LeftHand Networks' next generation SANs provide superior data availability, scalable performance, and a best-in-class storage management feature set at an affordable price point because, unlike legacy storage systems, our iSCSI SANs are built upon a distributed clustered architecture.
The essential building block of a LeftHand SAN is the storage node: a compact, high availability server that contains its own processing power, RAM, cache, disk drives, and bandwidth. LeftHand SAN/iQ® software clusters storage nodes together, aggregating all of these resources into a single, larger storage system. Each SAN/iQ cluster responds to a single IP address, and every storage node in that cluster participates equally in sharing both the workload and the capacity of the whole cluster.