ZyXEL Communications UNS2300 User manual

Integrating NAS (network-attached storage) and IP-based SAN (storage area network)
functionality into a unied solution, ZyXEL’s new UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage
are tailor-made for a wide variety of business storage applications including private cloud, server
virtualization, data backup and disaster recovery. The ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 are 2U, 12-
bay Unied Network Storage with 10-Gigabit connectivity (UNS2700) and support for 4 TB hard
drives. They are designed with enterprise-class features like the ZFS le system, thin provisioning,
data deduplication and SSD caching to deliver rock-solid data integrity, ultra-fast RAID building
times and best-of-class storage eciency. They also provide multiple backup options with
local and remote data replication, and cloud backup with Amazon S3. Designed with the most
advanced hardware and software features within their class, the UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied
Network Storage are the most ideal storage solution for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Benets
Rock-solid data integrity
Businesses that have ever lost important les or experienced data corruption know that their storage
solutions’ le systems need improvement. Featuring the industry’s most resilient ZFS le system,
the ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage oer much better data integrity than
competitors in the same class. These ZyXEL Unied Network Storage are designed with a focus on
data integrity. Their ZFS le system can detect silent data corruption (errors that go unnoticed in other
les systems) and repair corrupt data on the y with its self-healing architecture. Combining proven
technologies, such as copy-on-write transactional model and 256-bit checksums, the ZyXEL UNS2700
and UNS2300 deliver end-to-end data integrity at all times and protect businesses against costly data
loss.
Ultra-fast RAID building times
The long hours in building new RAID arrays or adding new storage to servers can be very stressful,
especially in business environments where demand for storage is large. As the competitive business
landscape pushes forward the need for faster application deployments and the capacity of hard drives
continue to grow, businesses need a solution that provides faster storage deployment times to stay
competitive and to lower deployment overhead.
• NAS and iSCSI (IP SAN) unied
solution
• Features the industry’s most
resilient ZFS le system
• Silent data corruption detection
and self-healing ensure data
integrity
• Ultra-fast RAID building times
• Thin provisioning, data
deduplication and compression,
and SSD caching
• Local and remote replication, cloud
(Amazon S3) backup
• Free Acronis Backup & Recovery
Server OEM
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
• Comes with McAfee VirusScan
Enterprise for Storage (free 3-year
license)
Best-in-class Storage Efciency, Performance
and Data Integrity
UNS2300/UNS2700
Unied Network Storage

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UNS2300/UNS2700
Unied Network Storage
The ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage utilize advanced ZFS technology to deliver ultra-fast RAID building times that put competitors
to shame. Compared to other solutions that use legacy le systems, the UNS2700 and UNS2300 oer signicant performance improvements in building
new RAID arrays, recovering from outages, and replacing hard drives. For example, it takes merely 1 minute for a UNS2300 to build a RAID 5 array with six
(6) 1 TB hard drives, while a competitor running on a legacy le system will take over 3 hours to complete the same task. With the ZyXEL UNS2700 and
UNS2300, users can literally have the storage up and running in less than 10 minutes.
RAID Initialization Comparison
Model File System Hard Drives Level Volume Size Build Time
ZyXEL UNS2300 ZFS 6 x 1 TB RAID 5 5 TB 1 min
Other brand EXT3 6 x 1 TB RAID 5 5 TB 3 hrs 3 mins 12 secs
Extraordinary storage eciency
The ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage provide enterprise-class features like thin provisioning, data deduplication and compression,
and SSD caching to optimize disk utilization and storage eciency.
• Thin provisioning allocates storage capacity dynamically, which maximizes the utilization of available storage and minimizes wasted storage space. The
result is much improved disk utilization and more exible resource management.
• Data deduplication and compression allow businesses to get the most out of their available storage space. It reduces data volume and eliminates
duplicate copies of repeating data. This function allows the ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 to save up to 90% storage space*1.
• SSD caching can vastly improve deduplication and synchronous write speeds to provide faster data backup, database and NFS applications. Each
storage pool supports up to 4 SSDs for read cache and 2 SSDs for write cache. Test results show that SSD caching boosts data backup throughput with
deduplication enabled by up to 210% and synchronous write IOPS (input/output operations per second) by up to 310%.
