StorTrends® products provide true enterprise-level features to departmental and small- to mid-size business (SMB) users. They merge IP-SAN and NAS functionality into one cost-effective, scalable and easily deployable storage appliance.

The A-3200 is an affordable 3U, rack-mount storage appliance that offers support for both block and file data. It merges Ethernet-based Storage Area Networks (IP-SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) on a single storage platform. The A-3200 offers sixteen hot-swappable drive bays with advanced SATA and SAS support, as well as highly distinguishing software features.

The A-3200 supports iSCSI, enabling block applications like Microsoft® Exchange and Oracle® to be deployed or stored on the same server as traditional file services and storage. The A-3200 is designed with performance in mind, and includes features for enterprise-level storage management such as hardware RAID, advanced snapshots, volume replication, and failover.

Dual dialect StorTrends® iTX software enables transfer of both block and file data over the existing Ethernet network. It provides advanced disaster recovery features such as synchronous, asynchronous, snapshot-assisted and journal-assisted replication, failover, and failback. StorTrends iTX also features high availability grouping, network teaming support, UPS support, advanced snapshots, SAN and NAS snapshot scheduling and advanced caching for IP-SAN appliances.

Volume replication allows data to be stored on multiple StorTrends appliances at multiple sites, for high availability and disaster recovery in the event of a catastrophe. The advanced snapshot capability of the A-3200 features Redirect-on-Write (ROW) technology with near-zero degradation when writing or rolling back snapshots. Administrators can schedule up to 1,022 read-write and 1,022 read-only snapshots per volume, and up to 2,048 snapshots per box. A maximum of 64 volumes per target is supported.

SAN snapshots are supported through Microsoft® VSS snapshot technology, or by specific agents for application servers such Exchange Server and Oracle. Microsoft® VSS-based snapshots also support SQL Server and agent-less LAN-free backup.

Advanced caching improves read and write-back performance, and allows for efficient I/O scheduling, while I/O aggregation significantly improves snapshot performance.

StorTrends appliances can be managed by the integrated web-based GUI or with ManageTrends™, which provides discovery and management of multiple StorTrends appliances deployed across the network.

Highlights

4, 8 or 16 TB IP-SAN & NAS storage appliance
16 Hot-swappable SAS/SATA Drives
Block and file data transferred over existing Ethernet network
Cost-effective and scalable
Thin and Exact provisioning
Network Teaming
Universal UPS Support
Volume Replication
- Synchronous
- Asynchronous
- Snapshot-assisted
- Journal-assisted
Failover / Failback
Advanced Snapshot
- Redirect on Write (ROW)
- Up to 1022 snapshots (R/O and R/W) per volume
- Up to 2048 snapshots per box
- Snapshot scheduling for SAN & NAS
- Rollback from any snapshot in less than a second
- Random snapshot deletion
Hardware RAID support: RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Online capacity expansion, RAID level migration
High Availability (HA) Grouping
Load Balancing
Active / Active Configuration

Low cost,
high performance, simple options,
no hidden costs, simple operation;

What else could you want from storage?