Qsan's P500Q 10GbE iSCSI High Availability Systems Pass VMware Certification

TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The virtualization applications are driving the adoption of 10GbE in recent years. The shipments of 10GbE products grow in volume, causing the price to drop faster. 10GbE is becoming an affordable solution. Qsan has positioned itself as iSCSI storage solution expert in SMB market. For complete integration and optimization in virtualization and cloud applications, Qsan's P500Q 10GbE iSCSI high availability systems have passed VMware Ready Hardware Certification Program. Now, all P500Q and F300Q series are VMware Ready. Please visit VMware Hardware Compatibility List for details.

Qsan P500Q high availability systems are not only certified by VMware but also able to achieve higher IOPS than VMware can support, which is great for virtualization and cloud applications. With up to 220K IOPS, IT administrators can install multiple VMware ESX servers in a shared Qsan storage system without performance impact. The VMware ESX servers can access the same data stores to boot and run virtual machines, to utilize more out of the storage investments, and reduce the management effort. Qsan P500Q systems are designed on its own invented technology and embedded with advanced data protection features. The P500Q systems are for critical requirements, such as non-stop service, high reliability, scalability, sustainability, cloud computing, and virtualization.

Qsan P500Q features:

• Fully redundant and hot pluggable designs: RAID controllers, power supplies, fan modules, battery backup modules and JBOD expansion
• Up to 220K IOPS and 1300MB/Sec. throughput
• Hardware 10Gb iSCSI offloaded engine
• Green storage designs: auto disk spin down, advanced cooling mechanism, & 80 PLUS energy-efficient power supplies
• Advanced data protection: RAID 6, 60, QSnap writeable snapshot, Windows VSS support
• Flexible volume management for multiple applications & environments: virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V, Citrix), cloud storage, SQL, Exchange, surveillance, file backup, email, boot from SAN, etc.
• High connection availability: load balancing and failover
• Extendable capacity up to 144TB

About Qsan

Founded in 2004, Qsan Technology, Inc. is a company developing storage solutions focusing on iSCSI / IP SAN targeting at small and medium businesses worldwide. Qsan products are designed and positioned in the way to respond to the storage technology trend, not only the latest standards but also customer requirements. For more information, please visit www.QsanTechnology.com.

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SOURCE Qsan Technology, Inc.