<b>Rackmount 16Gb/s FC (2-Port) to 12Gb/s SAS (16 PHYs) Storage Controller</b>
The ATTO FibreBridge™ 7500 allows you to build your own high performance flash, hybrid or capacity storage using standard SAS SSD Flash or HDD drives and direct attached JBOD storage enclosures. Its key function is to add Enterprise Fibre Channel SAN capabilities to SAS storage and enable such applications as shared storage and multi-site stretch clustering. By aggregating up to 240 drives, the FibreBridge 7500 gives users flexibility in architecting their data center and building shared storage with very little added latency— less than four microseconds for a full read/write cycle of data.
With IT managers under pressure to maximize ROI, there's a new openness to flexible system architectures that avoid vendor lock-in. Virtualization, which uses software tools to maximize existing storage hardware resources, was the initial step in this direction. A key aspect of the 7500 is its modular design: It is a standalone device requiring no operating system, drivers or peripherals. Features such as automation, provisioning and compression that typically sit onboard in storage arrays, taking up CPU cycles and bogging down performance, now can reside in the software layer. This allows a storage controller to drop CPU-intensive services and features and be a stand-alone, high powered device that controls mass storage from a single interface with high performance and extremely low latency.
Software Defined Storage enables a modular approach that fully separates software from hardware. ATTO Technology's FibreBridge 7500 Storage Controller represents an ideal platform for implementing a Software Designed Storage ecosystem. The key aspect of the 7500 is its modular design: It is a standalone device requiring no operating system, drivers or peripherals. The FibreBridge enables system architects to create build-it-yourself solutions that use a custom SSD/HDD mix based on performance needs for a specific applications.
The FibreBridge, utilizing intelligent Bridging Architecture™ , enables users to manage storage infrastructures with features not found in direct connect technologies. Advanced read ahead and write cache algorithms in the FibreBridge provide the highest level of performance. Robust error processing enables the FibreBridge to manage disk and communication errors between targets and initiators. Email notification of errors and persistent error and trace logs assist troubleshooting in the field to minimize downtime.
