- Security, scalability, peace-of-mind data protection, and
simplified management of all your business information.
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Instant backup and recovery of critical files
through Snapshot™ technology.
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Powerful disaster recovery of entire volumes through
SnapRestore®.
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Replication software and tape backup integration
mean easy, reliable off-site backup, archive, and restore, using
your existing tools.
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Supreme reliability. RAID-DP™ is a dual-parity
scheme that protects against two drive failures with no performance
burden and means up to 10,000 times more protection than
single-parity schemes.
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Benefits for your business
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- Storage management made easy
- Just because your business data is complex, there’s no
reason for your data storage to be complex. The StoreVault S500
provides security with simplicity, allowing you to focus on
growing your business, not on your growing storage.
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- Eliminate the pain of backup
- NetApp Snapshot™ technology allows you to eliminate daily
incremental backups, and can even eliminate the backup window.
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- No more waiting for recovery, stay in business
- Disk-to-disk backup and fast recovery is no longer just for
large IT organizations. StoreVault products enable instant
recovery of individual files, directories or an entire file
system.
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- Your business is growing, your storage should be able to
grow with you
- StoreVault S500 allows you to add storage without disrupting
applications or users, even one drive at a time if that’s what
you need.
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- Allocating storage should be easy
- With NetApp FlexVol™ technology embedded, storage capacity
can be simply allocated and reallocated on-the-fly while
continuing normal operations.
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- Low Total Cost of Ownership
- StoreVault has a low acquisition cost, but the real benefit
comes with the simplicity of management, better storage
utilization, and protection of your data over time.
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- You’re a leader in your field, depend on a leader in
network storage
- Network Appliance has long been regarded as the storage
innovation leader in providing high reliability, simplicity, and
data protection.
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- Advanced Protection Architecture
- The StoreVault Advanced Protection Architecture combines
protection for your data with technologies that maintain your
system to ensure maximum availability.
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- Intuitive graphical interface to manage your storage
- The StoreVault S500 goes from carton to configured in
minutes and provides the ongoing ability to easily manage,
monitor, and update your storage without the need for storage
specialists.
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- NAS and SAN support in one box
- StoreVault S500 provides support for file sharing (NAS) and
block-level storage (SAN) over iSCSI or Fibre Channel, giving
you the flexibility to grow when you need to. It even supports
direct-attached storage (DAS).
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- High reliability and availability
- With redundant hot-swap power and cooling, dual Gigabit
Ethernet ports, NVRAM, and protection from double-disk failure
with RAID-DP™, StoreVault S500 keeps your data safe and
available.
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- Instant backup and restore
- Snapshots provide peace-of-mind security and dependability
with the industry’s best implementation of point-in-time
recovery with no performance impact.
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- StoreVault Replication for remote protection
- Replicate files and LUNs to a remote StoreVault S500 to
protect your data in the event of a disaster or to publish
read-only data remotely. Supports one-to-one, one-to-many,
many-to-one configurations.
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- Scales to 6TB
- You can start with just 1TB at a very affordable price point,
and your storage can grow as your business grows without adding
additional boxes or complexity. The unique NetApp architecture
allows a single drive to be added transparently to an existing RAID
group without disruption to applications or users.
