Monday, August 18, 2008

NexSAN delves into NAS for SMB

Today NexSAN Technologies released The Edge NAS storage solution.

Geared for SMB The Edge has the capability support up to 84TB of Nexsan enterprise class RAID storage, Fibre connected to SATA or SAS storage with green benefits with Nexsan's energy saving AutoMAID technology.

Now we have the ability to consolidates file and block into a single solution with CIFS, NFS and iSCSI utilizing NexSAN hardware.

Based on Microsoft WUDSS. Microsoft WUDSS is a dedicated file and storage server technology designed for dependability, seamless integration and delivers the best value in networked storage. WUDSS integrates with existing infrastructures and supports heterogeneous file serving as well as backup of stored data.

Microsoft WUDSS web-based user interface makes management easy and enterprises can make full use of commonly used network environments and standard management software. Nexsan Edge Management GUI – NEM, provides a single interface to WUDSS services and Nexsan storage.

The Edge includes a complete set of data integrity and protection features. Battery backed RAID cache and multiple RAID levels, including hardware RAID 6, ensure data integrity during power outage or double drive failure. Built-in Microsoft snapshots provide data protection of both file and block storage.

Some facts:
Quad core processor with 4GB of memory and two 80GB drives configured in a mirror
Provides both file and block storage with CIFS / NFS (files) and iSCSI (block/databases). Supports up to 2000 volumes
RAID processes are off-loaded from The Edge NAS server and performed by the Nexsan storage system therefore maximizing NAS server CPU and memory performance
Microsoft snapshots provide data protection of both file and block storage offering 512 snapshots per logical volume for up to 64 logical volumes

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