1. iSCSI Storage Area Network
What is Nexsan iSeries™
Complete iSCSI SAN for Storage Consolidation and Virtualization
Nexsan iSeries™
Includes enterprise-class storage services
High reliability and performance
High density, scalable to 1PB with Nexsan Storage
Nexsan “GREEN” AutoMAID
Includes:
Storage consolidation, tiering and virtualization
Snapshots, mirroring and replication
Redundancy and multi-pathing
Suitable for:
Server Virtualization
Exchange, SQL, Oracle, other databases
Storage and data consolidation
iSCSI Storage Area Network
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2. Nexsan iSeries™ Includes
Nexsan iSeries Appliance (s)
Nexsan iSeries Storage Services
Nexsan Storage (New or Existing)
Integrated into a single highly scalable – high performance
iSCSI SAN
Enterprise
SMB
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3. Nexsan iSeries™ Storage Services
Online Data Migration
Migrate volumes between storage systems
Reduce per TB costs by moving data to lower cost storage tiers
Move volumes to more green storage
Replace old storage systems with new storage systems while remaining online
Migrate data off 3rd party, legacy or obsolete storage systems to Nexsan iSeries
Data Striping
Stripe data across multiple storage systems
For added read and write performance
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4. Nexsan iSeries™ Data Protection
Data Mirroring
Mirror data across multiple storage systems, locally or to another location using FC
Stay in production – even if a storage system goes offline
Protect data if your main site is damaged
Snapshots
Multiple snapshots per volume
Eliminate the backup window, backup from snapshots and remain on line
Eliminate need for incremental tape backups
Integrated with Microsoft VSS for live database backup (SQL, Exchange)
Quickly recovery any volume
Convert snapshots to read and/or write for data mining and testing A A A
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5. Nexsan iSeries™ Remote Data Replication and Disaster Recovery
Asynchronous or Synchronous remote data replication
Reduce or eliminate tape backup – dramatically reduce recovery time
Failover services to another site in the event of disaster
Agent and server free, non-disruptive - done in the background
Replicate only block changes to maximize connection bandwidth
Use consistency groups for multi-volume applications like databases
Use remote snapshots to test DR functionality without disrupting replication or production volumes
Keep it simple with wizard and policy based management
IP – LAN, MAN, WAN
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Primary Volume
Secondary Volume
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6. Nexsan iSeries - Entry Level iSCSI SAN
Clients on an IP LAN
Application Servers – iSCSI connected
1Gb IP Switch
1Gb non-blocking IP network
Nexsan iSeries (200i, 400i)
Nexsan SAS storage pool with redundant FC connections to iSeries
Nexsan SATA storage pool with redundant FC connections to iSeries
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7. Nexsan iSeries - Enterprise Level iSCSI SAN
Clients on an IP LAN
Application Servers – iSCSI dual path connected
Redundant 1Gb non-blocking IP network
1Gb IP Switch
1Gb IP Switch
Redundant Nexsan iSeries (200i, 400i)
Nexsan SAS storage pool with redundant FC connections to iSeries
Nexsan SATA storage pool with redundant FC connections to iSeries

8. Nexsan iSeries™ - Ultra-Green Storage Less Power – Less Cooling
Next Generation Green Storage
Speed with Green
Green without impacting application performance
Reduce power by up to 52%
(The StorageIO Group – MAID Jan. 2008)
Nexsan storage supports AutoMAID
Nexsan Green means less electricity
Nexsan Green means less cooling
Nexsan Green means more TB/s per shelf.
Nexsan Green means LOWER COSTS!
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9. Nexsan iSeries Unique Advantage
What Makes Nexsan iSeries™ Special
Nexsan iSeries
Enterprise iSCSI SAN
Nexsan iSeries Unique Advantage
1000TB of capacity
Twice as scalable
Up to 4 RAID engines per storage module
Up to 4x higher performance
4.0 GB cache per storage module
Up to 8x more responsive
High speed real-time metro mirroring
Supports server virtualization requirements for real-time HA
Multiple RAID sets
Supports data base configuration requirements for performance
Use SAS and SATA together
High performance and high capacity in one solution
AutoMAID energy saving
Ultra-green storage
Affordable
Tier 1 iSCSI for Tier 2 prices
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