subject: Stonefly Unified Uso Series [print this page] Dynamic Network Factory is a storage networking company, which deals in the products related to data storage. StoneFly which is a pioneer in offering iSCSI based SAN products has till date offered storage solutions from small to large scale enterprises. As it offers solutions for storage and backup, it has received immense praises and awards from different media resources connected with the storage technology.
StoneFly offers Unified Scale Out series storage product, which has brought a revolution in the storage industry. USO series products of StoneFly are offered with unprecedented scalability and offer high level performance for high demand enterprise environments. Among this range of unified products StoneFly USO happens to be one of the models. This article is dedicated to StoneFly USO and will be offering the detailed features of this storage.
StoneFly Unified Scale Out Appliance is storage which offers block level and file level storage. So, for all those who are in search for a storage appliance, which supports both block level and file level storage, this product will be a perfect solution. USO offers fully featured NAS and IP SAN and is one easy solution to manage. So, there is no need to decide on which technology to use, when this product delivers both with flexibility to be scaled in future.
StoneFly USO series of appliances are offered with the futuristic storage needs of an enterprise kept in mind. StoneFly USO series is offered in two models which are USO 1600 and USO 2400, both with same work functions, but vary slightly in specifications like storage capacity and hardware.
Storage requirements are widely available through SAN
USO 1600 offers high performance and a platform for high availability per node with the hardware such as 8 core 64 bit storage processors, which work with low consumption of power and are offered for 24/7 continuous operation. Hot swappable drives with RAID protection are offered with support to raid level 0, 1,5,6,10,50. There is a 6G SAS technology on this platform and is offered with redundant power supplies which are hot swappable.
The difference in between USO 1600 and USO 2400 lies in their storage capacities as this storage unit offers the option in USO 1600 of SATA/SAS storage with 7200RPM speed and a capacity ranging in between 8TB to 264TB. There is a SAS disk drive option which has 6G connectivity and has a 15K RPM with the storage range in between 2.4TB 52.8TB. For fast I/O of hot data on tiered storage SSD support with data storage capacity ranging in between 1920GB to 52.8TB is available.
In USO 2400 there is an option of SATA/SAS storage with 7200RPM speed and a capacity ranging in between 12TB to 288TB. There is a SAS disk drive option which has 6G connectivity and has a 15K RPM with the storage range in between 2.4TB 57.6TB. For fast I/O of hot data on tiered storage SSD support with data storage capacity ranging in between 1920GB to 57.6TB is available.
The form factor of USO 1600 is 3U rackmount and USO 2400 is 4U rackmount. In the case of specifications, both the storage models are having scale out NAS feature which has no Meta data and is offered with the addition of nodes without the performance loss. Thin Provisioning for space reclamation, synchronous mirroring, campus mirroring, async replication and volume based encryption are offered on this storage platform. Tiered storage feature is also available on this data storage, which simplifies the management of the IT manager. This is achieved by Stone Fusion operating system, which acts as an all-in-one solution. Hot data can be placed on the expensive media and the cold data can be placed on the less expensive media.
There is an easy to use web based interface which makes the configuring of this storage simple. The IT manager can configure it via a smart phone or an Ipad. While volume and storage expansion, there is no downtime observed in these storage solutions.
StoneFly USO series unified storage has to be operated in between 10 degrees temperature to 35 degrees temperature, which accounts to 50F ~ 95F
