Coraid debuts AoE solutions at LinuxWorld

During this week's LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Coraid debuted several new AoE (ATA over Ethernet) solutions. The first two are additions to the EtherDrive Storage product line. These new 16 or 24 SATA disk (models SR1661 and SR2461 respectively) RAID appliances are now equipped with 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and achieve more than 500 MByte/sec sustained throughput. The appliances come in a 3U rack mount chassis with slots for 16 hot swap SATA disks up to 1TB each. They also include a 10 Gigabit CX4 copper Ethernet interface plus dual GigE ports. Disks can be assembled into one or more volumes using RAID 0, 1, 5 or 10. The SR1661 is available now and is priced at $9,000. The SR2461 will start shipping in late September and is priced at $11,000.

The company also announced what it says is the first AoE Logical Volume Manager, the EtherDriveVS21 VirtualStorage Appliance. Logical Volume Management is storage virtualization that is filesystem independent and improves storage utilization by making a virtual pool of physical storage easy to allocate for any application across multiple OS platforms. The device can perform fast on-the-fly block address translation with redirection to create up to 255 logical volumes of arbitrary size. The EtherDrive VS21 VirtualStorage Appliance is available now, at $3,000. The 2U rack mounted appliance can be configured as a redundant pair for fault tolerance.

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