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2011ENTERPRISE

SCALE-OUTSTORAGEBUYERS GUIDEThe Insiders Guide to Evaluating

Enterprise Scale-Out Storage SolutionsBy Ben Maas and Jerome M Wendt
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DCIG 2011 ENTERPRISE SCALE-OUT STORAGE BUYERS GUIDEThe Insiders Guide to Evaluating Enterprise Scale-Out Storage Systems

Table o Contents

1 Introduction

3 Executive Summary

4 How to Use this Small Enterprise

Scale-out Storage Buyers Guide

5 Disclosures

5 Enterprise Scale-out Storage Inclusion

and Exclusion Criteria

6 The 7-Step Process Used to Score

and Rank Enterprise Scale-OutStorage Solutions

7 Comments and Thoughts on

7 Enterprise Scale-out

Storage Management Category

7 Feature Areas Where DCIG Expects

to See Improvement

8 Observations and Recommendations

Regarding Each Enterprise Scale-out

Storage Array Ranking

8 Best-in-Class8 Recommended

9 Excellent

9 Good

9 Basic

10 Enterprise Scale-out Storage

Scores and Rankings

11 Overall

12 Hardware

13 Enterprise Scale-out Storage Array Models

14 BlueArc Mercury 55

15 BlueArc Mercury 110

16 BlueArc Titan 3200 Series

17 Cleversae dsNet 2000 Series

18 Dell EqualLogic PS Series

19 EMC Isilon IQ NL-Series

20 EMC Isilon IQ S-Series

21 EMC Isilon IQ X-Series

22 HP X9000 IBRIX Storage System

23 IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS)

24 NetApp FAS2000 Series



27 Panasas PAS 8

28 Panasas PAS 9

29 Panasas PAS 12

30 Scale Computing M Series

31 Scale Computing N Series

32 Scale Computing S Series

33 Symantec FileStore N8300

34 Product Rankings Dashboard

Appendix

A-1 Denition o Terms Used in Buyers Guide

B-1 Enterprise Scale-out Storage Provider Contact Inormation

C-1 Author Contact Inormation


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Introduction

The era o Big Data is here. But its arrival creates a new problem: What type o storage

solution is best equipped to manage and store all o this data?

This is where the DCIG 2011 Enterprise Scale-out Storage Buyers Guide comes into play.

It oers organizations valuable insight and guidance into this new, rapidly maturing class o

storage systems.

Enterprise scale-out storage systems are particularly unique as they provide the architecture

that is viewed by many as a prerequisite or building out tomorrows public and private stor-

age clouds that need to handle this infux o Big Data.

But as with any emerging market a variety o scale-out storage architectures are being

developed and released. This made evaluating and scoring this set o solutions more

challenging than normal as the intent o each DCIG Buyers Guide is to provide apples-to-

apples comparisons so organizations have the inormation they need to make an inormed

buying decision.

One o the specic obstacles DCIG encountered in the preparation o this Buyers Guide

was properly comparing product architectures. Some vendors have adapted their existing

storage system or systems to bring them into the scale-out storage space. Others went or

a pure cluster approach. Still others opted or sotware solutions.

So to accurately compare each o these enterprise scale-out storage systems DCIG took

a rigorous process o gathering as much inormation about each one as possible.

The evaluation process started with a lengthy eort to identiy vendors and models that

claimed to oer enterprise scale-out storage systems. That research enabled DCIG to arriveat a working denition o enterprise scale-out storage. Once dened, storage systems

were then re-evaluated to ensure they met this denition.

This evaluation entailed looking at the eatures on each system and then creating a 175-point

questionnaire that covered over 70 capabilities and eatures that are ound across them.

Once completed, this survey was sent to each vendor to validate what eatures their scale-

out storage system model or models supported.

Ater the questionnaires were completed and returned each vendors responses were

checked against publicly available data as well as double-checked with the vendors them-

selves. Features were then weighted, scored and ranked. The eatures were then distilled

into the individual product data sheets ound in this Buyers Guide that refect how each

product supports these eatures.

The level o detail in this Buyers Guide combined with a consistent scoring system helps

organizations in two key ways.

First, it provides a powerul yet concise method to evaluate each enterprise scale-out storage

system so organizations can understand the overall strengths and weaknesses o each

solution. Using that inormation they can then understand how well designed each solution

is positioned to meet specic needs in their environment.

Second, this Buyers Guide provides a set o scores and rankings across the multiple eatures

on each product as well as a data sheet or each enterprise scale-out storage system.


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Introduction continued

These data sheets drill down into the specics o each product to provide inormation on

how each scale-out storage systems administration, backup, hardware, OS support, repli-

cation and technical support eatures are supported. I specic eatures are supported and

how well they are implemented contribute to specic category scores as well as an overall

score or each scale-out storage system.

In doing the scoring DCIG endeavored to use metrics that resulted in product comparisons

that were as air as possible. To accomplish this some new evaluation criteria were intro-

duced into this Buyers Guide as enterprise scale-out storage systems alter the paradigm

as to how storage systems are built and evaluated.

Enterprise scale-out storage systems are particularly attractive to organizations as they can

start with a small implementation (as little as a ew nodes and a ew terabytes) and thenseamlessly add more perormance and/or storage capacity as required. One particular

enterprise scale-out storage system, the HP X9000 IBRIX, could even grow its managed

storage capacity to over 80 petabytes.

