide additional data protection and the means to improve data utilization.
Das 3994-Storage-System ist das neueste Mitglied der Engenio SANtricity-Familie modularer Storage- Produkte für den Midrange-Markt. Es ergänzt unsere
bewährten RAID-Speicherdesigns der Enterprise-Klasse mit fortschrittlichster 4-Gb/s-End-to-End-Fibre Channel-Technologie.
Le logiciel de gestion du stockage SANtricity® fournit une interface utilisateur graphique Java à la fois puissante et conviviale pour l'administration des systèmes de stockage LSI Engenio.
LSI is pleased to offer SafeStore™ encryption services which combine local key management with self-encrypting drives. This represents a significant step forward in securing a drive's data from the enterprise to the small-to-medium business. Spanning SANtricity-based storage systems (7900, 6998, and 399x) and MegaRAID adapters, SafeStore local key management maintains and controls the key linkage and communications with the self-encrypting drives, secures user-selected volume groups, and authorizes the drives to encrypt and decrypt data with pass phrase and security key management.
SANtricity® Storage Manager software provides a powerful, yet easy to use, Java-based GUI for administering Engenio storage. SANtricity software enables online configuration, reconfiguration, expansion and maintenance, provides a consistent interface across all operating systems, and allows one or all Engenio storage systems to be monitored
and managed from any location on the network.
Die SANtricity® Storage Manager-Software bietet eine leistungsstarke und zugleich benutzerfreundliche, Java-basierte, grafische Benutzeroberfläche (GUI) für die Administration von LSI Engenio Storage-Systemen.
Il software SANtricity® Storage Manager offre uninterfaccia utente basata su Java estremamente potente, ma di facile impiego, destinata alla gestione dei sistemi storage LSI di Engenio.
I clienti midrange hanno molti requisiti simili a quelli dei clienti enterprise - affidabilità, disponibilità, prestazioni pur non avendo le stesse
possibilità in termini di budget.
The 3994 storage system is the newest member of the Engenio SANtricity family of modular storage products for the mid-range market. The 3994 adds the most advanced end-to-end 4Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) technology to our time-proven designs for enterprise-class RAID storage to create a fully-featured storage syste engineered to maximize performance, scalability and availability.
Scalable applications in high performance computing (HPC) increasingly rely on the processing of large data sets. Therefore, technologies that enable high-throughput data access, such as parallel file systems like GPFS or Lustre, are viewed as critical by many HPC labs in driving application performance.
However, throughput tells only part of the story. In particular, it tells the part of the story pertaining to when everything is going well. In many environments, real productivity is determined by what happens when things go poorly. Vast storage arrays lend themselves to high failure rates, and consistent access to data is critical for maintaining system efficiency, which itself is closely tied to
overall metrics of productivity.
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