ISE-Based Storage Solutions

For the last several decades the underlying elements of data storage — disk drives, drive enclosures, and controllers — have remained more or less the same, and have been unable to keep pace with dramatically changing business requirements. Xiotech offers a fresh approach with ISE Storage Blades --a new intelligent storage foundation that powers and sets new industry standards for performance, reliability, scalability, and value.

Supporting performance-starved business applications, consolidating data center footprint, and simplifying administration and planning require storage solutions capable of meeting any enterprise workload and deployment requirement: NAS, SAN, DAS, and storage as part of your application service model.

Emprise Series is a family of ISE-based solutions designed to meet varied application workloads within your enterprise. Today, the Emprise family consists of the Emprise 5000, Emprise 7000, and Emprise 9000. Each Emprise solution leverages ISE Storage Blades, giving customers flexibility to acquire, implement, manage and change the use of their storage resources anywhere, anytime within a single ISE management platform.

Emprise 5000 Storage Blades: Industry-Leading Efficiency, Scale-Out Power

In today's challenging economy, you may be struggling to meet growing data storage needs with a budget that is most likely shrinking. It's time to rethink data storage from the ground up.

Xiotech's Emprise 5000 system is a perfectly balanced building block of performance, reliability, and scalability that delivers the lowest total cost of ownership of any SAN or SAN-like storage system on the market.

What do you get with Emprise 5000?

• Xiotech's patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology
• Flexible storage building block – attach one directly to a server or many via a switch
• Linearly-scalable performance and capacity, ideal for today's virtual server and desktop deployments, database and Web serving applications, and data warehousing and decision support
• Extreme storage density, with up to 40 enterprise disk drives in 3U (5.25 inches)
• Zero-Touch storage, delivering more than 100x the reliability of traditional disk drives
• Lowest capital and operating costs in the industry
• Reduced power and cooling costs through automated shut-down and power-up capabilities of PowerNAP™
• CorteX™ RESTful API

Capacity and Performance: Why Not Choose Both?

Disk drives are shipped within sealed enclosures called DataPacs, 1 or 2 per system. DataPacs are characterized by the total usable capacity and drive performance. For example, a 9.6/10 DataPac contains 9.6TB of 10k RPM enterprise-class disk drives.

Today, the following DataPacs are available:

DataPac	Total Capacity (TB)
ISE 9.6 TB/10.2 DataPac	19.2
ISE 8.0 TB/7.1 DataPac	16
ISE 4.8 TB/10.1 DataPac	9.6
ISE 4.8 TB/15.1 DataPac	9.6
ISE 3.6 TB/15.1 DataPac	7.2
ISE 2.4 TB/15.1 DataPac	4.8

Read the Emprise 5000 data sheet for additional product specifications including weight, dimensions, power requirements, and regulatory approvals.

SPC Benchmark Price/Performance Data

• SPC Benchmark 1™ for Xiotech Emprise™ 5000 (146 gb disk drives)
• SPC Benchmark 2™ for Xiotech Emprise™ 5000 (146 gb disk drives)
• SPC Benchmark 1/energy™ for Xiotech Emprise™ 5000 (600 gb disk drives)

Deployment Flexibility

Start small, grow big with a single Emprise 5000 system direct-attached to a server. It is easy to deploy and requires little ongoing administration. As your needs grow, simply add a switch and plug in more Emprise 5000 systems. You immediately gain the full performance—Gbps, IOPS, MBps—and capacity of all connected systems.

Emprise can also be aggregated behind virtualizers like IBM SVC, NTAP V-Series, HDS USP, and software-based virtualizers like Symantec Volume Manager.

Keep Your Data Safe

With typical SANs, disk drive failure is inevitable, expensive, and puts your data at risk. Emprise 5000 with its ISE technology provides reliability that other storage systems can't touch—extending reliability by orders of magnitude beyond that of a single drive.

Preventative diagnostics keep the disk drives within the DataPacs running longer, and self-healing capabilities repair those that do fail—in-place, without human intervention, and without impacting normal operation or performance.

Learn more about ISE-enabled reliability »

Emprise 5000 System Highlights

Description	Details
Storage Capacity (max)	19.2TB
DataPac Modules	Single or dual
RAID Levels	ISE RAID 5, ISE RAID 10
Host Interfaces	2 Fibre Channel (4 Gbps); direct or switch-attached
Server Connections (max)	64
Storage Volumes (max)	128
Cache	1GB – Safe, mirrored write-back and read-ahead Battery-backed, 96-hour hold time
Operating System Support	Microsoft® Windows®, VMware® ESX Server, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, SUSE®, Linux Enterprise Server
Microsoft Storage Services Support	Virtual Disk Service (VDS), Multipath I/O (MPIO)

Emprise 7000:
Highly Reliable & Scalable Virtual SAN System, Built on ISE Technology

As data grows and becomes ever more critical to your organization, you need a storage solution that provides extreme reliability, along with flexible scale. However, traditional disk-based systems all suffer from one problem: Disk drives fail. It is an accepted fact of data center life. The more drives you have, the more failures you must deal with. In fact, the majority of storage related service events are caused by drive failures.

This is a time-consuming, risky, and expensive problem. When a drive fails, someone must replace it. That takes valuable time and puts your data at risk. And as the size of drives increases, so does the rebuild time. In addition, a good portion of your maintenance agreement cost is undoubtedly for such anticipated replacements.

However, this is not the way things have to be. Xiotech Corporation is changing the rules of the storage game, with revolutionary technology that eliminates virtually all disk-related service events. This solution delivers reliability and scalability unmatched in the storage industry and comes with an unprecedented five-year hardware warranty.