This makes it imperative that organizations minimize the time they spend managing and

supporting these systems. It is or that reason this Buyers Guide put added emphasis on

scalability and management unctions versus the systems raw maximum capacity.

This Buyers Guide also evaluates each systems power consumption and thermal ratings.

As margins tighten and storage consumes a larger percentage o a data centers operational

budget, the ecient use o cooling and power have become a major cost actor and deci-

sion point in both large data centers and small data closets.

What remains the same as in other DCIG Buyers Guides is the decision not to overtly evalu-

ate perormance. Perormance is determined by so many controllable and uncontrollable

environmental actors that it is almost impossibly or a third party to objectively evaluate any

products perormance.

DCIG thereore continues to encourage users to use this Buyers Guide to create a short

list o enterprise scale-out systems that will potentially meet your needs and then test their

perormance in your environment.

Please note that this Buyers Guide is NOT intended to be a substitute or internal test-

ing. DCIG encourages any organization that is considering the purchase o an enterprise

scale-out storage solution to do in-house testing i at all possible as each solution may react

dierently to your particular workloads.

We hope this Buyers Guide meets its intended purposes in your environments and

serves as a helpul aid in supplementing your organizations normal decision making

and evaluation process.

Ben and Jerome


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As the total amount o inormation generated in 2010 zoomed over 1 zettabyte or the rst

time in the history o mankind organizations small and large must deal with the practical

ramications o managing and storing all o that data.

It is this need that enterprise scale-out storage systems are particularly well suited to meet.

Organizations that are strongly positioned to benet rom these solutions include:

Smallandmidsizebusinesseslookingforasolutiontostoretheirdailybackups

Cloudproviderslookingtoscaletheirstoragefortheirclients

Citiesthathaveimplementedvideosurveillanceandneedtostoreit

Financial,medical,oilandgasandtelecommunicationcompaniesthatcapturevolumes

o inormation on items such as patients, transactions and geo-spatial data

The list o applications that can benet rom enterprise scale-out storage systems is long

and diverse. This can make sorting through the list o available models, understanding what

eatures are important and selecting the right solution a daunting and complex task.

Assisting organizations in making this decision is what the DCIG 2011Enterprise Scale-out

Storage Buyers Guide is intended to do. This Buyers Guide covers enterprise scale-out

storage systems that can scale rom a ew hundred gigabytes to tens o petabytes.

This DCIG 2011 Enterprise Scale-Out Storage Buyers Guide achieves the ollowing objectives:

Providesanobjective,third-partyevaluationofcurrentlyavailable

enterprise scale-out storage solutions

Evaluates,scoresandranksenterprisescale-outstoragesolutions

rom the end-users perspective

IncludesrecommendationsonhowtobestutilizethisBuyersGuide

Providesdatasheetson20enterprisescale-outstoragesolutionsfromtendifferent

providers so organizations can do a quick comparison o eatures while having sucient

detail at their ngertips to make an inormed decision

Providesinsightintothemanagement,applicationlayer,hostsupport,hardwareandproduct

support eatures which organizations may look or in an enterprise scale-out storage solution

Providesasummaryofcommoncongurationsofenterprisescale-outstoragesolutions

This Buyers Guide cannot tell you the right vendor and solution to select or your particularrequirements. Rather this Buyers Guide should be viewed as a handbook to jump start

your research and decision. It will help organizations identiy and prioritize eatures and

capabilities in solutions that are shipping today so they may more quickly move to the next

stage o evaluating the right solution or their environment.

Executive Summary


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How to Use this Enterprise Scale-outStorage Buyers Guide

This DCIG 2011 Enterprise Scale-out Storage Buyers

Guide will unction as an important tool or any organization

that is starting or already in the process o purchasing an

enterprise scale-out storage solution. The result o months

o intense research, this Buyers Guide will do much o the

heavy liting or organizations in terms o helping them to

vet what enterprise scale-out storage solutions are currently

available and what eatures they possess.

Solutions in the enterprise scale-out storage market arevery diverse and serve the needs o multiple application

types. Thereore in preparing this Buyers Guide it was

DCIGs goal to evaluate, score and rank each solution

based upon a comprehensive list o eatures that refects

the needs o the widest range o organizations.

How an organization leverages this Buyers Guide will

somewhat depend on the organizations size. Large

enterprises looking or a solution to meet their Big Data

application needs will nd that those solutions that have

the highest scores and rankings will meet the widest range

o their application requirements.

Conversely small and midsize organizations as well as

departments that have Big Data needs or a smaller

number o applications should consider those solutions

that are ranked as Good or Basic. These enterprise

scale-out solutions may have the eatures they need or the

challenge or challenges that they are trying to address at a

more competitive price.

DCIGs rankings o Best-In-Class, Recommended,

Excellent, Good, and Basic are a measure o how well

the unctionality and capability o each solution compares

to the overall scale-out storage market.

As these measurements score and rank the overall capa-

bilities o each solution, organizations need to veriy that

the eatures and capabilities that they require are included

in the specic solutions they are considering. However the

higher the score, the greater the likelihood that the product

contains the eatures they are considering.

