Ultra-reliable, high-density, high performance, efficient SAN storage

The Nexsan E48VT is an ultra-reliable, high-density, high performance, efficient storage array that enables lower storage costs, maximum storage uptime, and data storage ROI boosts for your organization. E-Series V systems consume less than one-third of the power in one-third of the rack space of typical arrays, with up to 240 terabytes of capacity in just 4U and now offers 400% more memory and 50% increased CPU speed over the E-Series.

The E-Series V is offered in three core configurations: E60VT (360 TB in 4U), E48VT (288 TB in 4U), and E18V (108 TB in 2U). Each can be easily expanded with additional capacity by adding the corresponding expansion unit: E60XV, E48XV, or E18XV.

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E-Series V Key Benefits

Optimize Your Capacity Needs Now & Expand in the Future

The E-Series V storage arrays and expansion units offer mid-size organizations affordable enterprise-level Fibre Channel, SAS and/or iSCSI SAN storage used for a variety of capacity-optimized and performance-driven applications.

For larger organizations, E-Series V is a versatile SAN or DAS solution to stay ahead of the enormous data growth, demanding workloads, and high resiliency requirements in media & entertainment, government, healthcare, HPC, financial, surveillance and service provider sectors.

Turbocharge Your Performance for Ultra-Fast Write Speed

E-Series V features an advanced active/active controller design, including use of a dedicated hardware engine, or “turbocharger”, which accelerates RAID parity generation and doubles the sequential write performance over the prior version of E-Series. The turbocharged E-Series V is ideal for back-up and recovery applications and continuous data streaming bulk storage applications.

Achieve More Efficiency in Higher Density Than Typical Arrays

Organizations deploying E-Series V san storage arrays can mix and match capacity-optimized HDDs and performance-optimized HDDs and SSDs to meet performance and capacity needs. E-Series V arrays consume less than one-third of the power in one-third of the rack space of typical arrays, with up to 360 terabytes of capacity in just one 4U, and up to a total of 1080 TB in a fully-scaled, 12U configuration.

With E-Series V systems, you can engage Nexsan AutoMAID® disk management capabilities to reduce power consumption by up to 87%, lowering operating expenses and extending the overall life of the system.

Ensure Your Data Is Protected with Qualified, Reliable Design

The E-Series V storage array exceeds the most stringent reliability demands, leveraging an innovative hardware design including Cool Drive TechnologyTM and anti-vibration design that significantly reduces heat and vibration while improving system reliability and performance. The reliability of E-Series V is qualified through extensive stress testing before shipment. Array-based snaps and asynchronous replication extend E-Series V data protection capabilities.

Access Your Data Continuously

The E-Series V features multipathing support and dual redundant, hot-swappable active components. As an administrator, you will receive SNMP alerts or email notifications of component failures. Upon drive failure, a spare drive is automatically rebuilt into the RAID set for complete business continuity.

With up to 16GB of battery-backed and flash-protected cache per controller, the E-Series V solution mirrors cache between controllers in a dual controller configuration. Active Drawer TechnologyTM overcomes the challenges of competitive arrays by allowing a technician to service a drawer of drives easily while keeping your data available.

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Active Drawer Technology
  • No system downtime. Allows for easy, hot-swappable drive management.
  • Drives remain active when drawer is open.
  • Increased reliability and reduced external wire management.
Cool Drive Technology
  • Optimizes air flow and component cooling.
  • Increases product reliability by reducing component temperatures.
  • System redundancy ensures adequate cooling even if a fan fails.
  • Variable speed fans with temperature sensors.
Anti-Vibration Design
  • Reduces vibration to improve system performance and reliability.
  • Drives mounted counter-rotating.
  • Thick plates in chassis eliminate vibrations.
  • Anti-vibration fan mounts.
AutoMAID
  • Up to 87% energy savings and lowers your cooling needs.
  • Ideal for backup to disk or bulk storage scenarios.
  • Configurable on a per-disk set basis.
  • Easy to set up and maintain via GUI.
  • Can improve drive reliability by reducing power-on-hours.
Advanced Controller*
  • Dedicated hardware engine accelerates RAID parity generation.
  • Up to 2x the sequential write performance over the prior generation E-Series systems.
  • Data protection maintained even through power outage via onboard flash-based emergency backup storage.
  • Power-controlled riser card enables data offload from DIMM to controller flash.

*Available only in the E48VT and E60VT

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Specifications 18V / E18XV E48VT / E48VX E60VT / E60XV
Chassis and Controllers
Chassis 3.5” disk bays / rack U 18 / 2U 48 / 4U 60 / 4U
Up to 2 expansion chassis of type E18XV E48XV E60XV
Maximum number disks 54 144 180
Maximum raw TB per chassis / total 108TB / 324TB 288TB / 864TB 360TB / 1080TB
Number of active drawers 2 3 3
Max active/active controllers 2 2 2
Max RAID engines per system 10^ 12^ 12^
Max cache per system (GB) 8^ 32^ 32^
Standard 1GB iSCSI ports per system 4 4 4
Optional 10GB iSCSI ports per system 4 4 4
Optional 8GB FC ports per system 4 4 4
Optional 24GB SASx4 ports per system 4 4 4
Drives, RAID, and LUNs
3.5″ 15K (GB 450, 600 SAS 450, 600 SAS 450, 600 SAS
2.5″ 10K (GB) 900 SAS 900 SAS 900 SAS
3.5″ 7.2K (TB) 2, 3, 4 SAS 2, 3, 4 SAS 2, 3, 4 SAS
SLC SSDs (GB) 100, 200, 400 100, 200, 400 100, 200, 400
eMLC SSDs (GB) 200, 400 200, 400 200, 400
Mix 7.2K, 10K, 15K and SSD Y Y Y

RAID 1, 0, 1+0, 4, 5, 6

 Y Y Y
Physical Specifications
Fully redundant hot-swappable controllers, drives, fans, power Y Y Y
Width 19 in / 482.6 mm 19 in / 482.6 mm 19 in / 482.6 mm
Height 3.47 in / 88.1 mm^ 6.93 in / 176.0 mm^ 6.93 in / 176 mm^
Depth 31.5 in / 800 mm 33.46 in /850 mm 37.99 in / 965 mm
Redundant Power 2 x 1200W 100-230V auto-sense^ 2 x 1600W 100-230V auto-sense^ 2 x 1600W 200-240V auto-sense^
AutoMAID Power Management Y Y Y
Peak Power Consumption (@240V) 604 Watts/2.66 A^ 1509 Watts / 6.79 A^ 1797 Watts / 7.83 A^
Idle Mode Power (AutoMAID Level 4) 184 Watts / .92 A^ 236 Watts / 1.14 A^ 239 Watts / 1.19 A^

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For more information on Imation’s Nexsan storage contact sales at Sunstar Companyor call 800.663.5523

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