NETGEAR ReadyDATA Reviewer s Guide. Reviewer s Guide

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1 NETGEAR ReadyDATA Reviewer s Guide Reviewer s Guide

2 T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Contents...2 NETGEAR Contact Info...3 Product Category...3 Overview...3 Hardware Capabilities...4 Simple Deployment (Instant Provisioning)...4 Instant Expansion...5 Performance Boosting with SSD (Hybrid Volumes)...5 Unlimited block-level Snapshot Creation...6 Snapshot Rollback or Instant Cloning...6 Virtual Network Interfaces and 10 Gigabit Connectivity...7 Cloud Managed Smart Block-level Replication...7 Models and Key Specs...8 Competitive Analysis...8 Pricing...9 Certifications...9 Testing & Deployment...9 Default ReadyDATA Default Login Credentials...9 Where to Install the ReadyDATA...9 Create a Volume on the ReadyDATA...10 Create a Data Set on the ReadyDATA...12 Create a SMB (CIFS) Data Set on the ReadyDATA...12 Create a SAN Data Set and Attach to an iscsi target on the ReadyDATA...13 Taking Snapshots and Rolling Back Data on ReadyDATA...15 Continuous Replication Between Two ReadyDATA Systems

3 N E T G E A R C o n t a c t I n f o If you have any questions or technical issues, please contact your assigned NETGEAR contacts for this review listed below. Peter Chen Technical Marketing Engineer (408) (408) Peter.Chen@netgear.com P r o d u c t C a t e g o r y Switches Wireless Storage Security O v e r v i e w Thank you for taking the time to evaluate the NETGEAR ReadyDATA line of storage systems. NETGEAR is the worldwide leader in NAS/Unified Storage system unit shipments¹ with a wide range of offerings ranging from 2 bay desktop units to rack mount storage systems. NETGEAR ReadyDATA 5200 is the first product release in the ReadyDATA family. The product aims to provide simple to deploy, unified storage that is aimed at SMB and Mid-size enterprise. The system has been designed to cater for Virtualization, Backup-to-disk and Disaster recovery. All advanced capabilities come at no additional cost and Dual 1GbE and Dual 10GbE is standard within the product ReadyDATA is enterprise-class storage that is less expensive and significantly easier to use than traditional enterprise offerings. ReadyDATA s notable capabilities include: Instant Provisioning for Volumes Instant Expansion, that allows users to expand the array without user or application impact Unlimited Instant Snapshots that can be enabled to occur hourly, daily or weekly iscsi Thin Provisioning Inline Data De-duplication and compression, which can be enabled and disabled at any time SSD performance boosting for SATA volumes to allow performance and capacity at an economical price (Hybrid configuration) Virtual Networking for flexible and simple connectivity over 10GbE Continuous Replication for both SAN and NAS data, managed from a simple cloud portal (readydata.netgear.com) ¹Gartner Market Share: Network-Attached Storage/Unified Storage Worldwide

4 H a r d w a r e C a p a b i l i t i e s ReadyDATA 5200 offers 12 x 3.5 drive support within a 2RU enclosure. The system can be expanded from 12 drives to 60 drives with 2 low cost, SAS connected EDAs (Expansion disk arrays). ReadyDATA supports many drive options to meet varying performance requirements including SATA 7200 rpm, SAS 10k RPM, SAS 15k RPM, and a variety of SSD drive options. The system ships with both dual 10GbE and dual 1GbE as standard. S i m p l e D e p l o y m e n t ( I n s t a n t P r o v i s i o n i n g ) Connect to the system via a supported web browser, browse to the storage tab and from there you can select drive and create a volume. This process takes less then 20 seconds. 4

5 I n s t a n t E x p a n s i o n Selecting multiple disks after creating a volume, allows you to easily expand and existing volume, instantly. This process is equally efficient, regardless of the number of drives you select to expand. P e r f o r m a n c e B o o s t i n g w i t h S S D ( H y b r i d V o l u m e s ) Selecting an existing volume and a free SSD drive, will give you the option to add Read Boost or Write boost. This capability allows a volumes performance to be increased by simply adding a write optimized or read optimized SSD drive to the system. Note: The review 5200 system has been configured with 10 SATA drives, 1 read optimized SSD and 1 write optimized SSD drive to allow a hybrid configuration. 5

6 U n l i m i t e d b l o c k - l e v e l S n a p s h o t C r e a t i o n Snapshots can either be created manually or automatically to provide hourly, daily or weekly recovery points on any data. This feature is enabled granularly at the Share or LUN level to allow the administrator to decide on an appropriate level of protection based on the importance of the data being stored within a given LUN or Share. S n a p s h o t R o l l b a c k o r I n s t a n t C l o n i n g To allow recovery of both LUNs and shares, the ReadyDATA timeline view gives the administrator the option to rollback any share or LUN to the past. The cloning option gives the administrator the ability to access full copies of past snapshots without capacity consumption. 6

