Put SAS storage on a Fibre Channel network

ATTO XstreamCORE for Fibre Channel intelligently bridges SAS block devices such as JBODs or tape libraries to FIbre Channel storage networks. Its powerful hardware architecture allows XstreamCORE 7600 to convert protocols with minimal latency – less than 4 microseconds.

Advanced algorithms accelerate the data path and handle non-data functions independently to provide consistently fast performance (>1.2M 4K IOPS).

XstreamCORE 7600 is an aggregation point for almost 1,000¹ drives per bridge and scales with predictable performance. It provides disaggregation so that compute and storage can scale independently.

1. Supports up to 240 drives, extendable to 960 for qualified customers.

Ready to solve any storage infrastructure challenge

XstreamCORE 7600 features two processors that separately handle data and commands. This design prioritizes data transfers while maintaining data integrity, control, and management of resources. Highly efficient I/O acceleration algorithms maximize large block transfers over Fibre Channel while advanced analytics, diagnostics and error reporting, system optimization, and configuration at the most granular levels ensure smooth functioning and management of the storage ecosystem.

What can XstreamCORE 7600 do?

• Off-load up to 5.2GB/s of data from CPU and network infrastructures. This can integrate with tiering software so the intelligent bridge handles the movement of data from tier to tier.
• Enable long distance connectivity for business continuity solutions such as a stretch cluster, campus cluster or metropolitan cluster. Write data synchronously or asynchronously at multiple sites to avoid downtime, disaster or being out of touch with your data.
• Convert direct attached storage to shared storage while maintaining data without data migration. This can turn existing direct attached RAID Arrays into shared storage to improve completion time of live migrations such as VMware vMotion from hours down to minutes.
• Share SSDs as cache or share a pool of SSDs across multiple servers via Fibre Channel without requiring multiple shelves of SSD per server. Enhance performance in applications dependent on storage access, like artificial intelligence and cloud hosting.
• Repurpose existing storage and keep using it on a SAN when they replace existing storage.
• Enable XCOPY data movement between RAID Arrays from any manufacturer.

XCFC-7600

With this 32Gb Fibre Channel to 12Gb SAS intelligent Bridge, users can connect virtually any device from JBODs, JBOFs, and RAID arrays to Tape and Optical storage and remotely share them via Fibre Channel.

ATTO XstreamCORE  intelligent bridges can be tuned for various applications that require common features and services for storage. Contact us to discuss development or co-development of services and features to tightly integrate with your solution. Embedded form factor is also available².

2. Qualified customers only.