High density storage - up to 42
TB in only 4U
Built for
Xserve and Mac Pro systems
Revolutionary AutoMAID energy
saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs
Full Enterprise class
performance, reliability and management
Dual function Fibre Channel and
iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance
Flexible, scalable and
completely OS independent. Supports a broad range of storage infrastructures.
Nexsan has taken its award-winning SATABeast storage system and
redesigned it for Mac environments. With unparalleled density, availability and
energy efficiency, SATABeast Xi is the perfect fit for Mac storage.
Mac and Xserve are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.
SATABeast Xi User Interface - Configuration
and Management
The SATABeast Xi user interface provides access to your system
from any standard Web browser including Safari or any host computer directly or
via a LAN or WAN. The SATABeast Xi GUI is platform independent and requires no
software or patches.
Automated status review of disk drives, power supplies, fans and
RAID controllers
Single click access to all problems and warnings
Event log for all significant events stored on disk
Automated array verification prior to production; automatic
"parity scrub" performed as background task every 24 hours
Additional access via RS-232 serial port or network interface to
an ANSI terminal or emulator
Complete listing of voltages, temperature, battery mode, cache
settings, network settings, and blower RPM
Automatic IP address assignment via DHCP, as well as manual IP
Gleaning over serial port or via web page
SMART environmental monitoring support
Cache management page allows local configuration or remotely via
standard SCSI commands
DNS support for symbolic addresses
Easily build RAID sets, partition RAID volumes, map volumes to
LUNs and host ports, as well as spares management
Alerts and warnings sent via SMTP email alerts with problem
summary, hyperlink to the enclosure management, as well as user-defined fields
Extra security feature requires manual confirmation of
destructive media operations
Battery-backed Clock/Calendar used to time stamp all major events
Configure and monitor subsystem using any standard web browser
SATABeast Xi Advanced Features
Enterprise class storage array built around the latest
high-capacity SATA disk drives
High performance – over 800 MB/s sustained throughput
Reduced energy consumption and costs through AutoMAID™ technology
All active components are redundant and individually
hot-swappable
High density per rack inch
Supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 and 6
WorldView™ - Provides ability to manage and configure multiple Nexsan units from
a single GUI
Anti-Accumulative Rotational Vibration design enables maximum drive reliability.
Supports multiple RAID sets and multiple volumes per set
Horizontal midplane design promotes superior airflow and alleviates insertion
stress points
Integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation
Completely OS independent. No special software drivers or server-based
management applications required.
SATABeast Xi delivers access to data up to 500 times faster than tape libraries
and 20x faster than other MAID systems.
Embedded web-browsable GUI over 10/100/1000 port, supports email alerts and SNMP
traps
Up
to 2GB cache per controller
Supports up to 256 LUNS per controller
SATABeast Xi Key Benefits
With SATABeast Xi, Nexsan engineers have architected the
industry's most complete and cost-effective high capacity storage system.
SATABeast Xi's advanced mechanical design provides superior cooling for optimal
thermal operation, reduces drive vibration and delivers outstanding energy
efficiency in an extreme density (42 drives in 4U high) form factor. SATABeast's
unique design extends individual drive life and provides TCO savings year over
year.
SATABeast Xi employs Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy
saving technology. AutoMAID transparently places disk drives in an idle state
reducing power consumption and operational costs. AutoMAID delivers the
cost-saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) without the
limitations of slow access times and special host software. Nexsan's AutoMAID is
granular to an individual drive or RAID set and enables users to determine the
level of access speed and energy savings desired. AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0
architecture that supports VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries), full file format D2D
and standard RAID implementations.
SATABeast Xi performs continuous background integrity scans to
ensure drive health and data accessibility. Each controller features full cache
coherency to maintain data integrity even in the event of a power loss.
Nexsan's award-winning high performance SATA RAID controller
architecture utilizes dual RAID engines on each SATABeast Xi controller to
provide extremely high throughput performance across 42 spindles. SATABeast Xi's
42 high capacity drives can be segmented into multiple RAID sets or a single
large storage pool. LUN Mapping allows users to easily configure the massive
disk capacity for dozens of servers or one.
All individual SATABeast Xi components are fully redundant and
hot swappable. This advanced design provides increased ROI by eliminating the
need to replace an entire multi-drive blade should a single drive fail.
SATABeast's Xi management interface is built into the
SATABeast Xi controller, alleviating the need to have a separate server or
application manage the storage array. This sophisticated management utility
monitors and reports the status of all subsystems over a 10/100/1000-network
port. Included in NexScan are Tele-GuardT, Nexsan's phone-home feature for user
notification of errors or prediction of error, and WorldView, our multi-box
management feature.
Warranty
AutoMaid
SATABeast
with AutoMAID™ Energy Saving Technology
Nexsan offers the first and only high performance, high capacity RAID
storage systems to provide the energy saving benefits of MAID(Massive
Array of Idle Disks). SATABeast employs Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™
energy saving technology transparently place SATABeast disk drives into
an idle state vastly reducing power consumption and operational costs.
AutoMAID delivers the cost-saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of
Idle Disks) but without the limitations of slow access times and special
host software. Nexsan's AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or
RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings enabling users to
determine the right level of access speed and energy savings for their
environment. AutoMAID is the first MAID architecture that supports VTL
(Virtual Tape Libraries), full file format D2D and standard high
performance RAID implementations.
By integrating Nexsan's AutoMAID™ technology into our high
performance, multipurpose SATA storage arrays, users now have the flexibility to
support multiple applications within the same storage subsystem. AutoMAID is
user-selectable allowing this feature to be implemented as desired. AutoMAID can
be applied selectively by drive units and can be disabled for volumes requiring
the very best response time.
Key Points
• SATABeast with AutoMAID can cool all drives at 100% activity (even with one or
two fans
failed, even in a hot room)
• MAID reduces operational costs
• Nexsan’s AutoMAID gains the benefits of MAID without the limitations
• Available on Nexsan SATABoy, SATABlade and SATABeast
AutoMAID Defined
• 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
• AutoMAID is analogous to power saving modes on laptops
• Typical configuration settings:
- 30% savings – after 5 minutes of
idle time, drives are programmed to unload heads and
slow
down to 4000 RPM. Very fast recovery time.
- 52% savings – after 5 minutes of
idle time, drives are programmed to spin down. Recovery
time
on the order of 30 seconds.
AutoMAID Safety Features
• In maximum power saving modes, drive spin up is sequenced to reduce power
surges
• Drives automatically wake up for periodic surface scan to ensure data
integrity (typically, once a week for a few hours – user
configurable)
• AutoMAID feature has no impact on performance if left on in data-intensive
server applications – busy systems will never invoke the
AutoMAID behavior
• Only two simple configuration settings – the timeout and the level of power
savings desired
