Rapid data growth, limited IT resources, and shrinking backup windows impact business productivity. Yet, your organization has requirements for tape backup, disaster recovery, compliance and archiving that cannot be ignored. You need a way to provide reliable and fast system recovery in the event of system failures or disasters.
Now your backup challenges no longer have to hold back your organization from successfully storing and managing its large and growing amounts of file-based data. With the Isilon IQ Backup Accelerator you can scale your backup performance to fit within your backup windows.
Extreme Backup and Restore Performance: The Isilon IQ Backup Accelerator is purpose-built to speed up the backup process. It integrates seamlessly into your existing cluster through an InfiniBand connection and provides a dedicated resource for backup, ensuring your Isilon clustered storage system is fully utilized for your production storage needs. It can drive up to four uncompressed LT04 tape drives, with each Backup Accelerator delivering backup speed of up to 1.7 terabytes per hour, enabling you to meet even very tight backup windows.
Enterprise SAN Tape Integration: The Isilon IQ Backup Accelerator provides a highly flexible solution that seamlessly integrates with your current tape infrastructure and your existing backup software and process. It supports both two-way and three-way NDMP to accommodate your specific infrastructure requirements.
Value and Ease of Use: Because of Isilon’s unique clustered storage architecture, you can buy only what you need to back up your initial storage purchase from Isilon, and then scale your Backup Accelerators in minutes, with no system downtime—just as you would any other Isilon cluster. That not only delivers more value by leveraging your existing investment, but makes management easier.
Key Features:
- Support for LT03 and LT04 tape devices:
- Up to 240 MBps (compressed) per tape device
- Up to 480 MBps or 1.7 TB per hour aggregate per Backup Accelerator
- Seamlessly joins an Isilon cluster on the fly in less than 60 seconds
- NDMP version 4.0, including:
- NDMP direct backup to tape (2-way) and NDMP remote backup to tape (3-way)
- NDMP direct-access restore (DAR)
- Supports industry-leading backup software:
- Symantec
- EMC
- IBM
- Commvault
- Bakbone
- Atempo
