Unifosa Debuts Line of Six NAS With File and Block Access

Unifosa Corp.http://www.proware.com.tw/ released a NAS product line based on proNAS 3.0 OS, offering enterprise and SMB data protection, performance, with reliability and scalability.

The latest proNAS 3.0 OS supports a variety of storage management and application features such as VAAI, HA, thin-provisioning, snapshot, replication, etc., and it can be deployed in any IT environment since it supports multiple interfaces for host servers and clients.

The NAS server comes with 1GbE as default and supports 10GbE or 8Gb FC for options. It’s a solution consolidating NAS, SAN and iSCSI into one box which provides both file level and block level I/O access.
 
All proNAS 3.0-based storage has built-in hardware RAID engine to offer fault tolerance and data protection. Drives can be set as hot spare, have automatically hot rebuild and allow online capacity expansion within the enclosure or externally via JBODs. For capacity expansion and scalability, there is a JBOD product line for options which enables NAS supporting up to 228 drives.
 
ProNAS3.0 has backup solutions including manual or scheduled backup for file, folder, and shares, and it can be backup and restore from multiple local or remote devices. Besides, there are volume clone, snapshot, remote replication, encryption, and data copy for options, which are all designed to secure data at rest.
 
There are a total of six models released.

Enterprise 2U and 3U rackmount series includes 12-bay EN-2123S6T-RQX and EN-2126JS6T-SQX, and 16-bay EN-3163S6T-RQX and EN-3166JS6T-SQX.

And entry-level series includes EN-2120A6T-PDC and EN-3160A6T-PDC.
 
Features for proNAS 3.0:

• VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration) for both block and NFS storage: Aside from VAAI support for block storage iSCSI and Fibre volumes, proNAS 3.0 also supports VAAI for NAS (NFS) to improve VM performance. With VAAI support, VMs have operation performance by offloading cycles from ESXi to storage and storage can be further effectively utilized by VMs.
• 3 nodes HA cluster: proNAS 3.0 offers up to 3 nodes active/active HA service for storage which ensures no service down time when any NAS server failed.
• Thin provisioning for file and block level volumes: All volumes can be configured with thin provisioning to optimize storage capacity and reduce cost.
• Backup and remote real-time replication: Backup solution including full, differential, and incremental two-way backup via attached storage (USB/eSATA/iSCSI/RDX), or to remote share, Rsync server, and cloud storage. And proNAS3.0 is an unified solution supporting remote real-time replication for iSCSI and Fibre volumes.
• App support: User can monitor proNAS system remotely through App, both Android and Apple, on mobile devices.