FibreMaster™ F16fz-HA Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel RAID series are intelligent and innovative storage subsystems for mission critical and high bandwidth applications. Purpose-built for high volume, fail-safe data storage applications, the FibreMaster F16fz-HA RAID combines unprecedented dependability with extreme scalability and superior performance.

FibreMaster F16fz-HA RAID subsystems are equipped with dual redundant 4Gb Fibre Channel RAID controllers with transparent failover and failback functionality to ensure unprecedented data security as well as an embedded hub. Up to thirteen FibreMaster 16204 SBODs can be cascaded with the FibreMaster F16fz-HA RAID to scale the capacity up to 87 TeraBytes.

The FibreMaster F16fz-HA RAID features six 4Gb Fibre Channels routed to twelve 4Gb SFP ports (six on each controller). Four of the SFP ports are dedicated for host connections, and four of the SFP ports are dedicated for disk expansion. The remaining four SFP ports are adjustable for either host connections (allowing for up to eight host ports) or disk connections (allowing for up to eight disk expansion ports).

The FibreMaster F16fz-HA RAID is designed for operation with no single point of failure. Its modular and dual-redundant design minimizes the time for maintenance and service. Designed for applications in storage area networks, the FibreMaster F16fz-HA RAID comes with full redundancy of its active components. All back-end PCBs are passive. Critical components are duplicated and hot-swappable, including disk drives, trays, power supply modules, and fans.

The FibreMaster F16fz-HA features a Lithium-Ion RAID Cache battery backup module on each RAID controller. This optional battery backup module can sustain 1GB of cached data for up to 72 hours. With two redundant dual-speed dual-fan cooling modules and two redundant 530 Watt power supply units, the FibreMaster F16fz-HA RAID operates with unsurpassed reliability in today's most extreme storage environments.

The FibreMaster F16fz-HA RAID is specialized for flexible resource utilization to manage various-size IOs, random or sequential access that requires high-speed throughput.

Numerous firmware options have been designed to achieve the highest level of data availability and performance. In addition to the full-featured RAID and recovery functionality, firmware is able to manage possible causes of data loss, even errors not directly related to RAID.

Automatic disk scanning can be carried out on a preset schedule to prevent parity damage due to the occurrence of block errors across multiple drives. Even if this happens, firmware is able to salvage most data by skipping those unrepairable data blocks.

Array capacity can be expanded online by adding drives or replacing the original drives with drives of larger capacity. Available features include: dedicated and global hot spare drives, hot-swap drives, duplex support, remote and real-time monitoring, and SMART related functions.

The Java-based GUI manager provides easy-to-use interfaces, is rich in configuration options, and allows users to remotely manage their storage system over a network. Event monitor and notification processing center submodules provide system managers the freedom of real-time monitoring with a variety of notification methods.