Enterprise-Level Features, Affordable Price, Simple
Installation and Management
The iQ2850 is a virtualized iSCSI SAN that delivers enterprise class data protection. It is designed to provide the storage foundation for today’s virtualized data center. Through its rich software features, the iQ2850 delivers integrated data protection, virtualized server integration, exceptional performance, reduced storage management time, as well as, data center scalability and availability for business applications.

iQstor iQ2850 delivering iSCSI Storage by policy

Enterprise Data Services
The iQ2850 integrates enterprise class data services and makes it affordable for organizations of all sizes. Powerful software helps organization to optimize capacity utilization, automate data protection and speed data recovery.

• Data Protection – Snapshots, Remote Replication, Volume Mirrors, Multi-path I/O, Snapshot Scheduler, Snapshot Restore, Consistent Volume Group
• Storage Virtualization – Virtual Volumes, Storage Pools, Automated Volume Expansion, Online Data Movement, Storage Tiering
• Management – SAN Manager, System Manager, Dynamic Capacity Provisioning, Wizard Based Setup, SAN Capacity Usage Reports, Performance Monitoring, Enclosure Monitoring, Roles Based Administration, Automated Drive Power Management
• Application Integration – Snapshot Application Agents for Exchange, SQL Server, Windows File Systems, Oracle, Microsoft VSS Providers

Modular Design with Enterprise Reliability
The iQ2850 virtualized storage array delivers a scalable solution for a variety of business applications. The modular expansion approach enables IT administrators to quickly and cost-effectively add only the storage they need, when they need it to prevent over-provisioning.

Designed to meet the rigors of data center operations, the iQ2850 delivers enterprise reliability and availability through fully redundant, hot swappable components such as storage controllers, power supplies, cooling modules and disk drives with hot spares. Active-active controller technology ensures continuous data availability even in the event of controller or path failures.

Tiered Storage Support
The iQ2850 helps organizations to save storage costs by natively supporting tiered-storage. Support for both high performance FC drives and cost effective SATA drives, allows applications and data to be matched to the appropriate tier of storage thus maximizing the investment on storage infrastructure.

Ease of Use
The iQ2850 virtualized storage array is designed for rapid installation, simple management and seamless capacity expansion on demand. The virtualized storage arrays are typically installed, configured and serving hosts and applications in less than one hour. A simple management GUI provides a single interface to manage the entire solution. The centralized management tool constantly performs system health checks to ensure all components are fully functional.