Most small businesses utilize basic Direct Attached Storage (DAS) to manage their growing data requirements.   As your needs become more sophisticated it also becomes more complicated as multiple factors need to be consider when it comes to storage technology.  The HPC Systems line of HiPerStor Network Attached Storage Offerings provides the easy and effective management of your valuable data in a reliable and secure environment. It is easy-to-use, affordable, and simple to implement. It is available in a wide range of capacities and form factors to suit your needs.

Standard Capacity Configurations:

• Up to 4TB in 1U form factor
• Up to 8TB in 2U form factor
• Up to 12TB in 3U form factor
• Up to 24TB in 4U form factor
• 1U gateway device for FibreChannel storage
• Two X 1U NAS heads with shared storage for High Availability
• Custom capacity configuration available on request

Highlights:

• High Performance Customized Linux Operating System
• Support for FibreChannel 4 Gbps, SAS 3 Gbps, SATA II 3 Gbps disks
• Multiple form factors - 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U
• Flexible capacity options
• Extensible with external disk arrays
• iSCSI target and initiator
• Support for Microsoft, Unix, Linux and Apple clients
• Vendor verified support for Virtual Machines

Storage Features:

• Greater than 16 TB physical volume
• Greater than 8 ExaBytes logical volume
• Online volume expansion
• Support for SAS, SATA and SATA II

Data Protection:

• High Availability and Fault Tolerance (Need two independent HiPerStor systems)
• Snapshots
• Journaling File System
• Hot Spare
• Auto Rebuild of volume
• Replication
• IP failover
• Fibre Channel HBA fail over (select models only)

iSCSI & Fibre Channel

• Software iSCSI target and initiator
• Hardware iSCSI initiator (select vendors only)
• Fibre Channel disk support
• Support iSCSI access control mechanisms - CHAP & iSCSI

Systems Management:

• Console tools
• Secure web based graphical user interface
• Secure remote shell
• Firmware updates and patches
• Dump system configuration data for replication and/or backup
• IPMI 2.0 support
• Hardware server health sensors
• Disk status and Health
• RAID controller secure remote management utility and console tools (Available on select models)
• Redundant power supply (Available on select models)
• Multiple NIC support to isolate network traffic
• E-Mail alerts
• Support for UPS

Networking:

• Integrate easily in to DHCP or non-DHCP networks
• NIC teaming or channel bonding of multiple Ethernet interfaces for high bandwidth
• Multiple NIC support to isolate network traffic
• Support for upcoming 10GbE (Ten Gigabit Ethernet) NIC's
• Support for InfiniBand channel adapters
• Support for Jumbo Frames on Ethernet

Security:

• Disk encryption
• Volume Replication
• Snapshots
• CHAP security
• LDAP, NIS, ActiveDirectory, local user authentication
• Support for IPSEC protocols

More details about the product will be disclosed in the next few days.

HPC Systems, Inc. provides custom configurations on all models