StoreVault S500 Specifications
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System
Software Specifications |
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Operating System
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Network Appliance™ Data ONTAP® StoreVault
Edition |
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Standard Software Features
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Simultaneous NAS and SAN support, online
capacity expansion, up to 255 Snapshots™ per
volume, e-mail alerts, DNS, NDMP, FlexVol™
thin provisioning |
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Security Integration |
UNIX® NIS, Macintosh® NIS, Windows® Active
Directory and Windows Workgroup (local)
integration |
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NAS Protocol Support
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NFS V2/V3/V4 over UDP or TCP, NFS client
authentication, Microsoft® CIFS |
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CIFS/NFS Cross Protocol
Access
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A given directory can be accessed either
from CIFS or NFS clients |
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SAN Protocol Support |
Fibre Channel and iSCSI Up to 64 LUNs |
 Fibre
Channel |
QLogic SAN
Starter Kit, available from the StoreVault
Division |
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iSCSI
Software Initiators |
Microsoft
initiator v2.02, VMware ESX and VMware
Server, Linux Red Hat ES 11 (upgrade 4),
Linux SuSE EL 9, Netware 6.5, Solaris 10 |
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iSCSI
Hardware Initiators |
Silverback
iSNAP 2110, QLogic QLA4052 |
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RAID Support
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Global Hot Spare, RAID-4 and RAID-DP (Double
Protection, a form of RAID-6 without any
performance penalty) |
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Management Interface |
StoreVault
Manager, a Windows-based administration
utility |
| SNMP
Support |
Agent
compatible with SNMP ver1. MIB-II and NetApp
custom MIBs supported. |
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System
Hardware Specifications |
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Chassis |
2U, 19” rack-mountable |
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Power Supplies |
Dual redundant, hot pluggable |
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Max. Raw Capacity
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6TB |
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Disk Drives
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Up to 12; 250GB SATA I and 500GB SATA II |
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DDR2 Memory (System RAM)
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1024 MB |
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Nonvolatile SDRAM (NVRAM)
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256MB - protects “in flight” transactions
for 3 days in the event of a power loss. |
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Integrated I/O
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2 Ethernet 10/100/1000 Copper |
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NIC Failover
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Traffic can be failed over from the primary
NIC seamlessly in the event of a network
connection failure. |
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Optional SCSI Card |
One 68-pin VHDCI for LVD SCSI devices |
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Environmental
Specifications |
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AC Power / Max. Current
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100 to 120VAC, 9A; 200 to 240VAC, 4.5A |
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Thermal Rating
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1706 Btu/hr (fully loaded shelf) |
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Dimensions (height/width/depth) |
2 EIA U
(3.5” 13.3 cm) / 19” EIA rack compliant
(17.6”, 44.7 cm) / 22” (55.9 cm) |
| Max.
Weight |
52.0 lb
(35.8 kg) fully loaded |
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Operating Temperature & Relative Humidity |
0°C to 40°C
(32°F to 104°F); 20% to 85% relative
humidity, noncondensing) |
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Nonoperating Temperature & Relative Humidity |
-40°C to
65°C (-40° F to 149° F); 20% to 95% relative
humidity, noncondensing) |
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Operating Acoustic Noise |
61 dBA @ 1m
at 23°C |
| Min.
Service Clearances |
10.55” (26.8
cm) front; 16.3” (41.4 cm) rear |
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StoreVault
Manager Installation Requirements |
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Hardware requirements
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Intel-based PC with single 2 GHz CPU (Xeon
or Pentium 4)
40 MB of free disk space minimum
512 MB of memory minimum |
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Software requirements
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Windows XP
Windows 2003 server |
| Command
Line Support |
Management
interface protocols such as telnet, rsh, ssh
and HTTP are not supported on Data ONTAP
StoreVault Edition |
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StoreVault
S500 is an ideal complement to a tape backup system such as
Symantec Backup Exec. With the Backup Exec 11d for
Windows Servers NDMP Option, StoreVault data can be protected
for immediate recovery or long-term storage. IT Administrators
can leverage their investment in Backup Exec to protect
StoreVaults, centralizing management and reducing overall
administration costs. By combining NetApp solutions with Backup
Exec, businesses will have confidence that their critical data
is harnessing the gold standard in Windows data recovery.
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- Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)
- The most common form of server storage today is still
direct attached storage. The disks may be internal to the server
or they may be in an external array that is connected directly to the
server. Either way, the storage can be accessed only through
that server.
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- In the DAS setup, an pplication server will have its own storage; the
next application server will have its own storage; and the file
and print servers will each have their own storage. Backups must
either be performed on each individual server with a dedicated
tape drive or across the LAN to a shared tape device consuming a
significant amount of bandwidth. Storage can only be added by
taking down the application server, adding physical disks, and
rebuilding the storage array. When a server is upgraded, its
data must be migrated to the new server.
