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  • Sustained throughput up to 3GB/s reads and writes
  • DirectRAID 6 data protection with zero performance penalty
  • Grow to a Petabyte behind a single appliance

 

s2a_appliance.jpgCurrently in its seventh generation design, the S2A9550 appliance is the foundation for our storage systems and turn-key solutions. The S2A9550 Storage Appliance delivers storage investment protection by achieving optimized price/performance levels and and enabling leading price/capacity levels.

The S2A9550 Storage Appliance is specifically designed for high-performance, high-capacity network storage applications. Delivering up to 3 GB/s of large file performance from a single appliance and scaling to 960TB in a single storage system, this 7th generation product provides optimal block-level and file system quality of performance for highly scalable, open-system computing environments.

 

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S2A9950 Products

 

Appliance Highlights

  • Real-time data access and quality of service
  • Parallel processing for concurrent multi-user access
  • Fault tolerant without performance penalty
  • Redundant, hot swap-able components
  • Scalable for performance and capacity
  • Application & file system agnostic
  • Advanced management and data protection features

View Detailed Specs

 
Optimized For

  • High bandwidth delivery
  • Consolidation and centralized management
  • Deploying and managing large disk pools
  • Reducing floor space/power consumption
  • Active archive, rapid backup/restore

DirectOS

The S2A9550 is a patented, 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:


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  S2A9550 Appliance
Performance DirectRAID 3.0GB/s Read and Write - Full Duplex
Performance Protection Full-Bandwidth in Degraded Mode Protection
Direct Host Logins 512
LUNS Supported 8,192
Maximum LUN Size PowerLUN
Size LUNs Across Whole Array
Mirroring Support DirectMirror
multi-clone mirroring
Monitoring SNMP, GUI, Telnet, API
Height 4U
Host-Ports Active/Active All ports see all data
Host Card Slots 4
Host Card Options Dual-Port 4Gb/s FC Dual-Port 10Gb/s IB
Cache Size 5GB
2Gb/s FC Disk Ports 20