Deploy your own private SAN or NAS with a powerful, dedicated storage appliance: SoftLayer mass storage dedicated servers running OS NEXUS QuantaStor Storage Appliance OS, the industry’s first virtual storage solution designed for global manageability. The SAN (iSCSI) + NAS (NFS) storage system delivers advanced storage features including, thin-provisioning, and remote-replication, ideal for applications including VM application deployments, virtual desktops, and web and application servers.
Available with 12 or 24 drives, sample configurations include:
| 16TB (8 x 2TB SATA) Intel Xeon 5504 Processor |
| 24 GB DDR3 1333 ECC |
| 2 x 12 MB Cache |
| 2 x 250 GB HDD (Upgrade to 24 HDDs) |
| Reboot/KVM Over IP |
| Free Private Network Bandwidth |
| 48TB (24 x 2TB SATA) Intel Xeon 5504 Processor |
| 24 GB DDR3 1333 ECC |
| 2 x 12 MB Cache |
| 2 x 250 GB HDD (Upgrade to 24 HDDs) |
| Reboot/KVM Over IP |
| Free Private Network Bandwidth |
| 68TB (34 x 2TB SATA) Intel Xeon 5504 Processor |
| 24 GB DDR3 1333 ECC |
| 2 x 12 MB Cache |
| 2 x 250 GB HDD (Upgrade to 24 HDDs) |
| Reboot/KVM Over IP |
| Free Private Network Bandwidth |
Thin provisioning is a technology that enables you to allocate volumes without having to dedicate the storage until it is needed. It's a powerful tool because it allows you to eliminate the guess work about how much a given application will require. With thin-provisioning you just make the volume (LUN) as large as you like (up to 2x the size of the storage pool), and then you can add more disk to the storage pool down the road as application demands require.
QuantaStor Manager is a web based management application for managing your QuantaStor system(s). Simply enter the IP address of your QuantaStor storage system into any major browser and you can manage your storage system from nearly anywhere. QuantaStor Manager is a true web application as it was developed using the latest in Web 2.0 development tools to give you that rich experience you get from a traditional desktop application (no page refreshes) without having to install anything on your desktop.
QuantaStor allows you to add more storage to your system at any time and use it to create a new storage pool or to expand an existing storage pool.
QuantaStor was designed to be the easiest iSCSI SAN on the market to manage and deploy and includes support for both 1GbE and 10GbE network adapters for your high-performance applications
Citrix's Essentials for XenServer & Hyper-V fully automates the storage management tasks involved with deploying new virtual machines, migrating virtual machines, snapshoting & cloning virtual machines and replicating virtual machines. Combined QuantaStor storage clouds you'll be able to control exactly which storage volumes and resources made visible and manageable by your virtual machine administrators through Citrix Essentials.