Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform

Who is Nexsan Product Family

Nexsan® is a leading independent provider
of disk-based storage systems purpose-built
NEW NEW NEW
for the mid-market, offering easy-to-use,
efficient, enterprise-class solutions that
overcome the challenges of traditional
storage to deliver a different kind of storage
experience.
Dense Fixed High Density High Density Ultimate Density High Speed
Why We Win Capacity Expandable Expandable Expandable Disk
High Performance High Performance Expansion
Proven
3U, 14 Drives 4U, 42 Drives 2U, 18 Drives 4U, 60 Drives 4U, 60 Drives
11 years designing and selling to mid-market
27,000 units sold in over 60 countries in mid- 4.7 Drives per U 10.5 Drives per U 9 Drives per U 15 Drives per U 15 Drives per U
market
Enterprise Class 1 / 2 TB SATA 1 / 2 / 3 TB SATA 1 / 2 / 3 TB SATA
Dual Active/Active controllers
No single point of failure 450 / 600 GB SAS
Battery-backed cache 64 / 200 / 400 GB SSD
Mix & match SATA, SAS, SSD
Multi-path I/O support for popular platforms 84 TB in Chassis 54 TB in Chassis 180 TB in Chassis 180 TB in
Hardware RAID 0, 1+0, 4, 5, 6 28 TB Maximum
204 TB Maximum 234 TB Maximum 360 TB Maximum Chassis
Drives are tested in the systems at the
factory (4) Fibre Channel & (4) iSCSI (4) 6Gb SASx4
Anti-vibration Design™
Cool Drive Technology™
Simultaneous Fibre Channel & iSCSI host Selling Nexsan Disk Arrays
access
Easy
VMware Ready Certified, Windows & Hyper-V Applications Questions to Ask Competitors
Active Drawer Technology™
Certified
Single pane of glass management from a Virtualization What is your application (list NetApp FAS2050
Web browser Scientific to left)? EMC CLARiiON CX4-120
Manage from Windows with VDS-compliant Data Protection Initial and future capacity? EMC VNXe3300
tools Disaster Recovery SAS drives, SATA drives, or EMC VNX5100
Perfect for lights-out datacenters Archive both? Dell Compellent Series 30
Digital Video Surveillance Do you have a SAN? Key Nexsan
Up and running in under 10 minutes
Efficient
Sends alerts for important events via SNMP Bulk Storage Need Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or Advantages:
both? • 1/3 the rack space
Industry-leading
or email storage density – 1/3 of the
Need dual controller? • See Why We Win (to
rack space
AutoMAID® – Up to 87% Power Savings the left)

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 Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform (side 2)
No Single Point
Dual of Failure Max # # of FC, iSCSI,
Product Active of Disks Hosts or Both

Nexsan E-Series Yes Yes 120 254 Both

NetApp FAS2050 Yes Yes 60 32 Both

EMC VNX5100 Yes Yes 75 512 FC

EMC VNXe3300 Yes Yes 120 256 iSCSI

EMC Clariion CX4-120 Yes Yes 120 128 Both

Dell Compellent Series 30 Yes Yes 1232 22 Both

Industry-leading Power Savings

Power Savings Levels
1: Unload heads
25% Power Savings
Sub-second recovery time
2: Slow to 4000 RPM
40% Power Savings
15 seconds recovery time
3: Stop rotating
60% Power Savings
30-45 seconds recovery time
4: Drive electronics off
87% Power Savings
30-60 seconds recovery time

Does not require any changes to

applications
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 Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform
Who is Nexsan Product Family
Nexsan® is a leading independent provider
of disk-based storage systems purpose-built Storage Systems (use Nexsan Storage Arrays)
for the mid-market, offering easy-to-use,
efficient, enterprise-class solutions that
overcome the challenges of traditional
storage to deliver a different kind of storage
experience.

Advanced Archive iSCSI Storage with

Storage Advance Features Full Service Storage
Key Features SOX, SEC-17, HIPAA, GLBA

Assureon CIFS and NFS CIFS and NFS

Fingerprints files to provide WORM AES-256 Encryption High Performance iSCSI

Provides prior versions of a file
Stores 2 copies of each file on different disk Asynchronous Replication
sets Data De-duplication Synchronous Replication
Continuously repairs files with their copy and
fingerprint Always 2 Full Copies Snapshots
Easy to create retention rules and apply them
to files Fingerprint all Files (WORM) Provisioning Wizards Thin Provisioning
Fast file search of archive with a Web-
browser Key Features
Place files on legal hold if required
Single-instance storage saves disk space Why Assureon? Nexsan iSeries DATABeast
AES-256 encryption
Built-in multi-site key management Meet regulatory mandates Supports up to 200 host servers CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre
Authentication via Active Directory or (SOX, SEC-17, HIPAA, GLBA) Synch & Asynchronous Channel
Certificates Meet corporate data Replication Up to 200 host servers
Audit trails retention and deletion goals Snapshots with automatic Thin Provisioning
Windows Client moves or copies files to Offload primary storage scheduler Synchronous & Asynchronous
Assureon Reduce the size and Microsoft VSS Hardware Provider Replication
Optionally leave shortcuts behind on expense of monthly full Uses multiple Boy and Beast Disk Snapshots with automatic
Windows Servers backups Arrays scheduler
Create and enforce data retention policies Enterprise-class long-term Up to 1PB of storage Microsoft VSS Hardware
Enterprise-class high availability archive Wizard-driven storage Provider
Scales up to multiple petabytes provisioning for: Use multiple Boy & Beast Disk
SQL Server & Exchange
Single pane of glass management of all©2011 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary Arrays
and Confidential Up to 2.5 PB of storage
Assureons
 Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform (side 2)
No Single Point
Dual of Failure Max # # of FC, iSCSI,
Product Active of Disks Hosts or Both

Nexsan E-Series Yes Yes 120 254 Both

NetApp FAS2050 Yes Yes 60 32 Both

EMC VNX5100 Yes Yes 75 512 FC

EMC VNXe3300 Yes Yes 120 256 iSCSI

EMC Clariion CX4-120 Yes Yes 120 128 Both

Dell Compellent Series 30 Yes Yes 1232 22 Both

Industry-leading Power Savings

Power Savings Levels
1: Unload heads
25% Power Savings
Sub-second recovery time
2: Slow to 4000 RPM
40% Power Savings
15 seconds recovery time
3: Stop rotating
60% Power Savings
30-45 seconds recovery time
4: Drive electronics off
87% Power Savings
30-60 seconds recovery time

Does not require any changes to

applications
©2011 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary and Confidential