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KernSafe KernSafe iSCSI SAN is an advanced and powerful, full-featured
software-only iSCSI Target that fully conforms to the latest iSCSI Standard 1.0
(former Draft 20). It is an IP SAN solution allowing you to quickly export
existing storages such as disk images, VHD/VHDX files, physical disks, partitions,
CD/DVD-ROMs, tapes or any other type of SCSI based devices and even a variety of
popular CD/DVD images to the client machines. The software thus delivers
immediate benefits, as it allows storage to be consolidated, virtualized and
centrally managed. KernSafe iSCSI SAN also provides RAID-1 (mirror) feature
enabling you to create two iSCSI devices for mirror backup. Furthermore,
KernSafe iSCSI SAN also supports a lot of features such as: VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)
target, snapshots, STPI, RAID-1 and failover, these features are very important
and poplar in storage industry world and make KernSafe iSCSI SAN is suitable for
any size of business.
KernSafe iSCSI SAN is a hardware-independent, and do not require an additional
hardware. Quickly create an IP SAN in minutes using hardware you already have.
KernSafe iSCSI SAN takes space on a windows file system and turns it into an iSCSI
target. You can now let any computer on an Ethernet network use this iSCSI
storage. It is cost-effective and scalable.
After KernSafe iSCSI SAN 5.0, KernSafe iSCSI SAN supports
IPv6, Server Pool, and VHDX feature:
- Can use IP address V6 as iSCSI data traffic, and also
allow to use IPv6 as IP address authorization
- Server Pool allows the iSCSI SAN software to listen on
multiple IP addresses and ports at the same time
- VHDX supports large capacity (without 2040GB
limitation) disk image in thin provisioning.
After KernSafe iSCSI SAN V6.0, KernSafe iSCSI SAN brings Storage Pool feature, which is:
100% SDS can manage all disks and make them as pooled with the ability to create arbitrary, dynamic block volumes that can be utilized by any clients.
These volumes are allowed to create unlimited and zero-copy snapshots. Storage Pool provides ways for building data in redundancy and scale-up, performance scaled by adding more devices.
User can use All-Flash or Hybrid (SSD + HDD) disk arrays.
Support three types of Volumes: RAW, Thin provisioning and Log Structured.
KernSafe iSCSI SAN also provides an ideal choice for enterprise storage virtualization. It is fully compatible with any iSCSI initiators, including Microsoft iSCSI initiator 2.x, For more information, please visit
http://www.kernsafe.com.
Key Features
- Provides 100% SDS Storage Pool management for multiple disks and create dynamic block volumes, supports unlimited zero-copy snapshots.
- Provides extremely fast ISCSI RAM disk drives for temporary data storing on
network.
- Provides security disks for each client, Option, each client use own
disk which use his/her CHAP password encrypted.
- Provides a built-in iSCSI CD/DVD-ROM emulator which exports existing
DVD-ROM ISO images to mounted iSCSI DVD-ROM drives on the clients. This
prevents the original DVD-ROM media from possible physical damage or loss,
so it also allows client machines without optical drives and allows storing
DVD backup data on a single server.
- Provides a built-in iSCSI virtual disk emulator. It exports existing
disk images to mounted iSCSI disk drives on the clients. All the clients
share the same contents.
- Provides a virtual CD/DVD-RW which allows create an iSCSI target
using virtual burner and burn into ISO file.
- Provides auto-mount feature for CD/DVD-RW emulator that automatically
mounts new blank disk after previous burning process will finish.
- Provides a network-bridged method. It exports an existing partition,
disk, CD/DVD-ROM to clients as a virtual iSCSI drive.
- Provides a RAID-1 (Mirror) feature, it allows you to create two image files
for mirror backup, image file can be local file or remote iSCSI device.
- Provides a failover feature, it allows you to create a High-Availability iSCSI SAN by using two or more iSCSI targets.
- Provides Multiple LUNs, it allows you to create one target with multiple
devices.
