Active Storage ActiveRAID ES 32TB (3U 32TB SATA to Fibre Channel RAID System)
Product code: 66880

Active-Storage

The ActiveRAID ES represents a new standard in affordable high performance RAID storage for Apple users.

The ES is based on the original ActiveRAID and provides the same ease of deployment and management, but is better suited to non-24/7, 365-day small and medium business class or university deployments using Mac OS X Server.

Perfect for Wiki, Calendar, Email, iChat, file or Web serving applications, it is also ideal for disk-to-disk back up and archive of critical data.

Overview

The ActiveRAID ES is the affordable high performance RAID storage solution for Apple® users. Active Storage designed ActiveRAID ES using the same principles of the original ActiveRAID, while achieving a previously unobtainable level of value by providing the capabilities of the ActiveRAID in a lower cost configuration that does not sacrifice the performance, reliability or ease of management. The ActiveRAID ES was carefully designed for use in business critical applications where organizations require a high level of data integrity with ease of installation and management, but not the 24/7 365 day duty cycles of a large enterprise or Post-production or Broadcast facility.

The ActiveRAID ES provides redundant power, redundant cooling and redundant Fibre Channel connections, and the same powerful, yet easy to use management suite of the original ActiveRAID. The ES differs from the original ActiveRAID in that it has a single high performance RAID controller and uses business class hard drives with a smaller cache size. This results in a very robust RAID solution ideal for business class applications.

Performance of the ActiveRAID ES is an impressive 800MB/s throughput and will easily handle most Mac OS X Server applications. The ActiveRAID ES is the ideal storage for business class applications such as File serving, database services, web hosting, calendar, Wiki, Mail, iChat and much more. The ActiveRAID ES is also ideal as archive storage device for near-line and Disk-to- Disk backup of the ActiveRAID or other Enterprise Class storage. Its speed and ease of management make it the perfect choice in tiered storage environments.

Optimized Performance	Superior Mac OS X Performance
Fault Tolerant Design	Redundant cooling, power, hard drives, Fibre Channel ports
SATA II Hard Drive Support	7200 RPM 16MB cache high performance hard drives
Low Cost Expansion	16 drive 4x SAS Smart expansion system
Native Mac OS X Management	Industry leading ease of deployment and management
Modern System Design	Linux RAID Kernel, media-enhanced performance

Unmatched Application Performance

RAID kernel and open controller design provide an unmatched level of fine-grain tuning and minimum overhead
Designed specifically for modern OS systems
Redundant pathing, multiple Fibre Channel ports and large caches guarantee maximum bandwidth
Controllers automatically balance load to provide highest throughput as user needs grow

Modern, High Availability

All components are redundant - controllers, drives, and power supplies
Failover and failback are truly seamless
Native support for Mac OS X Multi-pathing
Complete support for all popular UPS systems
SNMP and CLI support for Enterprise environments
Automatic parity rebuild and data integrity check
Battery-backed cache - guaranteed 72-hour support

Management for Today and Tomorrow

Apple-friendly native Mac OS X management suite
Dashboard monitoring widget
iPhone monitoring App
Email notification engine
Bonjour discoverable out of the box
Set up one or many systems with no scripting
Non-disruptive software and firmware updates

RAID Support

RAID Levels - JBOD, 0, 1, 5, 6 10, 50, 51, 60
LUN Support - Auto-configuring for performance up to 512 LUNs
Drive Roaming - Full support between primary and secondary Expansion Systems
Redundant - True active/active operation with seamless failover and failback
On-Line data scrubbing with on-line parity regeneration
Bad Array recognition and repair
Sparing - Global Hot Sparing
Full SMART reporting

Configurations

16 Drive SATA II or SAS 3GB per primary or expansion system
Multi-IO design RAID controller, 2GB cache per controller mirrored across bi-directional 3GB/s path
Primary System Features; active/active dual channel 4Gb Fibre to SAS RAID controllers 4x 4Gb/s ports, dual SAS IO, independent management/ enclosure monitoring

Statistics

Full per port statistics package
Controller CPU load (percentage of idle time free)
Fibre Channel activity reporting
Fibre Bit error rate
Fibre average throughput (MB/s)
Fibre IOPS
Cache hit ratio statistics per LUN (Volumes)
Average throughput per LUN (Volumes)
IOPS per LUN (Volumes)
Average throughput per LUN (MB/s)
Number of stripes remapped by the controller per disk

Management and Monitoring

Out-of-the-box support on Mac OS X v10.5.x and v10.6.x
Guided Setup assistance can be used to optimize configuration of a single system in a single location, or multiple systems in single or multiple locations
128-Bit SSL security on Active Admin management tool
Support for all popular Enterprise-class SNMP Applications
Support for all popular UPS systems and controls
Automated software update service
On-line portal support for analysis of event log transactions
Non-disruptive firmware upgrades
Remote diagnostics and service center monitoring and analysis tool
Drag-and-drop Configuration Tool for sophisticated and complex environments
Proprietary Performance Profiling for determining future requirements

System Based Monitoring

Front Panel - Fibre Channel activity and link per controller, drive activity and system status-RAID controller, cooling modules, system temperature, power supplies
Rear Panel - All modules have health and status indicators