DCIG encourages good stewardship in all purchasing

decisions and has attempted to pack as much detail as

possible about each solution into each data sheet.

Organizations should thereore use this Buyers Guide

as a handbook to understand who the enterprise scale-

out storage players are, what products they oer, what

eatures and unctions are available on each, how these

solutions scale, what networking and storage protocols

they oer and how organizations might manage any solu-

tion they purchase.

DCIG recommends that you use this Enterprise Scale-out

Storage Buyers Guide in the ollowing six ways:

Jumpstart the painstaking research associated with

identifying desired features in the enterprise scale-out storage space.The Buyers Guide contains an

exhaustive list o over 70 individual eatures that organiza-

tions looking or an enterprise scale-out storage solution

may consider or evaluation. This list provides an excellent

place to start when creating a list o eatures that your

organization may need or want.

Provide perspective on the overall state of the

enterprise scale-out storage market. DCIG has

identied vendors beyond recognizable names such as

Dell, EMC, HP, IBM and NetApp to better portray the

overall state o the market. The inclusion o these lesser

known vendors is done to encourage amiliarity and to

help highlight where innovation may be occurring.

Create a standardized data sheet to compare diverse

solution lines. There are currently a number o

divergent approaches to enterprise scale-out storage.

The standardized data sheet attempts to normalize

these dierent approaches out or the purposes o

evaluation while still exposing the dierences. This will

allow organizations to make both apples-to-apples and

apples-to-oranges comparisons.

Use the standardized data sheet to aid your own

investigation. Our standardized data sheet should beused as a starting point or your own investigation. The

list o eatures can be used as a starting point in

discussions with vendors and as an audit trail during

your investigation. A DCIG 2011 Enterprise Scale-Out

Storage Buyers Guide Data Sheet can also serve as an

attractive cover sheet that supplements your own

discussions and research.

Help justify technical buying recommendations to

business folks. Nothing is easier or those on the

business side to understand than a number. To help in


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this area, at the top o every enterprise scale-out

storage data sheet, product scores and rankings are

listed so those on the business side o the house can

quickly see how a particular model scores and

compares with others. The Buyers Guide also includes

aggregate score sheets that provide the high-level

scores and rankings or all o the enterprise scale-out

storage solutions.

Normalize complex storage terminology. Every

computing industry has a proclivity to adopt acronyms

and jargon that is specic to it but the data storage

industry seems to go out o its way to not only use

unamiliar terms but to reer to the same technology in

dierent ways. This complicates any evaluation o a

technology. This Buyers Guide explains and normalizes

the jargon specic to these technologies, enhancing

the quality and productivity o the discussions around

the technology.

DisclosuresOver the last ew years the general trend in the US has been

or both large analyst rms and boutique analyst rms to

receive some or all o their revenue rom storage vendors.

DCIG is no dierent in that respect as it also receives

payment or the dierent services it perorms or storage

vendors. The services that DCIG provides include blog-

ging, case studies, executive white papers, ull-length

white papers, product reviews and special reports. For

more inormation on DCIG, visit www.dcig.com.

In the interest o transparency, a number o the storage

providers included in this Enterprise Scale-Out Storage

Buyers Guide are or have been DCIG clients. No vendors,

however, whether clients or not, have been aorded

any preerential treatment in this Buyers Guide. Wherea client relationship does exist DCIG may have had more

complete knowledge o specic vendors products and

eatures. However DCIG sought to include all relevant

products in this Buyers Guide, and existing relationships

played no part in inclusion or ranking.

In that vein there are a number o important acts to keep

in mind when considering the inormation contained in this

Enterprise Scale-Out Storage Buyers Guide and its merit.

NostoragevendorpaidDCIGanyfeetodevelopthis

Buyers Guide.

DCIGdidnotguaranteeanystorageproviderthatits

enterprise scale-out storage solution would be included

in this Buyers Guide.

Previousrelationshipsdidnotinuencetheresearch,

scoring or ranking o this Buyers Guide.

Allresearchwasbaseduponpubliclyavailableinforma-

tion as well as inormation provided by the storage

vendors themselves.

Becauseofthenumberoffeaturesanalyzed,how

these eatures were weighted and how each enterprise

scale-out storage solution was scored and ranked, there

was no way or DCIG to predict at the outset how the

enterprise scale-out storage solution would end up

scoring or ranking at the end.

DCIG would like to emphasize that no storage provider

was privy to how DCIG did the scoring and ranking o

the scale-out storage eatures. In every case, the storage

providers only ound out the scores and rankings o their

respective scale-out storage solution ater the analysis and

research was complete.

Enterprise Scale-Out Storage Inclusionand Exclusion Criteria

As DCIG prepared this Buyers Guide, it had to take an impor-

tant rst step: develop a working denition o Enterprise

Scale-Out Storage. The denition needed to be suciently

broad so as to encompass what comes to mind when orga-

nizations hear the term enterprise scale-out storage while

still making the denition suciently narrow to keep it down to

a manageable set o vendors and solutions.

To that end the ollowing denition o enterprise scale-

out storage was arrived at and was used as a means to

determine whether or not a solution should be included in

this Buyers Guide.

