SoftNAS Unveils 24/7 HA Module

SoftNAS LLC has launched the SoftNAS 24/7 HA module featuring its patent-pending Elastic HA technology, which delivers continuous storage operation across Amazon EC2 availability zones, ensuring NAS clients connecting via NFS, iSCSI, and CIFS are uninterrupted and available.

Only cross-zone HA storage solution on AWS

The module is a cross-zone HA storage solution offered on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.

It “ensures rapid failover in a fews, so there is virtually no storage downtime for mission-critical business or web applications,” said Rick Braddy, founder and managing partner. “The cross-zone availability eliminates the last hesitation businesses may have with full cloud NAS adoption,” Braddy continued.

It utilizes an active-active dual-controller design in which each instance mirrors itself to the other. In the event a controller fails, the remaining controller takes over all operations withins. Thus, the module requires two instances or VMs of either professional or cloud and is available as a software add-on.

The module alone is priced at $995 per annual recurring license plus a one-time configuration fee of $1,495. Installation and set-up is handled as a SoftNAS services engagement.

The SoftNAS 24/7 HA module runs on VMware ESXi and on AWS in virtual private cloud.