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The High Availability 8G Fibre Channel SAN
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8G FC 6G SAS SAN System
AegisSAN Q500-F21 features four 8G FC ports, two 1GbE iSCSI ports and one 1GbE management port to provide high availability & great performance for enterprises and SMB.
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8G Fibre Channel (FC) x4 + 1GbE iSCSI x2 ports per controller
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Dual Active Controllers for High Availability
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Fully Redundant & Hot-swappable Modules
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Multi-path & Load-balancing Features
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fcQiSOE Proprietary Hardware FC Offload Engine
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USB LCM for Better Data Security & Manageability
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80 Plus Gold Energy-efficient Power Supplies
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Low Power-Consumption Processor Adopted
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VMware VAAI, Citrix, Hyper-V Supported
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Thin Provisioning to Enable Dynamic Capacity Allocation
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Form Factors: 4U24, 3U16, 2U12
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The SAN Solution to Deliver the Best Price-Performance Value for Budget-constrained Enterprise & SMB
AegisSAN Q500-F21 is the cutting-edge storage system designed to help users do more with less with the top-notch hardware configurations, dual active controllers, fully modular components as well as the state-of-the-art software functions.
The Hardware Overview
- Form factor: 4U 24-Bay / 3U 16-Bay / 2U 12-Bay, 19″ rackmount
- Best Choice Award Front-end: 8Gb Fibre Channel x4 + 1GbE iSCSI x2 ports per controller
- Best Choice Award Backend: 6Gb/s SAS/SATA/SSD
- Best Choice Award Processor: Intel S1200 series
- Best Choice Award Memory: 4GB, up to 8GB per controller
Fibre Channel Interface
The frame-lossless characteristics of Fibre Channel and multi paths as well as load balance features enable AegisSAN Q500FC series to deliver outstanding performance and satisfactorily handle demanding transactional workloads without worries of packet loss and single point of failure. The disk array offers a robust storage environment for the running services.
High Availability
The dual active controllers plus fully redundant and hot-swappable designs make AegisSAN Q500 series system a highly available system. It offers multiple paths and load balancing features such as MPIO, MC/S, Trunking, and LACP to better ensure the reliability.
Enhanced Data Security
The innovated USB LCM allows AegisSAN Q500 storage to avoid data leakage in data centers, lower TCO and enhance the manageability for IT administrators. This series includes QSnap for writeable snapshot and QReplica for remote replication to maximise customers’ return on investment. The battery backup module keeps cache data safe in the event of power outage.
Outstanding Performance & Efficiency
The proprietary fcQiSOE (Qsan hardware FC offload engine) boosts the IOPS performance three times faster. The outstanding designs of the controllers make AegisSAN Q500 series system provide great performance for business critical applications. The hardware RAID makes the reliability better and volume robust.
The ultra high density storage system features QThin, the thin provisioning function to provide more physical resources than actually available capacity so that IT administrators can avoid allocated but unused storage and purchase only the disk capacity they actually need to significantly raise storage utilization and to save cost.
AegisSAN Q500 series supports VMware vSphere 5 VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration), Citrix and Hyper-V for highly virtualised environments. With VAAI certification, the disk array can offload server and network loading, speed up provisioning of new virtual machines and increase VM density.
Software Add-ons
AegisSAN Q500 series system offers top-notch functions including QSnap (copy-on-write snapshot), volume cloning, QReplica (remote replication), Windows VSS, N-way mirror and so on for well-rounded data protection.
Green
Green Design
AegisSAN Q500 disk array adopts Intel’s latest S1200 series CPU and it’s the SAN solution with outstanding energy efficiency and cost effectiveness. This platform includes key features such as error code correction, 64-bit support and virtualisation technologies.
In addition, AegisSAN Q500 system is equipped with 80 Plus Gold power supplies to achieve 90% energy efficiency as well as peak reduction and improved power quality.
The auto disk spin down function enables the system to reduce power consumption of hard drives which account for the most electricity in the storage system.
Features
Deliver the Best Price-Performance Value for Budget-constrained Enterprise & SMB
fcQiSOE (Qsan Hardware FC Offload Engine)
AegisSAN Q500 series system features fcQiSOE (Qsan hardware FC offload engine), which adopts a dedicated CPU core to process FC packet. With fcQiSOE, the IOPS performance will be three times faster.
Thin Provisioning
AegisSAN Q500 series delivers thin provisioning to provide more physical resources than actually available capacity so that organisations can avoid allocated but unused storage and be able to purchase only the disk capacity they actually need. Therefore, thin provisioning feature can significantly raise storage utilisation and help enterprises to save cost.
