iStorage Server Ultimate

iStorage Server is an IP SAN solution that allows you quickly export existing storages such as disk images, 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 its client machines, which delivers immediate benefits allowing storage to be consolidated, virtualized and centrally managed. iStorage Server also provides RAID-1 (mirror) feature, which allows you create two devices for mirror backup, the mirror devices can be local image files or remote iSCSI devices. iStorage Server has been added support for Microsoft Virtual Disk File (VHD) and VHD snapshots at the recent release.

Compares between KernSafe iSCSI SAN and XTremeSAN

Server Side:

· Microsoft Windows 2000 or above, 32bit and x64bit (AMD64, EM64T and IA64)
· 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
· SUN Solaris 10, Open-iSCSI Initiator
· Novell NetWare 6.5 or above

Hardware requires:
· 750 MHz Intel Pentium III class processor
· 256 MB of RAM
· 30 MB of disk space for application data
· Ethernet connection