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NexSAN DATABeast

• Full Service Storage for All Your Data
• Consolidate multiple storage systems into centrally managed storage
• Simplify storage management with the latest tools including virtualization, thin provisioning and storage tiering without the need for special agents or capacity keys
• Protect data and sites with built-in mirroring, remote replication and snapshots
• Scale capacity to multiple PB's or performance to 1000’s of MBs without service disruption
• Support FC SAN and NAS with one, central solution
• Increase energy efficiency with NexSAN's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy-saving technology greatly reducing power and cooling costs
• Go Green

DATABeast Overview
Nexsan DATABeast combines full-service storage management, scalability and mission-critical availability at a price point targeted for enterprises of all sizes.

DATABeast consolidates large amounts of storage into a single, high-density, energy-efficient, easy-to-manage solution that can be economically expanded.

The DATABeast’s data protection services create an environment where data and sites are protected against loss because they are easy to restore and quick to recover. If need be, operations can be migrated to another location.

The DATABeast provides all necessary storage services, storage systems and infrastructure in a pre-assembled and pre-configured system with all redundant components installed and cabled.

The DATABeast is designed to be rolled in, plugged in and set up rapidly. Simply attach it to your network and you are ready to configure your storage resources and deliver them to your applications

Full-Service Storage Management for All Your Data
Organizations do not purchase storage according to some generic market categorization, but according to their specific IT and business needs. Understanding this, Nexsan has an intriguing proposition with its new DATABeast offering. Although priced at a point that would traditionally earmark it for just small to mid-size enterprises, the DATABeast offers a combination of management features like virtualization, thin provisioning and storage tiering as well as data protection features like snapshots, mirroring and replication that extends its suitability to organizations of all sizes that are looking for a straightforward, strong price/performance storage package that also includes tiered energy-saving functionality.

Energy-Saving SAS and SATA
The DATABeast is integrated with SASBoy and SATABeast RAID storage and offers the energy-saving benefits of NexSAN's revolutionary AutoMAID™ technology. AutoMAID™ (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) allows Nexsan storage systems to place their disk drives into several energy-saving levels without compromising application performance. This powerful combination of performance and energy savings enables users to lower the cost of owning storage.

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DATABeast Advanced Features

• Consolidate multiple Nexsan SAS and SATA storage systems into a single highly managed solution that can grow to several petabytes, addressing different applications and providing tiered storage

• Create custom volumes that precisely address the needs of individual applications, eliminating storage waste

• Use thin provisioning to maximize storage efficiency and eliminate manual volume expansion

• Build large 16TB and 64TB volumes across multiple storage resources
• Migrate data between old and new storage resources within the pool without service disruption
• Grow capacity freely to multiple PB's without any key restrictions
• Integrate and use DATABeast features with pre-existing / legacy Nexsan storage systems
• Provide block and file (NFS / CIFS) services from the same solution
• Create multiple, persistent, incremental snapshots to recover deleted or inconsistent data to a previous point in time
• Take advantage of Microsoft VSS (Virtual Shadow Service) to make data consistent snapshots
• Use mirroring to maintain an exact real-time copy of production data and volumes locally or remotely across a DWDM or dedicated Fibre Channel connection
• Provide disaster recovery by replicating some or all data and volumes to another DATABeast located at a remote site across an IP LAN, MAN or WAN
• Ensure continuous access during software upgrades or component outage with active / active independent and redundant DATABeast Controller nodes and connectivity infrastructure
• Eliminate down time with highly available storage systems equipped with redundant controllers, power supplies and connectivity
• Reduce power consumption and cooling costs with AutoMAID (MAID 2.0)
• Add additional DATABeast controller pairs to double performance and responsiveness
• Deploy DATABeast within hours with preinstalled and preconfigured racks

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DATABeast IT Benefits

• DATABeast combines full service storage management with mission critical availability for today’s data intensive environments. DATABeast combines the capacity of multiple storage systems into a single or multiple storage pools that can grow to petabytes. Create 1000’s of virtual volumes, large volumes of up to 64TB or thousands of small volumes. Use DATABeast thin provisioning to maximize storage efficiency and eliminate manual volume expansion.
• Incorporate legacy Nexsan storage systems in the DATABeast solution and rapidly deploy active LUNs and volumes without data migration. Provide a NAS interface to deliver file services to both Microsoft and Unix platforms from a single solution.
• DATABeast snapshots protect data using time based recovery points. DATABeast mirroring maintains an exact real-time copy of production data and volumes locally, across a DWDM or dedicated Fibre Channel connection. Use DATABeast data replication to provide disaster recovery to another DATABeast across any LAN, MAN or WAN.
• Ensure continuous operation with active / active independent and redundant DATABeast Controller nodes. DATABeast racks include redundant switches, cabling and PDUs which are pre-installed and configured to create a fully fault tolerant and redundant infrastructure. DATABeast storage systems are equipped with redundant RAID controllers and power supplies. Use any RAID level including RAID 6 to overcome drive failures.
• Scale from terabytes to petabytes in a single system. No storage capacity keys , no server nor application licenses required - DATABeast can scale to perform 100,000 I/Os per second and support millions to billions of files all within the same solution. Expand capacity by adding more DATABeast storage systems or more DATABeast expansion racks to your DATABeast architecture. You can scale performance by simply adding more DATABeast nodes.
• Administer and monitor all storage services for 1000's of volumes and petabytes of capacity from a single interface. Manage multiple DATABeast controller nodes, create volumes, and perform replication, view system reports and logs using DATABeast Management Server.
• Nexsan’s patented AutoMAID technology requires significantly less electricity for power and cooling when data is at rest or accessed less frequently. Nexsan AutoMAID can reduce power costsby as much as 52%.

