File System

• 128-bit File System – A 32-bit file system will never be as scalable & fl exible as the 128-bit ZFS file system!
• NexentaStor OS – Built upon the open source NexentaCore Platform, the NexentaStor OS provides a solid foundation based on the OpenSolaris kernel
• Unlimited File Size – While most legacy solutions limit the size of the file-system – there are no such limitations when with ZFS
• Unlimited Storage Capacity – The StorageDirector Z eliminates artificial storage limitations through disk or system expansion
• Unified Network Protocol – With support for NAS (NFS, CIFS), SAN (block-level iSCSI & Fiber Channel), HTTP and FTP volumes, get flexible file-sharing over any network protocol!
• Find-and-Correct Silent Data Corruption – Self-healing check-sums and transactional copy-on-write I/O operations eliminate silent data corruption and ‘write-holes’
• **NEW** Data Deduplication & Native Compression – ZFS-based in-line bi-directional replication with compression and deduplication for active/active fail-over of shared storage
• Phone Home

Data Management & Recovery

• Hybrid Storage Pools – Exploit I/O cache to accelerate read & write performance
• I/O Pooling – The more disks or systems you add, the faster the performance of your StorageDirector Z!
• Unlimited Snapshots & Clones – With most legacy solutions limited to 255 snapshots, NexentaStor allows any number of customized, automated and periodic snapshots! Run hourly snapshots of your data to ensure granular recovery in a timely manner
• Snapshot Restore
• Integrated Snapshot Search – Perform indexing & boolean searches from the file system to look for files within snapshots
• Internal RAID-Z with spares
• Heterogeneous Block & File Replication – Rebuild your system sychronous or asynchronous replication for easy disaster recovery configurations
• Block-Level Mirroring – Set-up remote backups & disaster recovery
• NexentaStor Management View – Centralized web-based tool to perform a variety of functions from any location. Create, grow, delete, export & import storage volumes
• NexentaStor Management Console – Wizard tool with the ability to record & replay commands across all deployed instances
  of NexentaStor
• Storage & Service Reports – Easily generate automatic & periodic reports to manage the performance of the system and integrate the system into SNMP based management solutions
• Data Vaulting

Utilization

• Thin Provisioning - Let your hosts virtually see a larger storage pool than is physically available, to be filled later when you need it. No need to re-format that file system!
• Inherent I/O Virtualization – Virtualize data in the file-system to allow thin provisioning via I/O pooling for hypervisor virtualization solutions to improve capacity utilization and performance

Application & Plug-in Add-ons

• **IMPROVED** High Availability Cluster Plug-in – Single and dual active-active fail-over configuration options to increase availability by eliminating a single point of failure with a 2nd instance of NexentaStor
• **IMPROVED** VM Data Center 3.0 Application – View and manage your entire virtualized VMware, Citrix Xen or Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure from a simple point-and-click interface. Set-up backups, provision storage, set-up replication & retention policies, and perform common tasks, such as stopping & starting VMs, creating template-based clones.
• Delorean Windows Back-up, Restore & Search Application – ZFS-powered back-up for Windows with VSS clients and Nexenta Delorean plug-in. Select files and folders to protect via a built-in File Explorer interface, with the option for replication in NexentaStor

Fast Performance

• Memory – Up to 48GB Maximum Memory
• Processor – Up to a Quad Core Intel® Xeon 5600 Series
• Motherboard – Intel® 5520 Chipset Motherboard
• Fast & Reliable SATA & SAS Hard Drives & Controllers
• Dual Gigabit Ethernet with optional networking
• Redundant AC Power Supply

High Scalability

• Starts at 4TB & scalable to 100TB with expansion (disks or systems)
• Support for up to (24) SATA & SAS Hard Drive Bays up to 200GB