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| EMC Celerra NS-480 |
| Comprehensive unified storage solutions with high-end features across the product family: NX4, NS-120, NS-480 |
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| Ensure no-compromise, proven five-nines (99.999 percent) availability |
| Leverage the flexibility unified storage connectivity; NAS (CIFS and NFS), MPF, iSCSI and native Fibre Channel. |
| Provide storage tiering in a single platform with concurrent support for ultra performance Enterprise Flash drives, high-speed Fibre Channel drives, cost-efficient Serial ATA, and low-power Serial ATA drive models. |
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Meeting the information-sharing challenge |
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The Celerra unified product NS-480 is a dedicated network server optimized for file and block access, delivering high-end features in a scalable, easy-to-use package.
For the ultimate in scalability, the Celerra unified storage platforms leverage both the innovative EMC CLARiiON® Fibre Channel RAID storage—delivering best-in-class availability and data protection—and industry-leading EMC Celerra availability, performance, and ease of management. Celerra unified storage systems deliver a single-box block and file solution offering a centralized point of management for distributed environments. This enables you to dynamically grow, share, and cost-effectively manage multi-protocol file systems as well as providing multi-protocol block access. Take advantage of simultaneous support for NFS and CIFS protocols by letting Windows and Linux/UNIX clients share files using the DART (Data Access in Real Time) operating system’s sophisticated file-locking mechanisms. Leverage iSCSI for Tier 2 block applications and even native Fibre Channel for high-bandwidth or latency-sensitive applications. |
Flexible solutions to meet a wide range of requirements |
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Celerra unified storage platforms combine a front-end IP storage enclosure and best-in-class, native CLARiiON storage for use by the IP front end or by Fibre Channel-connected hosts, in a single packaged solution. This approach offers the lowest acquisition cost along with simple implementation and management without sacrificing configurability options.
Multi-protocol (NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and MPFS—except NX4) connectivity
One to four X-Blade configurations
Fibre Channel and ATA drive support
Enterprise Flash drive (EFD) support
Block and file I/O, or combine the two with Celerra MPFS for high-performance data-sharing applications
Performance/availability mode |
Your choice of the most flexible availability options |
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Depending on your operational needs, you can deploy Celerra in several operating modes including primary/standby or primary/primary for the NS-480, or advanced N+1 clustering.
Primary/standby is designed for environments that cannot tolerate any system downtime due to a hardware failure. In this mode, one of the X-Blades operates in standby mode while the primary one manages all of the data movement between the network and storage. For the NS-480, one or more blades can be configured as standby for the active blades, providing a pool of blades for the highest levels of availability. The standby blade(s) seamlessly take over the operation of any failing blade, delivering equal performance to the primary system after a failover, thus allowing the system to fully scale without concern for managing potential resource constraints in the event of a failover. |
Unequaled availability features |
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With the Celerra unified storage platform, no-compromise availability means non-stop file access achieved through transparent, dynamic failover to a hot standby X-Blade.
For information protection, Celerra unified systems offer EMC Celerra SnapSure™ software for creating read-only/read-write copies of file systems and iSCSI LUNs. The snapshot can be used for online backups as well as quick recovery of deleted files. With the addition of VSS integration, this capability is taken a step further, enabling the end user to leverage the functionality in Windows XP clients to recover deleted files directly from the Windows Explorer user interface.
Since the snap is not a physical data mirror operation, you also save disk space and time. For an even higher degree of information protection, EMC Celerra Replicator™ creates an asynchronous point-in-time, read-only/read-write copy of a production file system on either a local or geographically remote Celerra system. Celerra Replicator provides multi-site protection, simplifies administration with easy-to-define business policies including recovery-point objectives (RPOs), and utilizes standard
IP-based networks for maintaining consistent replicas between the sites. In the event of an X-Blade failover, DART uses a metadata logging facility to recover within seconds or minutes. The advanced clustering capabilities allow the hot spare to take over the full workload, running at the same performance and service levels as before the failure. |
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