NSS Server
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION OF SOLID-STATE STORAGE
EFFECTIVE USE OF SOLID-STATE STORAGE AS A CACHE
BUILT-IN LOCAL AND REMOTE DATA PROTECTION
SUPPORTS ANY STORAGE ENVIRONMENT
SIGNIFICANT BOOST TO LEGACY STORAGE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
VIRTUAL STORAGE WITH BACKUP AND DR
INTRODUCTION
Highly Available Virtualized Storage for Virtual and Physical Servers
The FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) is a scalable, highly available solution that enables storage virtualization and business continuity in heterogeneous environments. Supporting existing third-party disk arrays, FalconStor NSS eliminates storage boundaries and vendor lock-in, providing fast and easy data provisioning, mirroring, migration, snapshots, and WAN-optimized replication. With integrated support for Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, and FCoE protocols, FalconStor NSS provides the benefits of storage virtualization across any IT environment or budget.
- Optimize I/O performance: READ, WRITE, and replication
- Automated disaster recovery (DR) via RecoverTrac™ technology
- Migrate and move data across storage platforms without downtime
FalconStor NSS lets you consolidate and tier disk assets. Through advanced services such as thin provisioning, FalconStor NSS maximizes resource utilization to help you get the most ROI from storage investments. With thin provisioning, physical capacity is automatically allocated only when needed. This can be applied to primary storage, replica storage, and mirrored storage.
FalconStor NSS benefits VMware environments
FalconStor NSS integrates with and enhances VMware technologies such as VMware vSphere, VMware View, and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Support of VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) extends VMware integration into any storage environment and optimizes VMware deployments with comprehensive, flexible storage virtualization and data protection functionality. Preconfigured FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliances enable iSCSI SAN services on the direct-attached storage (DAS) resources of VMware ESX Server for affordable, advanced data protection.
- Certified for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Heterogeneous support lets you use SANs of different vendors, reducing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager deployment constraints and cost
- Enable advanced VMware features such as vMotion, High Availability, and Distributed Resource Scheduler
- VMware VAAI support enables storage vMotion and data mobility across different storage protocols and vendor arrays.
Flexible deployment options
FalconStor NSS provides enterprise-level storage virtualization technology for organizations of all sizes. It is available in the form of storage appliances, gateway appliances that virtualize existing storage, and small-footprint virtual appliances for VMware environments, as well as HA appliances. In addition, solid-state drive (SSD) models offer storage area network (SAN) acceleration.
- FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliance: for ROBO environments leveraging VMware technology
- FalconStor NSS Appliances: all-in-one appliances for SMB and ROBO environments
- FalconStor NSS VS Series Appliances: HA appliances for the midmarket and enterprise
- FalconStor NSS Gateway Appliances: integrate with existing third-party storage of midmarket and enterprise organizations.
KEY FEATURES
- Integrates with servers at the system bus and kernel level, creating a new Flash memory tier
- Not an SSD - easily outperforms dozens of SSDs and a single server
- Accelerates applications, improves response times, and boosts efficiency
- Reduces storage latencies and eliminates I/O bottlenecks
- Delivers the performance of thousands of disk drives in a single server
- From 160GB - 640GB of enterprise-grade, solid-state Flash
- Easy to use, highly reliable
SPECIFICATION
| NSS GATEWAY APPLIANCE SPECIFICATIONS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Model | NSS GA700 | NSS GA710 | NSS GA720 |
| Physical Characteristics | |||
| Form Factor | 2U rackmount | 5U rackmount | 2U rackmount |
| CPU | Quad core Intel E5620 Xeon CPU 2.40GHz, 12M cache | 2 x Quad core Intel E5620 Xeon CPU 2.40GHz, 12M cache | Quad core Intel E5620 Xeon CPU 2.40GHz, 12M cache |
| Memory | 24GB | 24GB | 24GB |
| RAID - Internal RAID controller | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hard drives | 2 hot-plug | 2 hot-plug | 2 hot-plug |
| Access Latency | 250GB, 7200 RPM, SATA | ||
| Power supply (maximum output) | Redundant hot-plug auto-switching 870W | Redundant hot-plug auto-switching 870W | Redundant hot-plug auto-switching 870W |
| Host Connections | |||
| iSCSI support — 1 Gb/s | 4 ports | 4 ports | 4 ports |