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- In small installations DAS setup can work well, but it gets
very much more difficult to manage as the number of servers
increases. Backups become more challenging, and because storage
is not shared anywhere, storage utilization is typically very
low in some servers and overflowing in others. Disk storage is
physically added to a server based on the predicted needs of the
application. If that application is underutilized, then capital
cost has been unnecessarily tied up. If the application runs out
of storage, it must be taken down and rebuilt after more disk
storage has been added. In the case of file services, the
typical response to a full server is to add another file server.
This adds more storage, but all the clients must now be reset to
point to the new network location, adding complexity to the
client side. Additional cost in the form of Client Access
Licenses (CAL) must also be taken into account.
- Network Attached Storage (NAS)
A NAS appliance is a simplified form of file server; it
is optimized for file sharing in an organization. Authorized
clients can see folders and files on the NAS device just as
they can on their local hard drive. NAS appliances are so
called because they have all of the required software
preloaded and they are easy to install and simple to use.
Installation consists of rack mounting, connecting power and
Ethernet, and configuring via a simple browser-based tool.
Installation is typically achieved in less than half an
hour. NAS devices are frequently used to consolidate file
services. To prevent the proliferation of file servers, a
single NAS appliance can replace many regular file servers,
simplifying management and reducing cost and workload for
the systems administrator. NAS appliances are also
multiprotocol, which means that they can share files among
clients using Windows® and UNIX®-based
operating systems.
Storage Area Networks
A SAN allows more than one application server to share
storage. Data is stored at a block level and can therefore
be accessed by an application, not directly by clients. The
physical elements of the SAN (servers, switches, storage
arrays, etc.) are typically connected with Fibre-Channel –
an interconnect technology that permits high-performance
resource sharing. Backups can be performed centrally and can
be more easily managed to avoid interrupting the
applications. The primary advantages of a SAN are its
scalability and flexibility. Storage can be added without
disrupting the applications, and different types of storage
can be added to the pool.
- With the advent of storage area networks, adding
storage capacity has become simplified for systems
administrators, because it’s no longer necessary to
bring down the application server. Additional storage is
simply added to the SAN, and the new storage can then be
configured and made immediately available to those
applications that need it. Upgrading the application
server is also simplified; the data can remain on the
disk arrays, and the new server just needs to point to
the appropriate data set. Backups can be centralized,
reducing workload and providing greater assurance that
the backups are complete. The time taken for Backup is
dramatically reduced because the backup is performed
over the high-speed SAN, and no backup traffic ever
impacts users on the LAN.
All-in-one Networked Storage
An
all-in-one network storage device combines the
capabilities of SAN and NAS providing flexibility to
businesses. By combining block and file-level
storage, clients on the LAN have direct access to
shared files on the all-in-one device and
application servers share storage. Instead of having
to predict ahead of time how much storage will be
required for file sharing versus application data,
storage can be allocated from a central pool as
required. This approach eases management, reduces
costs and improves storage utilization.
The
StoreVault S500 from NetApp allows businesses to
simplify their storage by consolidating their
storage needs into one simpleto-use, all-in-one
network storage device. The S500 supports iSCSI
connectivity concurrently with CIFS and NFS file
sharing, providing great flexibility. The StoreVault
S500 is so flexible, it can even be used as direct
attached storage until you are ready for NAS and or
SAN. If, at a later stage, you want to move up to
the performance of a Fibre Channel SAN, the S500 is
ready with the addition of a Fibre Channel host bus
adapter, protecting your investment.
S500
incorporates NetApp Snapshot technology, which
creates point-in-time data backups by saving a
volume's metadata-the information that describes
which data blocks on disk are assigned to each data
file-and protecting in-use data blocks from being
overwritten when files are written or updated. You
can configure the frequency and retention of
snapshots.
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