4900 Storage System
The LSI Engenio 4900 storage system is designed to provide midrange customer with the performance, reliability, and robust functionality enterprise customers are accustomed to – at an affordable price. Its core features and dynamic flexibility make it a great fit for a wide range of requirements, proving peace of mind and exceptional return on investment.
A modular architecture and unparalleled efficiencies enable the 4900 to provide lower acquisition and operational costs as performance and configuration requirements can be met with minimal raw capacity. And when it’s time to expand, the 4900 can add incremental capacity with no downtime.
Designed to be equally adept at IOPS and MB/s, the 4900 is just as comfortable delivering responsive, scalable performance to a growing transactional database as it is satisfying the diverse workload of a server virtualization implementation.
The 4900’s extensive configuration, enclosure-level drive intermixing and exceptional per drive performance combine to reduce the number of drives needed to meet performance and/or capacity demands – lowering acquisition and operational expenditures.
With next-generation 8 Gb/s FC connectivity and extensive interoperability, the 4900 is able to seamlessly integrate into existing or new infrastructures. And with optional 1 Gb/s iSCSI interfaces, the 4900 is right at home in a multi-protocol environment.
LSI has a long history of designing highly reliable and available storage system, and the 4900 is no exception. Redundant components, automated path failover and extensive online administration capabilities keep your data available 24x7x365. And its support for self-encrypting drives, proactive drive health monitoring, RAID 6 technology, and persistent cache backup ensures data is fully protected when it reaches the storage system.
SANtricity Storage Manager Software
SANtricity® Storage Manager software configures and administers the 4900 storage system. With SANtricity software, you can achieve maximum utilization of the purchased capacity through extensive configuration flexibility, multiple replication offerings and custom performance tuning. SANtricity software allows continuous access to user data during administrative tasks, including configuration, reconfiguration, expansion, and maintenance of the system. And with its SafeStore™ encryption services, you can be sure your data is secure.
Features
- (4) 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces for server/SAN attach
- Additional (4) 8 Gb/s FC or 1 Gb/s iSCSI interfaces (optional)
- Supports up to 112 Fibre Channel, self-encrypting Fibre Channel, or SATA drives
- 4GB of cache with battery backup and destage to disk upon power loss
- Online storage administration
Performance:
- Burst I/O from cache: 200,000 IOPS
- Sustained I/O from disk: 50,000 IOPS
- Sustained throughput from disk: 1,600 MB/s
Benefits
- Balanced performance designed to meet the diverse and concurrent workloads created by consolidation/virtualization
- 8 Gbps interfaces seamlessly integrates into existing or new infrastructures
- Multi-protocol connectivity supports SAN tiering – enabling acquisition and operational costs savings for secondary servers
- Enclosure-based intermixing of high-performance FC and high-capacity SATA drives enables efficient tiered storage
- Architected to provide the highest reliability and availability you can be sure your data is safe and there when you need it.
- Modular “pay-as-you-grow” scalability and built-in efficiencies reduce the number of drives needed to meet performance and/or capacity demands
- Fully redundant components, automated I/O path failover and online administration create “always-on” availability to ensure your data is always accessible
- SafeStore™ encryption services combines key management and drive-level encryption for comprehensive data security that preserves storage system performance
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