- Provides RAID5, it allows you to create software-based RAID5 with general targets.
- Provides Datacenter which allows to create one target with multiple
devices on separated servers.
- Provides Generic SCSI device, it allows you map generic SCSI devices to
your initiator, such as USB Storage, Tape and Optical Scanner.
- Provides read and write caching, which use memory on server as cache to
improve data transfers speed and response time.
- Provides server side volatile or persistent COW protection feature, it
will create a unique snapshot for each initiator.
- Supports IPv6 network for iSCSI traffic and management.
- Provides server pools management to allow iSCSI
service to listen on multiple IPs and ports.
- Provides CHAP user authentication mechanism.
- Provides client's IPv4 and IPv6 address authentication mechanism with additional
security.
- Active Directory-integrated local and remote management console.
- Provides iSCSI Target portal address management, which allows you to
make KernSafe iSCSI SAN to be able to work behind the firewall.
- Provides simple and banausic user management tool, to manage CHAP users.
- No restrictions on disk capacity, total number of hard disk installed,
number of CPUs or CPU cores, and Ethernet ports or the amount of RAM.
- Supports CDP/Snapshots, is compatible with Microsoft VSS (Volume
Shadow Copy Services) snapshot, volume cloning and incremental backups with
unlimited number of rollback points.
- Supports Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (.VHD), that
allows you can create a iSCSI target by using a VHD file.
- Supports Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (.VHDX), that
allows you can create a iSCSI target by using a VHDX file.
- Supports snapshot support for VHD and Standard Disk
Image based disk device, that provides instant and point in any time
snapshot feature.
- Supports multiple connections per iSCSI session, which allows you to
create Round Robin, Weighted Paths and so on.
- Supports x86 and x64 machines.
- Supports 64-bit LBA, providing more than 2TB of disk space.
- Supports sparse image file on NTFS file system. It allows the size of
disk image file only depend on its content used.
- Supports native NTFS encryption feature.
- Supports native NTFS compression feature.
- Supports any features on file system, such as in NTFS, an image file can
be encrypted, compressed, or shared with other computers.
- Supports a variety of popular CD/DVD image formats, such as: .iso, .bin,
.mdf, .cdi, .b5i, .nrg, .ccd, .sub, .img, .raw.
- Supports a variety of partition table format, such as the MBR, GPT.
- Provides "Hold and Update" mechanism that allow you can update data file
from initiators to targets.
- Fully Supports SCSI-2 Reserve/Release.
- Fully Supports SCSI-3 Persistent Reserve.
- Fully Supports Citrix XenServer.
- Fully Supports open-iSCSI on Linux.
- Fully conforms to the latest iSCSI Standard 1.0 (former Draft 20).
Typical applications:
- Files, disks and CD-ROMs (images) centrally management and sharing
to other Windows, Linux, Solaris, Netware and MAC OS computers.
- iSCSI SAN for VMware ESX Server.
- iSCSI SAN for Citrix XenServer.
- iSCSI SAN for Microsoft Hyper-v.
- iSCSI SAN for Windows 2003, Windows 2008
Clustering and more.
Requirements:
- Server Side:
Microsoft Windows 2000 or above, both 32 BIT and 64
BIT (x32, AMD64, EM64T
and Itanium)
750 MHz Intel Pentium III class processor
256 MB of RAM
30 MB of disk space for application data
Ethernet connection
- Client Side:
Software requires:
Microsoft Windows 2000 or above, 32bit and 64bit (AMD64, EM64T and IA64),
Microsoft iSCSI initiator
Linux with kernel >= 2.6.16, open-iscsi
Citrix XenServer
VMware ESX Server/ESXi Server
Microsoft Hyper-v & Hyper-v R2
Microsoft Server 2003 & 2008 clustering
Novell NetWare 6.5 or above
SUN Solaris 10, Open-iSCSI Initiator
Hardware requires:
750 MHz Intel Pentium III class processor
256 MB of RAM
30 MB of disk space for application data
Ethernet connection
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