Each enterprise scale-out storage solution must:

Beavailableasanappliancethatisavailableasasingle

SKU and includes its own hardware and sotware

Containnodesthatareindependentlycongurablefor

processing, storage or both. Each node may include its
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own processor, power, network interace, and

optional disk controllers

Supporthorizontalscalingofdrivecapacityand

throughput through the addition o nodes

Supporttheverticalscalingofdrivecapacityand

throughput by way o the independent upgrading

o components within individual nodes

SupportEthernetconnectivity

Supportoneormoreofthefollowingstorage

networking protocols:

CIFS and NFS

REST/Object storage

iSCSI

Fibre Channel and/or FCoE

Supportstorageofdataacrossmultiplenodes

Supportthehotinsertionandremovalof

individual nodes

ProvidesufcientinformationforDCIGtodraw

meaningul conclusion

ModelmustshipbyJuly1,2011

Enterprise scale-out storage solutions meeting these criteria

were then separated into two categories:

ClusteredStorageAppliance

Functions as a true cluster with no

controller nodes

Usually a minimum o three nodes to

unction in a highly available conguration

Each node contains its own processor(s), cache,

power, networking and redundant disk controllers

Scale-OutStorageAppliance

A minimum o two controller nodes

Does scale-out through the addition oindependent storage nodes that contain

additional storage capacity

The Seven-Step Process Used to Scoreand Rank Enterprise Scale-Out StorageSolutions1. A long list o eatures that met the DCIG defnition

orEnterprise Scale-Out Storagewas created.

Prior to selecting the eatures ultimately included in this

Buyers Guide a larger, longer list o eatures was

compiled. The terms on this list were then normalized

such that a common name or each eature included in

the Buyers Guide could be established. In cases where

a eature could not be objectively dened or under-

stood, it was excluded rom consideration.

2. A list o eatures to be included in the Buyers

Guide was established.

3. Each eature had a weighting associated with it.

The weightings were used to refect i a eature was

supported and potentially how useul and/or important

the eature was. For example, based on experience

rom previous Buyers Guides, allocate-on-write

snapshot capabilities were given a higher weighting

than other snapshot types based on space-eciency

and perormance expectations. As such, scale-out

storage appliances that included an allocate-on-write

snapshot capability scored higher than those that

supported other snapshot types.

4. The eatures were broken into fve (5) general

categories. The eatures included in this Buyers

Guide were broken down into ve general categories:

Management, Application Layer, Host Support,Hardware, and Product Support. These categories

refect the general eatures that DCIG believes

organizations are evaluating when seeking out

enterprise scale-out storage solutions.

5. A survey or each solution was sent to each vendor

to complete. DCIG contacted representatives o the

vendors included in this Buyers Guide to enlist their

support in completing it. In those instances where

vendors did not complete the survey, DCIG completed

the survey on their behal, sent it to them and gave

them the opportunity to respond with any corrections

or edits to the DCIG-completed survey.

6. All the eatures were scored based on the

inormation gathered rom surveys.

7. Each enterprise scale-out storage solution was

ranked and scored according to fve (5) dierent

designations. One o the goals o this Buyers Guide

was to make clear, objective distinctions between

dierent enterprise scale-out storage solutions. To

accomplish this goal, the mean (or average) score or


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each category was determined as well as the standard

deviation. The mean and standard deviation were

calculated rom the scores o all the scale-out storage

solutions. DCIG then developed a ranking or each

scale-out storage solution using these calculations

as a guide.

Thoseenterprisescale-outstoragesolutionscores

that were 1.0 or greater standard deviations below

the mean were given the rank o Basic.


that were 1.0 standard deviations below the mean

to .4 standard deviations above the mean were

assigned the rank o Good.


that were 0.4 1.0 standard deviations above the

mean were ranked as Excellent.


that were greater than 1.0 standard deviations

above the mean were ranked as Recommended.

Theenterprisescale-outstoragesolutionthathad

the top score in each category was given the

designation Best-in-Class.

It is or this reason that in each classication the

number o enterprise scale-out storage solutions that

achieved a certain ranking varied. In every instance all

enterprise scale-out storage solution scores came

within two (2) standard deviations o the mean

Comments and Thoughts on Enterprise Scale-out

Storage Management Category

The eatures included in the Management category were

among the more dicult to weight, score and rank. DCIG

sought to only include eatures that organizations will ndthe most useul and practical when managing data stored

on an enterprise scale-out storage solution. But as is

sometimes the case, some eatures such as certain

snapshot types and storage optimization are more subject

to interpretation than others.

For instance, one scoring decision that had to be made

was to make a determination as to which snapshot type

was the Best. This determination was needed in order to

properly weight and score each snapshot type on each

respective enterprise scale-out storage solution.

In general DCIG ollowed the precedents it established in its

recent DCIG 2011 Midrange Array Snapshot Sotware

Buyers Guide. The snapshot methodology determined to

be the Best was based on the ollowing criteria:

Usedtheleastamountofstoragecapacity

when a snapshot was taken

Incurredtheleastamountofperformanceoverhead

to complete the snapshot

Wastheleastlikelytoimpactperformance

ater the snapshot was complete

It was when these three actors were taken into consider-

ation that it became clear allocate-on-write is generally

the best snapshot type. It should be noted there is at least

one implementation o copy-on-write that DCIG considers

to be as good i not better than allocate-on-write.

