Alacritech SES1800 Series

iSCSI Scalable Network Accelerators for Volume Servers

An iSCSI storage network offers that best combination of price and performance for connecting servers to storage. An iSCSI SAN can provide servers with the scalability, reliability, and performance that businesses require. The problem is that servers are often already overburdened with network traffic and adding an IP SAN only increases the workload.

An Alacritech® iSCSI Scalable Network Accelerator™ will offload network processing from the host CPU and move it to an advanced TCP Offload Engine (TOE). By moving the processing off of the host system, the server will then be able to handle more network requests, move more data, support more users, and provide greater overall ROI to the datacenter.

Product Highlights:

• Designed for the volume server market
• Allows Microsoft® 2003 Standard servers to connect to iSCSI storage
• MPIO Support
• 802.3ad port aggregation and failover
• Single and dual port models
• Extends life of the server
• Models for both the PCI-X and PCIe bus
• Compatible with Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition and Vista™*

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Alacritech SES2000 Series

PCI-X iSCSI Scalable Network Accelerators for Mid-Enterprise Class Servers

Midrange Enterprise servers are challenged with supporting an ever-increasing number of clients, moving greater amounts of data, and running more demanding applications. As demands on the servers increase, the burden of network processing becomes apparent. The server will be unable to scale to support additional users with the same level of service. As the server becomes impacted the standard solution is to install additional servers to handle the load, but this can be very costly. The cost of additional servers is not limited to the server hardware alone as software licenses, server management, and even power costs add up.

Alacritech® Scalable Network Accelerators™ extend the life of servers by allowing them to scale to support more clients, move more data, and run applications faster. They do this by moving the processing of network traffic off of the host system and placing it onto custom hardware specifically designed for the job. This frees the CPU to do the work that it was intended to do. The result is better overall server performance, a longer life for the server, and reduced overall costs to the data center.

Product Highlights:

• Ideal for high-performance servers
• Connect to IP network storage without impacting server performance
• MPIO Support
• 802.3ad port aggregation and failover
• Reduces TCO to data center
• Works with all versions of Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003
• Single and dual port model available

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Alacritech SES2100 Series

PCIe iSCSI Scalable Network Accelerators for Mid-Enterprise Class Servers

High end servers require the performance and benefits that network storage offers. With support for high availability and performance features such as MPIO, iSCSI SANs can offer 2Gb/s performance that today’s applications demand.

Only Alacritech® Scalable Network Accelerators™ can offer the performance, redundancy, and scalability that Mid-Enterprise servers require. By offloading costly TCP processing to custom hardware, Alacritech Enterprise class Accelerators allow servers to take advantage of the power of IP storage without sacrificing performance.

Product Highlights:

• Designed for mid-enterprise class servers
• Multiport PCIe cards for high performance and redundancy
• MPIO Support
• 802.3ad port aggregation and failover
• iSCSI SAN boot support
• Dual and quad port models
• Compatible with Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise and Data Center editions

SES2100 SERIES (PDF)