Windows Storage Server Appliance provides organizations with high-performance, efficiency, resiliency, availability, and versatility on industry-standard hardware

IRON WSSB Series NAS appliances, powered by Microsoft Windows Storage Server deliver continuous availability that is designed to protect organizations from a range of failures and to help prevent downtime. It offers organizations a scalable and reliable solution, while helping reduce storage costs associated with building modern datacenters and private clouds.

IRON WSSB Series "Flash-Optimized " Hybrid NAS turnkey appliances are hardware and software combo with automated tiering across high performance flash SSDs and low cost, large capacity HDDs. It deliver cost reductions per transaction and per VM while protecting mission-critical line-of-business applications, databases, Virtual desktops (VDI) and Server Virtualization environments.

Flexible, Cost-effective Options for Shared Storage

Aside from addressing core file-serving requirements, Windows Storage Server 2012 offers file-based shared storage for applications such as Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft SQL Server, and Windows Server 2012 Internet Information Services (IIS). Organizations can more easily deploy, manage, and provision application storage as they would with their file shares. Because Windows Storage Server 2012 uses the Server Message Block 3.0 protocol, organizations can achieve high performance—similar to that of some storage area network (SAN) devices—and high levels of availability on industry-standard hardware, to make file-based storage for server applications a powerful and cost-effective storage option. Windows Storage Server 2012 also includes support for the Network File System (NFS) file protocol and for a block storage option through the built-in Microsoft iSCSI Software Target.

Continuous availability and Scale-out NAS for Enterprise-class operations

Windows Storage Server 2012 protects against a wide range of failures at different tiers of storage, network, and compute. Organizations of all sizes can benefit from higher levels of availability with transparent failover of applications and the ability to maintain clustered environments without service disruption.

• SMB Transparent Failover: Transparently move SMB file shares between the file server cluster nodes, without noticeable interruption of service for the SMB client.
• SMB Scale-Out: Share the same folders from multiple nodes of the same cluster. Offers finer-grained load distribution by distributing workloads from a single client across many nodes of a scale-out file server.
• Hyper-V Replica: For organizations with two or more datacenters looking to protect vital workloads running in their datacenter, Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager enables them to combine Windows Azure, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and Hyper-V Replica to deliver planned and cost-effective business continuity of workloads.

Performance and Reliability

Because Windows Storage Server 2012 uses hardware offload and multiple redundant paths from the server to the storage, it can deliver Fibre Channel SAN-like performance with better throughput. In addition, Windows Storage Server 2012 includes capabilities such as online corruption repairs and storage pooling for enhanced reliability.

Turnkey-Design, Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 "Appliance-Optimized" Solution Platform

IRON Windows Storage Building Block (WSSB) series Unified storage appliances are purpose-built, high performance hardware devices integrated with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 software solutions and IRON designed Oneface system management tools.

IRON WSSB appliances significantly reduces the cost of storage by offering resilience and performance similar to high-cost Tier-1 storage solutions, such as Fibre Channel or SAN devices, by taking advantage of industry-standard hardware and file-based storage. It offers capabilities such as high reliability, availability, scale, and performance traditionally seen only in datacenter deployments due to their high value to customers of all sizes.

Key Benefits: Windows Storage Server 2012 offers many user benefits that help organizations save money and streamline operations.

Single Call, IRONClad Support Services

The NSS Storage Infrastructure family of solutions demonstrates how open and flexible architectures powered by Nexenta ZFS technologies combined with IRON Services create practical, innovative solutions designed to reduce complexity and costs while improving productivity. IRON deployment and 24x7 Hardware services can help deliver elastic IT, whether you are building a platform for private cloud computing or for better availability and management of applications.