The Solution: Emprise 7000

Xiotech's Emprise 7000 system is a nested, virtualized solution based on Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology and Xiotech's proven virtualized, distributed cluster architecture.

ISE is a tightly integrated storage environment, purpose-built to maximize reliability and performance. Each ISE includes one or two sealed DataPacs (capacity modules) and dual Managed Reliability Controllers, which locally manage cache, data protection processes, and more. This unique design, along with Xiotech's proven management software, delivers a full-featured storage solution that is extremely reliable, scalable, and easy to use.

Emprise 7000 Highlights

Reliability: Patented ISE diagnostics and self-healing capabilities effectively eliminate storage-related service events. With Xiotech's proven distributed cluster architecture and a variety of replication options, Emprise 7000 addresses all the causes of downtime to keep your data and applications online and accessible.

Scalability: Each ISE offers 20 to 40 times more capacity than a typical drive, enabling Emprise 7000 to scale from just over a terabyte to one petabyte within a single system with fewer managed components. As you add ISE modules, you not only gain extra capacity, you also add cache and data processing power for faster system performance.

Ease of Use: Emprise 7000 systems simplify both storage and server management, lowering operational costs. With the ICON Manager user interface, existing IT personnel can effortlessly manage growing storage, leaving more time to focus on strategic initiatives.

Technical innovation isn't the end of the story. Xiotech is strongly committed to your satisfaction. We offer the tools, training, and services that help you make the most of your storage solution.

Emprise 7000 Specifications

Description	Emprise 7000	Emprise 7000 Edge
Storage Capacity	1.1-1,024TB	1.1-160TB
ISE per System (max)	64	10
Data Recording	ISE protected RAID, Emprise 7000 mirroring	ISE protected RAID, Emprise 7000 mirroring
Standard Host Interfaces	4 Fibre Channel (4 Gbps) or 4 iSCSI	2 Fibre Channel (4 Gbps) or 2 iSCSI
Additional Host Interfaces (optional)	4 Fibre Channel (4 Gbps) or 4 iSCSI	2 Fibre Channel (4 Gbps) or iSCSI
Server Connections (max)	248	248
Storage Volumes (max)	2,048	2,048
Cache (max)	64GB (1GB per ISE)	10GB (1GB per ISE)
Operating System Support1	Microsoft® Windows®, VMware® ESX Server, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Novell® NetWare® and SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server, HP-UX, IBM® AIX®, Sun™ Solaris™, Mac OS®

¹Some restrictions apply. Consult your Xiotech account representative for details.

Emprise 9000: Scale-Out SAN

The Emprise 9000 is Xiotech's next generation, scale-out storage controller, delivering to IT a unifying data center platform that offers the highest levels of advanced functionality, deployment/management flexibility and investment protection along with scale-out flexibility up to 12 controllers and 1.8PB. Representing an entirely new control architecture, Emprise 9000 offers the ability to:

• Control the Future - Unlike traditional arrays, Emprise 9000 allows advanced applications like VDI direct, high performance control of ISE storage resources -- and development of additional apps and automated controls through CorteX. It also allows customers to leverage the functionality they have come to expect in traditional storage array control -- snapshots, thin provisioning, replication, cloning, etc. -- to keep current applications running optimally.
• Protect the Past - Because it is an ISE-based platform, Emprise 9000 can be dropped into an environment with no changes required. Because it can manage and control all ISE within the platform as well as integrate third-party storage, it can optimize data across service-oriented storage tiers and enable seamless, heterogeneous migration when the time is right. Adding further value, Emprise 9000 offers two DataPacs within each ISE that can be mixed and matched.
• Scale out storage - Emprise 9000 storage and controllers can be added anywhere, whether in a rack or distributed across campus. This enables cost-effective, linear scaling from two to 12 controllers and up to 1.8 PB with the reliability and performance that are the hallmarks of ISE-based storage.

Scale-out with Leading Balance
of Capacity, Performance and Reliability

• Emprise 9000 Features:
  • SAN virtualization
  • Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity
  • Volume migration from other arrays
  • >2TB volumes
  • Volume management: thin provisioning, snapshots, replication, clones
  • Optimized data tiering
  • Heterogeneous Migration
  • 8GB Fibre Channel
  • VSS provider
  • 1GB iSCSI
  • FC- or IP-based asynchronous replication

Emprise 9000 Specifications

Description	Emprise 9000 Standard	Emprise 9000 Enterprise
Storage Capacity	Up to 57.6 TB	Up to 1.8PB
RAID Protection	ISE RAID ISE Mirror	ISE RAID ISE Mirror
Fibre Channel Ports	4 x 8 Gb/s per Controller Optional: 4 x 8 Gb/s per Controller	4 x 8 Gb/s per Controller Optional: 4 x 8 Gb/s per Controller
Ethernet Ports	4 x 1 GbE per Controller Optional: Dual 10 GbE per Controller	4 x 1 GbE per Controller Optional: Dual 10 GbE per Controller
Server Connections (max)	1024	6144
Storage Volumes (max)	255 TB	255 TB
Cache (max)	3GB (1GB per ISE)	96GB (1GB per ISE)
Operating System Support	SLES 9 and 10, RHEL 4.x and 5.x (and their equivalents), AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, HP-UX 11, 11i, MAC OS 10.5	Solaris 9 and 10 SPARC, Solaris 10 x86, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2

Read the Emprise 9000 data sheet for additional product specifications