Disaster Recovery: QSnap & QReplica
Data protection and backup solutions play an important role in storage systems. QSnap the snapshot feature is a very cost-efficient application to protect valuable business data. A snapshot primarily creates a point-in-time copy of the data and with Qsan’s “copy-on-write” technique QSnap only copies the changed data instead of copying whole data so as to be highly space efficient. QReplica is the remote replication tool that deploy full data copies across storage systems at different sites through LAN or WAN. In addition, QReplica supports to replica multiple logical volumes in one system at one time.
Virtualisation refers to the creation of a virtual machine that acts like a real computer with an operating system. It adds a new layer of software and hardware between storage systems and servers so that applications no longer need to know on which specific drives, partitions or storage systems their data resides. This greatly enhances the flexibility, agility, scalability and manageability. AegisSAN Q500 storage system supports virtualisation technologies of VMware, Citrix and Hyper-V enabling improved performance, superior scalability and better agility in the highly virtualised working environments.
Hardware Redundancy
Qsan storage systems are equipped with fully redundant components for all major functions, including dual active RAID controllers, power supplies, fan modules, battery backup modules, and SAS JBOD expansion ports. Being hot swappable, all of them enable non-stop services for enterprises.
Specifications
Q500-F21-D/S212 (available in Mar’14) | Q500-F21-D/S316 | Q500-F21-D/S424 | ||
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Hardware Components | ||||
RAID Controller | D: Dual active controllers S: Single upgradable controller |
D: Dual active controllers S: Single upgradable controller |
D: Dual active controllers S: Single upgradable controller |
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No. of Host Channels Per Controller |
4 x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports 2 x 1GbE iSCSI ports 1 x 1GbE management ports |
4 x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports |
4 x 8Gb Fibre Channel ports |
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Expansion Enclosure | J300Q 6Gb/s SAS series | J300Q 6Gb/s SAS series | J300Q 6Gb/s SAS series | |
Cache Memory Per Controller |
4GB DDR3 ECC, up to 8GB | 4GB DDR3 ECC, up to 8GB | 4GB DDR3 ECC, up to 8GB | |
No. of Hard Drives (6G/3G SAS/SATA) |
12 | 16 | 24 | |
Max. No. of Hard Drives (6G/3G SAS/SATA) |
256 | 256 | 256 | |
Power Supply | 2 x 550W | 2 x 550W | 3 x 550W | |
Fan Modules | 2 hot pluggable/redundant fan modules | 2 hot pluggable/redundant fan modules | 2 hot pluggable/redundant fan modules | |
Dimensions |
19″ Rackmount |
19″ Rackmount 3U: 446.0mm x 499.5mm x 130.0mm (W x D x H) |
19″ Rackmount 4U: 446.0mm x 499.5mm x 176.0mm (W x D x H) |
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Weight |
25Kg (Diskless) |
33Kg (Diskless) | 37Kg (Diskless) | |
Feature Highlights | ||||
Host Interfaces 8Gb FC |
fcQiSOE (Qsan hardware FC offload engine) |
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Host Interfaces iSCSI |
QiSOE (Qsan hardware iSCSI offload engine) |
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RAID & Volume | RAID level 0,1,0+1,3,5,6,10,30,50, 60, JBOD, N-way mirror Up to 2048 logical volumes Up to 64 hard drives per volume group One logic volume can be shared by as many as 16 hosts Global and dedicated hot spare Write-through or write-back cache policy Online volume expansion Instant RAID volume availability Auto volume rebuilding On-line volume migration without system down time |
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High Availability | Dual-active RAID controllers Cache mirroring through high bandwidth channels (NTB) Flexible RAID group ownership management Management port seamless take-over Online firmware upgrade, no system down time (dual-controller mode only) Multi-path & load-balancing support (Microsoft MPIO, MC/S, Trunking, LACP) |
