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It's high-performance storage, but not as we know it
BIOS IT has teamed up with Supermicro and Nexenta to create a NexentaStor storage appliance, providing an all in one storage solution using commodity hardware. NexentaStor offers an intelligent storage platform that is unmatched in flexibility and agility. The appliance is a highly available, full featured unified storage system at a dramatically lower cost than legacy alternative storage solutions from traditional tier one vendors.
NexentaStor delivers unified file and block storage services, runs on industry standard hardware, scales from tens of terabytes to petabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality by default. NexentaStor is Software-Defined Storage with SMARTS: Security, Manageability, Availability, Reliability, (lower) TCO, and Scalability.
Nexenta Features Snapshot:
- Block and File services, scaling from 10’s of TB to PBs
- Resilience and performance required for Cloud and Enterprise applications
- Built-In comprehensive suite of data management functionality
- Mature SDS product, proven at 1000’s of customer deployments
- Advanced functionality that matches or beats competitive offering from big box vendors
- Great performance, TCO and strong technology partners
If you are buying storage today you will know it’s not uncommon to have to pay over the odds for storage hardware. If you are not buying storage then we can help you before you become one of those customers! Most storage vendors offer costly proprietary solutions, meaning there has been little choice but to continue to pay once you have chosen your storage vendor.
Nexenta based solutions allow customers to cost-effectively transform their data storage, management and retrieval challenges into performance improvements, business agility and growth.
When combined with the Supermicro range of generic server building blocks, our incredible time to market and product efficiency the combination is certain to make you win.
- Includes Hot-Swap Hard Drive SAS Bays for Scale-Out requirements.
- Supports up to 96GB of system memory
- Redundant Gold Level High-Efficiency Power Supply designed to run at significantly higher efficiencies of up to 92%+, thus greatly reducing energy losses and the total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Optimized system architecture designed to take advantage of Supermicro’s power saving technology to produce optimal cooling at all application levels.
The appliance delivers unified file and block storage services, scales from tens of terabytes to petabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality.
BIOS IT has a range of pre-bundled architectures that are validated and delivered as integrated solutions, ready to install in your environment.
NSM-20 | NSM-40 | NSM-54 | NSM-84 | NSM-170 | NSM-348 | NSM-520 | NSM-1440 | |
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Raw Capacity | 20TB | 40TB | 54TB | 84TB | 170TB | 348TB | 520TB | 1440TB |
Data Drive # | 10 | 20 | 45 | 42 | 84 | 174 | 260 | 360 |
Form Factor (total system) | 2U | 8U | 8U | 8U | 12U | 20U | 28U | 36U |
Memory (total system) | 96GB | 192GB | 512GB | 512GB | 512GB | 512GB | 512GB | 512GB |
Read Cache | n/a | 400GB | 400GB | 400GB | 800GB | 800GB | 800GB | n/a |
10GbE port | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Software | NexentaStor 4.0 | |||||||
Protocol | NFS v3, v4, CIFS, SMB 2.1, FC, iSCSI | |||||||
Client OS | RHEL, Windows, VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack, CloudStack |
BIOS IT's reference architectures are ideally suited to support demanding enterprise applications in physical or virtual infrastructure, virtual desktop infrastructure, high performance digital media applications, and large-scale archive repositories.
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