Part 3 of our 6 part Solid State Storage Performance Series, Accelerating Applications.

The IBM Storwize V7000 is a midrange block-storage system capable of virtualizing all attached disks and other attached storage systems and has a file option called V7000 Unified where dual servers called file modules are packaged with the block controllers.  … Continued

The NetApp EF540 Flash Array is an all solid state system using SSDs (solid state devices) with the same controllers and embedded software as the NetApp E5400.  The same features of the E5400 and the controller reliability from the stability … Continued

The NetApp EF540 Storage System is an all solid state system using SSDs (solid state devices) with the same controllers and embedded software as the NetApp E5400.  The same features of the E5400 and the controller reliability from the stability … Continued

The FAS6200 Series is the high-end storage system family offered by NetApp.  The V6200 series, which parallel the FAS6200 systems, are open storage controllers that virtualize third party arrays.  NetApp provides families or series of products targeted with different performance … Continued

The NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) series supports Fibre Channel SAN, FCoE, IP SAN (iSCSI) and network-attached storage (NAS) environments via NFS and CIFS.  NetApp refers to fabric-attached storage systems as storage connected to hosts via any network. The FAS series … Continued

The NetApp E5400 Storage System comes from the Engenio group at NetApp and consists of a dual controller system up to 384 drives with performance and features to meet the block storage requirements for open systems. The E5400 is an … Continued

The NetApp E5400 Storage System comes from the NetApp acquisition of the Engenio division of LSI.  The E5400 Storage System consists of a dual controller system up to 384 drives with performance and features to meet the block storage requirements … Continued

This matrix covers the feature functionality of multiple vendors, comparing hardware, configuration, and performance. This matrix does not include products that are retired or in maintenance-only mode. However, there is an accompanying matrix available titled “SAN Midrange Comparison Matrix: Retired … Continued

Review of NetApp’s FAS3200 and V3200 products announced November 2010