| Unleash the power of the ATABeast™ disk
vault from Nexsan Technologies, the first true online disk-based
tape library replacement. Built upon Nexsan's groundbreaking
EnterpriseATA™ technology, ATABeast delivers industry leading
features with unparalleled density and security at a TCO less
than tape. ATABeast, with up to 21 TB in a 4U rack, maximizes
the return on your storage hardware investment.
 Unleash
the Beast for:
Near-line storage. You no longer need to store important
data on slow and inaccessible media such as tape or optical.
Now that data can be protected in a full featured disk array.
D2D - Disk to Disk Backup. Online access to data means
superior business continuity. The ATABeast provides the speed,
redundancy and availability to deliver superior disk-based
backup with greater density and less cost than tape libraries.
Secondary Storage. The enterprise class features and
performance of the ATABeast enable large file repositories
for thousands of users to be stored on a single system. The
high IOPS rating of the ATABeast makes it perfect in any data
center.
Video or Audio archive. The unmatched capacity of the
ATABeast easily handles the largest files. Massive video and
audio archives can be stored and instantly accessed for play-on-demand
applications.
Cost Correct Enterprise Class Reliability
Unsurpassed fault tolerance results from utilizing redundancy,
advanced ATA disk drives and the latest in RAID technology.
The Nexsan designed GUI interface, NexSCAN™, provides
our industry with the latest in centralized management and
monitoring features for all Nexsan subsystems. Tele-Guard™,
Nexsan's phone home manager, provides operator selectable
parameters monitoring all system conditions. Tele-Guard™
provides the vehicle to notify single or multiple system operators
of any user defined, system triggered event. In addition to
supporting On-Line Hot-Swap for all active components, the
ATABeast's unique run-time diagnostics and error handling
software monitors automatic fail over initiation for all active
components. ATABeast's ATA disk-based systems provide the
maximum uptime operation and data protected environment available
today.
Advanced Features
- Based on the latest ATA high-speed disk drives
- Scalable design; 7 to 16.8 TB in 4U rack
- OS independent
- Platform-independent web-based management
- Multi-Box management feature to easily manage multiple
ATAbeast units.
- RS232 Management
- Up to 100 times faster than tape libraries
- Hot-pluggable drives, controllers and power supplies
- Single or dual RAID controllers
- Auto-negotiating host speed
- Supports RAID 0, 1. 1+0, 4 and 5
- Up to 32 LUNS supported per controller
- Multiple RAID sets
- Multiple partitions per RAID set
- LUN security
- LUN Masking
- High IOPS performance -- all 42 drives can be active simultaneously
- Anti-Rotational Vibration (ARV) design enables maximum
performance and reliability
- Up to 168 TB in one data center rack
Key Benefits
- Utilizing Nexsan's EnterpriseATA™ technology, all
individual ATABeast components are fully redundant and hot
swappable. This advanced design provides increased ROI by
eliminating the need to replace an entire multi-drive blade
should a single drive fail.
- With rack space an expensive premium and storage demands
climbing by 50% per year, the ATABeast's unique top load
design achieves maximum density in a very compact footprint.
- The ATABeast ensures dependable hot-swapping of drives
by combining a custom unitized ATA connector specially designed
for drive-plugging operations and an electronic soft-start
capability that further enhances reliability.
- Dual controllers using Nexsan's award winning EnterpriseATA™
design provide excellent performance with 42 spindles that
can be segmented into multiple RAID sets or a single large
storage pool.
- ATABeast has full cache coherency design to ensure data
integrity even with power loss.
- ATABeast is the ideal platform for deep archiving and
disk-based backup:
- Timed online replication system w/ multi-version control
where your files reside and are accessed in native file
format
- Provides immediate file access eliminating "Fire
Drill" restores
- The ATABeast's NexScan management interface is built into
the ATABeast controller, alleviating the need to have a
separate server or application manage the storage array.
This sophisticated management utility monitors and reports
the status of all subsystems over a 10/100-network port.
Included in NexScan are Tele-guard, Nexsan's phone-home
feature for user notification of errors or prediction of
error, and WorldView, a multi-box feature.
- Auto-rescan initiates automatic system scans for real-time
"Correct Status" reporting for all RAID arrays.
- LUN Masking and Mapping allows users to easily configure
the 16.8 TB of disk capacity for dozens of servers or one
NexScan GUI
Configuration and Management
NexScan™ is Nexsan's embedded WEB enabled GUI (Graphical
User Interface). Platform independent access to your system
from any standard internet browser or from any host computer
either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN. No software
or patches required.
- Additional access via the RS-232 serial port or network
interface to an ANSI terminal or emulator.
- Event log for all significant events stored on disk.·
- Single click access to summary of all problems and warnings.
- Array is verified before being put into production; automatic
"parity scrub" (array verify) is performed as
a background task every 24 hours thereafter.·
- Shows status of disk drives, power supplies, fans, RAID
controller.
- Information is automatically refreshed at a settable interval.
- Complete hardware status page lists all significant hardware
conditions such as voltages, temperature, battery mode,
cache settings, network settings, and blower RPM
- Supports automatic IP address assignment via DHCP, manually
using IP Gleaning, over serial port, or via web page.
- Cache management page allows configuration of Cache as
enabled or disabled, or remotely settable via standard SCSI
commands
- Configure and monitor subsystem using any standard web
browser.
- SAF-TE and SMART environmental monitoring support.
- DNS support for symbolic addresses.
- Build RAID sets (and set RAID level and stripe size),
partition RAID sets into Volumes, map Volumes to LUNs and
Host Ports, and manage Spares
- For each drive, complete Model Name, Capacity, Serial
Number, and Firmware Revision is reported along with errors
and retries, if any.
- Alerts and warnings sent out using SMTP email alerts with
problem summary, hyperlink to the enclosure management page,
plus user-defined fields.
- Extra security feature requires manual confirmation of
destructive media operations.
- Battery-backed Real Time Clock/Calendar is used to time
stamp all major events
- Supports SNMP
TeleGuard - Phone Home
Tele-Guard is Nexsan Technologies' phone home feature incorporated
within the ATABeast. Tele-Guard™ monitors all system
parameters and you can select either single or multiple user
alerts to be sent via e-mail, Internet based SMS notification
or Tele-Guard's™ pager support.
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