AC&NC Adds NAS 1600s Unified RAID For Multi-Protocol Environments

Advanced Computer & Network Corporation introduced its JetStor NAS 1600S RAID array to provide the performance, scalability, and data protection that is needed by enterprises.

The solution utilizes the NAS 3.0 OS to support storage management and application functionality like VAAI, thin provisioning, replication, snapshots, and ultra-HA. Thanks to its support of multiple interfaces, the platform can operate in any IT environment requiring expandable storage.

“The JetStor NAS 1600S solution is tailored for our age of big data when even smaller companies require storage that is scalable, smart, and function rich,” said Gene Leyzarovich, president, AC&NC. “The JetStor 1600S works in all of today’s diverse networks and data centers to address stringent demands from meeting SLAs and protecting vital data to transactional processing and big data jobs. With their advanced capabilities, they go beyond meeting performance objectives to improving efficiencies and reducing ownership costs.“

The 3U 16-bay chassis supports 3.5-inch SAS and SATA drives for up to 64TB of storage. Users can expand capacity by adding up to five optional JetStor JBOD expansion chassis for a total of 384TB of storage.

Increasing Productivity While Lowering Operational Costs
The solution improve the performance of VMs by supporting VAAI for block and NFS storage. It offloads storage tasks from physical servers running VMware virtualization to the array, freeing up CPU cycles on the servers for running VMs. The RAID arrays also support thin provisioning for both file and block level volumes to reduce costs and better utilize storage capacity. The systems can notify users when storage capacity reaches preset thresholds and perform only reads when a volume reaches 95% of capacity.

The systems safeguard data by offering backup options. Depending on customer requirements, they can make full, differential, and incremental backups and restores via attached storage or remote shares and cloud storage, including Amazon S3. Users can schedule backups from as frequently as hourly to as infrequently as annually. Moreover, the platforms protect data by supporting HA clusters comprised of up to three nodes of active/active storage, ensuring there is no service downtime should a NAS server fail.

It support nearly all RAID levels, which allows customers to tailor the systems to their demands for data protection or application performance. Users can designate multiple drives as hot-spares, which enables the platforms to move data to a spare should an error be detected. Drives are hot-swappable with automatic rebuilding of data on new drives, permitting users to increase capacity and replace drives while data remains online.

The arrays are engineered to require little time to administer and maintain, furthering trimming their ownership costs. They feature a browser-based, RAID management application with a graphical interface that permits administrators to configure and manage the arrays. The software provides email event notifications and simplifies deployment and configuration, even for beginning system administrators. The platforms offer iOS and Android mobile applications that allow administrators to monitor them regardless of location.

It deliver design features like a cableless architecture, single or dual Quad Core Xeon processors, 4GB cache that expands up to 32GB, and a redundant power supply module.

They ship with a three-year warranty that covers all components.