… Quanta QCT …

Company of Quanta Computer, Inc., Quanta QCT, manufacturer of server, storage and network equipment for data center customers in the United States, is preparing to ship a storage cluster-in-a-box solution pre-configured with Windows Storage Server 2012.

The MESOS CB220 features transparent storage failover via two redundant nodes in an active/active NAS cluster configuration. Nodes are connected via internal GbE. It is powered by two Xeon E5-2620 processors with 128MB memory per node. The unit’s design employs the Quanta QCT infrastructure sharing concept, where the two nodes share the same chassis, power supply, and fan. This achieves improved power and cooling efficiencies, resulting in operational cost savings compared to competitive products where infrastructure hardware is not shared.

The appliance offers up to 48TB of internal capacity and can be expanded to 180TB externally with the MESOS M4600H disk enclosure. Configuration takes approximately 20 minutes from power on to file sharing. These features and others make the MESOS CB220 for the SMB market, especially when applications demand HA and simplicity of integration, configuration and operation at a low TCO.

Two SKUs of the MESOS CB220 are available for different enterprise application performance needs. The Value SKU enables Storage Spaces, a feature in Windows Storage Server 2012 that provides software-only storage virtualization of individual disks as pools of storage. The Performance SKU offers an HA-DAS solution with improved performance and flexible capacity management, made possible via an LSI HA MegaRAID card.

The MESOS CB220 will be available in U.S. channels in October.

Additional features include:

• Compatible with heterogeneous Windows IT infrastructure
• Unified storage capable: CIFS/SMB 3.0, NFS v3, iSCSI , HTTP, FTP and WebDAV
• NFS Interoperability: with over 16 types of Linux, FreeBSD, VMware an Open Solaris OS
• SMB Direct: for direct memory access in data transfer
• SMB Multi Channel: multiple TCP connections per SMB session
• NIC Teaming: mix and match NICs run in native or virtualized environment
• Single-pane-of-glass: To configure appliance form only one node

"Rather than build an expensive, proprietary storage management layer for our cluster-in-a-box solution, our strategy is to apply ruthlessly efficient hardware design principles that drive acquisition and operational costs down for our customers," said Mike Yang, GM and VP of Quanta QCT. "Our hardware design, coupled with the advanced management capabilities already included in Windows Storage Server 2012, give our customers a powerful value and performance choice."