Storage Devices: Overview
Storage area networks (SANs) hold the lifeline of an organization's operations. The storage area network must be able to process requests with minimum latency, minimum error, and maximum performance from hundreds of initiators simultaneously.
Testing a large scale storage area network requires a specialized tool that is capable of dynamically emulating a large number of initiators across any number of ports, eliminating the need to manually set-up and maintain dozens of 3rd party servers.
Ixia: The only unified test platform for converged data centers.Ixia's IxSAN product family, part of Ixia's unified solution for holistic testing of the converged data center, is a unique tool that offers high performance and high density real I/O performance testing. IxSAN allows the user to easily create a large number of initiators across a large number of ports, generate various I/O tests such as Read, Write and Compare, and provide instantaneous I/O performance results - including data rate and IOPs - in real-time.
Ixia's IxSAN product family emulates initiators and targets. IxSAN allows the user to generate real I/Os from emulated initiators to real targets, and allows the user to emulate raw disks that can handle real I/Os from real initiators at line rate. IxSAN runs on Ixia's industry-leading high-density hardware, allowing customers to use a single platform to quickly set up hundreds of initiators or targets across dozens of test ports. Save time and money by using IxSAN in place of dozens of powerful servers running software-based I/O generation tools. IxSAN is used to:
- Test functionality and performance of initiators, targets and switches with line rate I/Os
- Verify robustness of the initiator in handling error conditions from emulated tape/disk drives such as rejected requests and CRC errors
- Verify reliability of the targets with compare I/O tests
- Compare how different traffic patterns impact I/O performance
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Ixia's new native Fibre Channel 2/4/8G load module garnered Best of Show in the Test and Measurement category at Interop Tokyo, 2010
Global 10 Gigabit Ethernet Lab Test Equipment Product of the Year Award, Frost and Sullivan
Asia Pacific Industrial Technologies Awards: IP Communications Test & Measurement Equipment Company of the Year 2009, Frost and Sullivan
IxVM Awarded Best of Interop Finalist, 2009
Most Innovative Test & Measurement Application of the Year: Ixia for 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Development Accelerator System (DAS), NetEvents 2009
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