LiveStor Storage Solutions
LiveStor is a flexible Linux-based unified network storage appliance, powered by Open-E DSS 6.0 and provides easy-to-manage NAS and SAN (iSCSI and Fibre Channel) functionality in a single box. Just attach it to your network and within minutes provide high performance, reliable, and simple-to-manage file and block level storage for heterogeneous network environments.
LiveStor is built on a state-of-the-art server-class single or dual processor Intel® Xeon Series 3400/5600 platform with 8GB Expandable to 128GB of RAM. A powerful 6 Gb/s SAS/SATA Hardware RAID controller with an LSI Single chip RAID and 512 MB of cache provides enterprise-level storage features and performance. The storage optimized operating system features the high performance XFS journaling file system. Automatic Failover for iSCSI Volumes and NFS Shares makes LiveStor an affordable high-availability unified storage appliance
Features:
Open-E DSS - Storage optimized Linux-based operating system.
Unified NAS & SAN - File and block level (iSCSI or Fibre Channel) storage resources in a single appliance.
6 Gb/s SAS - High performance storage architecture
Reuse of packing materials
File System with Journaling Support - Provides high reliability and allows easier, faster recovery from unexpected shutdowns.
Snapshots - Enables you to create on demand or policy-based scheduling of point-in-time images of the logical volumes. Files can be recovered from previous snapshots should a file be accidentally deleted or modified.
Volume Replication - Both Synchronous and Asynchronous Volume Replication are provided. Asynchronous Volume Replication is also supported over a WAN with both pair to pair support and multiple sources support
Automatic Failover for NAS Volumes with NFS (Option) - Provides automatic NAS (NFS) failover, based on two nodes of active-passive configuration and provides fault tolerance via synchronous NAS Volume Replication for NFS shares.
Automatic Failover for iSCSI Volumes - provides fault tolerance via iSCSI Volume Replication
Cross Data Synchronization - Synchronizes files and directories from one NAS server to another. Synchronization utilizes block-based data transfer that minimizes network traffic. LiveStor can synchronize data in both directions, so each server can be the source and destination of files..
iSCSI Initiator - Enables easy expansion of storage capacity. New units and logical volumes can be added by connecting an iSCSI storage system to the NAS server.
SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation - Enables support for Windows Server 2008 Clustering.
Virtual Tapes - Configure tape drive emulation on share or Dynamic Volumes.
Worm - Provides volume-based Write Once Read Many functionality for data archiving.
NDMP 4.0 - Defines a network-based mechanism and protocol for controlling backup, recovery, and other data transfers between primary and secondary storage devices.
Managemnt:
Powerful and Intuitive Web-Based User Interface - Enables simple remote management of the storage appliance via web-browser, and can be easily managed from anywhere within the network over Secured Socket Layer (SSL).
Console Tool - Enables local and remote, secure, administrator-only tasks.
Superuser Function - A "Superuser" account has unrestricted access to all the files and volumes and is an especially helpful feature when certain directories or files are no longer accessible.
Tuning Tools - Enables performance tuning of the operating system by changing the settings of disk, network, file system or network.
File System with Journaling Support - Provides high reliability and allows easier, faster recovery from unexpected shutdowns.
Multiple Management Levels - Three levels of administrative rights are supported: Full Access, Maintenance and Administration.
DHCP Client - Enables central management and automatic assignment of IP addresses
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (v2 & v3) - Monitors data throughput, Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Random Access Memory (RAM) usage to name a few.
External Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) - Enables administrators to configure and manage multiple LiveStor systems from one single point (either a LiveStor with a LDAP database or any other LDAP server).
Virus Protection - An integrated Antivirus software tool scans shares for viruses at predefined points in time, as well as online scanning of files transferred via the SMB and FTP protocols.
Backup-Agents - Embedded backup agents help administrators to backup and protect data on NAS servers with backup software from Veritas, Dantz, or CA BrightStor ARCserve.
Configurations:
Based on Industry Standard Hardware - State-of-the-art commodity hardware platform Using SATA, SAS, & Solid State Drives
VMware Certified 3.5" Drive Models:
12 Bay 2U Rack - Up to 36 TB Raw, 2 - GbE NICs, 2 - 10 GbE
12 Bay 2U Rack - Up to 36 TB Raw, 4 - GbE NICs
2.5" Drive Models:
8 Bay 1U Rack - Up to 8 TB Raw, 4 - GbE NICs
24 Bay 2U Rack- Up to 24 TB Raw, 4 - GbE NICs
3.5" Drive Models:
4 Bay 1U Rack/Tower - Up to 12 TB Raw, 2 or 4 - GbE NICs
8 Bay Rack/Tower - Up to 24 TB Raw, 2 or 4 - GbE NICs
12 Bay 2U Rack - Up to 36 TB Raw, 4 - GbE NICs
16 Bay 2U Rack - Up to 48 TB Raw, 4 - GbE NICss
24 Bay 4U Rack - Up to 72 TB Raw, 4 - GbE NICs
Green Ready - Power Optimization
All Storage Solutions use high efficiency power supplies for lower power usage and better cooling efficiency.
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