LSI Introduces the Syncro™ MX-B Rack Boot Appliance to
Revolutionize Large and Mega-Datacenters
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ACCELERATING
INNOVATION SUMMIT -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today
introduced the Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance. The Syncro MX-B
Rack Boot Appliance is the first system of its kind to serve as a
standalone, pre-configured, 1U form factor rack boot device for as
many as 48 servers. By eliminating boot drives and associated
failures, the appliance can significantly increase reliability
while reducing overall system and maintenance costs for the largest
cloud and mega-datacenter environments.
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The high failure rate of traditional boot drives used in today's
datacenters, along with the maintenance required to repair and
replace them, are expensive problems. The LSI® Syncro
MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is a solution that can increase
reliability by up to 100x by replacing the individual server boot
drives in datacenters. The Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is
transparent to the host system and provides a unique boot image for
each attached server, making system management simple while
increasing reliability and power savings up to 60 percent.
"The LSI Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is an innovative and
easy-to-deploy solution that dramatically reduces a common failure
point in rack-based servers," said Mike
Yang, general manager and vice president of Quanta QCT. "By
providing increased reliability, accessibility and serviceability
(RAS), as well as a power-saving alternative to traditional SATA
boot drives, the Syncro MX-B will deliver high value and peace of
mind for datacenter customers."
Available in 24-port and 48-port configurations, the Syncro MX
Rack Boot Appliance offers easy scaling and configuration
flexibility. The new appliance delivers boot images on RAID volumes
with hot-swappable internal hard drives. Additional RAS is achieved
through the use of both redundant fans and power supplies. This can
result in dramatically lower server failure rates and a reduced
total cost of ownership.
"This exciting first product in our Syncro family was created to
address customer needs for delivering higher reliability as well as
lowering power consumption, issues that have grown more acute in
massive cloud and mega-datacenters," said Bill Wuertz, senior vice president and general
manager, RAID Storage Division, LSI. "With our full line of
acceleration and performance solutions and by resolving these
critical datacenter issues, we are enabling our customers to scale
and build a better cloud."
The Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is based on the new LSI
Syncro architecture that serves as the foundation for new products
that solve challenges in many applications and verticals. Syncro is
a shared-DAS architecture that delivers multi-server solutions. The
LSI Syncro MX-B Rack Boot Appliance is available and currently
shipping to manufacturers.
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