Features of a LeftHand SAN

We deliver iSCSI SANs on industry standard platforms, and focus our expertise on creating best-in-class features that keep your storage network at peak performance. SAN/iQ® storage software is the cornerstone for clustering and managing LeftHand SANs. The patented architecture distributes intelligence across the storage nodes, then stripes data over the entire cluster, eliminating any single point of failure.

LeftHand SANs include all of the SAN/iQ features below, plus more than 20 additional features, making it the software platform of choice for your storage network.

Storage Clustering
LeftHand SANs are composed of multiple storage nodes, clustered together. Each storage node contains its own controller, so adding more nodes increases performance and redundancy along with storage capacity, eliminating performance bottlenecks associated with legacy SAN technologies.
Network RAID
Continuous data availability in the event of a network, disk, controller, or storage node failure.
Thin Provisioning
A powerful form of storage virtualization that lets you create large virtual storage volumes that only consume the capacity used by actual data, leaving no stranded storage capacity.
Snapshots
Instant point-in-time copies of your data on a volume-by-volume basis.
Remote Copy
Only the changes over time are synced to the remote volume, greatly speeding up data transfer over your network or WAN.