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Overview
The Intransa IP7500 is the highest performance, highest capacity
IP SAN. It does not have a single point of failure and it
also has the highest availability of any IP SAN. The unprecedented
value of the Intransa IP7500 makes it the right choice for
applications requiring huge amounts of capacity.
The IP7000 series of products is Intransa's integrated solution
for customers who want to deploy a simple IP SAN solution.
Intransa's IP7500 is the industries largest native IP SAN.
It is a complete IP SAN that only requires Cat-5 and power
cables to provide 24 TB of storage to the network. Intransa's
IP7500 storage solution is also upgradeable to 32 TB, and
offers local and remote realm management through Intransa's
StorControl™ software.
The IP7500 is a great digital media solution because it provides
easy access to volumes that can be used by many hosts. Digital
media solutions often need to have lots of hosts with dynamic
storage configurations. The IP7500 manages these environments
with ease.
Video surveillance, data warehousing, data mining, and nearline
storage applications need the IP7500 storage solution. These
applications require unlimited capacity scaling without massive
reconfiguration, which is one of the many benefits of the
IP7500.
The IP7500 also has the following management and resiliency
features; fully redundant switching, management console, management
network, and UPS with redundant power feeds. These are all
populated into a single box that matches the dimensions of
a standard 42U rack for easy installation.
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Highlights
 Simplified
capacity planning: System storage can dynamically grow and be provisioned
to hosts without disrupting applications or users.
Using standard
iSCSI and Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) infrastructures reduces cost and
complexity. This familiar technology, commodity Ethernet switches,
and Cat 5 cabling, help simplify installation, management and maintenance.
Robust
storage management provides flexible virtualization, striping and
mirroring (Raid: 0, 1 and 1/0), host access control, and online
capacity expansion while remaining easy to use.
Virtual
point-in-time copies (Snapshots) allow backups, data mining, or
application testing to be done without impacting access to critical
data resources.
Powerful
graphical user interface (GUI) simplifies system management. Smart
templates in GUI allow for rapid volume creation without requiring
knowledge of the underlying data structures.
Command
Line Interface (CLI) is also provided to allow users to create scripts
for rapid, automated provisioning of storage.
Provides
data availability and accessibility by providing multiple physical
mirrors with flexible mirror management.
The Intransa StorControl Management Tool:
A Simply Smarter Approach to Managing Network Storage
The StorControl Management Tool is the key to unlocking the power
of the IP7500. It is designed to enable administrators to have a
single point of management for the integrated system to easily access,
administer, setup, install, and maintain the IP7500 data volumes.
Complex Fibre Channel SANs require administrators to use several
different storage resource management tools for installation and
management. This complexity requires dedicated, highly skilled personnel
to be available to setup and manage the SANs.
The StorControl Management Tool simplifies complex tasks such as
creating a data volume with a specific RAID structure, into smart
templates. These customizable templates create "virtual disks"
based on a specific RAID structure (0, 1, 1/0), block size, or stripe
width. Once a data volume has been created, the administrator may
perform a single 'click' to display important statistics and overall
health information. The volume can then be assigned to a host with
a simple 'check-box' function. If an existing volume needs to expand,
IT Administrators can do this "on demand", without disrupting
applications or users.
Advanced wizards take users through the volume creation and snapshot
process step-by-step. Users can even pre-script repetitive tasks
using the CLI, to further automate the set-up process.
StorControl Management Tool provides four advanced administrative
tools:
Volume Manager: Wizard-driven volume creation,
host assignment management, read/write control and 'drag-and-drop'
volume expansion.
Storage Resource Virtualization Manager:
Configures free space pooling and simple setup of RAID types, striping
and width.
Mirror Manager: Creates physical copies
of volumes with the ability to 'break', re-attach, and re-sync mirrors.
Monitor Manager: Configures real time
alerts and performance capacity monitoring.
Intransa StorControl Load Balance and High
Availability
Reliability is the most important aspect of any storage system and
the Intransa IP7500, with its High Availability and Load Balancing,
will achieve better than four nines (99.99%) availability of customer
data. The IP7500 does not sacrifice performance to meet availability
requirements because all system components are in use at all times.
This is unique in the industry.
Load Balancing: Maximum Performance
Unlike less-sophisticated storage systems, the StorControl Software
Suite on the IP7500 system implements an n-way model of High Availability.
All the SCMs in an IP7000 system actively serve storage volumes,
sharing the system workload. If an SCM fails, the volumes that were
being served by it are automatically redistributed to all the other
SCMs in the system.
Thanks to the Intransa innovation of iSCSI redirection via virtual
IP addresses, when a SCM takes control of a volume from another
SCM, this process is completely transparent to the host using the
volume. When an SCM reboots and comes back online, or when a new
SCM is introduced into an IP SAN system, StorControl automatically
redistributes the load from the other SCMs to the newly available
SCM. In normal operation, StorControl is designed to keep the load
on each SCM roughly equal. The software uses a balancing algorithm
to keep the volumes assigned to each SCM to ensure that each serves
effectively.
