Embedded Computing Solutions
The Elma Electronic Systems group includes Embedded Computing Products and Services,
formerly known as ACT/Technico. For all product groups, visit elma.com
Tel.: 215-956-1200 :: Toll free: 800-445-6194 ::
The Elma Electronic Systems group includes Embedded Computing Products and Services,
formerly known as ACT/Technico. For all product groups, visit elma.com
Tel.: 215-956-1200 :: Toll free: 800-445-6194 ::
Product News
New Board-Level Attached Storage Blade from ACT/Technico Saves Space and Helps Reduce Single Points of Failure
Warminster, PA, November 2005 - ACT/Technico (www.acttechnico.com), a leading supplier of integrated real-time and embedded systems built with CompactPCI, VMEbus, and other open architecture platforms, now offers a removable network attached storage (NAS) module at the board level.
The hot-swappable 6U, single-slot RAIDStor with removable storage is ideal for a variety of embedded applications requiring highly available and redundant blade level storage, including embedded file servers, boot servers, Voice over IP, as well as NAS embedded storage using a network file system (NFS). In a system using multiple single board computers (SBCs), each with its own drive, the boot device would be a single point of failure.
The new NAS RAIDStor can be used with either PICMG 2.16 or VITA 31.1 compatible systems, since these standards use dual star network topology, a fabric-based network system architecture providing highly available (HA) systems, enabling designers to take advantage of system scalability as well as availability or redundancy.
The new blade, which represents the smallest RAID footprint in the embedded industry, is managed as an appliance via a Web browser interface or via SNMP interface. RAIDStor provides two packet switched backplane-compatible (PSB) Ethernet connections to implement links to two different networks. When used in a PSB-compatible backplane, an Ethernet connection is made to two fabric switches, allowing redundant links to other node boards within the chassis.
This NAS solution serves as a building block for highly available (HA) systems and is intended to eliminate difficult file management coherence and synchronization issues required when implementing HA systems.
Other advanced features of the RAIDStor include automatic network synchronization of data written to an active RAIDStor operating in a mirrored NAS configuration, as well as support of redundant NAS controllers, allowing data to be mirrored between RAIDStors over the network. The NAS architecture supports automatic failover and recovery of an individual drive, a NAS controller, a fabric switch, or an Ethernet port on the client requesting a transaction.