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The system employs the new Nexsan E-Series RAID controller–available in single or dual controller configurations–and contains up to four 8Gb Fibre Channel ports and up to four 1Gb iSCSI ports to deliver higher bandwidth and path resiliency. Nexsan's Active Drawer Technology™ enables two sliding, active drawers that hold nine drives in each, allowing them to be quickly and easily serviced by one person while remaining online.
Read CTO Gary Watson's blog entry, "Introducing the Nexsan E-Series"
The E18 is ideal for transactional applications as well as storage for virtualized environments that utilize Windows, Linux, VMware, Xen or Hyper-V–which access storage randomly, require high performance and require no single-point-of-failure configurations.
Key Benefits
- Over 10TB of high performance SAS in 2U OR over 54TB of high capacity SATA in 2U
- 18-disk RAID system with two active drawers
- Single or dual redundant active/active controllers
- High speed cache with both battery and flash backup
- 8Gb Fibre Channel and 1Gb iSCSI host-side ports
- Utilizes multi-path IO for Windows, Linux, VMware, Xen and Hyper-V
- No single-point-of-failure design
- Anti-Vibration Design™ maximizes disk reliability
- Nexsan's exclusive AutoMAID® level 4 technology reduces energy consumption by 85%
- Nexsan's Cool Drive Technology™ utilizes redundant push and pull fans
- Expand with up to 60 additional drives with Nexsan E60X
- Optional 10Gbit iSCSI replaces 8Gb Fibre Channel ports
For us, Nexsan provides the needed performance and density to help us operate at maximum efficiency while benefiting from the systems' very high density and reliability. Outside of products, we found our experience in working with Nexsan very pleasant.
WILLA ZANDI
DIRECTOR OF IT ECOM ATLANTIC