However this implementation o copy-on-write was not

available on any o the enterprise scale-out storage solutions

covered in this Buyers Guide. As a result the enterprise

scale-out storage solutions that supported the allocate-on-

write snapshot eature received higher scores than those

that supported some other snapshot methodology.

Feature Areas Where DCIG Expects

to See Improvement

DCIG expects that a common use case or enterprise

scale-out storage solutions will be as archival and backup

solutions. This led DCIG to expect more vendors would

include support or deduplication to their solutions. In

practice, only NetApp and Symantec responded that they

supported deduplication in some orm on their respective

solutions at the time this Buyers Guide was published.

Another area where DCIG expects to see improvement, or

at least clarication, is in each vendors support or the

HTTP protocol. In DCIGs discussions with vendors wholisted HTTP as a supported protocol, it was oten dicult

to determine i they were supporting a web based le

system (such as WebDAV) or a pure object storage

architecture, such as REST.

DCIG expects some Big Data analytics systems will preer

to store data using these protocols either now or in the

near uture. So it will be interesting to see how support or

HTTP continues to evolve and i it will become a eature

that organizations view as a necessity or a nicety.


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Observations and RecommendationsRegarding Each Scale-Out StorageSolution Ranking

Best-in-Class Ranking

The HP X9000 IBRIX Storage System achieved the

Best-In-Class ranking among the enterprise scale-out

storage systems that DCIG evaluated. In comparing this

solution to its counterparts, notable ways in which it

stood out included:

Achievedinexcessof80petabytesofstoragecapacity

which is attributable to its mixed cluster approach and

unmatched high node count

Automatedstoragerecovery

HighamountsofsystemRAMandindividual

node capacity

Longerhardwarewarrantythanothersolutionswith

option to extend hardware warranty with supplemental

support contract

SupportforbothFibreChannelandInnibandstorage networking protocols

Recommendation

The HP X9000 IBRIX is clearly targeted at the enterprise

Big Data market. Its ability to scale to over 80 PBs o

storage capacity completely separated itsel rom the rest

o the pack in this specic area.

The HP X9000 IBRIX did have similar scores as its competi-

tors in the Management, Application and Host Support

categories. Areas where it edged them out were as a result

o its support or both Fibre Channel, Inniband and system

RAM. Its high score was urther bolstered by a node count

that dwared the other solutions that DCIG researched.

It should be added that part o the dierence was attrib-

utable to its hardware support. HP provides one o the

lengthier standard hardware warranties that DCIG encoun-

tered plus it has an option to extend its hardware warranty

under a support contract.

The main caution that DCIG issues to organizations

considering the HP X9000 IBRIX is to careully evaluate

the number o conguration options it oers. Organizations

interested in acquiring an HP X9000 IBRIX solution will

denitely want to discuss these options with HP to ensure

they are getting the most appropriate conguration or their

environment. However DCIG sees the HP X9000 IBRIX as

primarily a large enterprise play so these conversations

should be occurring anyway.

Recommended Ranking

Observations

Enterprise scale-out storage solutions ranked as

Recommended in general shared the ollowing

characteristics:

AchievedaRecommendedrankingin

the Management, Application Layer and

Hardware categories

HighscoresonsystemRAM

OfferedsupportforInniband

Recommendation

Both the EMC Isilon IQ NL-Series and X-Series scored

very high in the Management, Application Layer and

Host Support categories. The two models are very close

together rom a hardware standpoint though EMC Isilon

dierentiates the two products based on their intended

use case. The IQ NL-Series is primarily targeted or use

with backup and archival solutions while the IQ X-Series is

primarily being positioned as a data accelerator o sorts.

EMC Isilons broad support or hardware, network and

management eatures is one o the reasons both o these

products nd themselves near the top end o DCIGs

overall rankings. EMC Isilon tied the HP X9000 IBRIX and

NetApp or top marks in the management category withits support or continuous and periodic asynchronous

replication, snapshots and thin provisioning contributing

to its high score.

EMC Isilons main area o concern was its standard hard-

ware warranty o one year with no option to extend it. It

should be noted however that this score is purely based

on the standard length o warranty and in no way refects

the eectiveness o EMC Isilons support sta.


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Excellent Ranking

Enterprise scale-out storage solutions ranked as Excellent

in general shared the ollowing characteristics:

Supportforsnapshots

AchievedRecommendedorExcellentrankings

in the Management and Application Layer categories

Aboveaveragescoresforhardwareandhardwaresupport

Petabyteorgreaterstoragecapacity

Recommendation

High scores in the Management and Application Layer

categories played an important role in the overall ranking

o these solutions. The scores are tightly packed together

with dierentiation showing up on a point by point basis in

host and hardware support scores.

IBMs SONAS oering is a good example which ranked

ourth in the Hardware category. IBM had a warranty plan

similar to the HP X9000 IBRIX and an Excellent ranking

in the Management category. Part o the reason it only

achieved a rating o Excellent was its lack o support or

global hot spares, iSCSI and Fibre Channel.

BlueArcs Titan 3200 Series on the other hand moved up

to the top edge o the Excellent ranking with its inclu-

sion o these three eatures. This also contributed to the

BlueArc Mercury 110 and Mercury 55 oerings achieving

an Excellent Hardware ranking.