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Advanced Data Protection | QReplica remote replication QSnap writable snapshot Volume cloning Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) Configurable N-way mirror Online disk roaming Instant volume restoration Hot pluggable battery backup module (BBM, 72 hours for 4GB RAM) Network UPS |
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Management | QCentral Java-based centralized management software, USB LCM, Serial console, UPS console, HTTP Web UI, Secured Web (HTTPS), SSH telnet, LED indicators, iSNS, S.E.S., Wake-on-LAN |
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Networking | DHCP, Static IP, NTP, Trunking, LACP, VLAN, Jumbo frame | |||
Notification | Email; SNMP trap; Browser pop-up windows; Syslog; Windows Messenger | |||
OS Support | Windows XP/7, Windows Server 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2 & 2012 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6; Solaris 10/11; Mac OS 10.6 or later |
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Virtualisation | VMware VAAI; Citrix; Hyper-V. | |||
Green | QThin thin provisioning Wake-on-LAN to turn on or wake up the system only when necessary MAID to increase storage density and decreased electrical power 80 Plus Gold energy-efficient power supplies Auto disk spin down |
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Safety / EMI | RoHS, CE, FCC, BSMI, UL, cUL | |||
Warranty | 3-year warranty for system 1-year warranty for battery backup module |
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Requirements | ||||
AC Input | 90-264V ~ 10A-5A 550W with PFC (Auto Switching), 50/60Hz | |||
DC Output | 3.3V-25A, 5V-32A, 12V-45A | |||
Operating Temperature | 0 to 40°C | |||
Relative Humidity | 5% to 95% non-condensing |
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AegisSAN Q500 Series
AegisSAN Q500-F30: 16Gb FC ports x2 + 1GbE ports x2 + 1GbE management port x1 per controller
AegisSAN Q500-F20: 8Gb FC ports x2 + 1GbE ports x2 + 1GbE management port x1 per controller
AegisSAN Q500-P20: 10GbE iSCSI ports x2 + 1GbE ports x2 + 1GbE management port x1 per controller
AegisSAN Q500-P21: 10GBase-T iSCSI ports x2 + 1GbE ports x2 + 1GbE management port x1 per controller
AegisSAN Q500-P10: 1GbE iSCSI ports x6 + 1GbE management port x1 per controller
Qsan Interface Menu
Qsan Series | 10GbE iSCSI | iSCSI | 16G Fibre Channel + iSCSI | 8G Fibre Channel + iSCSI | 4G Fibre Channel + iSCSI | SAS |
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TrioNAS LX | 4U 24-Bay - U600Q-S424 3U 16-Bay - U600Q-S316 2U 12-Bay - U600Q-S212 | 4U 24-Bay - U400Q-S424 3U 16-Bay - U400Q-S316 2U 12-Bay - U400Q-S212 | ||||
TrioNAS | 2U 12-Bay - U221 2U 12-Bay - U220 | 2U 12-Bay - U210 1U 4-Bay - U110 | ||||
AegisSAN LX | 4U 60-Bay - P600Q-D460 4U 60-Bay - P600Q-S460 4U 24-Bay - P600Q-D424 4U 24-Bay - P600Q-S424 3U 16-Bay - P600Q-D316 3U 16-Bay - P600Q-S316 2U 12-Bay - P600Q-D212 2U 12-Bay - P600Q-S212 | 4U 60-Bay - P400Q-D460 4U 60-Bay - P400Q-S460 4U 24-Bay - P400Q-D424 4U 24-Bay - P400Q-S424 3U 16-Bay - P400Q-D316 3U 16-Bay - P400Q-S316 2U 12-Bay - P400Q-D212 2U 12-Bay - P400Q-S212 | 2U,3U,4U 12,16,24-Bay - F630Q | 4U 60-Bay - F600Q-D460 4U 60-Bay - F600Q-S460 4U 24-Bay - F600Q-D424 4U 24-Bay - F600Q-S424 3U 16-Bay - F600Q-D316 3U 16-Bay - F600Q-S316 2U 24-Bay - F600Q-D212 2U 24-Bay - F600Q-S212 | ||
AegisSAN Q500 | 2U,3U,4U, 12,16,24-Bay - Q500-P20 2U,3U,4U, 12,16,24-Bay - Q500-P21 | 2U,3U,4U, 12,16,24-Bay - Q500-P10 | 2U,3U,4U, 12,16,24-Bay - Q500-F30 | 2U,3U,4U, 12,16,24-Bay - Q500-F21 2U,3U,4U, 12,16,24-Bay - Q500-F20 | ||
AegisSAN | 2U 8-Bay - P110V04 2U 8-Bay - P210V40 1U 4-Bay - P160V40 | 2U 8-Bay - F200V40 | S300Q-D424 S300Q-S424 S300Q-D316 S300Q-S316 S300Q-D224 S300Q-S224 S300Q-D212 S300Q-S212 S510V40 |
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JBOD | J300Q-D460 J300Q-C460 J300Q-D424 J300Q-C424 J300Q-D316 J300Q-C316 J300Q-D224 J300Q-C224 J300Q-D212 J300Q-C212 |