ATAboy2x
extends Nexsan's award-winning ATAboyT product line to meet
the needs of the most demanding high performance environments.
ATAboy2x delivers blazing throughput speeds along with unsurpassed
features and functionality in a low profile, correct cost
expandable package.
Nexsan
designed the ATAboy2x for maximum flexibility and scalability.
All of the critical components in the ATAboy2x, including
the RAID controllers and host connections, are user-pluggable.
This architecture results in reliable, fully redundant data
protection while empowering users to maximize the return on
their Nexsan hardware investment.
High Performance Design
Designed
to meet the challenges of high performance computing environments,
ATAboy2x delivers unparalleled availability and performance
in an ATA RAID device. With sustained throughput speeds of
up to 340 MB/s per controller, ATAboy2x provides blazing performance
across all standard platforms and operating systems. Dual
2Gb fibre channel connectors (per controller) enable easy
and flexible implementation into a wide range of environments.
ATAboy2x's unique combination of high performance and enormous
capacity provides exceptional value that enhances all digital
storage applications, such as live on-line data, rich media,
digital film, uncompressed HD, broadcast/VOD and other mission
critical applications.
Correct
Cost Enterprise Class Reliability
Nexsan's
unbeatable fault tolerance results from eliminating all potential
single points of failure. The advanced hardware design of
the ATAboy2x is supported by Nexsan's Extreme Intelligence
software, NexScanT, with sophisticated centralized management
and monitoring. Tele-GuardT, Nexsan's phone home manager,
provides monitoring and reporting of all system conditions.
The ATAboy2x's built-in NexScan management is platform independent
with an intuitive design that simplifies installation and
enables remote management and configuration of multiple arrays
from a single GUI.
Configuration And Management
NexScan™ is Nexsan's embedded web-enabled Graphical User
Interface (GUI). The platform independence of the NexScan
allows you to manage your system from any standard Internet
browser or from any host computer either directly connected
or via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required.
You also have the option of accessing the ATAboy2x via the
RS-232 serial port or 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, and 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.
- SCSI ID, maximum transfer rate, and termination can be
individually set for each Host Port (ATAboy2 SCSI-ATA only)
- 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
Key Benefits
Nexsan's award-winning Enterprise ATA RAID design allows single
or multiple drives to be designated as hot spares. The ATAboy2x
ensures dependable hot swapping of drives by combining a custom
utilized ATA connector specially designed for drive- plugging
operations and an electronic soft-start capability that further
enhances reliability when hot swapping. The ATAboy2x advanced
RAID architecture supports 48 bit LBA providing the ability
to support current high capacity ATA disk drives, with the
flexibility to support even higher capacities with Nexsan's
proprietary ATAengine® featuring soft-re-configurable
FPGAs. This technology also allows field updates of the ATA
interface design and remote firmware updates via the web-based
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