Sans Digital With ZFS-Based NAS

Sans Digital is releasing a line of storage appliance with ZFS files systems, powered by the Nexenta Systems, Inc.’s NexentaStor enterprise storage software.

The Sans Digital NX212L+B and NX212L+BG are a 2U, twelve hard drive bays, rackmount enclosure equipped with NexentaStor OS, a scalable and flexible 128-bit ZFS file system.

The NX212L+B can be used as a standalone ZFS storage appliance, while NX212L+BG can be deploy as single or dual head unit with JBOD enclosures for high redundancy, HA, and future capacity expansion capabilities.

Sans Digital enterprise ZFS storage solutions together with NexentaStor unified storage management platform offers new functionalities, improved optimization, and cost-effective growth plan while offering a hardware base built to take on shared data storage challenges.

The NX212L+B and NX212L+BG allow for quick and easy installation into existing IT infrastructures by providing optimized use in data centers or virtualized server environments including NAS, iSCSI, and FC target applications.

Both models feature dual Intel Xeon Westmere processors (with Romley processors available in Q3) and eighteen DDR3 registered DIMM slots with up to 144GB of total memory.

Dual Gigabit Ethernet come standard and optional dual ports 10GbE available for 10Gb connectivity.

Standalone version, NX212L+B, supports twelve 6G SAS or SATA hard drives, providing flexibility for high capacity SATA hard drives orb performance SSD or SAS hard drives.

Head nodes version, NX212L+BG, equipped additional with dual port LSI SAS HBA with 6Gb interface for expansion AccuSTOR and EliteSTOR JBODs.

Powered by NexentaSTOR and utilizing ZFS for the file systems, Nexenta series features unlimited incremental backups or snapshots, snapshot mirroring (replication), block level mirroring, thin provisioning, and more.

Additional features include support for active/active HA plug-in with dual NX212L+BG head nodes for disaster recovery and disk management of shared JBODs (AccuStor or EliteSTOR JBOD series) using the command line or the NexentaStor Management Viewer (NMV).

By uniting the shared storage environment with two head nodes, the NX212L+BG decrease operating costs by reducing the amount of physical storage enclosures, while flexible enough for expansion.

Finally, VM Datacenter plug-in enables management from a single interface, not only within but also across server virtualization vendors, including VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V, and others, thereby speeding the deployment of virtual environments.

"The ZFS solution Nexenta Series takes advantage of many enterprise features such as Unlimited Snapshot, replication, thin provisioning, and de-duplication," said Stanley Chan, director of Business Development.

The introduction of the NX212L+B and NX212L+BG will provide the users a more flexible support of their data centers and virtualized environments.

Sans Digital ZFS solutions Nexenta series is available and backed by 3 years limited hardware warranty with option of Nexenta Enterprise Platinum, Gold and Silver service supports.