Qsan AegisSAN Storage Application Note for Surveillance Qsan AegisSAN P300Q P500Q F400Q F300Q 1/5
Qsan AegisSAN Storage Systems: Secure and Reliable Qsan delivers more reliable surveillance solution with AegisSAN storage systems. A good surveillance storage solution is providing continuous protection and instantaneous image access nowadays. Customers are transferring from analog to digital IP surveillance solutions. Qsan AegisSAN storage systems are capable of integrating to both analog and digital IP surveillance. Customer can keep the analog devices and migrate to digital IP surveillance smoothly and seamlessly. Qsan s new innovative storage solution supports up to 512 cameras per system from multiple locations. Enormous amounts of recordings are streamed to NVRs for analytics and event handling. Each storage system allows the maximum numbers of 32 NVR servers to transfer video data. Customers may project flexibly depending on requirements and change it over time. Highlights: Easy Integration, Installation, and Management Flexible Expansion and Scalability High Availability Uncompromised Performance Advanced data protections iscsi, 10GbE iscsi, and FC interfaces JBOD expansion up to 216 TB per storage system (3TB hard drive used) Up to 32 NVR or DVR servers (400Mbps per server) Up to 384 Full HD 1080p cameras or 512 cameras Easy Integration, Installation, and Management Qsan AegisSAN provides multiple user interfaces for easy management and integration. From Web UI, the configuration and monitoring can be completed in few mouse clicks. From QCentral API and sample codes, all available functions, advanced data protections, and enclosure monitoring can be easily integrated to the various NVR and DVR software within days. The manager can control and monitor dozens of storage systems from different locations at a glance. This smart storage is capable of exporting current configuration. After the first and only configuration is done, all the settings can be imported to the rest storage systems in seconds. The installation time is highly reduced. From QCentral management software, the administrator can easily monitor and manage all Qsan storage systems in the same window. Flexible Expansion and Scalability Even the original deployment plan was fully considered and arranged. The requirements are changing from time to time. When more cameras and NVR are installed, longer video duration are requested, or higher video quality is demanded, the storage systems must have the ability to expand easily and without impacting the service. The deployment can always start with a single RAID controller AegisSAN storage system installed to handle up to 16 NVR and 192 Full HD cameras video data. When the customers want longer video duration, a JBOD expansion unit can be added online quickly. When more cameras and NVR are installed, a second controller can be also added online in seconds. Qsan AegisSAN storage systems are easily adjusted and expanded online for nonstop services. 2/5
Figure: Flexible Expansion and Scalability The numbers of the retention days are calculated from 30 frame rates, 100% motion percentage, and H.264 video format. High Availability To serve security critical environments like banks, airports, financial institutions, retailers, and etc, Qsan AegisSAN storage systems are designed and equipped with fully redundant and hot pluggable hardware components, including dual active RAID controllers, power supplies, fan modules, battery backup modules and even JBOD expansion ports. All of these components are hot-swappable to create a high availability platform and provide non-stop services. To provide HA service quality, the dual active controllers are synchronizing with each other all the time. All RAID controllers have multiple paths for both load balancing and failover mechanism. For any point of hardware or connection failure, the surveillance video will be smoothly transferred and the service won t stop. From top to bottom, all connections are secure and protected. 3/5
