Qsan brings SMBs enterprise-grade storage with AegisSAN Q500 Series and QLogic 16G FC bundle

In response to the ever-increasing demands for greater storage capacity, more virtual machines and cloud deployments, the flagship model Q500-F30 adopts QLogic’s latest 16G Fibre Channel silicon to double the bandwidth to the host, achieve faster transaction rates and maximise the performance potential for storage platforms. The Q500-F30 is characterised by two 16G FC ports plus two 1GbE iSCSI ports for faster bandwidth and higher throughput. Designed to offer enterprise-level performance to SMBs, Qsan’s AegisSAN Q500 array offers features such as dual active controllers, fully redundant and modular hardware components, hardware RAID and multiple paths / load balancing functions for mission-critical applications.

“QLogic Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology helps the Qsan AegisSAN Q500 systems to support the growing bandwidth requirements of today’s highly virtualised data centres, which need maximum I/O capacity to support mission-critical business applications,” said Pohan Chang, vice president, worldwide OEM sales at QLogic. “QLogic’s innovative multi-port isolation architecture provides true hardware redundancy, scalable performance and the ultimate in reliability, while the QLogic target mode development platform enables Qsan to reduce development cycles and accelerate time-to-market for advanced storage solutions.”

“The AegisSAN Q500 series offers a suite of enterprise-level features yet remains cost-effective for budget-constrained organisations. The introduction of QLogic’s16G FC silicon in Qsan’s AegisSAN Q500-F30 enables the system to meet the requirements of the most data-demanding business applications, while maintaining reliability and unrivalled availability. The 16G FC interface, Q500-F30 is ideal for latency-sensitive applications and virtualised environments,” said Daniel Lin, sales director at Qsan. “Fibre Channel connections support backward compatibility with existing 4Gb and 8Gb FC infrastructure and the new AegisSAN Q500 series provides great price-performance, which renders its performance unmatched in the industry.”

The AegisSAN Q500 system supports comprehensive virtualisation technologies including VMware VAAI, Citrix and Hyper-V. With VAAI certification; the disk array can offload server and network loading, speed up provisioning of new virtual machines and increase VM density. The array also provides its QThin thin provisioning feature so that organisations can avoid allocated but unused storage and be able to purchase only the disk capacity they actually need. In addition, it has plenty of value add-ons such as writable snapshot (QSnap), remote replication (QReplica) and battery backup module (BBM).