Complete backup solution
The ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage oer a complete backup solution to fulll every backup demand of small- to medium-sized
businesses. They provide multiple backup options including local le and volume cloning, remote le and volume replication, as well as cloud backup
and disaster recovery with Amazon S3. To form a complete backup solution, these ZyXEL Unied Network Storage support Apple Time Machine, a total of
4,096 snapshots, and comes with Acronis Backup & Recovery Server OEM.
Advanced data protection
In addition to the more commonly supported RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10, the ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage oer more
advanced data protection options than competitors with support for RAID 50 and RAID 60. RAID 50 is a RAID 0 array striped across the distributed parity
of RAID 5, and RAID 60 combines RAID 0 with the distributed double parity of RAID 6. With support for RAID 50 and RAID 60, the ZyXEL UNS2700 and
UNS2300 oer both better performance and better protection against drive failures than competitors within their class.
Additionally, the ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 come with McAfee’s award-winning VirusScan Enterprise for Storage to provide continuous protection for
storage data and to prevent malicious les from spreading in the system. Together with advanced data integrity features and multiple backup options, the
ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 are the most advanced data protection solution for businesses.
*1: Compression ratios dier according to data type. Data archives can have redundancy rates of up to 90%.
240 GB
0%
Data Backup Throughput
with Deduplication Enabled
100%50% 150% 250% 200%
Data backup throughput tested by copying 240 GB of data
with deduplication turned on.
8 KB
Random
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Synchronous Write Input/
Output Operations per Second (IOPS)
100%50% 150% 250% 300% 350% 200%
512 KB
Sequential
512 KB sequential write and 8 KB random write IOPS tested.
No SSD caching
SSD caching with 2 SSDs
No SSD caching
SSD caching with 1 SSD

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Key Applications
SMB NAS deployment
SMB iSCSI (IP SAN) deployment
Remote User
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Backup solution
Specications
Model UNS2700 UNS2300
Hardware
Form factor 2U, 12-bay rackmount 2U, 12-bay rackmount
CPU Quad-core Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1225 v2
(3.2 GHz)
Dual-core Intel® Processor i3-3220
(3.3 GHz)
RAM (GB) 16 (DDR3, ECC) 8 (DDR3)
Internal drives 12 x 3.5” HDD or 2.5” HDD/SSD 12 x 3.5” HDD or 2.5” HDD/SSD
Max. capacity (TB) 48 48
Host interface 2 x 10GbE and 2 x 1GbE 6 x 1GbE
Backend SATA III SATA III
USB port 4 x USB 2.0 4 x USB 2.0
COM port 1 1
Power
Input 100 - 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz 100 - 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz
Max. power consumption (watt) 214 210
Power rating (watt) 549 549
Redundant power supply Yes Yes
80 Plus certified Platinum Platinum
Physical Specifications
Item Dimensions (WxDxH)(mm/in.) 442 x 711 x 88/17.4 x 28 x 3.46 442 x 711 x 88/17.4 x 28 x 3.46
Weight (kg/lb.) 15.8/34.83 15.8/34.83
Packing Dimensions (WxDxH)(mm/in.) 590 x 910 x 230/23.23 x 35.83 x 9.06 590 x 910 x 230/23.23 x 35.83 x 9.06
Weight (kg/lb.) 24/52.91 24/52.91
Environmental Specifications
Operating Temperature 0°C to 40°C/32°F to 104°F 0°C to 40°C/32°F to 104°F
Humidity 10% to 90% (non-condensing) 10% to 90% (non-condensing)
Storage Temperature -30°C to 70°C/-22°F to 158°F -30°C to 70°C/-22°F to 158°F
Humidity 10% to 90% (non-condensing) 10% to 90% (non-condensing)
MTBF (hr) 120,000*2 120,000*2
Heat dissipation (BTU/hr) 730.198 716.55
Certifications
EMC FCC Part 15 (Class A); CE EN 55022: 2010/AC: 2011, EN 55024: 2010;
C-Tick AS/NZS CISPR 22: 2009/A1: 2010 (Class A); BSMI CNS 13438
Safety LVD: EN 60950-1: 2006 + A11: 2009 + A1: 2010 + A12: 2011; BSMI: CNS 14336-1: 2010
Other
Warranty 3 years 3 years
USG 300
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L2+ Switch with
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UNS2700
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with deduplication
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Local cloning
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Features
Operating System
• Embedded Linux
Supported Clients
• Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8
• Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2
• Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012
• Red Hat Linux 5, 6
• Mac OS X
• Solaris 10, 11
Supported Browsers
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9
