Ethernet SAN Overview

Coraid is redefining the fundamental economics of storage with Ethernet SAN solutions that provide enterprises of all sizes with flexible, scale-out, high-performance storage.   Using innovative software with commodity, industry standard hardware and Ethernet, Coraid EtherDrive storage arrays enable a scale-out Ethernet SAN architecture that is ideally suited to dynamic high performance computing, video, virtualization and cloud environments.

Ethernet SAN Benefits:

• 5-8x Price Performance advantage
• Flexible, scale out architecture
• Operational Simplicity

Meet Application SLAs Cost Effectively with a 5-8x Price-Performance Advantage

Legacy Fibre Channel SAN evolved in the mainframe era with expensive, proprietary hardware and tightly coupled systems. With the explosion in x86 processor performance and with Ethernet speeds rapidly outpacing Fibre Channel, the market is ready for disruption. However, FCoE and iSCSI carry over the same legacy architectures leading to unnecessary complexity and unacceptable performance.

Coraid Ethernet SAN leverages raw Ethernet with ATA over Ethernet (AoE) and the CorOS distributed storage operating system to deliver better than Fibre Channel performance at up to 1800 MB/S of throughput using low cost, industry standard hardware.

Ethernet SAN scales to multi-petabytes with a flat topology and connectionless, parallel design.

Grow Storage Dynamically with a Flexible, Scale Out Architecture

EtherDrive's connectionless, parallel design ensures performance scales linearly as additional SAN Storage is added to the network without the bottlenecks of legacy controller-based architectures. Each EtherDrive array has its own processor and can be addressed by any host on the network, enabling a building block approach to storage scalability. Adding new capacity is as easy as plugging another array into the network, scaling up to 65,536 shelves per network. Each building block is fully customizable with any mix of SSD, SATA, or SAS drives and multiple RAID configurations.

Reduce Operating Expenses with Operational Simplicity

EtherDrive's flat Ethernet topology makes deployment and configuration simple. New storage can be configured and addressed by a host in under 60 seconds. The scale out design also enables an innovative Zero-Hour Support model, enabling the simple swap of drives between chassis to immediately recover from a failure.

Get a self-service quote

Learn More:

The Coraid EtherDrive Ethernet SAN solutions are scale out distributed architectures. Learn more about the technology here.