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Whiptail's entry level system - the 2U
Accela
- has 1.5TB to 12TB capacity and 250K / 200K R/W IOPS with 4KB blocks. Two
Accela units can be configured with asynchronous replication.
The
high end
Invicta
(which uses the same internal technology and can interoperate with Accela
units) scales upto 72TB of usable SSD storage (88TB raw) in a 6 node 14U
rack configuration capable of delivering enough performance (650K IOPS,
7GB/s bandwidth, 200 microseconds latency) to support over 10,000 virtual
desktops - which according to one Whiptail customer - gave them better user
performance on virtual desktops than real ones.
One of the key
features of Whiptail's SSD systems is the ease of integrating them into
traditional storage setups and managing resources. High availability features
include LUN mirroring, LUN striping, async replication, internal RAID, hot
spares and multiple data paths for the critical blades in the system.
However much you can read and satisfy your questions and value comparisons
in abstract conceptual form on the web, and at trades shows and by talking to
other people you trust (a time consuming and complex decision making process
which can't be safely rushed) at the end of all that shortlisting and scoring
and filtering there's no substitute for trying out an enterprise SSD system
to see how well it works in your own environment and how easy it is to
manage.
When you think you're ready you'll be reassured to know
that Whiptail can supply free evaluation systems for upto 15 days to users
(subject to discretion and availability) to help you all the more sooner to
experience the benefits of what they call - "data at the speed of life".
Introducing
Whiptail's Accela and Invicta silicon storage arrays (video) |
