DATANAS Unified Shared Storage Series Rackmount 4-bay/8-bay/12-bay/24-bay/36-bay

Shared Storage

Powered by Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC

The DATANAS Unified Shared Storage Series is a comprehensive feature-dense rackmount storage series with 64-bit Linux operating system. With built-in Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC and 8/16/32GB DDR4 ECC memory (upgradable to 1,5TB). The DATANAS Series are performance driven NAS + iSCSI + Fibre Unified Shared Storage product line, built-in with world class high reliability 12G hardware RAID protection, high speed and high performance Dual 10G Ports (SFP+ Type), Dual/Quad Gigabit Ethernet and supporting unlimited clients for network share and IP SAN. The built-in SAS expander feature allows expansion of up to 14 additional SAS Expander JBOD storage units, providing a maximum of 256 drives for a total storage capacity of over 3PB in a network sharing or iSCSI environment. With up to 432TB (36-bay) in a single rackmount, hardware RAID protection and many features, the DATANAS Series is capable of fulfilling the most demanding storage needs. DATANAS Series is the best choice of high performance Shared Storage for Video & Audio Editing industry, Super Computing Backup, Data Center Backup & Virtualization applications, and all other purposes.

Features

• Multi-FileSystems Co-Exist – XFS, EXT4, iSCSI & FC Target/BTRFS, iSCSI & FC Target/LTFS “Tape NAS” with LV buffering; Support for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V
• Thin-Provisioning- operates by allocating disk storage space in a flexible manner among multiple users, based on the minimum space required by each user at any given time.
• Unlimited Snapshots with No Performance Degradation & Remote Volume-Copy/Cloning (remote snapshot)
• 2 copies of metadata and 2 copies of system files plus CRC32-Checksums against Silent data corruption
• Remote NFS Import – mounts a NFS share on other manufacturers’ NAS or Linux/Unix system onto the DATANAS as if a local share, then use the built-in Folder-Replication to copy contents from other system to NAS.
• WebDAV – transfer files over HTTP, an alternative to FTP transfer. Strong authentication, encryption, proxy support, and caching.
• Anti-Virus functions – Define Quarantine Directory, Scheduled Scan/Scan On-Demand, Scheduled Update & Update On-Demand
• Backup & Restore function – more robust and better data integrity with tightly integrated internal checking. It supports Scheduled & On-Demand Backup/Restore and versioning.
• Client File System – CIFS/SMB, NFS, AFP, FTP, SFTP Network services – DHCP, ADS/ADDS, NIS, LDAP, NTP Server
• Network Transport Protocols – TCP/IP, SNMP MIBII, AppleTalk, NTP, DHCP, HTTP/HTTPS
• Deduplication solution – a high performance inline data deduplicating filesystem
• Support LTO/RDX – LTFS – Linear Tape File System (LTFS)/built-in Snapshot, Folder Replication and iSCSI
• Bandwidth Balance – intelligently balance the network traffic between multiple network clients accessing, useful for using high-speed Ethernet such as: 10/25/40/50/100GbE
• Snapshot on Share and iSCSI Target – Virtually unlimited Snapshots, no performance degradation for taking/keeping the snapshot. Support both Direct-Mount and/or User-Self-Recover modes, Scheduled and On-Demand Snapshotting, Volume-Copy by Remote Snapshot.
• Support “ownCloud” to build your own private cloud solution. Optional Virtualization
• Virtual Tape Library – VTL plug-in utilize the raw physical volume (RAID volume) and creates an iSCSI target on it, and pass the control to Professional Backup Server in the network.
• Dual/Quad Gigabit LAN Ports & Enterprise RAID Protection; optional 10/40GbE Network Host Adapter

 VM Backup

• Back up, replicate, and recover live VMs and application data
• Fully automate backup processes with Policy-Based Data Protection
• Instantly recover files and application objects from compressed and deduplicated backups
• Achieve high reliability of backups and replicas with Instant Verification
• Improve VM backup performance with Network Acceleration and LAN-Free Data Transfer
• Reduce storage space consumption with global deduplication and compression
• Fully orchestrate and automate DR processes with just a few clicks
• Copy backups offsite and to the cloud, ensuring additional layer of security

Application Support

When you back up a VM that runs Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, or any other application or database, it is crucial to ensure that all data inside of those applications remain consistent in the backup. This is important because portions of data and some transactions kept in memory may be incomplete when the VM backup is made. If you take no actions to flush memory and I/O operations, the backups will be crash-consistent. It is similar to pulling the plug on a physical server and then powering it back on. Therefore, most modern applications and databases offer ways to recover from this state. However, in most cases you’ll still need to spend some time on manual restore operations and run the risk of losing important data.

To ensure that all data is consistent in the backups, system allows you to use the application awareness feature which is called app-aware mode. To perform consistent backups and replicas of Windows-based environments, the product relies on the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) service running inside VMs. If your application is not VSS-aware or runs on Linux, it provides you with the ability to run custom pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts to enable application-consistent VM backup and replication. A pre-freeze script is executed before a snapshot of a VM is taken, and post-thaw script is executed after the snapshot has been taken.

With the app-aware mode turned on, your backups and replicas will contain consistent application and database data, so you won’t need to take any extra configuration steps. As a result, you will be able to instantly recover not only full VMs, but also Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory objects, such as emails or users, directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup.  If app-aware mode is disabled, backup system will create normal (standard) snapshots of source volumes instead of quiesced ones. In case of failure, the product will copy data directly from source volumes without displaying an error.

