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

Overview:

Arcserve OneXafe is a converged scale-out storage solution, unifying enterprise-class data protection with storage management. OneXafe simplifies data management, while delivering enterprise-class features and providing a comprehensive primary and secondary storage solution.

Arcserve is reimagining storage with OneXafe, a scale-out object-based storage solution that delivers the simplicity of NFS and SMB. OneXafe 4400 series delivers scale-out storage for TBs to PBs of unstructured data and backup targets. OneXafe’s unified architecture reduces management complexity and operational costs for storage. Additionally, it solves common storage pain points: complicated installation, cumbersome storage management, lack of data security and forklift upgrades. Without the shackles of a legacy storage architecture, Arcserve’s clean-sheet approach combines OneXafe with OneSystem, an elegant multi-tenant cloudbased management service.

Scale Storage Capacity Easily with OneXafe NAS Solution

OneXafe’s easily managed network-attached storage solution offers scale-out architecture, enabling you to seamlessly add one drive at a time or multiple nodes in a cluster. OneXafe 4400 series delivers scale-out storage for large-scale unstructured data and backup targets. The OneXafe 4412 and 4417 models each combine the advantages of a distributed object-store with the accessibility of SMB and NFS protocols. OneXafe’s unified architecture reduces management complexity and operational costs for storage. It enables enterprise features such as global inline deduplication, compression, continuous data protection, and encryption at rest so organizations no longer have to allocate extraneous storage capacity dedicated solely for data protection.

Shake Off the Shackles

The OneXafe 4400 series network attached storage solution solves common pain points of storing unstructured data: complex installation, cumbersome storage management, limited capacity, lack of data security, and forklift upgrades. Without the shackles of a legacy storage architecture, Arcserve’s clean-sheet approach combines OneXafe with an elegant multi-tenant cloud-based management service, the OneSystem.

A number of configurable options are available with OneXafe, whether it serves as storage only, or it comes with data protection options.

Scale-Out Architecture

Storage on the Go
OneXafe employs a seamless scale-out architecture supporting one or multiple OneXafe nodes in a cluster and a single global file system. OneXafe’s architecture enables enterprise features such as global inline deduplication, compression, and continuous data protection, organizations no longer have to allocate extraneous storage capacity dedicated solely for data protection. As business storage requirements change, OneXafe is extremely agile; simply add any number of disk drives, at any time, and in any capacity granularity to meet your storage requirements. OneXafe grows the global storage pool without any configuration changes and without any application downtime. No more fork-lift upgrades.

Dynamic Growth
Bring your own drives. No RAID, no LUNs, no volumes. OneXafe delivers the flexibility for organizations to mix-and-match drive types (SATA, SAS) and capacity within the same OneXafe node and within a OneXafe cluster. In two minutes and without reconfiguration, OneXafe automatically pools the new storage within the existing global file system. No disruption to applications or users. No configuration settings to complete. No mouse clicks. No command line entries. No storage PhD required.

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. Arcserve’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 widearea 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 Arcserve Cloud Services, with a single click it provides business continuity of data, network, and application recovery in Arcserve'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 Arcserve 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:

Documentation:

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