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A Closer Look at the RamSan-710

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Table of Contents<br />

Introduction .................................................................................................................. 4<br />

A <strong>Closer</strong> <strong>Look</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>RamSan</strong>-<strong>710</strong> ................................................................................ 6<br />

Performance ................................................................................................................. 8<br />

Bandwidth ................................................................................................. 9<br />

I/Os per Second (IOPS) .............................................................................. 9<br />

L<strong>at</strong>ency and I/O ....................................................................................... 10<br />

Connectivity ................................................................................................................ 11<br />

SAN Connectivity .................................................................................... 11<br />

Fibre Channel .......................................................................................... 12<br />

InfiniBand ................................................................................................ 13<br />

Reliability .................................................................................................................... 14<br />

Three Layers of Flash Memory Protection.............................................. 14<br />

Layer 1: ECC for Flash Memory .................................................. 14<br />

Layer 2: Variable Stripe RAID for Flash Memory ....................... 14<br />

Layer 3: Active Spare (system-level) Optional ........................... 14<br />

Flash Wear Leveling ................................................................................ 15<br />

Ultra-Capacitors ...................................................................................... 15<br />

Fault Isol<strong>at</strong>ion ......................................................................................... 16<br />

Capacity ...................................................................................................................... 17<br />

Availability .................................................................................................................. 18<br />

Scalability .................................................................................................................... 19<br />

Manageability ............................................................................................................. 20<br />

For More Inform<strong>at</strong>ion ................................................................................................ 22

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