MESOS CB220. Cluster-in-a-Box. Network Storage Appliance. A Simple and Smart Way to Converged Storage with QCT MESOS CB220

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1 MESOS CB220 Cluster-in-a-Box Network Storage Appliance A Simple and Smart Way to Converged Storage with QCT MESOS CB220

2 MESOS CB220 A Simple and Smart Way to Converged Storage Tailored for SMB storage applications, QCT s innovative MESOS CB220 features a highly available, fully redundant, and fault-tolerant Cluster-in-a-Box solution powered by Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition and LSI Syncro CS solution. Cluster-in-a-Box, High Availability and Reliability MESOS CB220 is a 2U 2-node network storage appliance, featuring transparent failover via two redundant nodes in an active/active cluster enabled by a gigabit Ethernet interconnection and Windows Cluster Failover Manager. If one server node fails, the other one will seamlessly take over all I/O activities, keeping the system up and running without errors or data loss. Windows Storage Server 2012 offers new enhancements, including Storage Spaces, ReFS (Resilient File System) and NTFS Online Corruption Repair, at the foundation of the storage stack with disk I/O and file system capabilities that can help protect you from drive failures, protect the data on those drives from corruption, and perform self-healing operations online if corruption does occur. New SMB 3.0 supports node failover in a cluster and provides continuous availability for application storage. The server for Network File System (NFS) can now dynamically respond to server problems by supporting the improved transparent failover capabilities in Windows Storage Server MESOS CB220 with LSI Syncro CS solutions use two storage RAID controllers with two server nodes are designed to provide continuous application uptime at a fraction of the complexity of existing high availability solutions, further to provide a redundant and simplified server failover cluster function by sharing the storage in a single cluster-ina-box form factor. Shared infrastructure design provides remarkable energy/cooling efficiency Each node is equipped with two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2609, 32/64 GB of memory, and two Gb Ethernet ports plus a 10 Gb Ethernet option. Two server nodes share the same chassis, power supplies, and fan modules, which provides remarkable energy/cooling efficiency and infrastructure investment savings.

3 Compact shared storage design offers high density, simplified cable management and energy savings Two server nodes also share the same in-chassis storage space. Compared to traditional clustered solution that requires external shared disk enclosure, numerous network cables, and complex system configurations, MESOS CB220 can save 22% of power consumption, provide double density, and greatly simply cable management in its already wired 2U chassis. File-Based Server Application Storage with new SMB 3.0 A new version of SMB, Window s main remote file protocol, is introduced in Windows Storage Server 2012 to make sure file storage could meet or exceed the requirements commonly applied to block storage, without losing file storage s inherit benefits in ease of management and cost effectiveness. New capabilities include: SMB Transparent Failover: Enables administrators to perform hardware or software maintenance of nodes in a clustered file server without interrupting server applications storing data on these file shares. Also, if a hardware or software failure occurs on a cluster node, this feature enables SMB clients to transparently reconnect to another cluster node without interrupting server applications that are storing data on these file shares. SMB Multichannel: Provides multiple connections and network interfaces simultaneously to increase throughput and fault tolerance. In the event that one of the network adapters or cables fails, SMB client will continue to use the network uninterrupted, at a lower throughput. SMB Scale-Out: Taking advantage of Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) version 2, administrators can create file shares that provide simultaneous access to data files, with direct I/O, through all nodes in a file server cluster. The maximum file serving capacity for a given share is no longer limited by the capacity of a single cluster node, but rather the aggregate bandwidth across the cluster. Also, this active-active configuration balances the load across cluster nodes by moving file server clients without any service interruption. VSS for SMB File Shares: VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) for SMB file shares extends the VSS infrastructure to perform application-consistent shadow copies of data stored on remote SMB file shares for backup and restore purposes. SMB Performance Counters: Windows Storage Server 2012 includes server and client performance counters that allow administrators to easily look into the key metrics for file storage, including IOPs, latency, queue depth, and throughput. Performance: SMB 3.0 optimizes performance for different kinds of workloads, covering both small and large I/O, and both sequential and random access.

