FlexScale Architecture for Seamless SATA, SAS, & SSD
Nimbus H-class storage systems with FlexScale offer modular, on-demand storage expansion using any blend of SATA, SAS, and SSD flash drives. Combined with six different RAID levels, H-class systems give IT departments full control to build the most efficient storage infrastructure possible.
Tiers for Application-tuned Storage
Administrators can construct distinct tiers of storage service, varying in performance, cost, energy usage, availability, and density, all from one system. This improves both application performance and storage utilization by allowing administrators to match the most-critical applications with the most robust storage tiers, and assigning secondary requirements to more affordable nearline tiers. It also enables service providers to offer storage on-demand with tiered pricing based on these same characteristics, without having to invest in multiple systems and management software.
Mix-and-match Drive Types with Ease
Since each drive bay on Nimbus H-class storage systems supports SATA, SAS, or SSD flash-based hot-pluggable drives, organizations can expand the storage tiers exactly as needed without overinvesting in capacity. This reduces upfront costs and eliminates the inefficiencies that contribute to rising datacenter operating expenses.
Imagine one storage system where VM boot images and database logs can leverage SSD RAID 1 storage, databases and VM server images can utilize 15K SAS RAID 10 storage, file shares and email stores can be kept on 10K SAS RAID 6 storage, and archival data can be provisioned to SATA RAID 5 storage. This level of control is only possible with Nimbus H-class storage systems. |
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| • SATA, SAS, and SSD tiers fully integrated |
| • Mix drive types even in the same enclosure |
| • RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and JBOD pools |
| • Application-tuned storage provisioning |
| • Tiered pricing for storage service providers |
| • Eliminate single-purpose storage arrays |
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