Restore instantaneously and accelerate backups with a complete, easy-to-deploy online solution that works with your current software and processes.  S2A VTL utilizes high-speed disk storage, purpose-built to optimally transfer large data files and increase both performance & reliability over traditional tape-based backups.

Challenges:

• Meet shrinking backup windows as both 24x7 requirements and data continues to grow
• Reduce administrative and downtime costs
• Eliminate duplicate data from backup processes
• Address time-sensitive compliance requirements for archive data
• Consolidate distributed/remote backup operations
• Adopt disk to disk backup rapidly, without re-engineering processes
• Contain costs by eliminating any duplicate information consuming disk capacity and budget

Solution:

S2A VTL Solution accelerates the speed and reliability of both restore activities and backup operations compared to traditional tape-based applications or even other virtual tape-based backup solutions.  With S2A VTL, current back-up servers see this fully configured disk-based solution as a tape device, so current processes and backup applications remain intact. Data de-duplication technology ensures that multiple copies of the same file or data block aren’t consuming time or capacity.  S2A VTL’s high performance throughput devours backup jobs quickly, whether from local backup servers or consolidating jobs from remote locations.   This solution will massively scale up to 1PB to achieve full tape replacement or elect to migrate completed backup data to existing tape resources.  

Highlights

Optimized For

• 2GB/s of Backup/Restore Performance
• Broad backup software support
• Scales up to 960TB in 2 racks
• Scalable tape emulation
  • 64 concurrent sections over FC
  • 64 virtual tape libraries
  • 512 virtual tape drives
  • 4,096 virtual tape cartridges
• De-duplicate data on disk up to 30:1
  • Reduces capacity, job duration, remote bandwidth

View Detailed Specs

• Largest backup environments requiring high performance
• Disk to disk backup
• Disk to disk to tape backup
• Rapid restore
• Local and remote backup jobs
• Tape replacement

React Quicker

S2A VTL Solution is a high-performance business tool with broad support for leading data backup utilities.  Coupling the high-performance, highly-scalable S2A Capacity Optimized Storage System with industry-leading tape virtualization technology, this solution leverages reduces backup and restore times to increase business responsiveness.

This disk-based backup and recovery target is an attractive alternative to conventional tape-based storage technologies and can substantially increase backup and recovery efficiencies without burdening your IT budget or adding additional complexity to your backup processes.

Storage administrators can leverage the sustained performance of the S2A Capacity Optimized Storage System to achieve rapid backup and restore times, enabling organizations to perform full backups more frequently and rapidly restore lost data.

Enterprise-Grade Data Availability

SATAssure: Extends SATA drives’ native resiliency, to enhance data integrity, availability and reliability to meet enterprise expectations without compromising performance or ROI. 

Fully Redundant Architecture: S2A VTL Solution is configured to protect against multiple levels of failure while providing sustained, real-time backup/restore performance.

Enterprise Reliability from Commodity Storage:  Multiple levels of protection have been designed into the S2A9550 to protect performance and availability against dual-disk failures, silent SATA data corruption, on-line drive reconstruction, and more.  These controls ensure data availability and performance all while leveraging the cost savings associated with deploying commodity disk technology.

Storage De-Duplication:   Reduce multiple instances of duplicate files across the backup volume to realize massive data reduction. Volume capacities can be reduced by as much as 30 to 1, using the solution’s De-Duplication technology.  De-duplicated backup volumes also reduce replicated instances and replication traffic by comparable ratios.   

Multi-Tier, Multi-Site Data Replication:  Enables storage managers to backup multiple copies of files through File Replication to virtual and physical tapes.  Replication can be performed both locally and also very efficiently over IP networks to remote backup locations. 

File Replication: Replicate important files across the backup storage architecture for maximum data availability.  

S2A9550 DirectOS

The S2A9550 is an intelligent data management appliance built with a powerful parallel, hardware-accelerated storage engine engineered to deliver high-speed, real-time data delivery and protection.  At the core of the S2A Appliance is the DirectOS operating system, which handles the many complex storage management functions within the S2A system, including:

S2A Reliability, Serviceability & Availability
(S2A RAS)

SATAssure: Extends SATA drives’ native resiliency, to enhance data integrity, availability and reliability to meet enterprise expectations without compromising performance or ROI.  Learn More

S2A Rebuild Journaling:  Dramatically reduces rebuild times compared to standard methods, especially important with SATA drives given their large capacities.

DirectMonitor: Facilitates proactive support of our systems, providing real-time monitoring and event notification.  DirectMonitor enables our storage experts to react to issues without requiring customer initiative.

S2A Performance

DirectRAID: Designed with intelligent algorithms, DirectRAID leverages the system’s architecture to completely streamline and parallelize the data path.  This results in high-speed, real-time data transfers and on-the-fly 8+1 and 8+2 parity calculations. Learn More

Real-Time Mode: S2A’s real-time parity engine to provide data to the host computer even when portions of it are missing due to a slow disk drive.

S2A Storage Virtualization

PowerLUN: Virtualized your storage pool with PowerLUNs which aggregates your storage pool and takes your application performance and capacity to extremely high levels.

Active-Active Host Ports: Reduce host striping and switching by configuring full access to the storage pool from any host port, or restrict host access with DDN policy-based security.