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Ram-San
500 Overview
The
RamSan-500’s cached Flash design delivers unprecedented high
read performance and large capacity storage at a price point that
makes solid state disks more affordable than ever before. Compared
to a similar capacity high-end hard disk-based RAID system, the
RamSan-500 can deliver in excess of sixteen times the performance
while using 50% less power.
The RamSan-500’s cached Flash design utilizes the fastest
RAM memory to create a large, performance-boosting cache for the
high capacity, lower cost Flash-based storage. Available in one
or two terabyte capacities in a 4U rack mount chassis, the RamSan-500
delivers 100,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) and two gigabytes per second
of sustained random read or write bandwidth and yet only consumes
250 Watts of power. The system can be SAN or NAS-attached with eight
4-gigabits per second Fibre Channel ports. Multiple RamSan-500s
can be combined to deliver additional high-performance capacity.
Increasing performance and I/O requirements in markets such as OLTP,
data warehousing, and video editing/streaming are driving a need
for solid state storage solutions like the RamSan-500. These SSDs
are deployed to accelerate software applications and network file
systems. With solid state disks, applications can accommodate more
concurrent users and simultaneous transactions, while being more
economical than adding monolithic RAID, servers, RAM, or constant
application tuning.
Features
The
RamSan-500 offers these features:
• Cached Flash RAID for the Enterprise
• 2TB Flash RAID
• 64GB DDR Cache
• 100,000 random IOPS sustained (reads from Flash)
• 2 GB/s sustained bandwidth (to Flash)
Details
The
RamSan-500, TMS's 12th generation solid state disk, 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 RAM cache and advanced
Flash 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 RAM cache (64GB) provides sub-20 microsecond cache hit times
and shelters the Flash storage from small random data accesses.
The data in RAM is protected with ECC and Chipkill. The RAM cache
is battery-backed up with redundant batteries.
The Flash storage (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 chips,
the highest quality of Flash 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 2TB 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 fast drive 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 producing dramatic performance gains in read intensive
environments such as read-intensive OLTP environments, data warehousing,
video on demand, and rendering.
Customers looking for high speed small block random write performance
are encouraged to consider the RamSan-440.
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 storage. 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 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®.
Manageability
The RamSan-500 includes the most management features of any solid
state disk. Administrators can manage the RamSan® over the network
or by directly connecting to the unit. The RamSan® can be fully
configured and monitored through a Telnet session or with a browser.
The front panel displays system status and allows basic management
functionality as well.
Specifications
Storage
• Capacity (Usable): 2 TB
•
LUNs:
1,024 LUNs
•
Storage
Medium: RAM and SLC Flash
Performance
• Cache Size: 64 GB
• Maximum Bandwidth: 2,048 MB/s
• Read IOPS: 100 K IOPS
• Read Latency (Cache Hit): 15 microseconds
• Read Latency (Cache Miss): 200 microseconds
• Write IOPS: 100 K IOPS
• Write Latency: 15 microseconds
Interfaces
• Expansion Slots: 4 slots
• Fibre Channel Ports per Card: 2 ports/card
• Fibre Channel Speed per Port: 4 Gb/s
Management
• Supports Browser Management
• Supports SNMP Management
• Supports SSH Management
• Supports Telnet Management
Power
• Typical Power Consumption: 300 W
Mechanical
• Dimensions: 7" (4U) x 20"
• Form Factor: 4U
• Weight: 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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