AberSAN GS Dual Controller Unified Storage

Aberdeen’s AberSAN GS22 2U 12-bay unified storage was designed for ultra high performance and effortless integration to the cloud. It provides all the benefits of SAN, NAS and object storage together in one single system, offering powerful storage features and simplifying management and deployment. As a cloud-integrated solution, it also offers unlimited scalability and guaranteed high availability, giving users the best of both worlds in one storage system.

Cloud-integrated unified storage

Provides file, block and object storage in a single consolidated system, delivering flexibility for both structured and unstructured data, as well as unlimited scalability through cloud services

Ultra high performance and efficiency

Delivers 740K IOPS, 11GB/s block and 3,000MB/s CIFS bandwidth.
Features SSD Cache, protocol translation and intelligent sorting of hot and cold data, guaranteeing exceptional performance at every level of operation.
Deduplication and compression ensure the efficient use of bandwidth to effectively extend data to the cloud and lower overall costs.

Comprehensive data protection and security

Provides AES 256bit Encryption for data-in-flight and data-at-rest, as well as SSL integration, ensuring data is protected from malicious attacks at all times.
Integrates Intelligent Drive Recovery (IDR), snapshot, volume replication, file-level rsync, and SED compatibility to minimize data loss risks.

High availability

Ensured non-disruptive operations via redundancy of dual controller and SMB 3.0 transparent failover

Cloud Gateway Service

To leverage cloud storage’s unlimited scalability and flexible “scale on demand” model, organizations are increasingly in search of storage solutions that combine the benefits of both cloud and on-premises storage. By integrating Intelligent Cloud Gateway Engine and supporting a wide range of both private cloud and public cloud services, including Amazon, Azure and Google, Infrotrend storage systems offer 3 cloud functions to make the most of cloud’s advantages with the purchase of only one license required.

Cloud Cache: A copy of frequently accessed data or all data (fully cache mode) is kept on local storage and all data is also flushed to cloud.

Cloud Backup: The latest data is always stored locally while multi-point-in-time snapshots are stored on cloud for disaster recovery.

Cloud Tiering: Frequently accessed data is kept on local storage and infrequently accessed data is migrated to cloud.

SSD Cache

SSD Cache leverages the high speed and low latency of solid state drives in delivering faster read performance where it counts most – in high demand, vital data that must be accessed frequently. The feature helps users to better cope with high I/O loads and growing storage capacity requirements while dramatically boosting performance. SSD Cache presents particularly attractive advantages in read traffic-intensive environments, for example online transaction processing (OLTP) and email (Microsoft Exchange).

Proprietary SSD Cache technology allows up to four SSDs per controller to be used as a high speed cache, with sizes of up to 3.2TB. This large cache capacity offers ample room for essential data and applications, which can be allocated to the SSD Cache pool. In terms of IOPS,  SSD Cache runs up to 16 times faster than systems without SSD Cache in tests, and further reduces response time by as much as 88% in the same test.

Local Replication

In business-critical environments, users require strong protection for their valuable data sets. To help users protect data in the most efficient way, local replication leverages the power of XDAS storage systems to provide snapshot and volume copy/mirror capabilities. With space-saving snapshot copies, users can easily restore files or rollback data as necessary. With the full data copies, users can quickly restore service when a RAID-protected volume fatally fails.

Remote Replication Option

Remote replication leverages the power of storage systems to copy data between storage pools or systems in IP or FC SAN at different sites. When source data fails due to system malfunction or accidents, users can leverage the disk-based remote copy to restart service in minutes. If users would like to transfer responsibility back to the source, it can be quickly synced with the remote copy for only differentials. To further ensure the integrity of the remote data, remote replication allows users to protect the remote copy with snapshot technology. Granular snapshot images can help restore the corrupt remote copy in seconds when it is required to resume business service.

Automated Storage Tiering

By enabling users to flexibly assign applications to four available tiers distinguished by different drive types and RAID levels, automated storage tiering provides an architecture that fully leverages the advantages of different storage media, including SSDs for high-performance data storage. With automated storage tiering, users can greatly optimize storage performance and increase ROI. As part of automated storage tiering, data is migrated between tiers based on data usage patterns and user-configured policies. With tiering implemented on the sub-volume level, data can be moved in a highly granular fashion. Data migration achieves efficient distribution of data, and ensures that SSDs and other high-performance drives have the necessary storage space to deal with mission-critical applications.

Aberdeen Reliability

Aberdeen brings an industry leading 5 Year Warranty to the table with every fully configured AberNAS rackmount server. Our custom configured rackmounts and along with our pre-configured Stirling line of servers and AberNAS network appliances come with a 5 Year Warranty standard unlike of some other companies’ 1 or 3 year warranties. Take advantage of the speed, storage and security of the AberNAS by Aberdeen.

Aberdeen C.A.R.E.S.

Aberdeen offers a 30 day trial assessment program on completely configured servers and/or storage. We are so confident that once you try one of our custom configured rackmount servers you will not only be completely satisfied with the evaluation unit but will choose Aberdeen to fulfill all your future rackmount server needs.