Storage Board Solutions
Microsemi Adaptec
®
Product Guide
Smart Storage Solutions Overview
SmartRAID 3100 RAID Adapters
SmartHBA 2100 Host Bus Adapters
HBA 1100 Host Bus Adapters
Series 8 RAID Adapters
SAS Expander Card
Cables
Smart Storage Solutions Overview
Smart Storage Performance,
Power, Security, and Reliability
With the massive growth of data centers, performance, power,
and reliability are more important considerations than ever.
Performance requirements are driven by both the increased
adoption of flash-based SSDs and the increasing sizes of
HDD arrays. Data centers are looking to take advantage
of the performance that these flash-based drives promise,
and require storage solutions that can deliver manageability
and data availability without compromising performance.
Power is a significant component of a data center’s
operating expenses. Optimizing power for cold storage
tiers in the data center, for example, delivers substantial
benefits to the bottom line.
Data security has become one of the highest priorities for data
centers and cloud computing environments as enterprises
seek to safeguard customer information, classified company
documentation and communications, financial records,
employee payroll records, and other confidential data.
As more mission-critical data finds its way to data centers,
end customers insist on reduced downtime, improved
response times to issues, and a more positive end-user
experience overall.
The Microsemi Adaptec SmartRAID 3100, SmartHBA 2100,
and HBA 1100 product families are based on the company’s
latest 28nm SmartIOC 2100 and SmartROC 3100 storage
controller integrated circuits (ICs). The SmartRAID 3162-8i /e
adapter includes maxCrypto
™
, the industry’s only data-at-rest
controller-based encryption solution that, provides a superior
solution over self-encrypting drives. Microsemi's unified Smart
Storage stack powers the entire family of products, leveraging
core IP that has shipped in over 30 million servers. Microsemi's
Smart Storage stack delivers one of the industry’s most reliable
and highest-performing storage controller software platforms.
Microsemi’s new Smart Storage adapters satisfy the
most important needs of the modern data center: power,
performance, security, and reliability.
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Smart Storage Solutions Overview
Technology Leadership with Data Encryption
Data security has become one of the highest priorities for
data centers and cloud computing environments as they
seek to safeguard customer information, classified company
documentation and communications, financial records,
employee payroll records, and other confidential data.
Solutions for data-at-rest encryption are now a security
requirement in many market segments such as health care,
finance, e-commerce, federal government branches, and
insurance—representing a significant overall percentage
of the deployed storage. In fact, government legislation is
now in place mandating data security and privacy, such
as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act, Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, Sarbanes–Oxley Act, and
the European Union General Data Protection Regulation.
Data center managers face the challenge of safeguarding
data while still meeting continually-increasing performance
demands for large-scale applications such as web serving,
file serving, databases, online transaction processing
(OLTP), machine learning, and high-performance computing
(HPC). Encryption is a method of encoding information
so that it can only be read by using the proper key. The
encryption process can be software-based or hardware-based.
While the CPU is responsible for powering software-based
encryption, hardware-based encryption is performed within
a chip located on the drive itself or on the storage adapter.
Software encryption comes at the expense of valuable CPU
resources. Self-encrypting drives offer a high performance
hardware-based solution but require significant operational
overhead and do not provide the security and flexibility
of controller-based encryption.
Available on the SmartRAID 3162-8i /e version of the
Smart Storage series of storage adapters, maxCrypto
hardware encryption delivers data protection with little
to no impact on latency or I/O performance. Leveraging
the SmartROC 3100 RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controller, the
Smart Storage maxCrypto solution integrates seamlessly into
existing storage infrastructures allows data centers to deploy
a uniform, scalable encryption strategy across the enterprise.
Controller-Based Encryption
Value Proposition versus Self-Encrypting Drives (SED)
Superior Security vs. SED
Prevents data snooping between
controller and drives
Re-key support for wrapping keys
or data volume keys
Encrypted controller cache
Superior Flexibility vs. SED
Allows in-place encryption of existing
data (volume remains available)
No separate “special” (SED) drives
for end-customers to manage
64 Logical Drive support for flexible
mapping to OS Users and Applications
Controller-Based Encryption
Delivers Superior Security & Flexibility
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Smart Storage Solutions Overview
Each New Product Family Has Unique, Differentiating Features
SmartRAID 3100
The SmartRAID 3100 is optimized for enterprise storage applications
that require the highest level of data availability and data center
applications that benefit from caching.
• Adapters with up to 24 ports using
28nm SAS/SATA-optimized silicon,
offering the industry’s lowest power
• Zero maintenance cache protection
(ZMCP) with a cache size up to 4 GB
with integrated cache backup circuitry
for optimal cost, thermal performance,
and operating efficiency
• Board options without
cache backup
• Mixed mode enables
drives to be independently
configured as raw drives
or as part of a logical volume
• maxCache 4.0
included on 315x
and 316x adapters
• maxCrypto
™
controller-
based encryption on
the 3162-8i /e adapter
SmartHBA 2100
The SmartHBA 2100 is optimized for software-defined storage (SDS) applications that
require hardware RAID for OS boot drives as well as entry-level RAID for SMBs.
• The only basic hardware RAID
solution offering a fully featured, high-
performance host bus adapter (HBA)
for drives configured as raw drives,
required for multi-path IO and SDS
applications
• RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5
• Industry’s only basic
hardware RAID solution
with more than 8 ports
• Mixed mode enables drives
to be independently configured
as raw drives or as part
of a logical volume
HBA 1100
The HBA 1100 is optimized for SDS, cold storage, and raw
high-performance connectivity.
• Adapters with up to 24 ports using
28nm SAS/SATA-optimized silicon,
offering the industry’s lowest power
• Support for host-managed and host-
aware shingled magnetic recording
(SMR) drives
• Broad OS driver
support, including
inbox driver support
• Performance of up
to 1.7M IOPS
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Smart Storage Solutions Overview
SMART STORAGE PLATFORM
BRILLIANT CONNECTIVITY
HBA 1100
Unified Drivers, Firmware,
and Management Tools
SmartHBA
2100
SmartRAID
3100
Security
Power
Reliability
>30M server
deployments
Performance
> 70% boost in
IOPs unleashing
ash/SSDs
> 40% power savings,
maxCrypto
™
reducing TCO in
3rd generation
the Data Center
controller-based encryption
Hyperscale
Data Centers
Original Equipment
Manufacturers
Original Design
Manufacturers
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