LSI Collaborates with Supermicro to Enable End-to-End 6Gb/s SAS Solutions for the Channel
October 26 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Breadth of LSI and Supermicro 6Gb/s SAS portfolios allow channel
customers to deploy high-performance, highly scalable storage
solutions MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI
Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced a collaboration with Super
Micro Computer, Inc. to enable end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS solutions for
channel customers. Combining LSI(TM) 6Gb/s SAS silicon and
MegaRAID® technology with Supermicro® 6Gb/s SAS Server Building
Block Solutions® and Seagate® 6Gb/s SAS drives, these solutions
enable scalable direct-attached storage topologies that deliver
high I/O performance in large cluster and datacenter environments.
"End users are being asked to tackle growing data volumes across a
broad spectrum of applications with fewer resources," said Bill
Wuertz, senior vice president and general manager, Storage
Components Division, LSI. "To address this challenge, LSI is
utilizing the breadth of our 6Gb/s SAS product portfolio and
extensive interoperability to facilitate scalable, sharable,
high-performance end-to-end storage solutions in the channel."
System architects can now design systems using end-to-end LSI 6Gb/s
SAS technology from the server to the drive. The Supermicro SC216
and SC936 server storage chassis, each powered by an LSI 6Gb/s SAS
expander, support up to 24 2.5-inch or 16 3.5-inch 6Gb/s SAS
Seagate Savvio® drives. An optional motherboard with an integrated
LSI 6Gb/s SAS controller IC allows each chassis to operate as a
server. Server storage performance can be further enhanced by
adding either an LSI MegaRAID or Supermicro Universal I/O (UIO)
controller card, both powered by an LSI 6GB/s SAS RAID-on-Chip
(ROC). This complete SAS-based solution is designed to provide
optimum performance with minimum cost and complexity for business
applications such as data mining, Exchange, SQL Server and Web
Server. In a recent technology demonstration, the Supermicro SC216
storage chassis achieved read throughput performance exceeding 2.5
GB/s and write throughput of more than 3.0 GB/s, representing a 2X
performance improvement compared to the previous-generation
product. "Supermicro's high-performance 6Gb/s SAS storage server
building blocks, incorporating proven LSI SAS and MegaRAID
technology, enable system builders to deliver superior levels of
performance, reliability and scalability for servers, workstations
and blade solutions," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of
Supermicro. "The SC936 and SC216 storage chassis end-to-end 6Gb/s
SAS solutions are just two examples from our extensive selection of
products that support this leading-edge technology and feature
exceptional power efficiency." The end-to-end solution is built
upon LSI 6Gb/s SAS silicon and MegaRAID software. Embedded
components include LSISAS2x36 36-port expanders, LSISAS2008 8-port
6Gb/s SAS controller ICs, LSISAS2108 6Gb/s SAS Raid-On-Chip (ROC)
ICs and MegaRAID technology. About LSI LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI)
is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software
technologies that enable products, which seamlessly bring people,
information and digital content together. The company offers a
broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and
standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are
trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions
in the Storage and Networking markets. More information is
available at http://www.lsi.com/. Editor's Notes: 1. All LSI news
releases (financial, acquisitions, manufacturing, products,
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http://www.lsi.com/. 2. LSI, the LSI & Design logo and MegaRAID
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