Hot-Swappable: No Downtime for Component
Failure
The IP7500 system must remain operational even when a failure occurs,
therefore all the major components are hot-swappable, Field-Replaceable
Units (FRU). The architecture means that an installation will continue
working, even after a component failure. Normal performance will
return when the new FRU is installed, which is done without taking
working storage offline, while the software rebalances the load
to the restored component.
The Intransa StorControl Snapshot: A Simply
Smarter Approach to Protecting Critical Data
The StorControl Snapshot is a flexible, powerful volume snapshot
tool that creates a "point in time" virtual copy of a
data volume. It is part of the StorControl software suite included
with the IP7500 and empowers IT Administrators with the ability
to protect critical data volumes.
The simple tool gives IT Administrators the ability to trigger
the creation of volume snapshots. These snapshots can be used to
reduce the need for frequent full-scale backups and allow data to
remain online and accessible to hosts.
Snapshots can be employed to restore corrupted volumes, rollback
test changes, or recreate a previous state for auditing requirements.
A volume can be reverted to its Snapshot almost instantaneously.
Snapshots can be mounted as volumes that are independent of the
original. The Snapshot can be used for testing, and when testing
is complete the changes can be removed to return the Snapshot to
its initial state. Intransa's software simplifies the task of managing
this process.
IT Administrators expect protecting valuable data to be simple.
The StorControl Snapshot and the StorControl Management Tool make
it Simply Smarter.
Intransa Service
Plans
Intransa Service Plans are designed to provide users with prompt
resolution of issues related to Intransa systems. Key elements of
Intransa Service Plans include online self-service, telephone and
email technical support and troubleshooting, software updates and
hardware field repair and replacement.
Standard 2 year warranty on the IP7500, including 9 x 5 onsite
emergency repair (swap-out service), Monday through Friday, next
day response.
Features and Related Benefits
Multi-host application data availability Distribute
copies of data for workflow purposes. Local applications may need
a copy of information for their access. A snapshot can be mapped
to secondary hosts for work distribution purposes.
High Availability: No single point of failure
Multiple
Storage Controller Modules (SCMs), each of which can support the
entire system on its own
Each SCM
has two redundant Ethernet connections to the Disk Controller Modules
(DCMs) and each DCM has two Ethernet connections for redundant GigE
switch connectivity
Each Disk
Enclosure (DE) and SCM has two power supplies, with each power supply
having its own AC input
Microsoft® Volume Shadow Copy Service Integrates
with Microsoft’s standard data protection and recovery solutions
for Windows Servers.
Wizard-based snapshot creation Step-by-step snapshot
creation to improve productivity and reduce cost of storage administration.
Snapshot to Volume Mapping Logical view of a single
volume or a group of volumes, and how snapshots are mapped to those
volumes.
The snapshot’s time stamp, total size, and volume layout are
displayed graphically.
Snapshot Rollback Test new applications, new versions,
currency conversion, training functions, and format migration by
using the snapshot. After the results have been collected, the snapshots
can be reset to their original state and can catch up with any changes
made to the original volume.
Multiple Snapshot Protect critical data by making
multiple synchronized snapshots which can be split (broken) to move
to remote and offline storage.
Specifications
Raid Levels
RAID 0,
1, 1/0
Software
StorControl™
Management Tool - Java™-based client administration (GUI)
System
monitoring, activity monitoring, environment monitoring
StorControl
Snapshot
StorControl
Load Balance and High Availability
Power (North America Specs)
Nominal Voltage: 208VAC
Input Connections: Dual redundant L6-30P –or-
Hardwire (3-wire, 1PH + 1PH +GND)
Voltage Range: 160-280VAC
Current (@208C): 24A (typ), 30A (max)
Frequency: 50/60 Hz
Power Consumption: 500W (typ), 6200W (max)
Heat Dissipation: 18,500 BTU/hr (typ), 22,650 BTU/hr
(max)
VA Rating: 5000 VA (typ), 6200 (max)
Operating Environment
Temperature:
Operating: 0Þto 40ÞC (32Þto 104ÞF)
Non-Operating: -15Þto 45ÞC (5Þto
113ÞF)
Relative Humidity (non-condensing):
Operating: 20% to 80%
Non-Operating: 10% to 95%
Shock:
Operating: 5G, 10ms, half sine
Non-Operating: 30G, 10ms, half sine
Vibration:
Operating: 0.4 GRMS 5-500Hz
Non-Operating: 1.0 GRMS 2-200Hz
Altitude:
Operating: 0 to 6,000 ft.
Non-Operating: 0 to 6,000 ft.
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