NexentaStor
Appliance Type
Partner
Description
NexentaStor is the leading OpenStorage software solution providing network attached storage (NAS) and iSCSI/FC capabilities that overcome the limitations of leading legacy NAS and iSCSI hardware solutions, including unlimited snapshots, synchronous and asynchronous replication, NFS v3 and v4, high performance CIFS, and easy management of almost infinitely large storage pools.
NexentaStor delivers enterprise class storage capabilities in the form of a software appliance that is trivial to install and manage when used as a virtual appliance.
NexentaStor is frequently used as 2nd tier storage alongside or behind hardware based legacy storage, providing online continuation of data for months and years, with tapes relegated to archival purposes only. The replication options offered by NexentaStor include some optimized for on-premise data protection as well as others optimized for use in replication over the WAN.
NexentaStor is increasingly used as a primary NAS in businesses that wish to expand at closer to commodity pricing and in remote and branch offices.
The management of storage for virtualized environments is a particular area of focus for Nexenta Systems. Today it is not uncommon to see NexentaStor running in ESX 3.5 while providing storage to ESX and to other systems in the branch office or data center or anywhere in between. NexentaStor offers the ability to centrally administer storage policies for ESX servers while eliminating the need for on server backups. Other common tasks including cloning can be performed in NexentaStor much more efficiently than with alternatives as well.
Features & Benefits
NexentaStor is built from the ground up on the revolutionary file system ZFS which means that virtualization is at the core of the product. NexentaStor is unified storage (file and block) with the ability to expand the underlying physical storage on demand without limitation. Also, NexentaStor identifies and corrects data corruption thanks to the use of end to end check sums. The combination of these capabilities means you can add commodity disk capacity to NexentaStor confident that the result will be enterprise class storage.
Features:
* Open, standards-based NexentaStor software appliance eliminates hardware vendor lock-in & reduces capital expenditures by 70-80%. Your data is your data!
* Synchronous & asynchronous open replication free from the constraints of legacy hardware solutions means user data is secure, vendor lock in is eliminated, and administrator time is saved. For example, with NexentaStor you are not subject to the constraint of 255 total snapshots or 16TB file sizes.
* Network shares: NFS v4& v3, high performance CIFS, WebDAV, FTP, RSYNC
* High performance Comstar iSCSI target provides unmatched price / performance and data integrity for iSCSI
* 'Call home' fault management and reporting as well as hot spare and superior software RAID capabilities help insure 'lights out' operations
* Command batching and scripting for ease of use and integration
* Wizard-guided initial configuration: 5 min to configuration!
* WORM protections for compliance / security.
* VM Data Center: 'VMDC' optional module to dramatically improve the management of storage for virtual environments and to perform certain tasks such as cloning of VMs 10-15x faster than alternatives.
* Real time performance statistics via Dtrace
* Ease of use!
In summary, NexentaStor is at the forefront of the fast moving OpenStorage revolution, which deploys open technologies and business models to deliver superior total solutions as well as massive savings.
Pricing
Enterprise Edition licenses are perpetual licenses based on the amount of your overall raw capacity you intend to use with NexentaStor. Free trials of fully functional Enterprise Edition licenses are available via www.nexenta.com
Tags & Keywords
ZFS, nas, san, storage, CIFS, NFS, SSD, iSCSI, FC, HA, Snapshot, Mirroring, deduplication, SVA, VSA
