IBM SONAS in Version 1.1.1.2

IBM Corp. launches Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) 1.1.1.2 supporting 2 TB Nearline SAS disk drives in models 2851-DR1 and 2851-DE1.

IBM SONAS is a scale-out NAS offering designed to manage vast repositories of information in enterprise environments requiring very large capacities, high levels of performance, and high availability. The system supports multiple petabytes of storage, up to a billion files in a single file system, and up to 256 file systems per system. Data access to the system from remote computers is provided using industry standard network file protocols NFS v2/v3, CIFS, HTTP, and FTP (including z/OS NFS client support).

IBM SONAS is a scale-out NAS offering designed to provide a clustered NAS system with a single name space for CIFS, NFS, HTTP, and FTP services. The system consists of two to thirty Interface Nodes (2851-SI1), one to thirty storage pods consisting of the Storage Node (2851-SS1), Storage Controller (2851-DR1), and attached disks, and one Management Node (2851-SM1). The maximum configuration provides up to 14.4 PB of storage capacity in a single cluster, highly-redundant system.

The storage used in the SONAS system can be high-performance 15K RPM SAS HDDs or high-capacity 7.2K RPM Nearline SAS HDDs.

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