The EMC Isilon S-Series only achieves an Excellent ranking

primarily because o its lower capacity. A deeper look into

this solution shows this is due to its ocus on throughput

(IOPS), a metric this Buyers Guide had diculty quantiy-

ing in a reliable ashion so organizations seeking raw IOPS

perormance may want to take a second look at this oering.

The NetApp FAS6200 and FAS3200 achieved an

Excellent ranking based mostly on their high scores in

the Management category. Their support or continuous,

periodic and synchronous replication and their distinction as

one o only two vendors to report support or deduplication

helped solidiy those scores. The only category NetApp did

not achieve a rank o Recommended or Excellent was in

the Host Support categories. This was primarily attributable

to its lack o certications.

Good Ranking

Enterprise scale-out storage solutions ranked as Good


Limitedsupportfordifferentstoragetiers

Limitedsupportfornetworkstorageprotocols

Scaledtosupportlessthan1PBofstoragecapacity

Recommendation

Panasas turned in an Excellent ranking in the Management

category on all o its PAS oerings. However their lack o iSCSIsupport, reduced system RAM and reliance on SATA hard

drives lowered their overall hardware scores and contributed

to the PAS systems ultimately receiving only Good rankings.

Organizations looking or a strong set o management

eatures but not in need o solutions that extend into the

petabyte range o storage capacity should take a strong

look at the NetApp FAS2000. The FAS2000 has all the

same management and support eatures o its larger

siblings plus it also includes deduplication which could

give a higher net storage capacity.

The other deduplication oering in this ranking is theSymantec FileStore N8300. Symantec scored well in the

Application Layer and Host Support categories. The addi-

tion o eatures that are on its roadmap should contribute to

this system scoring and ranking higher in the uture.

The Dell EqualLogic PS Series rounds out the group o those

enterprise scale-out storage solutions ranked as Good.

The lack o support or NAS protocols, continuous replication

and subvolume tiering hurt its ranking in a NAS heavy market

space. Dell did however top our ranking o hardware support

with its availability o a ve (5) year extended warranty.

Basic Ranking

Enterprise scale-out storage solutions ranked as Basic


Ethernetonlyconnectivity(CIFS,iSCSIandNASprotocols)

LimitedsystemRAM

Fewerstoragemanagementfeatures


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Recommendation

Solutions ranked as Basic are generally aimed at small and

midsize enterprises. This is refected in the Basic manage-

ment rankings that each o these solutions garnered as they

did not oer the more advanced management eatures such

as storage tiering and deduplication.

On the hardware side these solutions lack support or

enterprise storage networking eatures such as Fibre

Channel and Inniband. They also have more limited

system RAM when compared with the rest o the

systems that were evaluated.

Enterprise Scale-Out StorageScores and Rankings

The scores and rankings or the small enterprise storage

arrays contain the ollowing inormation:

Achartthatincludesthescoresandrankings

or all o the products

Themeanandthestandarddeviationthatwereused

to establish how each enterprise scale-out storage

solution model was ranked

Asummaryoftheprimaryndings


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OVERALL SCORES AND RANKINGS

Scale-Out Storage System SCORE

1. HP X9000 IBRIX Storage System 79.00 Best-in-Class

2. EMC Isilon IQ NL-Series 73.75 Recommended

3. EMC Isilon IQ X-Series 72.75 Recommended

4. BlueArc Titan 3200 Series 72.00 Excellent

5. NetApp FAS6200 Series 71.75 Excellent

6. EMC Isilon IQ S-Series 70.75 Excellent

7. IBM SONAS 70.00 Excellent

8. NetApp FAS3200 Series 69.75 Excellent

9. BlueArc Mercury 110 69.25 Excellent

10. BlueArc Mercury 55 68.25 Excellent

11. Panasas PAS 12 64.75 Good


13. NetApp FAS2000 Series 63.75 Good


15. Symantec FileStore N8300 61.00 Good

16. Dell EqualLogic PS Series 58.50 Good

17. CleverSae dsNet 2000 Series 56.75 Basic

18. Scale Computing M Series 55.50 Basic

19. Scale Computing S Series 54.50 Basic

20. Scale Computing N Series 53.25 Basic

Highest Score 79.00

Lowest Score 53.25

Average (Mean) 64.65

Standard Deviation 7.44

Rankings

Recommended 72.55 79.00

Excellent 68.09 72.54

Good 57.68 68.08

Basic 53.25 57.67

Total Number o Products 20


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Hot Swap Power Supplies

Hot Swap Disk Drives

Global Hot Spares Support

Non-Disruptive Updates

RoHS Compliant

Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs

Supported Unsupporte

Hardware

* With Support Contract.

