American Megatrends StorTrends 2200i User manual

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Data Sheet
With the combination of StorTrends® iTX Data Storage software and the
StorTrends 2200i IP-SAN storage appliance, users can quickly congure and
begin using a powerful and scalable storage solution with enterprise-class
performance.
Dual dialect StorTrends® iTX delivers ease of use, reduces storage
complexity, provides the ability to easily scale as more storage is required,
and reduces the total cost of ownership for storage systems. Built to support
Intel® Dual-Core CPU technology, the StorTrends 2200i oers performance and
exibility, while StorTrends iTX provides enterprise-level features such as high
availability and disaster recovery at a price that appeals to small and medium-
size businesses (SMB).
The StorTrends 2200i is a exible
platform that can be coupled with
StorTrends iTX software for use as a
dedicated network storage appliance.
Its twelve-drive bay can handle both
high performance SAS hard drives and
economical SATA drives, giving users
multiple options for performance,
capacity, and cost.
One of the most powerful features
of the StorTrends 2200i is its Advanced
Snapshot capability with Redirect on
Write (ROW) technology. Administrators
can schedule SAN and NAS snapshots,
and rollback to any snapshot in under
a second. Snapshot-assisted replication
(SAR) replicates delta snapshots from the
primary system in chronological order to
the secondary. In the event of a failover,
the system will automatically recover to
the latest available consistent snapshot
image.
Synchronous replication on the
StorTrends 2200i enables data to be
stored on multiple StorTrends appliances
at multiple sites, for high availability
and disaster recovery capability. High
Availability grouping allows two
StorTrends SAN heads to be grouped
as highly available cluster nodes for
Microsoft® initiators, for extreme fault
tolerance and always-up availability.
This technology provides protection
against disk, path, and node failures with
automatic, seamless failover.
Asynchronous replication bundles
I/Os and sends them to the remote
HIGHLIGHTS
6 or 12 TB IP-SAN & NAS storage appliance
12 Hot-swappable SAS /SATA Drives
Scalable up to 60 TB with 3 JBODs
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
Thin & Exact Provisioning
WAN-optimization Data Service (WDS)
- Dedupication, Compression, Encryption
and Link Optimization
Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Volume Replication
- Synchronous
- Asynchronous
- Snapshot-assisted
- Journal-assisted
Advanced Snapshots
- Redirect on Write (ROW)
- Up to 1022 snapshots (R/O and R/W) per
volume
- Up to 2048 snapshots per box
- Snapshot scheduling for SAN & NAS
- Rollback from any snapshot
- Random snapshot deletion
Hardware RAID support: features RAID
levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Online capacity expansion, RAID level
migration
High Availability (HA) Grouping
- Load Balancing
- Active / Active Conguration
Network Teaming
Smart UPS Support
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server, boosting network utilization
eciency and reducing bandwidth cost.
When combined with the revolutionary
WDS (WAN-Optimization Data Service)
feature included in the asynchronous
replication module, the system take
advantage of a “triple-threat” of data
deduplication, data encryption and link
optimization to reduce data transmission
and bandwidth usage by several factors
over conventional replication speeds.
The exibility and power of iSCSI in
the StorTrends 2200i IP-SAN appliances
can bolster data protection in backup
scenarios with some of the most
advanced snapshot technology in the
market, in some cases even eliminating
the need for a dedicated backup server.
This has obvious cost advantages, and
more importantly, enables Continuous
Data Protection (CDP) of stored data
with snapshot coverage of data on
an almost continuous basis. With up
to 1,022 snapshots per volume and
2,048 per appliance, StorTrends iTX is
capable of CDP by combining low-
latency snapshots with I/O journaling
to oer one of the most ecient CDP
repositories on the market today.
Finally, integrated web-based
management with AMI’s ManageTrends™
interface provides a simple
conguration wizard to
congure volumes, and
logical disks, and provides
100% control of the discovery
and management of multiple
StorTrends appliances.
2U IP-SAN and NAS Storage Appliance

Features
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2U IP-SAN and NAS Storage Appliance
12 TB IP-SAN & NAS 2U Storage Appliance
with StorTrends® iTX Data Storage Software
System Features & Highlights:
Transfer block and le data over existing Ethernet
network
Redundant Power Supply Modules
Supports major le transfer protocols
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
WAN-optimization Data Service (WDS)
Network Teaming
Advanced Snapshot Capability
Volume Replication and Expansion
High Availability (HA) Grouping
Storage Alerts
Support for volumes up to 60 TB
Support for 64 volumes per appliance
SAS/SATA support with hot swap
UPS Support
Hardware Specications:
Form Factor
Rack-mountable 2U Chassis
One (1) Slim DVD-ROM Drive
On-Board CPU
Two (2) Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5100 series processors,
1066 MHz FSB with 4 MB of L2 cache
Memory
2 GB of DDR2 SDRAM
Drive & Storage Capacity
Twelve (12) 3.5”Hot-swappable SAS/SATA Drive Bays
146 GB and 300 GB SAS hard drives / 500 GB and
1.0 TB SATA hard drives are supported, for up to
12.0 TB storage capacity per appliance
Two (2) 2.5”Internal Notebook SATA Flash Drives
4 GB capacity Flash drives for OS Installation,
support for RAID 1 mirroring for OS integrity
RAID Support
LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 8888ELP RAID Controller
Online capacity expansion & RAID level migration
Multiple arrays (same type) per drive
Read with Write-back caching
Global & dedicated hot-spare
Status LEDs
6 LED Indicators (Power Active, Unit ID, Unit Fault,
Network Activity, HDD Activity, System Overheat)
Expansion Slots
Three PCI-Express Expansion Slots:
Two (x8) PCI-Express Slots (via Riser Card)
One (x4) PCI-Express Slot (via Riser Card)
Data Management Ports
2x Single-port Gigabit PCI-Express Ethernet Controller
Other Connectors
Two (2) USB Ports (2.0, 1.1)
Power Specications
450W (1+1) Redundant, AC Power Supply with PFC
AC Voltage (100 - 240V, 60-50Hz, 6.3 - 3.2 Amp)
Cooling Specications
Three (3) Cooling Fans with status & tachometer
monitoring
Cooling Air Shroud included
Operating Environment
Operating Temperature: 50 to 95˚F (10˚ to 35˚ C)
Operating Relative Humidity: 8% to 90% (non-cond.)
