StorEdge Sun microsystems product series - good Storage product from Sun

Storage job opening interview pointers.
In any interview for a storage related opening you will surely be asked to name Storage product names which might have worked on or known about.So below are some of the good Storage products from Sun microsystems which you can learn more about.Next posts will have information about other Storage products from vendors like EMC,IBM etc

JBOD Storage Implementation


Sun StorEdge 6130 Array

aimed at business-critical applications, such as email, ERP and e-commerce providing advanced data protection, high availability and application oriented management.
* Maximum Tray Capacity: 73GB 10k rpm-FC drives 1022 GB per tray (3 RU), 73GB 15k rpm-FC drives 1022 GB per tray (3 RU), 146GB 10k rpm-FC drives 2044 GB per tray (3 RU), 400GB 7,200 rpm-SATA drives 5600 GB per tray (3 RU)
* System Capacity: Scales from 5 to 112 drives (365GB to 41.2TB)
* Support for high-performance FC and high-capacity SATA disk drives
* Modular design and "pay-as-you-grow" scalability

Sun StorEdge 9910 System

or the high-end data center, providing hardware and firmware redundancy, unique switched-fabric architecture, self-diagnosis, "call-home," and remote data replication.
* Over 3.5 TB raw capacity
* 48 drive capacity (up to 4 hot spares)
* SAN connectivity - handles up to 144 host connections (6:1 fan-out)
* 32 data paths provide 3.2 GB/sec bandwidth and extreme system resiliency
* RAID 5 or RAID 1+ gives customers a choice of HDD protection, resiliency, and performance

Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array
This is an array system that uses a modular, 'building block' approach with high port counts.With a highly intuitive management interface, the StorEdge 3510 is easy to deploy, configure and then manage providing a host of enterprise class features such as dual hot-swap power and cooling, dynamic LUN expansion and hot-swap disk drives.
* Capacity : 146GB 10K rpm disk drives: 1.72 TB max storage capacity (raw, in single 2U array)
* 2Gb Fibre Channel architecture
* Up to 12 Fibre Channel ports in dual RAID controller configurations
* Support for up to 1024 logical unit numbers (LUNs) with hardware LUN masking

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iSCSI Storage implementation explained through images

Here is another iSCSI implementation images to help you get a grasp of the topic

Running Storage subsystem with Serial Attached SCSI:Adaptec


An 8 channel SATA-II controller with PCI-X. Chip for XOR operations is clocked at 200 MHz. The chip on the previous four-channel model ran at just 66 MHz.


Internal hot swap bay for 4 SAS drives. A slimline CD/DVD-ROM can fit in the top of the case if only three 5.25" bays are available.


SAS cable is clearly visible at the back panel


Above images & article is courtesy of www.tgdaily.com/2005/03/18/cebit_2005/page4.html.

Software-based iSCSI Targets

* Linux/Netware/Solaris/NetBSD
- Openfiler - iSCSI (SAN) and NAS Linux distribution - An open source iSCSI target implementation for Linux
- Intel-iSCSI (Intel) - The earliest open source release of iSCSI (March 2001). The distribution includes initiator and target code for Linux 2.4 and 2.6 and support for Object-based Storage Devices (OSD). External Link
- iSCSI Enterprise Target - An open source iSCSI target implementation for Linux
- Linux - iSCSI target product offerings from 3rd party vendors for various flavors of Linux [1] [2] MayaStor iSCSI [3]
- NetBSD target HOWTO
- NetWare 6.5 includes an iSCSI target module
- Solaris iSCSI Target - iSCSI target package bundled with Solaris.
- DataCore Software's SANsymphony [4] storage virtualization software for Windows 2000/XP/2003
- String Bean Software's WinTarget [5] - acquired by Microsoft and renamed to Microsoft iSCSI Target, now offered as an option pack from OEM's for Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 [6]
- Rocket Division Software StarWind iSCSI Target for Windows 2000/XP/2003
- FalconStor - iSCSI Storage Server [7] for Windows 2003 and Windows 2003 Storage Server
- DataCore SANmelody [8] & SANmelody Lite [9] iSCSI target and disk server software for Windows 2000/XP/2003
- Nimbus Data Systems - MySAN iSCSI Server [10] Free iSCSI target for Windows 2003 Server
- Virtual Infrastructure Foundation kit iSCSI target and thin provisioning software for Windows systems

* Other
- Open-E iSCSI-R3 - iSCSI storage software is pre-installed on a USB-DOM
- Open-E DSS - data storage software (NAS + iSCSI ) on pre-installed USB-DOM
- Software target implementations are also available or included on storage devices from vendors such as EMC, Equallogic, Reldata, LeftHand Networks, Network Appliance, Stonefly and StorageConnections.Net.
- Wasabi Systems Storage Builder for IP-SAN comes pre-installed on a bootable Compact Flash IDE disk and runs on standard hardware platforms.