Uncompromised Performance With Qsan's efficient hardware architecture design plus powerful Intel dual core processors, the AegisSAN storage systems can top the chart with high IOPS and throughput performance. The best breed of its kinds! Stability and performance are the mottos we live up to. The AegisSAN can definitely help you deliver more business outputs with less hardware due to consolidation and reduce your energy footprint significantly. The AegisSAN IOPS is 220,000 at maximum, much higher than other storage systems within the same segment in the current market; besides, its throughput is 1500MB/sec. at maximum. The bandwidth is sufficient and without image quality compromised. The AegisSAN storage systems can process all kinds of complicated recording and IO requests from different NVRs, DVRs, IP converters, and cameras, and to respond quickly and completely for reducing the service time and effort. Performance Highlights: 220K IOPS 1500M Bytes per second throughput Qsan innovated hardware offload engine: QiSOE, ideal for the IP camera applications Up to 35 NVR or DVR servers (400Mbps per server) Up to 384 1080p Full HD dual stream cameras (720p, 1080p) dual stream cameras (D1, CIF, 2CIF, 4CIF) Fully capable to process Different codes and formats: H.264, H.261, MJPEG, MPEG-4, AVI, AAC, NTSC, PAL, G.726, G.711, meta data, 2 way audio, texts, event logs Dynamic transferring file size for the applications of facial detection, motion detection, real-time play back, searching, analyzing, and etc Advanced data protections Keep your video data highly available Data loss happens in all kinds of situations such as hard drive failures, file system crashes from power failures, and even natural disasters. Qsan provides array-based Storage Disaster Recovery Solution which includes QSnap writeable snapshots with Windows VSS support, clone, and QReplica remote replication. The storage planning varies with the main purpose of data volumes. When a video volume is simply for few days duration, a quick snapshot setup would be great idea. But if a video volume contains important security footages and cannot accept any downtime, the video volume s recovery plan should include multiple, local, and even remote site backup. The local backup can minimize the recovery time and the remote site backup is perfect for immediate replacement for the original video volume. The remote site backup also gives administrators and managers more time to figure out and resolve the issues of the original video volume. When a natural disaster happens, the recovery may take longer than expected which may involve rebuilding new data center. The advantages include: Fast rollback when virus attacks or mis-deleting Reduce the risk of hard drive failures Protect video against disasters Increase video availability No performance impact to hosts, the array-based solution is independent of hosts resources Multipath / Failover support Automatic data synchronization to avoid traffic jam Flexible configurations for different storage plans 4/5
Your surveillance video data is always Secure and Reliable. AegisSAN Series P300Q iscsi P500Q 10G iscsi F300Q 4G FC F400Q 4G FC + iscsi Max. No. of Cameras* Up to 384 (1080p) No. of Host Channels 2 x 4Gb FC 4 x GbE iscsi 2 x 10GbE iscsi 2 x 4Gb FC Per Controller 1 x GbE iscsi RAID Controllers - Single Upgradable - Single Upgradable - Single Upgradable - Single Upgradable Form Factors 4U24 3U16 2U12 4U24 3U16 2U12 4U24 3U16 2U12 4U24 3U16 2U12 IOPS & Throughput 200K 220K 100K 100K 900MB/s 1300MB/s 1500MB/s 1500MB/s Expansion System 4U24 3U16 2U12 4U24 3U16 2U12 4U24 3U16 2U12 4U24 3U16 2U12 Max. No. of Hard Drives (6G SAS/SATA II) 72 72 72 72 Max. Capacity Per System Feature Highlights Green RAID & Volume High Availability Advanced Data Protection Management Notification Auto disk spin down Advanced cooling mechanism 80 PLUS energy-efficient power supplies RAID level 0,1,0+1,3,5,6,10,30,50, 60, JBOD, N-way mirror Up to 1024 logical volumes Up to 32 hard drives per volume group One logic volume can be shared by as many as 16 hosts Global and dedicated hot spare Write-through or write-back cache policy Online volume expansion Instant RAID volume availability Auto volume rebuilding On-line volume migration without system down time Dual-active RAID controller Cache mirroring through high bandwidth channels Flexible RAID group ownership management Management port seamless take-over Online firmware upgrade, no system down time Multi-path & load-balancing support (Microsoft MPIO, MC/S, Trunking, LACP) QSnap writable snapshot QReplica remote replication for P300Q, P500Q, and F400Q Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) Configurable N-way mirror Online disk roaming Instant volume configuration restoration Hot pluggable battery backup module (BBM) QCentral; API; LCM; Serial console; SSH telnet; HTTP Web UI; Secured Web (HTTPS); isns; S.E.S. QCentral; API; Email; SNMP trap; Browser pop-up windows; Syslog; Windows Messenger For more detail specifications, please visit www.qsantechnology.com. * The configurations and numbers of the NVR, DVR, cameras, codecs, and recording models will impact its performance and functionalities. For more than 512 cameras support, please check Qsan AegisSAN LX series. Contact: sales@qsantechnology.com Website: www.qsantechnology.com 5/5