AccuNAS: Unified iSCSI and NAS Towers

Sans Digital, Inc. is announcing AccuNAS AN8L+B and AN12L+B, 8/12-bay iSCSI and NAS unified storage towers added to the current AccuNAS series’ products.

The AN8L+B and AN12L+ bare performance tuned Windows/MAC/Linux files sharing NAS server with dual GbE for high capacity share storage. More advanced than most 12-bay network share + iSCSI towers on the market, they utilize the power of Intel CPU and 4GB of DDR III memory.

They come with dual GbE ports provide features such as network port bonding for failover and load balancing. As AN8L+B/AN12L+B capable of functioning as both NAS and iSCSI in a unified storage system, it has built-in NAS-to-NAS folder replication and snapshot features. It allows backup to other AccuNAS or EliteNAS storage units while supporting virtualizations such as VMware or Hyper-V.

The built-in event log and e-mail notification provide system event records and instant notifications. In addition, the AccuNAS AN12L+B is also equipped with enterprise redundancy features for maximum data protection. Utilizing dedicated RAID processor, HDD failures are protected by RAID-1, 3, 5, 6, 10 30, 50 and 60.

Along with built-in RAID features, the AN8L+B and AN12L+B provide:

• Dual GbE ports

• Supports teaming and fail-over redundancy

• Feature rich storage

• Folder to folder replication supporting scheduling with multiple versions or full replication with bandwidth control.

• Supports scheduled or on-demand volume snapshot.

• Supports iSCSI

• Supports iSCSI target and initiator.

• Supports VMware ESX Server 4.0/4.1 5.0/5.1 or Hyper-V Server or Citrix XGen Server.