7 V i r t u a l N e t w o r k I n t e r f a c e s a n d 1 0 G i g a b i t C o n n e c t i v i t y ReadyDATA supports virtual network interfaces (VNICs) which allows greater flexibility in deployment. Create multiple VNICs from a single physical NIC and assign each its own IP address. ReadyDATA also comes standard with 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports as well as 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. This makes it ideal for more network demanding scenarios such as virtualization deployments. C l o u d M a n a g e d S m a r t B l o c k - l e v e l R e p l i c a t i o n ReadyDATA comes standard with Replicate, which is a cloud-based replication portal for multiple ReadyDATA systems. With ReadyDATA it is possible to replicate data at the block level between multiple ReadyDATA systems through a secure network connection, regardless of WAN or LAN. 7

8 M o d e l s a n d K e y S p e c s Below is table of main ReadyDATA 5200 specs. ReadyDATA 5200 Specs Model ReadyDATA 5200 Hardware Storage Protocols Management & Alert Protocols Intel Xeon Quad core 2.66GHz w/16gb ECC DDR3 SMB (CIFS), AFP, FTP/S, NFS, iscsi HTTP/S, SSH, SNMP, SMTP Raid Levels 0,1,5,6,10 Supported Drive Types SATA, Nearline SAS, SAS 15k, SSD Gigabit Ethernet Ports 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet Ports 2 Domain Integration Warranty Active Directory 5 Year warranty, 3 year next-business day support C o m p e t i t i v e A n a l y s i s ReadyDATA For more information and detailed specs on ReadyDATA please visit: Typical SMB Network Storage Volumes Multiple volumes Single volume Instant Provisioning Yes No Thin Provisioning Yes No Instant Expansion Yes No File & Block Level De-duplication Yes No Unlimited Snapshots Yes No Supported Drive Types SATA, Nearline SAS, SAS 15k, SSD SATA, SSD Attach SSD to Volume as Cache Yes No Cloud-based Block Level Replication Yes No 10 Gigabit Ethernet Ports Yes No Virtual NICs Yes No Warranty 5 Year warranty, 3 year next-business day support 3 Year Warranty 8

9 P r i c i n g SKU Product Name List $ Street $ RD WWS ReadyDATA TB SATA Bundle (RD5200, 2xRD5D6LT01) $14000 $9999 RD WWS ReadyDATA 5200 System Empty Chassis with 10G (2 port SFP+ card) $9000 $6500 EDA WWS ReadyDATA 4U 24-bay expansion Empty Chassis with 6G SAS Cable $5000 $3600 EDA WWS ReadyDATA 2U 12-bay expansion Empty Chassis with 6G SAS Cable $4000 $2899 RD5D1LT01-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 1 x 1TB SATA (LFF) HDD $450 $325 RD5D1LT02-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 1 x 2TB SATA (LFF) HDD $625 $450 RD5D1LT03-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 1 x 3TB SATA (LFF) HDD $800 $580 RD5D6LT01-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 6 x 1TB SATA (LFF) HDD $2500 $1749 RD5D6LT02-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 6 x 2TB SATA (LFF) HDD $3800 $2750 RD5D6LT03-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 6 x 3TB SATA (LFF) HDD $4400 $3175 RD5D6LN01-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 6 x 1TB NL-SAS (LFF) HDD $3000 $2175 RD5D6LN02-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 6 x 2TB NL-SAS (LFF) HDD $4500 $3250 RD5D6LN03-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 6 x 3TB NL-SAS (LFF) HDD $5000 $3600 RD5D1LN01-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 1 x 1TB NL-SAS (LFF) HDD $535 $388 RD5D1LN02-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 1 x 2TB NL-SAS (LFF) DDD $1335 $967 RD5D1LN03-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 1 x 3TB NL-SAS (LFF) HDD $2335 $1692 RD5D1LS01-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 1 x 300GB 15K SAS (LFF) HDD $500 $360 RD5D1LS02-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 1 x 450GB 15K SAS (LFF) HDD $700 $500 RD5D1LS03-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack with 1 x 600GB 15K SAS (LFF) HDD $900 $650 RD5D1SC01-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack w/ 1x50GB SLC SSD (SFF) Write Cache $2000 $1450 RD5D1SM01-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack w/ 1x100GB MLC SSD (SFF) Read Cache $950 $685 RD5D1SM02-100WWS ReadyDATA 5200 Disk Pack w/ 1x200GB MLC SSD (SFF) Read Cache $1900 $1375 C e r t i f i c a t i o n s vsphere 5 Citrix NFS Microsoft Hyper-V T e s t i n g & D e p l o y m e n t Default ReadyDATA Default Login Credentials Username: admin Password: password Where to Install the ReadyDATA The ReadyDATA can be installed anywhere within your network. Simply connect it to an available network port. By default, the ReadyDATA will get an IP address from your DHCP server. Prior to setup, you will be able to view this IP address through RAIDar. RAIDar is an utility used to discover NETGEAR ReadyDATA & ReadyNAS devices on the network. You can download RAIDar here: 9

