The Next Generation SAN Storage The XCubeSAN XS3200 series is the newest generation of SAN systems available from QSAN. It is an active-active dual controller SAN (Storage Area Network) storage system series, supporting both iSCSI IP-SAN and FC-SAN with ultra high performance. Besides, it simplified the SAN deployment in the IT infrastructure, combining enterprise essential features such as thin provisioning, SSD read / write cache, auto tiering, snapshot, local volume clone, remote replication, and scalable to PB level capacity… etc. in one box. With blazing fast Intel D1500 quad processor power, DDR4 system memory, cutting edge 12Gb SAS 3.0 technology, onboard high speed 10GbE LAN ports and the latest QSAN SANOS 4.0 (SAN Operating System v4.0), mind blowing performance, high reliability, unparalleled scalability, XS3200 products are suitable for Enterprise entry level and SMB storage requirements. Full Range Product Support The XS3200 series features a wide range of form factors including a 24-bay, 4U 3.5” LFF chassis (XS3224 model), 3U 16-bay (XS3216 model), 2U 12-bay (XS3212 model), and a 26 drive, 2U 2.5” SFF chassis (XS3226 model). Dual-Active Design The XS3200 series features a Dual-Active controller architecture, both controllers concurrently provide storage services in real time. Active-Active architecture doubles the available host bandwidth and cache-hit ratio, this ensures there is no wasted resource in the system. If one controller fails, the other controller can transparently take over all storage services seamlessly. In addition to storage services, management service can be transparently passed to the secondary controller. Ultra-high Performance With its all-new hardware architecture and leveraging Intel® newest processor, 12Gb SAS 3.0 backplane, built-in 10GbE LAN, and the finely-tuned SANOS 4.0’s performance, the XS3200 series can deliver an astounding 12,000MB/s sequential read and 8,000MB/s1 sequential write in throughput and over 1.1 million sequential IOPS. Design for All-flash Storage QSAN XS3226 model (2.5” 2U 26-bay) is the industry’s first high density all flash/low power SAN storage. Accelerate performance, consolidate space, and has two more storage bays (around 8% more capacity) than the popular 2U 24-bay products available on the market. This can further lower the cost per TB, minimize IT rack space, and generate smaller and greener footprint. High Availability with No Single Point of Failure The XS3200 series is a proven high availablility SAN storage system. All of the critical components in the XS3200 series are hot pluggable and designed with full redundancy. Besides, dual-active controller design and automatic failover/failback mechanism, cache mirroring through NTB (Non-Transparent Bridge) bus to achieve Active-Active HA functionality, these designs allow the XS3200 series to withstand multiple component failures and achieve 99.999% availability. Latest 12Gb SAS 3.0 Controller 12Gb SAS 3.0 is the latest and fastest drive interface available. It doubles the data transfer rate of SAS 2.0 (6Gb), while remaining backward compatible with 6Gb SAS 2.0 drives.The benefit is that you have the flexibility to purchase less expensive 6Gb SAS for initial installation or leverage investment of your existing 6Gb SAS drives and have a peace of mind knowing you can migrate to 12Gb SAS 3.0 by purchasing only new drives. Built-in 10GbE iSCSI The base unit SAN controller comes with two onboard 10GBASE-T iSCSI port per controller. The Dual-Active controller XS3200 SAN system has four 10GBASE-T iSCSI ports reaching 40Gb/s bandwidth when you aggregate all ports together. This base unit SAN system comes ready to support a variety of applications including data sharing, backup, video editing, and native virtualization support for VMware, Citrix, and Hyper-V. Multipath Storage Access MPIO (Multi Path Input Output) is a fault-tolerance and performance enhancement technique which allows the use of more than one path to the volume from the same host server. MPIO is supported in both iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols. SANOS 4.0 SAN Operation System SANOS 4.0 is QSAN’s proprietary SAN storage operating system. SANOS 4.0 is equipped with a refreshingly simple to use web GUI and easily deployable into any infrastructure. Based on the Linux kernel, SANOS delivers comprehensive storage functionality including advanced storage management, complete RAID level protection, fast RAID rebuild, storage pool migration, thin provisioning, SSD cache, auto-tiering, snapshot, data backup & disaster recovery, virtualization support, performance monitoring, and scale-up support and more. Advanced RAID Levels Technology The most efficient and economical data protection method for enterprise and SMBs remains to be RAID technology. Using RAID has two advantages – high availability and better performance. SANOS supports complete RAID levels including RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, and N-way mirror. You can choose the appropriate RAID level to best suit the application requirements. Enterprise Storage Features QSAN’s in-house developed RAID stack technology has a proven track record of being deployed in enterprise environments for over ten years and is highly trusted by both SMB and enterprise customers globally. The advanced LVM (Logical Volume Manager) builds a solid foundation of disk virtualization to provide complete RAID level protection, enhanced performance, and many other enterprise-level storage features built on top. Scale-up Solution The XS3200 SAN provides a massive scale-up capability by connecting either our XD5300 expansion enclosures or J300Q-D460 expansion enclosures. It can support up to whopping 446 disk drives or up to 4.4PB of raw storage space when using 10TB NL-SAS drives. High Density, High Flexibilty, and High Scalability The expansion XD5300 series is the best scale up solution for XCubeSAN XS3200 customers. It is available in 4U LFF 24-bay (XD5324D), 3U 16-bay (XD5316D), 2U 12-bay (XD5312D), and the world’s first 2U SFF 26-bay (XD5326D). These can support up to ten expansion enclosures (maximum of seven for J300Q-D460 60-bay). For ultimate flexibility, there is no restriction on mixing different form factors of expansion enclosures together. Users can choose different form factors of expansion enclosures in accordance with their needs and budget. Modular I/O Ports for iSCSI SAN and Fibre Channel SAN Each XS3200 SAN controller has two host card slots that can be configured as iSCSI SAN, Fibre Channel, or a mix of both. There are various types of 4-port optional host cards available to match your specific need, including 16Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE iSCSI, and 1GbE iSCSI. You can choose the appropriate host card for your initial requirement, as your business grows you can add extra host cards to enhance system connectivity. In dual controller configurations, the system can support up to 20 ports of 10GbE iSCSI or 8 ports of 16Gb FC connectivity. Both 10GbE iSCSI with SFP+ interface and 10GBASE-T interface can coexist and deliver concurrent data services and maximize uptime. Utilizing these numerous ports, you can cost-effectively connect multiple host servers directly to the XS3200 series without using FC switch or Ethernet switch. Cache-to-Flash Memory Protection Technology In the event of power loss, the I/O cache data stored in volatile memory will be lost, this can cause data inconsistencies especially in database applications. The XS3200 series can provide an optional Cache-to-Flash memory protection function that will safely transfer the memory cache data to a non-volatile flash device for permanent preservation. The optional Cache-to-Flash module comes with an M.2 flash module and either a BBM (Battery Backup Module) or an SCM (Super Capacitor Module). Data Backup & Disaster Recovery With proven 99.999% high availability and reliability the dual-active controller storage system with multipath envrionment can sustain multiple failures and keep data alive. This is important to the mission critical applications. The well-plan for high availability also includes data backup insdide the storage system and between your centralized datacenter as well as remote and branch offices. Our QClone (Local Volume Clone) and QRreplica (Remote Replication) are the solutions which we provide for. QClone is used to make a duplicate copy of a volume in the same storage pool as well as in a separate storage pool within the same enclosure. QRreplica lets you asynchronously replicate data volumes, reservation snapshots between primary and remote locations. These features enable centralized backup and disaster recovery on a per-volume basis and leverage application integrated snapshots for faster recovery. Highly Reliable QSAN XS3200 series are capable of supporting flexible expansion and integrating to both analog and digital IP surveillance without compromising any performance and reliability. OSAN’s new innovative storage solution supports more than 1000 cameras per system from multiple locations. Enormous amounts of recordings are streamed to NVRs for analytics and event handling. Business may project flexibly depending on requirements and change it over time. Video Editing The XS3200 series is an ideal storage solution for pre-production and post-production environments. Superior performance and high throughput make the XS3200 series work seamlessly with popular video editing applications such as Adobe Creative Suite, AVID Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro…etc. Green Technology At QSAN we pride ourselves on our commitment to build highly efficient and low carbon footprint devices. To safeguard the earth and our environment, the XS3200 product range uses various green technologies for energy savings and minimization of your carbon footprint.