Latest router released by StorageTek
Latest router released by StorageTek
StorageNet 3400, the latest router from StorageTek is now available to the Australian market.
The StorageNet3400 is a Multi-Protocol Router designed to bring SCSI tape libraries such as the L180/700E/5500 into Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.
"Our customers want manageable, high performance solutions for dataprotection and business continuance," said Philip Belcher, the managing director for StorageTek Australia and New Zealand. "With the SN3400, customers gain tremendous manageability and insight into how tape-based storage can be allocated and efficiently utilised."
Featuring enterprise class high-availability, the SN3400 includesredundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans. Field replaceable I/Omodules provide connectivity into one or 2Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC), SCSI LVDor HVD, and are upgradeable for future support of emerging technologiessuch as iSCSI and InfiniBand. Powered with technology from CrossroadsSystems the SN3400 adds intelligence into the SAN so that tape libraries can be optimised for policy-based data management, such as needed for backup and restore or in disaster recovery solutions.
Access Controls provide enhanced security and prevent server conflicts sothat multiple servers can share the data. Advanced LUN zoning capabilitiesallow the entire library (or even specific tape drives) to be hidden fromselected hosts while remaining visible to others. Individual storagedevices can now be managed as an integrated system rather then as acollection of stand-alone devices.
Server-free backup is supported to minimise the use of server resourcesrequired for backup by allowing data movement tasks, such as between tapeand disk, to be offloaded from the server to the router. With transferrates over 300 MB/s, the SN3400 performs multiple concurrent server-freebackup operations with ease, streaming data to as many as eight highperformance tape drives simultaneously such as, SDLT, LTO, and T9840.
Other benefits of the SN3400 include failover capabilities, support ofvendor unique commands, remote management access, and support for mixedenvironments of SE, HVD, and LVD devices. Up to twelve auto-negotiatingUltra 160 SCSI buses and up to six network ports allow for robust,cost-effective configuration of storage networks.
The StorageTek SN3400 routers are available through StorageTek's directsales force and through a network of StorageTek value-added distributors,value-added resellers and partners.
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