10 ReadyNAS RAIDar Note: Please make sure ReadyDATA has the latest firmware before testing. To update firmware: Login to the ReadyDATA web GUI and go to System -> Settings -> Update. 1. Make sure ReadyDATA is connected to the Internet. 2. Click on Check for Updates and the system will tell you whether or not you have the most current firmware. 3. If there is newer firmware, follow the on screen directions to download and install the latest firmware. For detailed instructions on the installation steps, please reference the ReadyDATA Installation Guide included in the box. Create a Volume on the ReadyDATA In order to preserve your settings, you must create at least one volume on the ReadyDATA. To create a volume: 1. Login to the ReadyDATA GUI and go to System -> Storage. You will see a graphical representation of the ReadyDATA system and populated drives at the middle-top of this page. 10

11 2. Click on the drives you wish to create the new volume with and click on the New Volume button. 3. Name your new volume. 4. Now, select the RAID level. The available RAID levels will automatically adjust according to the number of drives you have selected for this new volume. In this example we ve selected 4 drives and will create a volume with a RAID level of 10 (or 1+0). 5. Click Create. 6. Within a few seconds, our new RAID10 volume is ready to use. 11

12 Create a Data Set on the ReadyDATA After you have created at least one volume on the ReadyDATA, you can create data sets. These are logical storage containers that can be purposed as NAS shares or SAN LUNs. Create a SMB (CIFS) Data Set on the ReadyDATA 1. Browse to the Shares & LUNs page. 2. Select the volume you wish to create a data set in and click on the + button. 3. A New Share window will pop up. In this window, name your date set, select whether or not you wish to enable Compression and Deduplication for this data set. Enable continuous snapshots by checking the Continuous checkbox and define your snapshot interval. Last but not least, select the protocols you wish to enable for this data set. Finally, click Create. 12

13 4. A new NAS data set has now been created. Create a SAN Data Set and Attach to an iscsi target on the ReadyDATA 1. Browse to the Shares & LUNs page. 2. Select the volume you wish to create a data set in and click on the + button. 3. A New LUN window will pop up. In this window, name your date set, select whether or not you wish to enable Compression and Deduplication for this data set. Enable continuous snapshots by checking the Continuous checkbox and define your snapshot interval. Last but not least, you can define whether or not to use Thick or Thin provisioning for this data set as well as define the size of the LUN. Finally, click Create. 13

14 4. A new LUN has now been created. 5. Now go to the SAN page. 6. We must first create a LUN Group (iscsi target) for our newly created LUN to assign to. Click on the + button on the top right hand corner of this page. 7. A New LUN Group window will pop up. Give the LUN group a name and click Create. 8. A new LUN Group has now been created. Now right click on our previously created LUN and click on Assign To and select group 1. 14

15 9. Our LUN is now assigned to the LUN Group and ready to be used in iscsi deployments. Taking Snapshots and Rolling Back Data on ReadyDATA You have the option to schedule snapshots when you first create the data set. You can also manually take snapshots for any data set you create. Now we ll go through the easy steps to roll back to a certain snapshot. To manually take snapshots: 1. Browse to the Shares & LUNs page. 2. Right click on the data set you wish to take a snapshot of. 3. Name your snapshot and click Create. 4. And that s it! 15

16 To roll back to a certain snapshot: 1. Browse to the Shares & LUNs page. 2. Click on the clock icon for the snapshots tab 3. You ll now be taken to the Snapshots timeline page. One thing to note is that you can manage snapshots from any data set by simply selecting the data set you wish to manage on the left hand side. Click on the + and buttons to scroll through different time ranges (hourly, daily, weekly etc). To specify a certain date, click on the clock button right above the timeline to pull up a calendar. 16

17 4. Select which snapshot you d like to roll back to and right click on the snapshot on the timeline and select Rollback. Continuous Replication Between Two ReadyDATA Systems ReadyDATA comes standard with Replicate a cloud-based replication portal for multiple ReadyDATA systems. With ReadyDATA it is possible to replicate data at the block level between multiple ReadyDATA systems through the network, regardless of WAN or LAN. To register your ReadyDATA system with Replicate 1. Browse to the System -> Settings page and Click on the Replicate button under Services. 2. Check the Enable Replicate box and enter your Username and Password. For the purpose of testing please use the following account: Username: peter.chen@netgear.com 17

18 Password: password 3. Click Apply. 4. Next go to and enter in the same credentials provided above to sign in. 5. Once you ve logged in, you will see the different systems you have registered to Replicate under this account. You can view system status as well as data structure. 18

19 6. Next we will create a continuous replication job between these two systems. Click on the Continuous Replicate link under Tools. You will now enter a simple wizard. 7. Name your new job and select your source data set and destination volume. Now click Next. 8. A new data set will be created on the destination volume. Give it a name and fill out the advanced settings according to your needs. Now click Next. 19

20 9. Finally, click Apply. 10. And that s it! Data will now be continuously replicated between the two ReadyDATA systems through a secure network connection. NETGEAR, the NETGEAR logo, Connect with Innovation, RAIDar, ReadyNAS, and ReadyDATA are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NETGEAR, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s). Information is subject to change without notice NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved. NETGEAR Inc. 350 E. Plumeria Drive San Jose, California Telephone: (408) Fax: (408) sales@netgear.com