The relentless growth of data and network-intensive applications such as digital imaging, multimedia content, and broadcast/video continues to drive volumes of enterprise data and network traffic. As growth continues, IT managers are challenged with implementing solutions without interrupting critical business processes.
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Using Neterion 10 GbE for Enterprise iSCSI Storage
The relentless growth of data-intensive and network-intensive applications such as digital imaging, multimedia content, broadcast/video (e.g., video-on-demand, IPTV), VoIP/"Triple Play," e-mail, and more complex computing applications continues to drive volumes of enterprise data and network traffic. As growth continues, IT managers are challenged with implementing solutions without interrupting critical business processes. The combination of Neterion Xframe® 10 Gb Ethernet adapters with the String Bean Software WinTarget iSCSI software enables the industry's fastest, most flexible, enterprise-quality and scalable 10 GbE iSCSI SAN solution without compromising ease of installation or management.
Overview continuity, the first step is to upgrade the Using WinTarget to add iSCSI-based storage network interface in the WinTarget iSCSI networking to a data center provides a powerful server to a Neterion Xframe 10 GbE adapter. yet easy-to-use solution for addressing many This upgrade to an Xframe 10 GbE adapter business challenges that can lower productivity, eliminates the bottleneck at the storage server increase costs, and reduce competitiveness created by the aggregation of the 1 GbE links or worse, responsiveness to customers. The from application servers. A second Xframe following are examples of some of the many adapter can easily be added to the storage ways businesses can utilize a 10 GbE iSCSI server to provide fail-over connectivity, load SAN to generate measurable results: balancing, or simply for more bandwidth. Using Xframe 10 GbE adapters for the link to . C onsolidate and centrally manage the storage servers ensures the smooth and geographically disperse storage predictable scaling of network bandwidth along with the storage growth. . S hare redundant storage across all servers . Centralize and reduce times for data backups The final result is a high performance, 10 GbE . Improve application availability and time iSCSI SAN that does not increase complexity, to data introduce more cabling, or drive up the total cost of ownership. In fact, the increased . M eet regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA, bandwidth to the storage server increases Sarbanes-Oxley) the overall efficiency of the network because Here are a few examples of key servers are no longer waiting for I/O's to markets 10 GbE iSCSI SANs: While iSCSI storage solutions are applauded complete. This helps to drive an extension of for ease of installation and management, . High Availability, Global Storage the return on investment of existing hardware. a critical success factor for successful . Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity deployment for enterprises is availability Benefits. Broadcast/Video/Digital Media of end-to-end bandwidth. This is a concern Other key benefits of deploying a 10 GbE iSCSI . Science & Engineering because when the traffic from multiple SAN with Xframe adapters and WinTarget 1-GbE connected servers is aggregated at the . Banking & Finance software are: point where it converges at the iSCSI storage server and there is insufficient bandwidth, . S ignificantly improved end-to-end disk services delivered over the network will 1-GbE bandwidth for all servers be degraded. This degradation can negatively This guarantees a full 1-GbE of network impact critical business services and hence bandwidth capacity between each end-point lower organizational productivity. To avoid this device (e.g., file or application server) and degradation and minimize risks to business the iSCSI disk resources. S O L U T I O N S B R I E F
Using Neterion 10 GbE for Enterprise iSCSI Storage
. R educed total cost of ownership . S ignificant scalability with 10 GbE streaming, multi-media content distribution, The cost per Gigabit per second on one bandwidth to WinTarget on-line training sessions, and high-performance 10 GbE adapter is significantly less than the The 10 GbE link between WinTarget and clustered computing solutions all demand the total cost of aggregating multiple 1 GbE the end-point network fabric represents highest and most reliable bandwidth on the connections. This does not include the costs significant built-in scalability in the form market. For more details and performance associated with managing the aggregated of capacity. As compared to using multiple t... [download for more]
