Q1. What is CSAN and what is CNAS?
[Answer]:
CSAN stands for Clustered-SAN. It refers to one of the key feature of product "CSAN/CNAS System". CSAN provides standard SAN service to customer with realtime mirroring feature at data block level.
CNAS stands for Clustered-NAS. It refers to one of the key feature of products "CSAN/CNAS System" and "CNAS Grid". CNAS provides an enterprise grade NAS which is highly scalable, high availability, high performance.
Q2. What "CSAN/CNAS System" contains of?
[Answer]:
Standard CSAN/CNAS System consists of 3 components. All components is called "Storage Module". However, 3 components provide 3 different services. First is called Storage Module - Master, second is called Storage Module - Slave, third one is called Storage Module - Backup
Q3. What is Storage Module?
[Answer]:
Storage Module refers to basic unit of all GSGJ product. CSAN/CNAS System and CNAS Grid are built from Storage Module. There are (5 types) of Storage Module:
- Storage Module - Master:
It refers to primary node of CSAN/CNAS System. It provides realtime data replicatioin to (Storage Module - Slave) and provides offline data backup to Storage Module -Backup.
- Storage Module - Slave:
It refers to secondary node of CSAN/CNAS System. It provides standby service of whole system, data is replicated to it from primary node in realtime.
- Storage Module - Backup:
It refers to third node of CSAN/CNAS System. It provides offline storage backup for primary node over IP netowrk.
- Storage Module - C:
It refers to controllers of CNAS Grid
- Storage Module - D:
It refers to data nodes of CNAS Grid
Q4. What is CNAS Grid?
[Answer]:
CNAS Grid refers to an enterprise grade NAS product. It provides highly scalable, high availability, high performance clustered NAS for enterprise based on PC low cost hardware.
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