Nexenta Storage (72 TB Storage)
A shift is underway in the enterprise data storage market. Systems consisting of proprietary hardware and software are moving to Open Storage software running on industry standard hardware. The foundation of enterprise class Open Storage approaches, including NexentaStor, is the ZFS file system that has been deployed by well over 1,000,000 open source and commercial users.
NexentaStor adds to the Open Source ZFS foundation a breadth of data management features, including unlimited snapshots, block level mirroring, integrated search, and industry leading software for the management of storage for virtualized environments. With NexentaStor, customers can both save 70-80% over proprietary solutions and enjoy superior functionality and flexibility as well as the support of an open source community that collectively possesses far greater resources than
any single vendor.
Unique features include:
ZFS Open Storage Platform
Open software and hardware platform that delivers a unified storage solution to satisfy NFS, CIFS, iSCSI & Fiber Channel network needs.
Deduplication & Compression
In-line data deduplication and native compression greatly reduces the use of primary storage to conserve valuable storage space.
High-Availability
Finally, a business continuity solution doesn’t consume your entire IT budget. Now, organizations of all sizes can afford an HA cluster solution at a lower price-point than legacy solutions.
Storage Virtualization
Support for all major virtualized infrastructures – including Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere & Citrix Xen.
Unlimited Snapshots
Create an unlimited number of customized, automated or periodic snapshots to ensure granular recovery of your business-critical data.
Features of Nexenta Storage Systems:
File System
128-bit ZFS File System – The most scalable & flexible as a 128-bit file system yet – compared with 32- or 64-bit file systems!
NexentaStor OS – Built on the open source NexentaCore platform, NexentaStor OS provides a solid foundation based on the OpenSolaris kernel
Unlimited File Size – While most legacy solutions limit the file sizes, there are no such limitations with ZFS
Unlimited Storage Capacity – Eliminates storage limitations through disk and system expansion
Unified Network Protocol – Support for NAS (NFS, CIFS), SAN (block-level iSCSI & Fiber Channel), HTTP and FTP volumes, means flexible file-sharing over any network protocol!
Find & Correct Silent Data Corruption – Self-healing check-sums and transactional copy-on-write I/O operations eliminate silent data corruption and ‘write-holes’
Data Management
Data Deduplication & Native Compression – In-line data deduplication and compression greatly reduces the use of the StorageDirector’s primary storage on the server.
Block-Level Mirroring – Set-up remote backups & disaster recovery
Hybrid Storage Pools – Exploit I/O cache to accelerate read & write performance
I/O Pooling – The more disks or systems you add, the faster the performance of your StorageDirector Z!
Unlimited Snapshots & Clones – Most legacy solutions are limited to 255 snapshots. NexentaStor allows anynumber of customized, automated and periodic snapshots to ensure granular recovery in a timely manner
Integrated Snapshot Search – Perform indexing & boolean searches from the file system to search for files within snapshots
Heterogeneous Block & File Replication – Synchronous or asynchronous replication for easy disaster recovery from local or remote systems
NexentaStor Management View – Centralized web-based tool allows a variety of functions to be performed from any location. Create, grow, delete, export & import storage volumes
NexentaStor Management Console – Record & replay commands across all deployed instances of NexentaStor.
Storage & Service Reports – Generate automatic & periodic reports to manage the performance of the system and integrate it into SNMP based management solutions
Utilization
Thin Provisioning – Let your hosts virtually see a larger storage pool than is physically available, to be filled later when you need it. No need to re-format the file system!
Inherent I/O Virtualization – Virtualize data in the file-system to allow thin provisioning via I/O pooling for hypervisor virtualization solutions to improve capacity utilization and performance
Application & Plug-in Add-ons
High-Availability Cluster Plug-in – Single and dual active-active fail-over configuration options to increase availability by eliminating a single point of failure with a 2nd instance of NexentaStor
VM Data Center 3.0 – View and manage your entire virtualized infrastructure from a simple point-and-click interface. Perform common tasks, like stopping and starting VMs, create template-based clones, set-up backups, provision storage and set-up replication & retention policies. Support for VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V makes NexentaStor the only storage virtualization solution for all major hypervisor platforms
Delorean Windows Back-up, Restore & Search Application – Powerful Windows back-up with VSS clients and Nexenta Delorean plug-in. Select files and folders to protect via a built-in File Explorer interface, with the option for replication in NexentaStor
Reliable Hardware with Fast Performance
Memory Maximum – Up to 96GB DDR3 Memory
Processor – Up to a Dual Six-Core Intel® Xeon Processor 5600 Series
Motherboard – Intel® 5520 Chipset Motherboard
Ultra-fast SSD & Reliable SAS Hard Drive Options
Dual Gigabit Ethernet with Option Networking Expansion
Redundant AC Power Supply