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Ram-San 500 Product
Highlights
• The World's Fastest Storage®
• Cached Flash RAID for the Enterprise.
• 1TB to 2TB Flash RAID.
• 16GB to 64GB DDR Cache.
• 100,000 random I/Os per second sustained (reads from flash)
• 2 GB per second sustained bandwidth (to flash)
• Full array of hardware redundancy to ensure availability.
The RamSan-500, TMS' twelfth generation solid state disk, is the
most important advance in solid state disk storage in the last twenty
years. The system is designed for high IO data warehousing, high
bandwidth data acquisition, and rich media environments. The RamSan-500
is a hybrid of DDR RAM and Flash Memory (NAND-SLC). The judicious
use of DDR RAM cache and advanced Flash Memory architecture extends
the usability of this hybrid device into applications with large
block sequential or random writes, small block synchronous sequential
writes and any read-intensive application.
The DDR RAM cache (16-64GB) provides sub-20 microsecond cache hit
times and shelters the flash memory from small random data accesses.
The data in DDR RAM is protected with ECC and Chipkill. The DDR
RAM cache is battery-backed up with redundant batteries.
The Flash Memory (1-2TB usable capacity) is arrayed in nine RAID-3
protected hot swappable modules. The reliability of each module
is further enhanced with ECC memory layouts, wear-leveling, and
bad-block retirement. The RamSan-500 uses NAND-SLC flash memory,
the highest quality of flash memory available on the market. The
RamSan-500 is designed from the ground-up to protect data from the
problems inherent to traditional flash storage.
Performance
The RamSan-500 is the perfect combination of performance, price
and capacity. With up to two terabytes of capacity, the system provides
ample space for storing entire databases or frequently accessed
files. Through its 4Gbit Fibre Channel or 4x InfiniBand ports the
system is capable of over 100,000 random IOPS or 2 GB/second of
sustained bandwidth (even with cache misses).
The RamSan-500 appears simply as a very, very fast disk to the network,
able to act as any disk or storage system might. The RamSan-500
can accelerate numerous applications across industries. It is best
known for drastic performance gains in read intensive environments
such as read-intensive OLTP environments, data warehousing, video
on demand and rendering and yet provides strong write performance.
Customers looking for high speed small block random write performance
are encouraged to consider the RamSan-400.
Reliability
There is no tradeoff in reliability for this performance. The RamSan-500
includes hot swappable components or redundancies wherever physical
wear is a factor, such as power supplies and flash memory. It also
includes two independent internal UPS systems to ensure that no
power loss or power supply failure will stop the RamSan from flushing
data from the DDR RAM to the Flash RAID. Redundant cooling fans
and redundant failover data ports (optional) are also part of the
sophisticated design.
Interoperability
The RamSan-500 is designed to look like a disk to the network or
operating system. Therefore, it is highly interoperable and works
in virtually any enterprise environment. It can be installed in
numerous environments, including Apple OS X, AIX, Solaris, Linux,
HP-UX, OpenVMS and Windows. Hardware from Fibre Channel and InfiniBand
vendors including Cisco, Emulex, Brocade, McData, Mellanox, QLogic,
and LSI Logic easily interoperates with the RamSan.
Product
Specifications
I/Os Per Second
• 100,000
Capacity
• 1-2 TB of Flash RAID
• 16-64 GB of DDR Cache
Bandwidth
• 2 GB per second
Latency
• Cache hit read and writes: less than 15 microseconds
• Cache miss read: less than 200 microseconds
Fibre Channel Connection
• 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel (2-Gb capable)
• 2 ports standard; up to 8 ports available
• Supports point-to-point, arbitrated loop, and switched fabric
topologies
• Interoperable with Fibre Channel Host Bus Adaptors, switches,
and operating systems
Management
• Browser-enabled system monitoring, management, and configuration
• SNMP supported
• Telnet management capability
• Front panel displays system status and provides basic management
functionality
• Cache Management
LUN Support
• 1 to 1024 LUNs with variable capacity per LUN
• Flexible assignment of LUNs to ports
• Hardware LUN masking
Data Retention
• Redundant Battery - backed up cache
• Automatically Flushes data to Flash RAID
Reliability and Availability
• Chipkill technology protects cache against memory errors
up to
and including loss of an entire memory chip
• Flash Layer 1: ECC (chip)
• Flash Layer 2: RAID-3 (system)
• Internal redundancies
- Power supplies and fans
- Backup redundant battery power
• Hot-swappable components
- Nine Flash RAID protected modules (front
access)
- Power supplies
Cache Modes
• Write-Back
• Write-Through
Size
7" (4U) X 20"
Power Consumption (peak)
300 Watts
Weight (maximum)
70 lbs
For additional information, options and pricing about our ThinkCP™ products,
please contact our sales representatives - (800)726-2477
or
email - SalesDesk
AT ThinkCP.com
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