Qsan P600Q iSCSI IP SAN Certified for vSphere 5 and VAAI

July 23, 2012 - PRLog -- Taipei, Taiwan, 19 July 2012 - Qsan Technology Inc, an expert of iSCSI SAN RAID systems and controllers for SMBs, today announced its iSCSI IP SAN P600Q has passed the certification of VMware Ready for vSphere 5 and VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration). The certification ensures P600Q’s improved performance, superior scalability and better agility in VMware virtual server environments.

The features and benefits:
- Improves storage performance by integration with supported hardware with the latest version of VMware vSphere.
- Offloads server and network loading by reducing the redundant IO paths, overheads and server CPU cycles without impact on storage performance.
- Speeds up provisioning of new virtual machines, such as moving a VM, starting it, creating a new VM from template, taking snapshots or even stopping a VM.
- Increases VM density by the improved scalability and reliability.

“With the supports of for vSphere 5 and VAAI, P600Q now is better interoperable with new virtualization features including the native integration with supported hardware, the eliminated data flow and the less need for VMFS to use storage from the storage pool.” said Daniel Lin, Sales Director at Qsan. “This is really valuable to our customers especially when virtualization and storage integration is so critical in VM deployments. What’s more, Qsan provides the supports without any extra cost up.”

Qsan’s P600Q is a 10GbE iSCSI, 6G SAS high performance IP SAN system. The fully redundant and hot-pluggable designs make the iSCSI RAID storage a high availability system and the best solution for industries processing tremendously huge amount of random access. P600Q storage includes QiSOE (Qsan Hardware iSCSI offload engine) plus QReplica for remote replication and QThin for thin provisioning. It offers two connector options: GBIC and SFP+ cable plus RJ45 and Cat6A cable. In addition to VMware, P600Q also supports Citrix and Hyper-V.


P600Q RAID system is available now from the company’s network of reseller partners. For more details please visit: http://www.qsantechnology.com/en/raidsystem_view.php?RSTI...


About Qsan

Founded in 2004, QSAN technology Inc. is a RAID system manufacturer focusing on iSCSI IP SAN and targeting small to medium sized businesses (SMB) worldwide. Qsan products are designed and positioned to respond to leading storage technology trends such as iSCSI, SAS, and FCoE as well as customer requirements for business continuity.

Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, Qsan storage expertise specializes in flexible production capability. Focusing on delivering the best price-performance storage arrays, Qsan has a clear go-to-market strategy that revolves around distribution partners in the European tier 1 markets, the United States and the Greater China Region. Based on the vision of "making data smart," Qsan's technology is aimed at making business data smart enough to be always available under any unexpected circumstances, efficient enough not to waste any IT investment, and allowing easy retrieval during the whole ILM (information lifecycle management) process. For more information, please visit www.qsantechnology.com