FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UNH-IOL Announces Two New Fibre Channel Test Suites
As SANBlaze Device Boosts Port-Testing Count From 25 to 250
MAYNARD, MASS. and DURHAM, N.H., Nov. 14, 2006 – The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is offering scalability testing for Fibre Channel devices in two new test suites built upon the capabilities of a stress-testing device from SANBlaze Technology Inc.
SANBlaze, a pioneer in storage emulation solutions, has provided the UNH-IOL third-party test lab with its VirtuaLUN Fibre Channel Target Emulation System. The SANBlaze Fibre Channel test device is a RAM-based target emulator that allows test engineers to quickly and efficiently create and destroy up to 125 targets through each of its two ports. This capability boosts the test lab’s scalability testing on Fibre Channel devices from 25 to 250 ports.
The UNH-IOL’s newest Fibre Channel test suite is “Multi-Target Loop Interoperability,” and is publicly available online
It puts Initiators (HBAs) through their paces and verifies that they can properly operate on a loop with 125 targets while withstanding various disruptions to the loop. A second test suite, Multi-Target Fabric Interoperability, will test the ability of initiators and fabric switches to operate properly with a large number of targets during various disruptions.
The UNH-IOL has tested Fibre Channel devices since 1991 and contributed to the development of the SANMark test suites, objective indicators of how Fibre Channel products perform against reasonable quality and interoperability standards. The laboratory is developing an extensive Fibre Channel test bed comprising legacy and current Host Bus Adapters, enclosures, drives, tapes and switches supported by leading-edge test gear.
Membership in the UNH-IOL’s Fibre Channel Consortium is open to the industry and entitles companies to as much product testing over the course of a year as fair scheduling allows. "We are excited to be working with SANBlaze to further increase the benefits that we offer our membership,” said Mikkel Hagen, UNH-IOL Fibre Channel senior research and development engineer. “We expect this tool to generate a great deal of testing and to provide a wealth of invaluable information for our member companies."
About SANBlaze
SANBlaze Technology, Inc. is a pioneer in SAN emulation technologies and a leading provider of storage solutions for embedded systems. SANBlaze emulation systems are deployed in the test and development labs of most major storage hardware and software vendors. In addition to emulation products, SANBlaze designs and manufactures a complete line of AMC, PMC, ATCA and cPCI board level storage solutions for embedded computing systems. For more information, please contact SANBlaze at (978) 897-1888.
About UNH InterOperability Lab
Established in 1988, the UNH-IOL provides vendor-neutral third-party interoperability and conformance testing for data communications companies. For more information, visit www.iol.unh.edu.