• Mozilla Firefox 8, 9, 10
• Apple Safari 4, 5
• Google Chrome
File System
• Internal hard drive: ZFS
• External hard drive: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32
Networking
• TCP/IP (IPv4 & IPv6: dual stack)
• Multiple Gigabit NICs with jumbo frame:
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Multi-IP settings
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Port trunking/NIC teaming (modes: balance-
rr, IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation and
balance-alb)
• Virtual LAN (VLAN)
• DHCP client
• Protocols: CIFS/Samba (3.6.4), AFP (v3.3), NFS
(v3, v4), FTP, HTTP(S), SSH, iSCSI, SNMP, SMTP
Backup
• Local clone:
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Manual & scheduled backup
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Local cloning (volume to volume)
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Local cloning (le system to le system)
• Remote replication:
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Manual & scheduled backup
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Remote UNS (volume to volume)
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Remote UNS (le system to le system)
• Server backup via Acronis Backup & Recovery
Server OEM for Windows
• Apple Time Machine support with backup
management
• Cloud data backup and disaster recovery with
Amazon S3
• Total of 4,096 snapshots supported
Security
• IP ltering and policy-based automatic IP
blocking
• CIFS host access control for shared folders
• McAfee anti-virus protection
• Storage pool-based encryption
• Instant alert via email, instant messaging
(Windows Messenger), and buzzer
Disk Management
• Single disk, RAID 0, 1, 5, 5 + hot spare, 6, 6 +
hot spare, 10, 10 + hot spare, 50 + hot spare,
60 + hot spare
• Online pool capacity expansion
• Bad block scan & hard drive S.M.A.R.T.
• Pool scrubbing
• Dedicated hot spare drive
• RAID recovery
iSCSI (IP SAN)
• iSCSI target:
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Multi-LUNs per target
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Up to 256 targets/LUNs combined
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Online LUN capacity expansion
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Supports SPC-3 persistent reservation
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Supports MPIO & MC/S
• iSCSI LUN backup, one-time snapshot, and
restore
Server Virtualization & Clustering
• Supports VMware vSphere
• Supports Citrix XenServer
• Supports Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V &
failover clustering
Power Management
• Wake on LAN
• Internal hard drive standby mode
• Automatic power on after power recovery
• Console and network UPS support with SNMP
management
Access Right Management
• Max. no. of local accounts: 10,000
• Max. no. of local groups: 512
• Batch user creation
• Import/Export users
• User quota management
• Subfolder permissions support for CIFS/
Samba, AFP, FTP and Web le manager
Domain Authentication Integration
• Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
• LDAP server
• Domain user login via CIFS/Samba, AFP, FTP
Storage Plug & Play
• ZyXEL UNS Finder for Windows
Web Administration
• Web-based user interface
• Smart fan control
• SNMP (v2 & v3)
• Resource monitor
• System logs (events & connections)
• Syslog client
• Firmware update
• Restore to factory default
File Server
• File sharing across Windows, Mac, and Linux/
UNIX
• Shared folder aggregation (CIFS/Samba)
FTP Server
• FTP over SSL/TLS (explicit)
• Max. no. of concurrent connections: 256
• Passive FTP port range control
• FTP bandwidth, client & connection control
• Unicode support
Anti-Virus
• Powered by McAfee
• Virus database update on manual, online, or
scheduled basis
• Excluded le type and shared le system
support
• Multiple scan tasks with custom folder
selection and scheduled scanning
• Anti-virus report for virus detection
• Clear infected les
Data Eciency
• Thin provisioning
• Deduplication
• SSD caching:
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Supported read cache up to 4 SSD drives
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Supported write cache up to 2 SSD drives
with RAID protection (RAID 0, RAID 1)
• Compression:
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Real-time compression
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Compresses data up to 80 percent
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Works in both iSCSI and NAS environments

UNS2300/UNS2700
Unied Network Storage
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Accessories
Disk Pack
Item Capacity/Amount Speed Type
HDD206 2 TB x 6 7200 RPM Enterprise-grade 3.5” SATA III
drive pack