4 Data Deduplication provides significant storage savings Windows Storage Server 2012 s advanced ability to perform deduplication provides significant storage savings with 50-95% primary data reduction. Block-level access with iscsi MESOS CB220 also supports block-level access and functions as an iscsi SAN via iscsi software target, allowing it to share iscsi LUNs over the network to heterogeneous application servers running iscsi Initiator. Simplified Server and Storage Management Administrator can easily manage local server, multiple remote Windows servers on the network that can be located through Active Directory (AD), DNS, or an IP address, and a group of Windows servers that you would like to perform the same actions on, in Windows Storage Server 2012 Server Manager.

5 MESOS CB220 (Cluster in a Box) Server Node 1 Server Node 2 HA DAS LSI i (High Availability RAID controller) HA DAS LSI i (High Availability RAID controller) SAS expander SAS expander 1Gb Ethernet connection (Heartbeat) Middle plane board (Data connection) HDD back plane board 12 Hard drives SAS module interface 1 SAS module interface 2 MESOS M4600H Shared Storage

6 Cluster-in-a-Box MESOS CB220 Technical Specifications Two SKUs of the MESOS CB220 are available for different enterprise application performance needs. The Value SKU enables Storage Spaces, a feature in Windows Storage Server 2012 R2, to create reliable storage pools without hardware RAID controller. The Performance SKU offers an LSI Syncro CS solution with improved performance, hardware RAID protection and flexible capacity management. Model Operating System Form Factor ( L x W x H ) MB Size ( W x L ) Value SKU Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition X5 (2U Chassis) 774.7mm x 447mm x 87.3mm 30.5" x 17.6" x 3.44" MB 6.5" x 19.38" (half-width) Performance SKU Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard Edition Processor Chipset (2) Intel Xeon Processor E per node Intel C602 Chipset Memory SAS Controller RAID 32 GB 1333MHz DDR3 RDIMM per node LSI SAS HBA i Windows Storage Spaces 64 GB 1333MHz DDR3 RDIMM per node LSI SAS i HA-DAS (RAID 0,1,10,5,6,50) Storage Raw Capacity PCIe Expansion Slot Network Node Interconnection Management Port Hardware Management Integrated Graphics (BMC) Rear I/O Power Supply RoHS Operating Environment L10 Weight (12) 3.5" or 2.5" SASII HDD/SSD per system (2) 2.5" internal SATA for OS installation per node Up to 48 TB of internal capacity and can be expanded to 240 TB externally with the QCT MESOS M4600H disk enclosure (1) Mezz slot (2) Intel I350 GbE RJ45 ports per node Or (2) Intel X GbE RJ45 ports per node(option) Intel i350am2 (SerDes x1) (2) Intel I350 GbE RJ45 ports per node and (2) Intel 10GbE SFP+ ports per node Or (2) Intel X GbE RJ45 ports per node(option) (1) dedicated 10/100BASE-TX RJ45 management port per node IPMI v2.0 compliant, on board "KVM over IP" support Aspeed AST2300 8MB DDR3 video memory (2) USB 2.0 ports per node (1) VGA port per node (1) RS232 serial port per node (2) GbE or 10G BASE-T RJ45 ports per node (1) 10/100 BASE-T RJ45 management port per node (1) External Mini-SAS port per node (2) 1100W high efficiency redundant PSU, VAC 50/60Hz Yes Operating temperature: 10 C to 35 C (50 F to 95 F) Non-operating temperature: -40 C to 70 C (-40 F to 158 F) Operating relative humidity: 50% to 90%RH Non-operating relative humidity: 20% to 95%RH 31.6 Kg QCT LLC Fremont Boulevard, Fremont CA sales@quantaqct.com Main: Fax: Toll Free: QCT-MUST For more information, please visit All specifications and figures are subject to change without prior notice. Actual products may look different from the photos. QCT, Rackgo, the Rackgo logo, Quanta, and the Quanta logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Quanta Computer Inc. Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All trademarks and logos are the properties of their representative holders. Copyright 2014 Quanta Computer Inc. All rights reserved.