Nexsan SASBoy Storage System

SASBoy incorporates advanced features such as dual RAID engines, cache mirroring, a high performance ASIC, and active/active failover to deliver uncompromising availability and reliability with high performance. With transaction speeds up to 50,000 IOPS from cache and 2,500 IOPS from disk, SASBoy provides superior performance across all standard platforms and operating systems. Dual 4Gb Fibre Channel and dual iSCSI connectors on each controller enable easy and flexible implementation into a wide range of environments. SASBoy’s high performance provides exceptional value that enhances all digital information storage applications, such as live online data, file serving, tiered storage, medical imaging storage and other business critical applications where performance is a must.

AutoMAID™ Energy Saving Technology

Nexsan's evolutionary AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology transparently places disk drives into an idle state to vastly reduce power and cooling costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-effecdtive benefits of MAID 2.0 without the limitations of slow access times and special host software.

AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings. AutoMAID is user selectable enabling users to determine the right level of response time performance to energy savings. AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0 architecture that supports VTL, full file format D2D and standard high performance RAID implementations.

• AutoMAID automatically reduces power consumption and heat generation on idle drives
• Trade-off between response times and power savings are user configurable
• AutoMAID behavior happens automatically and transparently to host – no software changes required
• Typical configuration settings:
  • Level 1: Heads Unloaded
    • 15% to 20% savings
    • Sub-second recovery time
  • Level 2: Heads Unloaded, slows to 4000 RPM
    • 35% to 45% savings
    • 15 second recovery time
  • Level 3: Stops spinning (sleep mode; powered on)
    • 60% to 70% savings
    • 30 to 45 second recovery time

Energy Saving SAS

SASBoy offers the energy saving benefits of Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ technology. AutoMAID™ (Massive Array of Idle Disks) allows SASBoy to place its disk drives into several levels energy savings without compromising application performance. This powerful combination of high performance with energy saving capabilities enables users to lower the cost of owning storage.

• High performance RAID solution built around the latest high performance SAS disk drives.
• High availability - All mission critical components, including RAID controllers, are hot swappable and fully redundant.
• Energy efficient without compromising application performance, AutoMAID.
• Multi-Box management -- easily manage multiple SASBoy and SATABoy units form a single GUI.
• Up to 255 LUNs per controller.
• Dynamic spare pooling and dedicated spares; array verification.
• LUN Masking capability with full Access Control List (ACL) Read/Write and Read Only permissions per initiator, per LUN along with group policies.
• Failsafe 24/7 operation for uninterrupted business continuity.
• Three Year Warranty - Advance Exchange, 24X7 Technical Support.
• High density / high performance - SASBoy features 14 drives in only 3U of rack space.
• Arrays can be configured for RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 and 6.
• OS independent - No special software drivers required to connect to any host system.
• Integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation.

NexScan GUI - Configuration and Management

NexScan® is our embedded WEB enabled GUI ( Graphical User Interface ). NexScan provides easy access to your SASBoy system from most standard internet browsers or from any host computer either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN. NexScan is platform independent. No software or patches required.

• Additional access via the RS-232 serial port or network interface to an ANSI terminal or emulator.
• Event log for all significant events stored on disk.
• Single click access to summary of all problems and warnings.
• Arrays are verified before being put into production; automatic "parity scrub" (array verify) is performed as a background task every 24 hours thereafter.
• Shows status of disk drives, power supplies, fans, RAID controller. Information is automatically refreshed.
• Complete hardware status page lists all significant hardware conditions such as voltages, temperature, battery mode, cache settings, network settings, and blower RPM
• Supports automatic IP address assignment via DHCP, manually using a static IP address over serial port, via web page, or by use of the IP Config Tool.
• Cache management page allows configuration of Cache as enabled or disabled, or remotely settable via standard SCSI commands
• Build RAID sets (and set RAID level and stripe size), partition RAID sets into Volumes, map Volumes to LUNs and Host Ports, and manage Spares
• For each drive, complete Model Name, Capacity, Serial Number, and Firmware Revision is reported along with errors and retries, if any.
• Alerts and warnings sent out using SMTP email alerts with problem summary, hyperlink to the enclosure management page, plus user-defined fields.
• Basic SNMP trap support.
• Extra security feature requires manual confirmation of destructive media operations.
• Battery-backed Real Time Clock/Calendar is used to time stamp all major events
• Configure and monitor subsystem using most standard web browsers.

SASBoy Teleguard - Phone Home

Tele-Guard™ is Nexsan's "phone home" feature incorporated within our award-winning line of storage solutions. Tele-Guard™ works in conjuction with the NexScan™ GUI to provide users with a simple, integrated set of tools to effectively manage and monitor your Nexsan storage system. Utilizing NexScan™, our WEB enabled GUI (Graphical User Interface), you can access your system from any standard internet browser. In addition, NexScan™ is platform independent and can be accessed directly from a host computer or over a LAN or WAN. NexScan™ uses standard html eliminating any need for special client software. Tele-Guard™ monitors all system parameters and allows either single or multiple user alerts to be sent via ' Plain English ' e-mails, Internet based SMS notification or Tele-Guard's™ pager support.

SASBoy Warranty / Support / Services

Three Years Advance Replacement Warranty: Nexsan Technologies storage systems are warranted for three full years from the date of shipment. Upon verification of failure, replacement equipment will be shipped out to our customers. Return material authorizations will accompany all equipment shipped and can be issued either by our phone, fax, or email. (drive warranties vary and may exceed three years, warranties are non-transferable without prior consent from Nexsan)

On Location Pre-Exchange Program: An industry first program for maximum protection of critical storage devices, this program provides customers with an on location unit that features fully redundant fail-over hardware including the chassis for a nominal annual charge. This program enables our customers to have in their rack chassis a fully implemented system. Along with our 24-hour free phone support, customers can now be assured of rapid resolution to any problem. Defective components can then be advance replaced for constant availability.

On Site Warranty: Nexsan offers World Wide On-Site support seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. (Some countries and costs vary, check with your sales representative for specific regional details). A simple call to our European or North American support offices and we will assist in diagnosis and dispatch an on-site technician as required. A call tracking number will be issued for convenience to our customers.

Telephone Support: Nexsan Technologies is fully staffed in providing multiple regional Support centers in North America, United Kingdom and Central Europe. All of our regional support centers staff Senior Field Application Engineers who can provide phone or on-site support as requested.