Coraid are offering a No Single Point of Failure (NSPoF) Ethernet SAN solution at a considerable discount over their already very competitive list price for such a highly featured storage solution.
The foundation pack comprises the following Coraid products:
· 2x Coraid SRX-2800-G6 Chassis – 16 bay (3.5”) SATA/SAS/SSD compatible (can mix types in same chassis) with 6 GbE AoE ports giving up to 6Gbit/s low latency throughput over standard Ethernet
· 32x 1TB Coraid certified SATA drives included
· VSX-2500-G6-HA Storage Virtualisation appliance – Full HA capability via twin chassis, with snapshots, synchronous replication/mirroring, dynamic volumes, cloning, and thin provisioning coming soon via a maintenance release
· 4x Coraid Server HBAs – allowing 4 servers to have 2Gbit/s SAN connectivity or 2 servers fully redundant 4Gbit/s SAN connectivity (plug and play MPIO, no manual configuration required)
· All Coraid appliances have redundant PSUs to remove any possible single point of failure from the system
· Ethernet switches not included, but any commodity layer 2 Ethernet switch with jumbo frame capability and good combined throughput is supported – 2 switches (not interlinked) required for true NSPoF.
The cost of this solution at the regular Coraid list price would be $47,704.
Bundle list price for this foundation pack is just $34,995 !
Equivalent UK price delivered is less than £25,000 – which is an incredible price for high performance Enterprise grade SAN storage, that gives any organisation all they need to get going with a virtualisation project for anything up to 100 average performing virtual servers.*
We can also modify the bundle to suit your requirements and as an example for an even smaller entry level system, a bundle similar to above but with 8TB of useable space comes in at under £20,000.
We expect there to be a lot of interest around this offer as the entry point to Enterprise grade SAN storage has now truly been lowered to kind of spend we are seeing in the SME sector, and could help achieve that storage project even in the face of budget cuts.
For more details drop us a line at info@millennia.it or visit www.millennia.it/coraid.aspx to find out more about Coraid Ethernet SAN products.
*Experience of hundreds of virtualised servers has given us an approximate average disk usage of 5-7 IOPS per VM, and assumes just 40 write IOPS per disk on 14 usable disks (2x RAID-5 arrays per chassis). There may be VMs much more busy that this but conversely there are many that just power up and sit there! This is why virtualisation is a such a benefit over having bare metal servers wasting power while not delivering a good return on investment.
