Date: 27/10/2009

LSI and Supermicro collaborates to offer end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS solutions

LSI has collaborated with Super Micro to enable end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS solutions for channel customers by combining LSI 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."

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 SAS-based solution provides optimum performance for business applications such as data mining, Exchange, SQL Server and Web Server.

"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."