WCA Dual Controller, Cluster-in-Box (CiB) Storage System Family: Unified Storage, All-Flash and Hybrid Storage Appliances
Windows Storage Server 2012 powered WCA storage appliance system meets your organization’s demanding performance and capacity requirements without sacrificing simplicity and efficiency. Its balanced performance supports high-performance file systems, bandwidth-intensive streaming applications, and transaction-intensive workloads.
- Storage Virtualization:
- Microsoft Storage Spaces, SMB 3.0 Direct & Thin Provisioning for Hyper-V environment
- Native tiered storage for HDD+SSDs & persistent write-back cache
- Data Deduplication and Data Compression
- Microsoft VMM Integration
- Integrated Data Protection:
- Local, 2-way, 3-way data mirroring
- Hyper-V Replica: Local/Remote, asynchronous replication
- End-End data integrity and flexible storage space resiliency,
- Unlimited snapshots, clones and VSS support for remote SMB File Shares
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Unified Storage Gateway: - SMB Support: Supports up to 2-storage controller node cluster for use as a storage server that can offer continously-available SMB sevices. High performance, feature rich storage for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual infrastructures, SQL database and other business critical applications
- NFS Support: Supports 2-storage controller node cluster for use as a storage server that can offer continously-available NFS sevices. Reliably store and run VMware ESX virtual infrastructures and other 3rd party platforms.
- iSCSI support: Supports 2-storage controller node cluster for use as a storage server that can offer continously-available iSCSI sevices
- SMB Scale-Out Support:
- Scale-Out File Server is designed to provide scale-out file shares that are continuously available for file-based server application storage. It helps increase the total bandwidth by adding multiple WCA storage controller nodes.
- Scale-out file shares provides the ability to share the same folder from multiple nodes of the same cluster using unified namspaces
- StorIron® Scale-Out storage system POD can be configured with multiple WCA storage controller to help grow your storage needs on demand
IRON WSA Series Turnkey Appliance deliver economical, high-performance, flash-optimized, unified storage for virtual applications.
An affordable, easy to manage, single storage controller CiB, unified storage system platform for branch offices and small businesses.
High-performance, easy to manage, dual (N+1) storage controller CiB, unified storage system platform for virtualized application for SMB businesses.
High-performance, easy to manage, dual (N+1) storage controller CiB, unified storage system platform for highly virtualized enterprise applications.
Pre-Configured WSA storage block cluster provide a simple, integrated experience; and helps accelerate transformation to Software-defined-datacenter.
