iQ1000 Fibre Channel Storage System


Highlights

• Affordable storage solution for workgroup and departmental servers
• Optional advanced storage services including storage virtualization, snapshots, mirroring, capacity management, storage provisioning and replication
• High performance 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel host and drive interface
• Ensure high availability by using redundant, hot swappable components
• LUN masking and LUN mapping virtualization features enforce storage access policies
• Active-active storage processors support transparent fail-over/fail-back
• Supports both in-band and out-of-band storage management
• Scales to 36TB of storage capacity per subsystem

Availability and Reliability
The iQ1000 Storage System ensures high availability by utilizing fully redundant, hot swappable components for disk drives, power supplies, cooling modules and the Storage System components. The iQ1000 also features dual active SP100 storage processors with transparent fail-over support to further increase availability. Integrated RAID level (0,1,3,5,1+0) provides data protection and helps keep business critical applications running.

Modular Configurations
The iQ1000 is a “building block” component of iQstor’s line of storage solutions. Adding component “building blocks” enables storage administrators to quickly and cost effectively optimize storage solutions to changing application and network environments. Each iQ1000 Storage System supports up to fifteen Fibre Channel disk drives. As storage requirements grow, another “building block” component, the J1000 disk enclosure can be attached to the iQ1000 Storage System to dynamically scale storage capacity to 36TB.

Investment Protection
The scalability feature of the iQ1000 provides investment protection. Up to seven additional J1000 or J1200 disk enclosures can be attached to the iQ1000 enclosure, providing up to 36TB of storage capacity. Additionally, as storage management requirements evolve, storage administrators have the option of enabling enhanced Storage Management Services such as storage virtualization, snapshots, mirroring, remote replication, capacity management and policy based storage provisioning.

Enhanced Management through Foundation Storage Services
The optional Foundation Storage Management Services significantly enhance the productivity of storage administrators in a consolidated storage environment. By virtualizing storage pools, the iQ1000 significantly decreases the cost of storage hardware through efficient storage allocation and increased disk utilization. Storage management services such as snapshot and remote replication enable server-less backups, disaster recovery, business continuity, data mining and application testing. In addition, the capacity management feature provides on-line virtual capacity expansion, solving a time and labor intensive administrator issue.

Ease of Use
Management of all the RAID and storage services is provided by the iQstor SAN Manager, an intuitive network based central management console. The policy based management tool enables the storage administrator to monitor and dynamically configure and manage a network of iQ1000 storage systems and J1000 JBOD enclosures.