| iSCSI support — 10 Gb/s | Optional | Optional | 2 ports (target upstream) |
| iSCSI boot (bare metal recovery) | Included | Included | Included |
| Storage Cluster Interlink (SCI) for HA configurations | 2 ports | 2 ports | 2 ports |
| 8Gb FC support | 4 ports (2 target upstream / 2 initiator downstream) |
6 ports (3 target upstream / 3 initiator downstream) |
2 ports (initiator downstream) |
| Advanced Features | |||
| High availability (HA) | Requires 2nd Gateway | Requires 2nd Gateway | Requires 2nd Gateway |
| Other features | Space-efficient snapshots (TimeMark®) per disk image (LUN) Multipath IO - DynaPath® for Microsoft Windows, support for Linux MPIO Microsoft Windows/Linux file system snapshot agents Microsoft Windows/Linux database/application snapshot & recovery agents Multi-site Cluster Adapter for Microsoft Windows Snapshot Director for VMware vSphere Storage Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager SafeCacheTM write cache & journaling for solid-state memory/disk (SSD) HotZone® read cache support for SSD Thin provisioning Synchronous & asynchronous data mirroring WAN-optimized replication with compression & encryption Automated DR via RecoverTracTM tool SNMP integration with major enterprise management tools Email alerts Central Client Manager (CCM) |
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Additional Information:
- Exchange 2010 and NSS acceleration with Violin SSD
- FAQ: SAN Acceleration Using FalconStor NSS
- Frequently asked questions (FAQ ): Network Storage Server (NSS)
- NSS 300 Series Storage Appliances
- NSS Enterprise
- NSS HC Series SAN Appliances
- NSS Virtual Appliance for VMware Infrastructures
- Snapshot Director for VMware
White Papers:
- Global Application and SAN Acceleration with Solid-State Storage
Solid-state storage or memory is an increasingly popular storage offering, providing quick response times and high rates of IOPS. This paper investigates the deployment models of solid-state storage, and explains how FalconStor NSS SAN Accelerator enhance ... - Optimizing Blade Environments with IPStor
FalconStor´s IPStor software is the first solution to deliver storage pooling and storage services for blade servers, overcoming current limitations in blade technology and resulting in extremely manageable, secure data environments combining ultra-high ... - Optimizing Storage for VDI Deployments
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides a new computing model by centralizing physical desktops into virtualized desktop server farms. This paper discusses how FalconStor NSS technology works with Violin flash array storage in a Force 3 architecture ... - RecoverTrac v.2.0: Service-Oriented Disaster Recovery
Protecting data means nothing if you can't recover it. FalconStor® RecoverTrac™ automates complex DR tasks, bringing service-oriented recovery to physical and virtual server infrastructures. This paper discusses the technical concerns associated with DR, and explains in detail how RecoverTrac technology addresses a full range of DR challenges... - Replicate with Integrity: Protecting VMware Data to Ensure Fast Recovery, Business Continuity
As organizations increasingly adopt virtualization, they have begun to explore the notion of replicating to another virtualization server as a means of data protection. This appears to be a simpler, cost-efficient alternative to using traditional physical ... - Simplifying DR: One-Button Replication for Combined Physical/Virtual Data Centers
Having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is mandatory. Most organizations recognize this- particularly those that have learned this the hard way, when a disaster caught them unprepared. DR procedures have always been complicated for the... - The Value of Storage Virtualization
Virtualization" has become a buzzword in technology circles, but what exactly it is—and what it is not—have been variously and vaguely defined. This white paper addresses the specific topic of storage virtualization. Presented within a context of related issues in storage networking, storage virtualization is defined, its benefits are presented, and its features detailed... - TOTALLY Open Disaster Recovery: The New Paradigm of Optimized, Cost-effective DR
The ability to recover quickly and completely from any site failure is of paramount importance to organizations of all sizes — yet complexity and high costs prevent many from adequately protecting themselves. FalconStor solutions are flexible and... - Virtually Effortless Backup for VMware Environments
Backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategies protect data from corruption and failures - and ensure that if these types of events occur, companies aren't forced out of business. Data protection becomes even more important in a virtualized...
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