BonFire iSCSI
BonFire iSCSI is a low
cost variant of BonFire which supports maximum read and
write performance, and all
iSCSI protocols (i.e. 100Mb, 1GigE, 10GigE, and Infiniband),
as well as all standard options. But, BonFire iSCSI
does not support RDMA or Fiber Channel.
BonFire
iSCSI SAN software
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices |
| Product Option |
Per
System |
Per ZFS
Terabyte |
Per ESS
Terabyte |
| BonFire
iSCSI SAN |
1,000 |
40 |
150 |
BonFIre iSCSI is
fast. Tests show that with 24 SATA SSDs linear
writing at 500MB/sec, BonFire iSCSI will internally linear
write 11GB/sec, and execute more than 2.5 million
random write IOPS. Parity RAID solutions without our
ESS linearization will typically write 80 times
slower, while mirrored RAID
solutions will generate IOPS nine times slower.
BonFire Lite
reduces manufacturing costs. BonFire also
lets you buy less expensive "consumer" SSD media,
and build larger individual systems because
WildFire's patented SSD linearization technology typically increases
useful life by more than an order of magnitude. Then
media savings are combined with reduced spindle counts,
BonFire can reduce SSD storage media costs by as much as
75%.
The BonFire iSCSI
console is a
dream to use. BonFire iSCSI systems can
be managed and monitored in clusters from a single WebGUi
terminal. Unlike simple structured applications,
BonFire presents a unified solution for a specific problem,
such as configuring storage, networking, or HA, and lets you
both look at the entire problem in a single glance while
pre-validating the entire answer-set.
Limits to BonFire
iSCSI version. The iSCSI version of BonFire
supports all add-ons of the BonFire Line, with the exception
of RDMA and Fiber Channel Networking. Accordingly,
peak performance is constrained by the number of of iSCSI
ports which can be crammed into a box. Obviously, 2u
chassis have extra room for these. Similarly, it is
possible to use products such as the Mellanox 40Gb card in
its iSCSI mode as 4 or 8 10gigE ports.
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