DAS NAS & SAN Storage

Direct Attached Storage solutions providing additional storage expansion for existing server systems. All storage models allow the combination of both SAS 6Gb/s and SATA 6Gb/s hard drives including Enterprise class SSDs.

DAS/JBOD Models allow connection to host server via host SAS/SATA HBA / Raid controllers and external 8088 SAS cable connection.

All DAS/JBOD solutions can also be cascaded to further expand overall storage capacities.

Direct Attached Storage (iSCSI/SAN)

Direct Attached Storage solutions with fully Integrated hardware Raid function, featuring fully redundant hardware components, including Single or Dual Redundant Raid controller options for high levels of system availability and reliability.

Models include SAS to SAS, iSCSI to SAS and Fibre to SAS.

Network Attached Storage Solutions (NAS)

Also available a range of dedicated NAS storage solutions with embedded Raid function, & direct connection via Ethernet (LAN).

Open-e - NAS, iSCSi/SAN Storage Server Solutions based on open-e DSS V7

Windows Storage Server 2016 Standard and Storage Server 2016 Workgroup are both built on the Windows Server 2016 Operating System, to provide a platform for Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) appliances, and are both optimized to deliver a better file serving experience.

Windows Storage Server 2016 Standard and Workgroup both support Online Backup (Microsoft Azure) and Microsoft Storage Spaces. Other features include SMB and NFS file sharing, DFS-Replication, File Classification Infrastructure (FCI), File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and Shared block storage (iSCSI Target + Boot).

Windows Storage Server 2016 Standard now supports Data Deduplication with volume sizes up to 64TB and individual file sizes up to 1TB. Also supported Branch Cache - Hosted Cache, Virtualization (Host + 2 VM), Clustering (including AD/DNS) with a simplified Cluster setup and Networking Infra (DHCP, DNS, WINS). With unlimited user access and unlimited Concurrent SMB connections. Workgroup Edition supports up to 50 and 250 respectively.

Workgroup Edition supports: 1 CPU, maximum 32GB RAM, and up to 6x drives.
Standard Edition supports: 2+2 CPUs, unlimited RAM capacity, and unlimited drives.

The Windows Storage Server product family provides advanced storage solutions for small businesses to enterprise organizations, and at Rackservers.com we have incorporated the Microsoft storage solution into an extensive range of server systems.

Rackservers.com offer specialized hardware and additional software components to create highly reliable Windows Storage Server 2016 Standard and Storage Server 2016 Workgroup appliances.

Windows Storage Server- NAS, iSCSi/SAN Storage Server Solutions based on Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2

Open-E JovianDSS is a ZFS- and Linux-based Data Storage Software designed for businesses of all sizes, especially for Enterprise Software Defined Storage environments.

Open-E JovianDSS provides unlimited options to architect storage environments with iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FC) and NFS, SMB (CIFS) protocols. The Linux-based architecture provides Open-E JovianDSS with much better hardware compatibility than competing products based on other operating systems. Open-E JovianDSS is a perfect choice for any virtualized storage environment as it supports VMware, Citrix and Microsoft Hyper-V. It can be set up on physical servers or as a virtual storage appliance (e.g. in hyper-converged environments).

Open-E JovianDSS key data storage features and benefits

Data Acceleration
Acceleration of random writes with Write Log (ZIL)
Hybrid Read Cache with first level in RAM (ARC -Adaptive Replacement Cache) and second Read Cache level on an SSD or NVMe (L2ARC)
High cache hit rate by using ARC's most recently used (MRU) and most frequently used (MFU) Read Cache algorithms, Data resilvering (rebuilding of used space)
Compression and Deduplication for improved performance

Data Accessibility
iSCSI,Fibre Channel (FC), NFS, SMB (CIFS), Use of Virtual IPs

Data Availability
High-Availability Dual-Controller Clustering. Active-Active and Active-Passive HA Cluster
Dual Storage (Stretched) Metro HA Cluster and Common Storage Cluster architectures

Data Integrity and Protection
Data and metadata check-summing.
Self-healing to detect and correct silent data errors with Scrub utility.
Atomic Transaction Writes to keep data consistent.
Transactional copy-on-write I/O operations eliminate silent data corruption and data fragmentation.
Storing multiple copies of user data.

Data Optimization
Online Compression ( LZ4, LZJB, ZLE, GZIP 1..9 ).
Online Deduplication. Thick, Thin and Over-Provisioning. Unlimited Snapshots and Clones.

User Authentication
Local LDAP users and groups authentication for SMB /CIFS protocol.
External Active Domain Server.

File System & Storage Virtualization
128-bit ZFS file system, Pooled storage model.
Unlimited scalability with storage expansion during production.
Unlimited file and volume size.

System Monitoring
SNMP, Nagios, Checkmk, GUI statistics

High Availability Cluster for SMB, NFS, iSCSI and FC
Open-E JovianDSS includes failover functionality for iSCSI, FC and NFS, SMB (CIFS) enabling you to set up High Availability Load-Balanced Storage Clusters that ensure reliability and redundancy through failover in case of a server crash. By using the Open-E JovianDSS Standard HA Cluster Feature Pack, you can enable High Availability for two server nodes connected to a single storage, and one or more JBODs.

Advanced Metro High Availability Cluster Feature Pack for SMB, NFS, iSCSI and FC
By using the Open-E JovianDSS Advanced Metro High Availability Cluster Feature Pack, you can create High Availability for two server nodes with storage mirror over Ethernet using a storage at each location (Dual Storage).