StorStac PCU100

The Next Generation High Performance Storage System

Intransa's breakthrough technology delivers high performance data throughput, with maximum availability and protection.

The PCU100 StorStac Controller is the next generation system that delivers the industry's most economical, high performance, high availability and scalable storage solution. Combined with the power and ease of use of StorControl Storage Management, StorStac is the industry's best storage value.

Product Overview

The StorStac Storage System is comprised of the 10 GbE Performance Controller Unit 100 (PCU100) or the 2 GbE Performance Controller Unit 20 (PCU20) and the StorStac Storage Capacity Enclosures (SCE). The StorStac Storage system can be deployed with up to four networked 10 GbE PCU100 or 2 GbE PCU20 StorStac Controllers and 15 SCEs. All StorStac PCU100s and PCU20s are preloaded with Intransa StorStac OS software.

The StorStac Storage system provides best-in-class system fault tolerance, based on Intransa's advanced N-Way active/active scalable architecture. The high capacity, ultra high performance StorStac PCU100 system supports up to 180 TB of capacity, delivering up to 3,000 MB per second throughput and up to 1,600,000 IOPs. The PCU100 front-end controller supports 10GbE single front end ports and dual backend 10Gbe ports for high availability and outstanding throughput.

Delivering the best flexibility in the industry, StorStac systems can scale independently for performance and high availability by adding additional controllers, or for capacity and increased disk spindles by integrating additional SCE, or both simultaneously, to meet any customer requirement. For scalable performance and high availability, the StorStac PCU100 system starts with a single 10 GbE front end controller and can grow up to 4 PCU100s.

Delivering scalable storage and high availability, the StorStac PCU100 system can start with a single StorStac SCE and grow up to 15 SCE, providing up to 180 TB of capacity.

Software

• StorStac OS
• StorStac Management
• StorStac StorCluster
• StorControl Snapshot
• StorControl StorAR (optional)

The StorStac Storage System includes StorStac OS software that delivers fail-over, load-balancing, volume management, snapshots and replications. The StorStac Storage System comes preloaded with up to four networked PCU20 StorStac Controllers and with the StorStac OS software.

Reliability and Availability

All major components are hot-swappable, Field Replaceable Units (FRUs). Each Intransa StorStac Controller has redundant connections to the disk enclosures, and provides data availability and accessibility by supporting multiple physical mirrors with flexible mirror management.

Management

StorControl is a powerful Graphical User Interface (GUI) for rapid volume creation without requiring knowledge of the underlying data structures. The integrated StorControl Command Line Interface (CLI) is also provided to allow users to create scripts for rapid automated provisioning of storage.

Host Operating Systems Supported

The StorStac Controller supports all major host operating systems and initiators, ensuring flawless installations across all applications and server environments.

• Microsoft™ Windows™ 2000/ XP/ Server 2003 and R2
• Solaris 10
• Redhat™ Linux EL 3, 4 and RH9
• SuSe Enterprise 9
• HP-UX 11i
• Novell Netware 6.5
• AIX 5.3.0.0
• VMWare ESX 3.01