Global Data Deduplication

Backup system automatically deduplicates all backups across an entire Backup Repository. This means that all data blocks are taken into account by backup deduplication, even if you back up VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and AWS EC2 instances to the same backup repository. In any organization, VMs contain duplicates of data, such as VMs deployed from the same template, VMs with the same OS, and VMs that have some (semi)identical files, such as database entries. Block-level data deduplication enables to reduce backup size by saving only unique data blocks to the Backup Repository while replacing duplicated blocks with references to the existing ones.

Physical Machine Backup

Backup system ensures comprehensive protection of your data residing in physical machines. The solution provides image-based, volume-level backups of Windows servers, Linux servers, Windows workstations and Linux workstations. Designed to mitigate the risks of data loss and reduce downtime, backup system ensures that you can resume your operations quickly during any failure with multiple recovery options and performance-boosting features.

Granular recovery of individual files or perform P2V to virtualise your physical workloads.

Backup Copy

Backups can be lost for any number of reasons: accidental deletion, backup file corruption, disk failure, lost or stolen hardware, malicious attack, or any other undesired and unpredicted event. Thus, having more than one copy of your business-critical backups is vital to ensure that your data can be recovered in case of disaster.

Having an extra copy of backups is especially important if your primary backups are stored at the same location as your production machines, because any incident in the production environment could affect your backups as well. With just one copy of backups, you have a single point of failure. This could easily result in a nightmare if you lose the backups along with the production machines.

Backup Copy jobs provide a simple yet powerful way to create and maintain copies of your VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS EC2 instance backups. You can copy backups from one backup repository to another, without touching the source hosts or VMs. This way, your source VMs are read only once, while backups can be copied to one or multiple locations.

Instant Verification

The mere fact that you have a VM backup or a VM replica does not mean that you can guarantee a successful recovery. VM backups and replicas can be corrupted or not bootable, even if the data protection software has performed properly. The worst time to find out that your backup is bad is when your VM is down. If you don’t have backup copies or VM replicas at an offsite location, you are left without any viable means of quickly restoring business processes.

To protect you from such disasters, Backup system provides an Instant Verification feature. Instead simply of hoping for the best, you can set up automated verification for your VM backups and replicas that is performed in a matter of minutes.

Log Truncation

Microsoft Exchange is the industry’s leading platform for e-mail, calendaring, and messaging services. To protect data from undesired deletion or modification, each change that is made to an Exchange Server database is recorded in transaction logs. These logs can be replayed to recover data that was removed or changed in the database. While this approach improves data protection, it has a downside. Since Microsoft Exchange database is constantly changing (as data is written and removed in the database), transaction logs grow over time. If not periodically removed, they will eventually fill up the disk and may crash the entire server.

Backup system can create consistent backups of VMware and Hyper-V VMs as well as truncate transaction log files of Microsoft Exchange 2016, 2013, 2010, and 2007 servers. After creating a successful backup, backup system connects to your Exchange server, identifies which transaction log files have already been written to the database and removes (aka truncates) those log files.

Encryption in flight and at rest

VM backup encryption in flight is performed by a pair of Transporters. The Transporter is a component of backup system that performs all of the data protection and recovery tasks: data read, compression, deduplication, encryption, transfer, write, verification, granular and full VM recovery, and so on.

The source Transporter for the offsite backup encrypts and sends the encrypted data. The target transporter receives and decrypts data. For example, when you back up VMs over the WAN to an offsite location, the Transporter installed in the source site compresses and encrypts VM data before transferring it over WAN. Then, the Transporter installed in the Target site receives and unencrypts the data prior to writing it to the Backup Repository.

Backup system provides the ability to encrypt backup repositories so that backup data at rest, housed in the repository itself, is secure.

Policy-Based Backup

Policy-Based Data Protection is a unique functionality offered by backup system that simplifies data protection management in virtualized environment. The feature allows you to set up policies that regularly scan your entire infrastructure and protect VMs matching policy rules, with little to no manual input on your part. Policies can be created for VM backup, replication, and backup copy jobs in just a few steps. Simply select the criteria (e.g., a VM’s name, size, tag, etc.), enter the necessary search parameters, and have all the matching items included in the job automatically. For instance, you can choose to back up all VMware VMs tagged “Accounting” exceeding 100 GB in size and having more than 2 GB of allocated RAM. Once the policy is created, backup system recognizes newly added VMs or instances with the same characteristics and automatically includes them in the existing job.

Policy-Based Data Protection is a unique feature designed to deliver better flexibility, simplify navigation, and save time, alleviating the burden of manual data protection management. No matter how many new VMs or instances are added or removed from your environment, backup system can handle their protection in an automated and highly efficient manner.

Native Backup to Tape

• Support for LTO3 and later tape libraries
• Support for AWS Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
• Incremental and full backup copy to tape
• End-to-end tape backup/cartridge management
• Policy-based backup copy to tape
• Software- and hardware-based compression
• Fast and easy recovery on demand

Backup for Oracle RMAN

Backup system offers native integration with Oracle RMAN, the built-in Oracle functionality, to streamline the management of backup and recovery of databases from a single pane of glass.

Backup for Microsoft 365

Backup system delivers reliable and flexible protection for Microsoft Office 365 to ensure that your mission-critical data is accessible and recoverable at all times. Use Backup for Microsoft Office 365 to protect your Exchange Online mailboxes, OneDrive for Business files and SharePoint Online sites. When the need arises, instantly restore emails, attachments, files and folders back to the original or custom locations.

*Some features are extra paid. Please contact sales team for a price.