1XioTechs Emprise 7000 Storage Package Offers Easy-to-Manage SAN
by Matthew D. Sarrel
2Test Rack
XioTech’s portable shockproof test rack consisted of an Emprise 7000 system and Emprise 5000 system, two Dell 1950 servers, two Cisco Systems 9124 Fibre Channel switches, power management and an Ethernet switch mounted in a single 22U portable shock rack that weighs roughly 800 pounds.
3Connections
The back of the rack showing Fibre Channel and Ethernet connections.
4Tight Space
An Emprise 7000 ISE with a Lucite exterior shows how tightly packed it gets in there with the …
5Physical Drives
… two data packs each holding 10 physical drives …
6Backup Batteries
… two backup batteries to preserve data held in cache and …
7Cache
… the cache.
8Power Supplies
One of two power supplies in the Emprise 7000 ISE.
9Management
With ICON manager it only takes two clicks to retrieve data from a snapshot by converting it to a virtual disk.
10Managed Components
ICON Manager opens with a high-level overview of managed components.
11View Mode
ICON Manager’s physical view mode shows physical system status for rapid assessment.
12Virtual View
Virtual View leverages Web services-based interoperability to streamline management of virtual machine storage.
13Resizing
It’s so easy to resize a VM volume that you may start doing it just for fun.
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