Product Support

Standard Warranty 3 Yrs

Extended Warranty

Avai lab le*

Phone Support 24x7x365*

Email Support

(Business Hours)

Email Support

(24x7x365)*

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node

Current Consumption 120V : 240V 2.8A : 1.5A N/A : N/A

Avg Power Consump tion 348Wh N/A

Thermal Rating 1057 BTU/hr N/A

Networking

iSCSI

Max Ethernet Ports 6x1Gb, 2x10Gb

Interface Bonding

Max Fibre Channel Ports 4x4Gb

Max Infiniband Ports

Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare Certifed

Citrix Xenserver

Client Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows Certifed

Linux

Unix

OVERALLSCORE Management

ApplicationLayer Host Support Hardware

ProdSupp

68.25 22.00 7.00 8.00 20.25 11.0EXCELLENT EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED GOOD GOOD RECOMM

Management

Inclusive License

Asyn chro nou s Re plic ati on Periodic

Synchronous Replication

Snapshots AoW, Replica

Thin Provisioning

Aut oma ted Sto rag e

Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication

Storage Tiering Automatic, Scheduled

Subvolume Tiering Directory, File

Management Application, CLI, SNMP, Web

NDMP

Data Migration

Application LayerStorage Protocols

CIFS

NFS

Object Storage (REST)

WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Scale-Out Storage

Max Cluster/Controller Nodes 2

Max SAN/Storage Nodes N/A

Max Drives per Storage Node 12

Max Raw Capacity per Node 2 PB

Max Raw Storage Capacity 4 PB

Max System Memory Per Node 14 GB

BlueArc Mercury 55


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Interface Bonding



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Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare Certifed

Citrix Xenserver



Linux

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License




Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication




NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

69.25 22.00 7.00 8.00 21.25 11.0EXCELLENT EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED GOOD GOOD RECOMM

BlueArc Mercury 110


Product Support


Extended Warranty

Avai lab le*


Email Support

(Business Hours)

Email Support

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Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs


Hardware

Product Support


Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le*

Phone SupportBusiness Hours

24x7x365*

Email Support *

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node




Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Scale-Out Storage






Max System Memory Per Node 38.5 GB

Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare Certifed

Citrix Xenserver



Linux

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License




Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication




NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

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BlueArc Titan 3200 Series


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SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs


Hardware

EqualLogic PS SAN/Storage Node Models Supportedin a Dell EqualLogic PS Scale-Out Storage Confguration

PS4000E

PS4000X

PS4000XV

PS6000E

PS6000S

PS6000X

PS6000XV

PS6000XVS

PS6010E

PS6010S

PS6010X

PS6010XV

PS6010XVS

PS650OE

PS6500X

PS6510E

PS6510X

Product Support

Standard Warranty 1 Yr

Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le5 Yrs*

Phone SupportBusiness Days

24x7x365*

Email Support *

Miscellaneous





RoHS Compliant

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node

Current Consumption 120V : 240V N/A : N/A 11.7A : 5.8A

Avg Power Consump tion N/A 1398Wh

Thermal Rating N/A 3400 BTU/hr

Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding

Max Fibre Channel Ports


Scale-Out Storage

Max Cluster/Controller Nodes N/A

Max SAN/Storage Nodes 16


Max Raw Capacity per Node 96 TB

Max Raw Storage Capacity 1.53 PB


Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License




Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication


Subvolume Tiering Block


NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

58.50 16.00 3.00 10.00 17.50 12.0GOOD GOOD BASIC RECOMMENDED GOOD BEST-IN-

Dell EqualLogic PS Series


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Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs


Hardware

EMC Isilon Cluster/Controller Node Models Supported in anEMC Isilon NL-Series Scale-Out Storage Confguration:

Isilon IQ 36NL

Isilon IQ 72NL

Isilon IQ 108NL

Product Support


Extended Warranty

Ava ilab leN/A


Email Support *

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RoHS Compliant

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node




Networking

iSCSI

Max Ethernet Ports 4x1GbE, 2x10GbE

Interface Bonding


Max Infiniband Ports 2 ports

Scale-Out Storage







Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License

Asyn chro nou s Re plic ati on Continuous, Periodic


Snapshots AoW, CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication




NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

73.75 25.00 7.00 6.00 28.25 7.0RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED BASIC RECOMMENDED BAS

EMC Isilon IQ NL-Series


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SATA

SSD

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Extended Warranty

Ava ilab leN/A


Email Support *

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RoHS Compliant

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node




Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Scale-Out Storage




Max Raw Capacity per Node 14.4 TB



Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots AoW, CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication




NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

70.75 25.00 7.00 6.00 25.75 7.0EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED BASIC RECOMMENDED BAS

EMC Isilon IQ S-Series

EMC Isilon Cluster/Controller Node Models Supported in anEMC Isilon S-Series Scale-Out Storage Confguration:

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Ava ilab leN/A


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RoHS Compliant

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node




Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Scale-Out Storage







Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots AoW, CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication




NDMP

Data Migration



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RoHS Compliant

Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs


Hardware

HP X9000 Cluster/Controller Node ModelsSupported in a Scale-Out Storage Confguration:

X9300 1 GbE Network Storage Gateway

X9300 10 GbE/IB Network Storage Gateway

HP X9000 SAN/Storage Node Models Supportedin a Scale-Out Storage Confguration:

X9320 Performance Block

1 GbE, 10 GbE and IB options

X9320 Network Storage Systems

1 GbE, 10 GbE and IB options 21.6, 43.2, 48, 96 and 192 TB options

X9720 Network Storage System

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node

Current Consumption 120V : 240V 3.4A : N/A 15.8A : 7.9A

Avg Power Consump tion 408Wh 1896Wh

Thermal Rating 1405 BTU/hr 6479 BTU/hr

Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare Certifed

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix

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changes did not affect the score or ranking of this product.

