SAS

SANBlaze storage emulators for SAS provide developers and test, QA and manufacturing engineers with a scalable tool in a small form factor to test 3G and 6G SAS storage devices. The emulation of SAS disks, tapes and arrays is full supported.

Hardware:

SAS Ports or Phys: 8, 12, 16 or 40 SAS ports running at 1.5, 3 or 6 Gbps

•Auto Link Speed and Auto Topology Negotiation

Software Features Target Mode:

•Port

•Port Status

•Display, Clear, Define Interval of Port Statistics

•Port Configuration

•Set State, Topology, Speed and number of targets

•Port statistics and Real time performance

•Target

•Edit Inquiry Stream

•Tape Emulation

•LUN

•Variable Size – Up to 4 TByte

•2 Memory configuration options

•Zero, fixed or variable latency

•Error Conditions    

•Save/Restore Data files to LUN

•Seed a Binary or Data File or Pattern to a LUN

•Possible 60 LUNs per phy

•Profiles – Use predefined or build drive or tape profiles

    Error Capabilities:

•Error Injection:

•Single or Multiple Errors per command

•By Number of I/Os

•By Time

•Error Conditions on specific LBN or CDB

•Error Conditions:

•Bad CRC

•Busy

•Drop

•QueueFull

•CheckCond

•Read Over/Read Under

•WriteOver/Write Under

•ReadDelay, WriteDelay

•Out of order Data

•Data Corruption

Software Features Initiator Mode:

Command Builder - Build/send custom or predefined commands including:

•Test Unit Ready         

•ModeSense

•ModeSelect

•ReportLuns

•Inquiry and Inquiry VPD

•ReadCapacity

•Read (6,10, 12,16)

•Write (6,10, 12,16)

•WriteSame

•Standard Reserve Operations (Reserve6, Release6)

•PersistentReserve Operations

•Variable Block Size (512 or 520 Byte)

•Configurable IO Generation

•Block Size

•Threads

•Write pattern

•Sequential/Random IO

•Data Testing

•Read/Write

•Read/Write/Compare

•IOMeter Integration

•Discovery Methods

•ReportLuns

•Scan LUN0

•Scan All LUNS

•Tape Support

•Tape Initiator Scripts

•Trace Mode

•A viewable, time-stamped log of all IO’s sent or received, including errors

    Error Capabilities:

•Customizable Error Handling:

•Retry on Error

•Stop on Error

•Adjustable IO timeouts

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•Task Management Commands

•Abort Task

•Abort TaskSet

•ClearTaskSet

•ClearACA

•LunReset

•TargetReset

Overview

Emulation

Target

Initiator

Protocols

FCoE

Fibre Channel

SAS

Platforms

SANBlaze

Web Demo


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