The Connexan Enterprise iSCSI Target (CiT) is the foundation of Connexan’s Systems
and Storage Virtualization strategy. The CiT is supported on IBM System x Servers
and IBM DS3000 and DS4000 Storage offerings. While iSCSI is just now beginning to
get mainstream attention,
Connexan has been using and installing iSCSI solutions
at our customers for several years now.
The CiT, in conjunction with IBM’s best-of-breed hardware technology, bridges a
gap in the storage industry. While there are many fine storage offerings, they are
based on integrated, closed and usually costly storage systems. The scalability
of these offerings is pre-defined when they are purchased and limited to those specifications.
Unlike many proprietary iSCSI storage offerings, the Connexan Enterprise iSCSI Target
is designed to adhere to industry standard specifications and work on a vast array
of Enterprise-class Servers and Storage. Connexan is partnered with and certified
on VMware’s VI3 virtualization platform, Microsoft’s Windows Server™ platform, as
well as QLogic’s iSCSI HBAs.
By embracing and supporting industry-standards, and through architectural design
and testing, Connexan is able to offer a solution that will scale to 2 petabytes
(PB) and beyond.
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The cost of storage solutions based on the Connexan Enterprise iSCSI Target is extremely
low in comparison to traditional integrated storage solutions based on Fibre Channel,
SSA and iSCSI. CiT solutions are all based on Enterprise-class hard drives. Connexan
does not recommend or sell SATA solutions for mission-critical applications in the
datacenter. In fact, CiT-based solutions are less-expensive per gigabyte than most
shared SATA solutions which have poor performance, mediocre reliability, and do
not scale (well) at all.
Connexan is the only VMware VDI Alliance Partner offering a customizable, scalable
(2 petabytes), iSCSI storage solution as part of our Virtual Desktop Solution (VDS).
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