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The Power-All Networks CSAN (Clustered Storage
Area Networks) is network storage product that based on cluster. Multiple storage nodes design enable it with high scalability, capacity of data fault tolerant, flexible storage size.
Download User Guide: csan.pdf
Download CSAN Hardware Doc: csan_hardware.pdf
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| Associated Products |
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There are two CSAN designs targeted for standard commercial products.
They are the CSAN-In-A-Box and CSAN-In-A-Box with mirroring. |
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CSAN-In-A-Box |
CSAN-In-A-Box with mirroring |
Description |
Replacement of SAN and with NAS feature ready |
Replacement of SAN and NAS |
Standard |
3U Chassis |
3U Chassis |
Architecture
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The design of tight integration within a single chassis realize the functions of SAN and NAS |
To conduct real time backup for CSAN-In-A-Box, with high availability Storage Area Network. |
Storage Capacity |
Up to 8TB raw capacity |
Up to 16TB raw capacity |
Target Market |
Replacement of NAS and small SAN, applicable to every enterprise |
Replacement of NAS and medium SAN, apply to medium enterprises |
Open Standard and Components |
yes |
yes |
High availability ofdata |
Hard disks are protected by RAID for data redundancy |
Hard disks are protected by RAID for data redundancy. High availability system results in no single point of failure in whole storage system. |
Management Interface |
Based on Web management interface, convenient and easy to operate, support remote configuration management. |
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| Product Features |
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- State-of-art storage virtualization engine
- With the function of SAN and NAS
- Enterprise class storage volume management system
- High performance and data redundancy options
- No single point of failure
- High availability of data
- Support multiple users accounts and authority management
- Quota support on volumes
- Easy to use Graphical User Interface
- Feature rich monitoring tools
- With real time mail alarm function
- Strong data encryption algorithm, approved by US NSA for Top Secret information
- Universal data exchange between Unix/Linux, Macintosh and Windows
- TCP/IP,CIFS,ISCSI,HTTP,HTTPS,FTP compliance
- All kinds format backup
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Technical Architecture |
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- This is the CSAN with a single level of storage nodes.
- It acts as a SAN at the block device level or as a NAS at the file protocol level as shown in the following diagram.
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- With the Virtualization/Parallel-I/O-In-A-Cluster on top, the CSAN becomes a universal external storage:
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Capable of supporting simultaneous access from multiple of different kinds and from multiple operating systems of different kinds. |
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Under a single naming space (one naming scheme for all so that it is easy to manage and to share. Each file has one name to all users regardless of their operating systems, hardware and software). |
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To share, to read and write simultaneously to the same file by all users regardless of their operating systems, hardware and software. |
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To support multiple remote or local protocol of different kinds simultaneously. |
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To allow management of physical storage as a single pool of storage for all users, for all file systems and operating systems of different kinds. This capability minimizes unused but unavailable storage blocks tremendously. |
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- With the Virtualization/Parallel-I/O-In-A-Cluster plus the storage-Capability-Suite software, the CSAN becomes one of the most flexible, most cost effective and reliable, universal and total storage solution available with:
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Extremely low capital cost, hardware and software |
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Extremely low operating cost |
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Out stand software flexibility (Open source) |
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Co-existence with other heterogeneous, new or old SAN storage systems (with transparency to end users) |
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Total solution in storage management and control, backup and recovery etc. |
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| Typical Applications |
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- All regions have independent CSAN storage system (Including general corporation and its affiliates).
- All affiliates do real time backup to general corporation‘s CSAN storage system.
- All affiliates be unified management by general corporation’s CSAN storage system.
- The general corporation CSAN storage may do a real time backup to another high availability CSAN system as a disaster storage in order to regain.
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| Associated Products |
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- CSAN-In-A-Racks The CSAN-In-Racks is intended to be a modular, scalable, reliable replacement of conventional SAN and NAS in the market place. The target are low capital cost, high capacity, high density, modular, high reliability and open standards. The storage capacity is from a single digit of TB to a double digit of TB .
- Share physical storage
Virtualization/Parallel-In-A-Cluster is a GFS based cluster that allows multiple users under multiple, heterogeneous operating environments (different operating system) to locally or remotely.
a. To use a same file system
b. Share physical storage
c. Cluster wide multiple concurrent accesses and sharing down to a single file
d. The number of servers in the cluster range from 2 to hundreds if needed
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| Target Market |
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| The CSAN-In-A-Box and The CSAN-In-A-Box with mirroring are intended to be a modular, scalable, reliable replacement of conventional SAN and NAS. The target are low capital cost, high capacity, high density, modular, high reliability and open standards. The targeted markets are general, business, commerce, finance, government and institutions. |
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