HexaData AUS gives Solid-state performance by caching read and write. HexaData AUS leverages ZFS to merge multi-layer DRAM and flash cache with high-density spinning disks: system RAM and SSDs are used to cache reads and writes while HDDs store the data.
HexaData AUS C-series is a dedicated appliance specially optimized OS for NAS and SAN. HexaData AUS maximizes storage efficiency and performance by offering compression, deduplication, and thin provisioning at no extra cost. Before data is stored, HexaData AUS dynamically detects and compresses what it can and skips over any data too inefficient to be worthwhile.
Most storage appliances require additional licenses for advanced features – but not HexaData AUS. Unlimited file version retention, restoration, and replication are some of these features. Data is automatically protected locally against unintentional alteration, such as ransomware or malware, with minimal storage consumption. Data can be replicated locally, remotely, or to the cloud for backups or disaster recovery. It supports configurable snapshots for block level and file level data with both create & restore functionality.
HexaData AUS C-Series has automatic and scheduled multi-layer data integrity checks ensure data consistency, while unlimited snapshots and clones make it is easy to implement a disaster protection strategy and to instantly roll back to a previous point-in-time. At the same time, a scheduled self-healing mechanism fixes malfunctions and automatically restores full data redundancy in the system. Even when a disk fails, the software-based spare function offers one disk to several RAID arrays, saving you money on extra hardware without compromising data safety
The HexaData AUS C-Series is optimized for the modern data center, ready for computeintensive applications that involve big data, BlockChain, AI, intensive virtualization workloads and higher-density server configurations. It helps customers a web based management of storage infrastructures and maintaining continuous operations during updates or refreshes. It supports various configurable options such as Intel Scalable CPU power, Fibre Channel connections, networks running, 10, 25, 40, 50 or 100 Gb Ethernet while developing solutions specialized for datacenter.
HexaData AUS C-Series will let you experience unlimited flexibility and minimize downtime. HexaData AUS C-Series uses a 128-bit file system that includes unlimited snapshots for easy backup, unlimited clones for easy duplication, unlimited capacity with volume sizes up to one Zetabyte, as well as unlimited amount of disks which can be increased on the fly without effort by using thin provisioning and file systems can have the capability to grow online. There are no limitations and you may easily control the total cost of ownership and expand your storage infrastructure as data grow. AUS C-Series supports more than 1000 active
concurrent file sessions. AUS C-Series can scale out using SAS interface and JBOF NVMe-oF interface. Additional disk enclosure can be connected using SAS interface incase of SAS/NL-SAS HDD, SAS SSD storage. Whereas JBOF will be used to expand storage with NVMe disks.
HexaData AUS C-Series has high available internal configuration with No Single Point of Failure (NSPoF) architecture and redundancy features at all levels, controllers, hot swap power supplies, PDUs, cache, links between subsystems etc. HexaData AUS C-Series provides equivalent RAID protection mechanism for RAID levels 0/1/10, 4/5/6. HexaData AUS C-Seriessupport different RAID groups within one storage system. There are dual storage and file redundant controllers in active-active mode with automatic fail over to each other in case of failure. There are separate NAS Gateway and SAN Gateway controllers available for enterprise storage looking for 99.9999% HA for SAN functions. The same controller pair should provide all the required functionality of NAS and AUS for AUCS C-100 an enterprise class storage array that guarantees 99.999% high availability.
HexaData AUS C-Series has a two controllers and it is called its base units and the base unit, expansion disk enclosures and disks are interconnected with multiple SAS-2 backend links with failover. From both the controllers SAS cables links will be connected to external expansion disk enclosure and within disk enclosure enterprise class and dual-ported disks are connected. The base unit and disk expansion units are seamlessly connected in RAID configurations. RAID groups and LUNs are spanned across the enclosures. HexaData AUS C-Series storage supports configuring volumes/ LUNs across all the disks. HexaData AUS C-Series storage supports more than 500 dual-ported disk drives without any replacement or upgrade of controllers with 5
external disk enclosures.
HexaData AUS C-Series has support caching data read and write operations, write cache has RAID 1 (mirror) protection. Both controllers should have the same cache configuration and for read cache, it is RAM is used whereas write cache is implemented with NVMe or SAS SSD disks. HexaData AUS C-Series supports cache memory from 128GB to 1TB DDR4 RAM.
HexaData AUS C-Series supports SSD, SAS & SATA/ NL-SAS disks and enclosures within same storage system. HexaData AUS C-Series supports configurable hot spare support. User will be able to configure the homogeneous disks as hot spare for a storage disk cluster. HexaData AUS C-Series support Global hot spare and it can be assigned to any disk cluster. There is a provision to define/ configure the required RAID levels, RAID groups, data & parity disks and global hot spare disks allocation.
HexaData AUS C-Series supports heterogeneous client operating systems on both block and file which include all popular flavors of Windows, Linux and virtualization hypervisors (VMware, Xen, Hyper-V, etc.). HexaData AUS C-Series can be configured with NFS, CIFS, FC and iSCSI protocols. It provides multiple levels of access control including role-based security and auditing and also support Active Directory and LDAP integration. It also provides user/group/directory based file system quotas with access controls, It supports concurrent access using NFS/ SMB/ FTP on each file system.
HexaData AUS C-Series supports The on- & off-site Data Protection feature allows users to back up and restore crucial company data in case of an unexpected disaster due to a combination of several technologies. This backup-focused feature enables creating consistent snapshots and asynchronous snapshot replication to local and/or remote destinations. The replication tasks can be set according to the specific user requirements thanks to advanced retention plans. On- and Off-site Data Protection is very flexible, as it covers a wide range of disaster recovery plans without the need to use additional third party tools.
HexaData AUS C-Series supports cache tiring feature which implements auto-tiring feature, during setup user can specify different Tiering options to setup a volume based on the type of storage available in the storage box. It helps the admistrator to setup a dynamic and automatic placement/ movement of data across the right disk storage tiers based on defined policies configured during initial configuration
HexaData AUS C-Series has management software (Web GUI, CLI) for configuring, managing & administering block & file storage and associated functionalities including deployment, automation, provisioning, protection and continuous system monitoring, auditing, advanced remote diagnostics. HexaData AUS C-Seriessupport Web based, Email facility for remote services to report errors and warnings.
HexaData AUS C-Series give dedicated management Ethernet port for management for the storage. It supports Ethernet Trunking and link aggregation for both management and Datapath Ethernet interfaces.