Economic Benefits

Data is growing exponentially in size and complexity, challenging organizations to improve how they store, manage and protect all their data without increasing budgets or staff. DATABeast overcomes these challenges by extending enterprise services to all digital assets, while reducing storage and management costs

• Reduce CAPEX by up to 50%
  DATABeast is a complete system including all required storage services. Most storage systems require that you pay for “extras” to perform snapshot backup to disk, replication to another site or mirroring across multiple storage systems, with DATABeast everything is integrated and included with no additional costs, "one solution, one price".
• Cut power and cooling costs by up to 60% without compromising application performance
  DATABeast uses up to 60% less power. Standard array based storage, whether idle or serving data, require large amounts of power and cooling. Nexsan’s patented AutoMAID technology significantly reduces power and cooling usage without compromising application performance.
• Conserves data center space by 2.5 times
  Over 2.5 times more capacity per rack than traditional 14 and 16 bay storage systems. With 42 drives in only 4U of rack space, Nexsan DATABeast is a leading storage consolidation solution for optimizing data center space.
• Cut the cost of adding capacity by up to 50%
  Most traditional storage solutions force you to pay for performance and licenses when all you’re adding is capacity. DataBeast scales capacity independently, no need to re-invest in management software, capacity, server or application licenses or unnecessary performance if all you need is more storage. Whether you add a few terabytes or petabytes, scale the DATABeast at the price of disk storage.
• Increase performance without unnecessary costs
  Most appliance based storage solutions have you invest in both performance and capacity, even if you only need more performance. DATABeast scales performance independently, providing you the flexibility to invest in performance without investing in un-needed capacity. Moreover, if you need more capacity, simply add more DATABeast storage systems to your DATABeast solution.
• Deploy and use within hours
  Building a SAN can take days or weeks: selecting and purchasing all the components, mounting systems, formatting storage, zoning ports, loading software, configuring failover and cabling racks. This takes time and resources not to mention the delays in dealing with interoperability issues and multiple service departments. DATABeast eliminates these issues and problems with a pre-mounted, cabled, configured, tested and proven SAN that is built to order. Roll in, plug in, and you’re ready to create and assign resources for production.

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AutoMAID™ Energy Saving Technology

Nexsan's evolutionary AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology transparently places disk drives into an idle state to vastly reduce power and cooling costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-effecdtive benefits of MAID 2.0 without the limitations of slow access times and special host software.

AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings. AutoMAID is user selectable enabling users to determine the right level of response time performance to energy savings. AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0 architecture that supports VTL, full file format D2D and standard high performance RAID implementations.

Key Points

• AutoMAID reduces power and cooling costs
• Nexsan’s AutoMAID delivers the benefits of MAID without the limitations
• Available on Nexsan Assureon, SATABoy, SATABeast, and SATABeast Xi

AutoMAID Defined

• AutoMAID automatically reduces power consumption and heat generation on idle drives
• Trade-off between response times and power savings are user configurable
• AutoMAID behavior happens automatically and transparently to host – no software changes required
• Typical configuration settings:
  • Level 1: Heads Unloaded
    • 15% to 20% savings
    • Sub-second recovery time
  • Level 2: Heads Unloaded, slows to 4000 RPM
    • 35% to 45% savings
    • 15 second recovery time
  • Level 3: Stops spinning (sleep mode; powered on)
    • 60% to 70% savings
    • 30 to 45 second recovery time

AutoMAID Safety Features

• In maximum power saving mode, drive spin up is sequenced to reduce power surges
• Drives automatically wake up for periodic surface scan to ensure data integrity (user configurable)
• AutoMAID has no impact on performance if left on in data-intensive server applications
• Only two simple configuration settings – "timeout" and "power savings desired"

DATABeast Technical Specifications

External Host Interface:
4Gb Fibre Channel
1 Gb Ethernet

Internal Device Interface
4 Gb Fibre Channel

Disk Drive Interface
3 Gb SAS
3 Gb SATA

DATABeast – Configuration and Management

The DATABeast management system is simple to learn and use, and offers a single-pane-of-glass view into your system. The DATABeast management system enables administration and monitoring of all storage services for petabytes of capacity and 1,000s of volumes, and can be accessed across any LAN, MAN or WAN. The user interface is simple, automated and intuitive minimizing the time it takes to perform administrative tasks.

The DATABeast management system consists of the DATABeast Management Server and the DATABeast Management Server Client (MSC) that can be installed on any Windows platform providing easy, remote access to the DATABeast Management Server. From a central interface, administrators can manage all DATABeast components and perform all required functions including:

• DATABeast Controllers
• Storage pools, volumes, data access, snapshots, replication and recovery
• DATABeast IP and FC infrastructure
• DATABeast Storage Systems

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