Connexan Enterprise iSCSI Target (CiT) Features Overview

The CiT provides a multitude of Enterprise-Class Storage features. If there is a specific feature that your solution requires, but is not listed, please contact us to discuss your requirements. Connexan is willing to customize the CiT to suit your company’s needs.

• Data Replication – On-site and Off-site data replication can currently be handled directly by the CiT. It is capable of managing replication on its own as well as integrating with Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS). A third option is to manage your iSAN Fabric(tm) based storage as you would any other shared storage arrays and use your existing 3^rd-party replication methodologies.
   
• Data Provisioning – The CiT will grow your data volumes as necessary. This allows the user to create, for example, 200GB volumes for VMware or Windows Servers to access, but only physically allocate what’s currently in use. This virtually eliminates the need to perform volume and extent expansions / migrations in your production servers.
   
• Disk Emulation – While the CiT is capable of Raw Device Mapping, sometimes the Initiator operating system does not support the Raw Device - e.g. VMware only sees SCSI-based devices. The CiT’s emulation capabilities allow you to use almost any disk technology with almost any operating system.
   
• Boot from iSAN Fabric(tm) – The CiT supports booting your Initiator operating systems from the iSAN. For Blades and resource-distributable solutions, this is an invaluable capability. Booting from iSAN allows your Initiator servers to become processor / memory resource pools and boot any image stored on the CiT storage pool.
   
• x64 Support – The CiT is available in both 32-bit and x64 native binaries.
   
• Dynamic Discovery – iSNS is supported for name resolution lookups, as well as Dynamic scanning and discovery of available storage volumes.
   
• Security – IPSec and CHAP authentication are both fully supported. Although it is recommended to physically isolate your CiT-based iSAN Fabric(tm), this isn’t always possible. Authentication protection protects access to your storage volumes while IPSec can encrypt all of the data exchanged between your Initiator servers and the CiT storage pool.
   
• Management – E-mail and SNMP support.