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leading iSCSI target appliance offer
ings," said Ricardo Velez, chief techni
cal officer, Storage Computer
Corporation. "The iSCSI market is in
ramp mode and we view the Chelsio
iSCSI targetmode solution as a vital
component for delivering enterprise
level IP SAN solutions to our storage
OEM partners."
"The new Chelsio iSCSI offering
complements our strategy of offering
leading price/performance open stor
age solutions," said Barron Mertens,
CEO of DSGStorage Inc. "A very high
performance iSCSI target solution
such as Chelsio's, together with the
best hardware and support infrastruc
ture available will make for a unique
offering for our channel and customer
base."
"By offering an integrated, high
performance iSCSI target stack,
Chelsio is able take advantage of the
price/performance benefits of volume
server technology to provide OpenE
with an range of options for developing
industry leading iSCSI SAN solutions,"
said Krzysztof Franek, CEO of OpenE
GmbH.
"Chelsio was the first company to
introduce 10GbE and quadport GbE
iSCSI/TOE acceleration adapters, and
we've now
delivered full target
mode iSCSI support
across our product line
of adapters and con
trollers," said Kianoosh
Naghshineh, president and CEO of
Chelsio Communications. "Our sec
ondgeneration products deliver
recordbreaking iSCSI IOPS perform
ance and exceptional bandwidth capa
bilities due to our unique direct data
placement capability, while retaining
API compatibility with Chelsio's com
plete product family. In addition, we
have now extended our business
model to deliver our technology to
embedded applications."
"Using its integrated iSCSI target
stack and its range of adapter and
controller options, Chelsio is well
poised to address the variety of price
points and applications which span the
growing IP storage target market,"
said Tom Burniece, president of
Burniece Consulting Services, a stor
age market analysis and consulting
firm based in Los Gatos, Calif.
Chelsio iSCSI Solution Advantages
The Chelsio iSCSI stack is tightly
integrated with Chelsio T204 quad
port GbE and T210 10GbE adapters to
offer exceptional high IOPS and
throughput performance, with low CPU
utilization, for iSCSI protocol process
ing in storage target applications.
To achieve the IOPS performance,
the Chelsio T204 was deployed in a
linkaggregated configuration in an
iSCSI target mode server powered by
dual 2.4 GHz Opteron processors, the
Chelsio iSCSI target stack, and a RAM
disk. The target mode server was con
nected to 16 Windows 2003 servers
running the Microsoft iSCSI initiator
and the industrystandard Iometer tool
was used for measuring 512byte ini
tiator reads and writes. Measurements
on T204 showed a bandwidth of up to
3.9 Gbps with less than 20% CPU uti
lization, using standard 1500 byte
Ethernet frames.
Pricing and Availability
The new Chelsio iSCSI target stack
will be a standard feature of Chelsio
T204 and T210 adapters and is avail
able immediately for Linux 2.6.12 envi
ronments. Support for Red Hat 4 and
SuSE Enterprise Server 9 environ
ments is planned for Q4 2005. List
pricing for T210CX singleport 10GbE
copper adapter is $1695. The T204
quadport GbE copper adapter lists for
$1495.
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