StorageCraft OneXafe 4412
Scale-Out Capacity Storage for Your Unstructured Data and Backup Targets

Features & Benefits:

Cloud-Based Management

OneSystem is a secure cloud-based management platform that proactively monitors, reports, and manages OneXafe in any location from any browser. Eliminating the need for dedicated servers and time-consuming software upgrades, simply login and gain the necessary insight into your storage infrastructure. Whether you have responsibility for a single location or multiple locations, OneSystem’s administration capabilities empower you to manage the entire storage infrastructure. Simply and securely.

Agile and Affordable

OneXafe’s agile ability to add storage at any time comes with the additional benefit of delivering significant cost savings. StorageCraft’s bring- your-own-drive philosophy treats drives as a commodity, enabling you to purchase drives at retail. Avoiding the 5-10x markup from legacy storage vendors quickly results in substantial cost savings compared to other storage solutions. Combined with OneXafe’s powerful inline deduplication and compression, storage utilization is maximized and waste is minimized.

Near-Zero Configuration

OneXafe can be installed and available to users in less than five minutes without reconfiguration – near-zero configuration. Simply insert at least three drives, plug in Ethernet, power, and turn it on. It’s that easy. OneXafe removes the burden of application downtime and configuration changes for nearly every storage management task, including replacing failed drives. To add more storage, simply add drives and the capacity is added to the same global file system. To increase availability or performance, additional OneXafe nodes can be added and automatically configured without interruption to applications or users. This provide organizations with nondisruptive scalability for their business.

Continuous Data Protection

OneXafe’s continuous data protection ensures that all of the stored information is fully protected. By taking continuous and unlimited snapshots of information that’s written to OneXafe, every file can be easily recovered in the event of data corruption, deletion, ransomware, or other errors. In fact, end users can recover their own information, simply by navigating through Mac Finder or Windows Explorer. No need to restore information from last night’s backup, simply browse and recover.

Always-On Information

With its real-time replication, information stored in a OneXafe cluster is fully protected. By avoiding legacy RAID technologies, OneXafe transparently replicates and intelligently distributes the data objects across multiple drives within a failure domain and protects against both drive and OneXafe failures. Additionally, with its advanced architecture, information is protected against an entire cluster failure when replication over wide-area distances is implemented. OneXafe grows with your data protection requirements without requiring costly downtime, reconfiguration, or forklift upgrades.

Integrated Data Protection

OneXafe offers organizations the option to enable and configure enterprise-class data protection with secondary storage. It provides flexible deployment to accommodate various workload requirements. At the same time, it significantly reduces costs associated with primary and secondary storage as well as data protection software. OneXafe removes the need for siloed solutions, minimizes costs incurred from both standalone hardware and software solutions, and eliminates redundancy in management.

Use Cases:

File Server Consolidation

OneXafe 4400 series deliver a highly scalable, available, and easily managed network-attached storage (NAS) solution designed to simplify storage management of unstructured data. With OneXafe’s continuous data protection, your data is resilient against ransomware or user errors, ensuring that the information is always recoverable.

Data Archival

OneXafe’s ability to scale capacity granularly makes it a snap to cost-effectively manage the explosive growth of data in healthcare, video surveillance, engineering, and other data intensive environments.

Disk-Based Backup Target

OneXafe 4400 series scale-out architecture provide a highly scalable, disk-based backup target for your virtualized as well as physical server environments--thus delivering pay-as-you-grow scalability with the convenience of near zero-configuration of storage management tasks.

Architecture:

At the core of OneXafe is a patented distributed object-based file system that delivers universal data access by providing NFS and SMB access to users and applications. Data protection services are directly integrated into OneXafe's distributed file system, delivering powerful backup and recovery, with a work flow optimized for simplified management. OneXafe tightly integrates with StorageCraft Cloud Services, with a single click it provides business continuity of data, network, and application recovery in StorageCraft's Cloud.

OneXafe's architecture is designed from the ground up and is a collection of interconnected, scalable, and easily manageable microservices that deliver robust data protection and storage access. It consists of three main components: Data Protection Services, Agents, and StorageCraft OneSystem. OneSystem is the management framework that orchestrates and manages the activities within Data Protection Services. The Data Protection Services deliver storage access and data protection procedures including backup, restore, replication, and storage. Agents are adapters for protecting physical servers and virtual machines (VMs) to deliver higher SLAs.

Specifications:

OneXafe:

StorageCraft OneXafe is a converged data platform that unifies enterprise-class data protection with scale-out storage in an easy-to-use, configurable solution. For businesses looking to protect and manage their data in heterogeneous environments, OneXafe eliminates complexity and provides flexible deployment to accommodate various workload requirements. At the same time, it significantly reduces costs associated with primary and secondary storage as well as data protection software. By providing a converged solution, OneXafe removes the need for siloed point solutions and minimizes costs incurred from standalone hardware and software offerings.

At the core of OneXafe is a patented distributed object-based file system that delivers universal data access by providing NFS and SMB access to users and applications. Data protection services are directly integrated into the distributed object store, delivering powerful backup and recovery, with a work flow optimized for simplified management.

OneXafe tightly integrates with StorageCraft Cloud Services, with a single click it provides business continuity of data, network, and application recovery in StorageCraft's Cloud.

There are a number of configurable options available within OneXafe, from primary storage, to secondary storage, to enterprise-class data protection combined with secondary storage. It is seamlessly administered with OneSystem, our simple, intuitive, yet powerful management service. OneXafe enables ease of implementation for both powerful data protection and optimum scale-out storage.

Configuration

OneXafe includes a multi-purpose storage appliance that can be configured based on your business needs.

• Converged Secondary: Enterprise-class data protection enabled and configured with secondary storage, reducing management complexity and operational costs.
• High Performance Storage: Scalable storage for high performance unstructured data and backup targets. Can be configured to serve primary storage for virtual workloads, unstructured data, or secondary storage with high performance needs.
• Capacity Storage: Scalable storage for large scale unstructured data and backup targets. Can be configured to serve as secondary storage for your backup needs.

In the case of disaster, OneXafe ensures business continuity with a complete, orchestrated virtual failover to the cloud in one click, when used with our Cloud Services. OneXafe's tight integration with the cloud makes recovery of the entire infrastructure simple, quick, and seamless, while offering the highest service level agreements (SLAs) with one throat to choke.

Features and Benefits

OneSystem:

Simplicity in Management

This cloud-based management service for ShadowXafe and OneXafe makes oversight powerful, simple, and intuitive.

Manage from Anywhere

With this intuitive OneSystem management service, get real-time monitoring, reporting, and visibility from any location.

Features and Benefits

Documentation:

Download the StorageCraft OneSafe 4400 Series Data Sheet (PDF).