Organizations of all sizes are facing growing requirements for distributed data storage, business continuity, and data compliance management. They are demanding disk storage systems with increased capabilities in the areas of performance and reliability.
The RELDATA 9240i – ES is a high-performance fully redundant JBOD disk storage expansion shelf offering levels of performance, data protection and flexibility previously found only in more expensive enterprise class solutions. The innovative 9240i – ES shelves are designed for quality, availability and user friendliness. They are certified for use with data center class RELDATA 9240i Unified Storage Systems that address organizations with fast growing, distributed, and unstructured data volumes, allowing them to easily align data storage to their business needs.
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High performance, availability, scalability and flexibility
The 9240i – ES modular design creates an affordable method for realizing scalability of the 9240i Storage System – enabling customers to start small and grow big when they are ready. Dual backplane, redundant power supplies and up to 12 SAS drives combine to create a fully featured and highly available JBOD storage shelf in a 2U chassis. Four 3Gb/sec SAS interface ports allow further storage expansion with similar units. Both clustered and single 9240i configurations are supported.
The 9240i – ES adapts to a broad range of RELDATA Unified Storage solutions. The capability to mix both high-performance and high-capacity SAS technology within the same disk enclosure addresses the needs of tiered storage and ILM solutions.
Easy and intuitive management
The intuitive, easy-to-use RELDATA 9240i Storage Resource Management software provides a task-based interface that significantly reduces compexity of installation, configuration, management and diagnostic tasks. The management software allows new 9240i – ES storage expansion shelves to be easily and automatically integrated into existing tiered pool of virtualized storage without disruption, enabling unified storage solutions scaling to multi-petabytes of storage capacity.