Physical Characteristics
Dimensions: 3.46” (87.9 mm) H x 17.46”(443.4 mm) W
x 27.83” (707 mm) D
Weight: 44 lbs. (20 kg) as shipped (unpopulated); 66
lbs. (30 kg) fully populated (with 12 drives)
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StorTrends® iTX Software Specications:
Volume Replication
Synchronous
Asynchronous
Snapshot-assisted
Journal-assisted
Replication Wizard
Failover / Failback
One-to-Many Replication
Advanced Snapshots
Up to 1,022 read-only and 1, 022 writeable snapshots
per volume with near-zero degradation
Redirect on Write (ROW) Snapshot Technology
Random Snapshot Deletion
Rollback to any snapshot
Mounting of snapshots as Read-Only or Read-Write
Caching-assisted snapshots
Backup
VSS-based backup support for Windows® 2003 Servers
iSCSI tape support through application server
Networking
iSCSI, TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SNMP
Windows® (CIFS), UNIX (NFS), AppleTalk®
iSNS Conguration
Up to 16 iSNS servers are supported
Compatible with MS iSNS Server v3.0 and later
iSNS client supporting Draft 22 of iSNS specication
Security
ACL security implementation supports: Local users,
Windows® NT/2000 Domain users, Windows® 2003
Active Directory users, NIS Domain users
iSCSI Target Congurations
iSCSI Qualied Name (iqn) format
Enable/Disable individual network ports for iSCSI
trac
iSCSI target supporting iSCSI RFC 3720
Tight iSCSI and iSNS integration
iSCSI error recovery level 0, 1 and 2
Maximum of 4 connections per session
Multiple levels of authentication: Mutual CHAP, user
name/password CHAP authentication & iSCSI initiator
WWN name
iSCSI Portal Tag conguration from UI
View iSCSI data and error statistics
Management
Command line interface through RS232 & SSH
Integrated web-based management
Tool for easy customization, branding and themes
Event Management
Detailed Event Log
SNMP, SNMP Traps (up to 4 destinations)
SMIS 1.1 , VDS
Storage Data Management
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
Storage Resource Management / Storage Reports
LUN (Logical Unit Number) creation & management
LUN dynamic volume expansion
Dynamic NAS volume expansion
Unied RAID Management
RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Auto RAID rebuild
Remote Management
SNMP, SMIS 1.1, VDS
UPS Support
Universal UPS Support; Supports Windows® OS/iTX/
Linux as UPS slaves and many UPS makes & models
Applications Supported
Oracle®, SQL, Microsoft® Exchange, VMware®, etc.
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Advanced Features
Advanced Snapshot Technology
AMI’s Advanced Snapshot technology
enables up to 2,048 snapshots (R/O and
R/W) at the block or le level. It also
allows for rapid creation and deletion of a
snapshot, permitting faster, more secure
back-ups than ever before. Advanced
Snapshot technology is focused on
performance, enabling customers to
mount, review and instantaneously
roll back to a snapshot with near-zero
degradation of data.
Snapshot-assisted Replication (SAR)
This technology allows chronological
replication of snapshots on a remote
machine, with the ability to organize by
application-based consistency groups.
In fail-over to a secondary appliance,
StorTrends iTX will automatically rollback
to the latest consistent snapshot.
Journal-assisted Replication (JAR)
The JAR module is essentially an
application layer that registers with the
Journal Module as a client and replicates
data to the recovery site according to an
administrator-dened schedule. Data
is sent to the remote site along with
metadata, so the recovery server can
maintain its own CDP log and/or create
snapshots.
WAN Optimization Data Services (WDS)
StorTrends utilizes several sophisticated
techniques to optimize the speed of long
distance WAN connections. It uses an
intelligent mix of standards-based transport
protocols to overcome the ineciencies
and high latencies of TCP protocols in WANs
and provide excellent bandwidth utilization.
Additional performance gains are made
through data reduction technologies such
as compression and data deduplication.