The Nexsan e5000TM, a part of Nexsan’s Flexible Storage PlatformTM, is Nexsan’s family of NAS storage systems that have been purpose-built for mid-sized organizations looking for high performance and all the enterprise-class features they need at a price they can afford. The e5000 boasts a robust set of features like snapshots, replication, quotas/thin provisioning and much more.whereas competitive NAS offerings are either too pricey or deliver too few features, the Nexsan e5000 uniquely delivers a NAS that is faster, easier, more affordable and fits in a smaller space. A revolutionary GUi streamlines setup and management for the time-constrained iT generalist and has been designed to deploy in under 15 minutes! in addition, the e5000 utilizes all drive types, an SSD cache to deliver blazing-fast i/O, boasts industry-leading storage density and power management, and offers a no single-point-of-failure architecture.
Key Benefits:
- NFS/CIFS shared folders
- FASTier™ SSD-based cache delivers blazing-fast I/O
- Snapshots that require no storage
- Asynchronous replication with checkpoint restart
- Enterprise-class reliability and fault tolerance
- SSD, SAS, NL-SAS and/or SATA drives
- Active Directory and LDAP integration
- Online capacity expansion
- Dual redundant storage controllers
- Two to six 1Gb Ethernet ports & optional dual 10Gb Ethernet per controller
- 62TB maximum capacity in Nexsan E5110
- 720TB maximum capacity in Nexsan E5310
Introducing FASTier: SSD Cache
For the ultimate in performance, the Nexsan e5000 features FASTierTM, a high performance SSD-based cache that works transparently to boost performance for random i/O workloads demanded by applications such as databases or virtualized computing environments (vMware, Xen, Hyper-v). The e5110 accommodates an optional 100GB SSD to operate as the FASTier cache, while the e5310 and e5510 FASTier caches are comprised of an 8GB dedicated write cache and up to 15 100GB or 200GB SSDs respectively. FASTier caches read and write i/O requests to dramatically increase the performance of the storage system. each storage pool is supported by its own dedicated FASTier cache.
Nexsan e5000 Product Family
All Nexsan e5000 storage systems utilize SSD, NL-SAS, SATA or SAS drives; high performance multi-core Xeon-based storage controllers; and high speed i/O subsystems. The e5110 delivers up to 15 drives and one optional FASTier SSD in a 3U fault-tolerant chassis, and up to 16 more drives in a 3U drive expansion chassis, for a total raw capacity of up to 62TB. For larger capacity needs, the e5310 houses dual redundant storage controllers and FASTier SSDs in a 3U chassis while leveraging Nexsan e-Series disk arrays on the backend, which deliver up to 240 drives in just 19U, while the e5510 delivers up to 360 drives in just 27U.
Features, Performance and Reliability
The Nexsan e5000 storage systems provide CiFS and NFS shared folders to NAS clients. The e5000 delivers up to 2048 snapshots per share without performance penalty. Snapshots do not require the pre-reservation of storage capacity, and they may be scheduled and managed easily from the e-Centre management console.
individual shares or entire storage pools may be replicated asynchronously to a second e5000 storage system, with snapshots intact for use on the target side for backups, testing or data mining. Synchronous replication utilizes two separate e-Series storage systems connected via Fibre Channel to the e5000 head for the ultimate in business continuity. Active Directory and LDAP integration make it easy to manage user identities and access rights on the e5000 shares. Quotas limit storage consumption by share, and oversubscription is permitted for thin-provisioning storage, along with alarms which notify when additional storage is needed. Capacity can be expanded by adding additional storage to a running system, so future needs can be met without incurring downtime. Moreover, link aggregation combines ethernet ports for faster throughput.
With blazing read/write throughput and high random iOPS performance, the Nexsan e5000 storage systems are the perfect choice for performance sensitive applications. All e5000 models utilize up to two redundant controllers with multicore Xeon CPUs to provide high performance with no single point-of-failure configurations. All active components are redundant and hot-swappable including power supplies, disks and controllers. FASTier SSD-based read and write caches complement up to 96GB of rAM per controller to significantly accelerate iOPS and MB/s of throughput.
Industry Leading Efficiencies
The Nexsan e5000 family delivers on the same industry leading storage density and energy efficiency that Nexsan storage systems are known for. The e5310 and e5510 models leverage Nexsan e-Series disk arrays that provide up to 85% energy savings by progressing drives in to deeper levels of sleep after specified periods of inactivity. Applications that benefit from Nexsan’s AutoMAiD® energy-saving technology include shared folders used for long-term archive, bulk storage, specific projects or shares used for backup-to-disk.
Easy to Manage
Designed with the iT generalist in mind, the Nexsan e5000 Family comes with Nexsan e-CentreTM manager, a web-based management GUi providing revolutionary ease-of-use for a sub-15 minute initial set-up time. wizards guide the administrator through pool creation, management, snapshots, volume management, asynchronous replication and clustering for high availability. Management is easy with a single, intuitive browser-based interface so that all local and remote e5000 storage systems can be easily managed and monitored from a single pane-of-glass.
