Fibre Channel and SAS Storage Emulation

Introducing the industry’s most advanced storage emulation solutions for Fibre Channel and SAS

SANBlaze manufactures target and initiator emulators for Fibre Channel, SAS and other storage protocols. Our highly configurable systems are unique in their ability to emulate actual storage devices. Our target emulators allow you to create read/write drives and tapes, control latency and configure error conditions. Our initiator emulators behave as a real initiator, not just a traffic generator or protocol tester, providing real login and command control.

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SANBlaze emulation technology is ideal for:
* Storage developers conducting first pass testing during a development cycle as a proof of concept
* Test engineers who test products for bugs and interoperability, measure performance and conduct compliance tests
* QA engineers when conducting final tests to ensure the quality of a production shipment
* Marketing engineers who perform performance and product comparison testing

SANBlaze target and initiator emulation systems provide a flexible and powerful feature set:

Flexible User Interface
Powerful web-based GUI allows you to quickly create, save and restore configurations. Efficiently build a large number of formatted drives, create a predictable bad drive or generate custom commands to simulate initiator test cases. All functionality found in the GUI is also available from a CLI interface and can be automated using scripting.

Configurability
Each port on the system can be configured in target or initiator mode. Specific characteristics can be set to customize your disk drive, tape drive, array or PC test environment. Place a device under test (DUT) between an initiator port and a target port. Generate traffic and inject errors on either side of the DUT.

Vendor Specific Devices
With our profiling functionality you can configure an emulated device to look and behave like a specific vendor disk drive, tape drive or array. Numerous parameters can be changed, such as, vendor ID and world wide node name. Define mode, diagnostic and custom inquiry pages to create vendor specific test environments.

Performance
SANBlaze systems can act as a wire speed device. BlazterMode™ allows read/write tests to run at full 4G line rates across all ports. Run tests that eliminate the latency associated with real drives or add latency in millisecond increments in a predictable manner. Track round trip performance statistics between initiator and target.

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Training Courses

Gillaspy currently offers the following training courses:

SAS

ML270 - Serial Attached SCSI Architecture & Instrumentation

Fibre Channel

ML250 - Fibre Channel Systems Architecture & Instrumentation

ML350 - In-depth Fibre Channel Analysis

iSCSI

ML280 - iSCSI Architecture and Instrumentation

FCIP

ML240 - Introduction to Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP)

MCE: Medusa Certified Engineer

MC100 - Xgig Analyzer

MC125 - NetWisdom SAN Performance Monitoring System

SATA

Serial ATA Architecture

IO Bus

PCI™ Architecture
PCI™ Overview
PCI-X™ Architecture
PCI-X™ Overview
PCI Express ™ Architecture
PCI-Express™ Overview
Intel Pentium 4/m/Xeon
USB Architecture (Core Topics)
USB Architecture (LS/FS Only)
USB Architecture (HS Only)

Contact Gillaspy Assocates at 805-987-1959 to schedule an on-site class.