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"The AberSAN is also scalable and designed for growth in an
on-demand environment."
- CRN, 2005.
The Aberdeen AberSAN-FC Starter Kit is a Fibre Channel storage
area network (SAN) package that provides virtually unlimited
storage expansion via incremental additions of Aberdeen XDAS
RAID expansion subsystems. The AberSAN-FC provides the building
blocks to achieve future storage expansion for environments with
mission critical and high-bandwidth applications. By delivering
a high-performance, high-capacity storage solution, the
AberSAN-FC offers customers a flexible low-cost, low-maintenance
Fibre storage area network. A key advantage to the XDAS is it takes advantage
of disk-to-disk SATA storage via Fibre Channel connection and can be daisy-chained to provide larger
storage capacities.
Purpose-built for high volume storage, the innovative AberSAN-FC reduces the
cost of building from 4TB up to 180TB in a consolidated storage
array system from a single Fibre switch with all the benefits of an enterprise-class SAN
solution. For maximum storage availability additional Fibre
switches can be easily integrated into the array to surpass 1PB
(1 petabyte) of storage. The scalability of the AberSAN-FC Starter Kit
dramatically lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and is
backed by an industry leading 5-year warranty to ensure maximum
investment protection. Choose the appropriate starter kit that
best suites your storage scalability needs.
Single Switch Fibre SAN Starter Kit
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Dual Switch Fibre SAN Starter Kit
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Entry-Level SAN Setup
- Everything Needed to Establish a Fibre SAN Setup
- Storage Array, Switch, HBAs and Cables in a Single
Kit
- Recommended for Simple Configurations
- Includes the Fibre Card
- Choose Single / Dual Port Fibre HBA for Future Redundancy
- Fast, Reliable and Easy to Manage SAN Storage
- OS and Platform Independent
* Servers sold separately
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Redundant SAN Package
- Everything Needed to Establish a Fibre SAN Setup
- Storage Array, Switch, HBAs and Cables in a Single
Kit
- Recommended for Mission Critical Use
- Dual Port Fibre Card and Dual Fibre Switch
- Eliminates all Points of Failure
- Fast, Reliable and Easy to Manage SAN Storage
- OS and Platform Independent
* Servers sold separately
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Fibre SAN Features & Benefits
- Manageable:
- Uses familiar, easy-to-use configuration and
management tools.
- Scalable:
- Easily expanded to 180TB by adding a total of
fifteen 3U XDAS subsystems to the included Fibre switch.
- Upgradeable:
- Ability to choose a dual port HBA, redundant Fibre
Switch, and add additional XDAS subsystems for greater
storage capacity.
- Serviceable:
- Hot plug expansion and replacement of hard drives,
redundant controllers, for simple, fast installation and
maintenance. Fans and power supplies are also hot plug
replaceable.
- Reliable:
- Supports the highest level of fault tolerance (RAID
6) and offers complete redundancy.
- Compatible:
- Supports Windows, Linux, HP-UX, NetWare, Tru64 UNIX,
OpenVMS, and SCO operating systems. Some restrictions may
apply.
- Flexible:
- Bundled with a new 2/8q 2Gb Fibre Channel Switch and
HP Q200 FC Host Bus Adapters.
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- Configure-to-Order:
- Ability to design a complete storage solution to fit
any environment including server clustering to provide a
no-single-point-of-failure from the host side, providing
maximum up-time.
Lower Cost:
- For less than half a penny per/MB, it's easy to
implement up to 12TB per Fibre port.
High Capacity:
- Higher storage capacity than SCSI storage achieved
with server-rated
SATA II 3Gb/s drives.
Performance:
- Sustained RAID5 Read/Write at 658/460 MB/sec.
- Sustained RAID6 Read/Write at 651/411 MB/sec.
Speed:
- Transfer rates up to 400MBps per channel using
the included standard HBA.
Integrated:
- Turnkey design allows ease of installation for
addional daisy-chained Fibre switches to achieve
storage capacities in excess of 1 petabyte.
Increased
Availability:
- Fibre provides significant productivity improvements
for critical data and applications application administration.
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