Product Support

Standard Warranty 3 Yrs*

Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le*


Email Support *

Networking

iSCSI

Max Ethernet Ports8x10GbE or

4x1GbE, 2x10GbE

Interface Bonding

Max Fibre Channel Ports 4

Max Infiniband Ports 2

* X9720 model **16 PB per namespace




ProdSupp

79.00 25.00 6.00 7.00 30.00 11.0BEST-IN-CLASS RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT GOOD BEST-IN-CLASS RECOMM

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots RoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication




NDMP

Data Migration


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Storage Nodes


Max SAN/Storage Nodes 512*



Max Raw Storage Capacity 84 PB**


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RoHS Compliant

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node

Current Consumption 120V : 240V 7.8A : 3.8A 7.8A : 3.8A

Avg Power Consump tion 924 Wh 924 Wh


Drive Technology

SAS

SATA *

SSD

Mixed HDDs

* NL-SAS support

Scale-Out Storage







Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare Certifed

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication




NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

70.00 22.00 6.00 6.00 27.00 9.0EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT BASIC RECOMMENDED GOO

IBM Scale Out NetworkAttached Storage (SONAS)


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RoHS Compliant

Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs


Hardware

NetApp FAS2000 SAN/Storage Node Models Supportedin a NetApp FAS2000 Series Scale-Out Storage Confguration:

FAS2020

FAS2040

FAS2050

Product Support

Standard Warranty 1 Yr*

Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le*


Email Support *

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node

Current Consumption 120V : 240V 11A : 6A 3.95A : 1.9A



Networking

iSCSI

Max Ethernet Ports 4x1Gb

Interface Bonding



Scale-Out Storage





Max Raw Storage Capacity 136 TB


Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots AoW, CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication Block, File


Subvolume Tiering Block, Directory, File

Management Application, SNMP, Web

NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

63.75 25.00 7.00 6.00 15.75 10.0GOOD RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED BASIC BASIC EXCEL

NetApp FAS2000 Series

*Availabl e with optio nal softwar e upgrade


CIFS

NFS

Object Storage (REST) *

WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP


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RoHS Compliant

Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs


Hardware

Product Support


Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le*


Email Support *

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node




Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Scale-Out Storage







Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix



CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots AoW, CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata





NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

69.75 25.00 7.00 6.00 21.75 10.0EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED BASIC GOOD EXCEL


NetApp FAS2000 SAN/Storage Node Models Supported in aNetApp FAS2000 Series Scale-Out Storage Confguration:

FAS3210

FAS3240

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Drive Technology

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SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs


Hardware

NetApp FAS6200 SAN/Storage Node Models Supported in aNetApp FAS6200 Series Scale-Out Storage Confguration:

FAS6280

FAS6240

FAS6210

Product Support


Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le*


Email Support *

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node


Avg Power Consump tion 1380Wh 465 Wh


Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Scale-Out Storage







Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots AoW, CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata





NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

71.75 25.00 7.00 6.00 23.75 10.0EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED BASIC EXCELLENT EXCEL




CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP


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Hardware

Product Support

Standard Warranty1 Yr Hardware

90 Days Sotware

Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le*

Phone SupportBusiness Day

24x7x365*

Email Support *

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node

Current Consumption 120V : 240V 12.1A : 6A N/A : N/A



Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs

Scale-Out Storage







Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux Certifed

Unix


CIFS

NFS

Object Storage (REST) OSD

WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication



Management CLI, SNMP, Web

NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp

64.00 22.00 6.00 7.00 20.00 9.0GOOD EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD GOOD GOO

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Hardware

Product Support


90 Days Sotware

Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le*


24x7x365*

Email Support *

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node

Current Consumption 120V : 240V 9A : 4.5A N/A : N/A



Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs

Scale-Out Storage







Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux Certifed

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication




NDMP

Data Migration



ProdSupp


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RoHS Compliant


Hardware

Product Support


90 Days Sotware

Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le*


24x7x365*

Email Support *

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node

Current Consumption 120V : 240V 12.1A : 6A N/A : N/A



Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs

Scale-Out Storage







Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare

Citrix Xenserver


Microsoft Windows

Linux Certifed

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication




NDMP

Data Migration



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Hardware

Product Support


Extended Warranty

Ava ilab le


Email Support *

Miscellaneous





RoHS Compliant

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node




Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs

Scale-Out Storage







Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare Certifed

Citrix Xenserver Certifed


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication

Storage Tiering

Subvolume Tiering

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NDMP

Data Migration



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RoHS Compliant

Power and Cooling

Cluster

Node

Storage

Node




Networking

iSCSI


Interface Bonding



Drive Technology

SAS

SATA

SSD

Mixed HDDs

Scale-Out Storage




Max Raw Capacity per Node 1.5 TB

Max Raw Storage Capacity 768 TB


Host Support

Inclusive License

Hypervisors

VMWare Certifed

Citrix Xenserver Certifed


Microsoft Windows

Linux

Unix


CIFS

NFS


WebDAV

FTP

Authentication

Active Directory

LDAP

NIS/NIS+

Host/IP

Management

Inclusive License



Snapshots CoW

Thin Provisioning


Recovery

Quotas

Metadata

Deduplication

Storage Tiering

Subvolume Tiering

Management Application, CLI, Web

NDMP

Data Migration



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