Nexenta Storage Servers Storage without limits

ZFS File System

128-bit ZFS File System – The most scalable & flexible as a 128-bit file system yet – compared with 32- or 64-bit file systems! Extending to 128-bits gives ZFS an expected lifetime of about 25 years  and with a theoretical  limit of 16 Exabyte or 18 million terabytes the ZFS file system does offer un limited Volume Size and Unlimited Capacity Expansion.

Unlimited File Size

While most legacy solutions limit the file sizes, there are no such limitations with ZFS

Unlimited Storage Capacity

Eliminates storage limitations through disk and system expansion

Unified Network Protocol

Broadberry NexentaStor delivers a unified storage solution to satisfy NFS, CIFS, iSCSI & Fiber Channel protocols resulting in virtually all storage requirements being supported, resulting in flexible file-sharing over any network protocol!

Find & Correct Silent Data Corruption

Self-healing technology that check-sums and transactional copy-on-write I/O operations eliminate silent data corruption and ‘write-holes’. ZFS employs 256 bit checksums end-to-end to validate data stored ZFS Checksums Every Data and Metadata Block in the File System, and the Checksums are Stored with the Parent: Traditional file systems store a data block’s checksum physically next to the data. If the checksum algorithm is strong (and not all file systems use a strong one), reading the checksum and comparing it to the data will detect an error within the data block (often called bit rot or digital decay).

Open Storage

The Software and Hardware can be integrated with off the shelf hardware, thus no vendor lock in such as EMC, HP, Dell etc. This is really important with the initial cost and up-grades consequently much reducing TCO.

High-Availability

Business continuity solution doesn't consume your entire IT budget.  Now, organizations of all sizes can afford an HA cluster solution at a lower price-point than legacy solutions.

Storage Virtualization

Support for all major virtualized infrastructures – including Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere & Citrix Xen Server.

Data Deduplication & Native Compression

In-line data deduplication and compression greatly reduces the use of the primary storage on the server.

Block-Level Mirroring

Set-up remote backups & disaster recovery

Hybrid Storage Pools

Exploit I/O cache to accelerate read & write performance

I/O Pooling

The more disks or systems you add, the faster the performance of your Broadberry NexentaStor

Unlimited Snapshots & Clones

Most legacy solutions are limited to 255 snapshots. Broadberry NexentaStor allows any number of customized, automated and periodic snapshots to ensure granular recovery in a timely manner Create an unlimited number of customized, automated or periodic snapshots to ensure granular recovery of your business-critical data.

Integrated Snapshot Search

Perform indexing & boolean searches from the file system to search for files within snapshots

Heterogeneous Block & File Replication

Synchronous or asynchronous replication for easy disaster recovery from local or remote systems

NexentaStor Management View

Centralized web-based tool allows a variety of functions to be performed from any location. Create, grow, delete, export & import storage volumes

Broadberry NexentaStor Management Console

Record & replay commands across all deployed instances of Broadberry NexentaStor.

Storage & Service Reports

Generate automatic & periodic reports to manage the performance of the system and integrate it into SNMP based management solutions

Thin Provisioning

Let your hosts virtually see a larger storage pool than is physically available, to be filled later when you need it. No need to re-format the file system!

Inherent I/O Virtualization

Virtualize data in the file-system to allow thin provisioning via I/O pooling for hypervisor virtualization solutions to improve capacity utilization and performance

Application & Plug-in Add-ons

High-Availability Cluster Plug-in – Single and dual active-active fail-over configuration options to increase availability by eliminating a single point of failure with a 2nd instance of Broadberry NexentaStor

VM Data Center 3.0

View and manage your entire virtualized infrastructure from a simple point-and-click interface. Perform common tasks, like stopping and starting VMs, create template-based clones, set-up backups, provision storage and set-up replication & retention policies. Support for VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V makes NexentaStor the only storage virtualization solution for all major hypervisor platforms

Delorean Windows Back-up, Restore & Search Application

Powerful Windows back-up with VSS clients and Nexenta Delorean plug-in. Select files and folders to protect via a built-in File Explorer interface, with the option for replication in NexentaStor