Quantum StorNext AEL Archives
Cost-Effective Tiering for Long-Term Digital Archives
Overview:
Stornext Solutions For Demanding Workflows
From DNA sequencing to hi-definition video editing to seismic exploration, customers across industries are experiencing tremendous growth in unstructured digital assets. This digital content is very high in volume, is growing at high rates, and has great value to the business or institution. Like all Quantum StorNext® Appliances, StorNext AEL Archives are purpose-built for extreme data environments, offering high-performance, highly scalable data management solutions that are also cost effective and easy to manage. When added to a StorNext file system deployment, StorNext AEL Archives provide near-line archiving with built-in data protection and self-healing capabilities to ensure that valuable digital assets are protected and accessible over time.
Cost-Effective, High-Capacity Tiered Storage
StorNext AEL Archives use automated, policybased tiering and cost-effective tape storage to deliver petabytes of data accessible to users through a simple file system interface. By extending the StorNext file system with the StorNext AEL Archive, you can move seldomaccessed data to inexpensive tape media that requires very little power, cooling, or floor space. The data migration and tiering is all transparent to users—when a user saves a file to the StorNext File System, it remains accessible, regardless of its location. StorNext AEL6 starts at 125TB (50 slots of LTO-6) and can grow to 4.8PB (800 slots of LTO-7). StorNext AEL6000 scales up to 72PB with 12,006 slots of near-line storage using LTO-7. StorNext Vaulting with the Active Vault license for StorNext AEL6 and AEL6000 will store vaulted tapes in an inactive partition of the library for faster access and greater security than vaulting outside the library.
Self-healing Archive
StorNext AEL Archives ensure data integrity through policy-based Extended Data Life Management (EDLM). EDLM tests and verifies the media in the archive and provides health reports for all cartridges. If EDLM identifies a suspect tape cartridge, EDLM interacts with StorNext, and the data on the original cartridge is automatically copied to a new cartridge, creating a self-healing archive solution.
Investment Protection With Slot-based Pricing
StorNext AEL Archives use slot-based pricing to guarantee investment protection over the lifetime of the archive. As tape media capacities increase from one generation to another, the capacity of a purchased StorNext AEL Archive can increase—with no additional software license fees—making the initial investment affordable and its long-term TCO unbeatable.
Features & Benefits:
- Automated tiering
Based on user-defined policies, infrequently accessed files are automatically migrated to economical tape media, reducing costs so more content can be retained and protected. - Capacity-on-demand growth
Simplifies storage growth by scaling quickly, easily, and without disruption. - Slot-based pricing model
Customers significantly increase archive capacities when they migrate already purchased StorNext AEL Archives to a new LTO tape technology (i.e. LTO-6 to LTO-7). - Self-healing
Extended Data Life Management (EDLM) capability automatically copies data on suspect tapes to new tape media. - Active Vault
Secure in-library vaulting saves cost, increases security, and simplifies access to vaulted content. - Reduced management costs
Automated data tiering, tape data integrity checking + self-healing means less management time and optimal utilization. - World-class support from one vendor
All software, hardware, and support come from the experts at Quantum.
Specifications:
| Quantum StorNext AEL Archives Specifications | ||
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| Solution Includes | ||
| StorNext AEL6 | StorNext AEL6000 | |
| StorNext Storage Manager slot-based licenses | ||
| EDLM software with license | ||
Scalar i6 tape library configured for the following
slot count
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Scalar i6000 tape library configured for the
appropriate slot count
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| Capacity Configurations | ||
| StorNext AEL6 | StorNext AEL6000 | |
| Base Module Sizes | 6U | 1-17 frames |
| Technology | LTO-6 LTO-7 |
LTO-5 LTO-6 LTO-7 |
| Drives | up to 24 | up to 192 |
| Slots | 50 to 800 | 400 to 12,006* |
| Base Unit Active Slots | 50 | 400, 700, 1,500, 3,000, 5,000 |
| Approximate Capacity Range (TB) | 125-2,000 (LTO-6) 300-4,800 (LTO-7) |
600-17,970* (LTO-5) 1,000-29,950* (LTO-6) 2,400-71,880 (LTO-7) |
| *Maximum requires optional HDEMs. Addition of optional drives, optional I/E Stations, or optional Dual Robot will reduce maximum size. | ||
| Optional Add-Ons | |
StorNext AEL6
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StorNext AEL6000
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| Stornext Ael Advanced Feature Details | |
| Dual Robot: | Adds a redundant robot for high availability and active/active operation for faster robot performance. Allows the library to continue to operate despite robotic failure. (AEL6000 only) |
| Active Vault: | In-library vaulting of cartridges in a separate Active Vault partition. Reduces software and hardware costs, reduces management time, improves data security. |
| HDEMs: | High-Density Expansion Modules replace Standard-Density Expansion Modules to achieve 70% higher physical capacity in the same floor space. (AEL6000 only) |
| Advanced Reporting: | Media Integrity Analysis report, Media Usage report, Drive Utilization report, Security report and media removal notifications, Report scheduling with automated report creation and delivery to distribution lists. |
| Firmware Auto-leveling: | Maintains consistent firmware levels across all tape drives in the library |
| Extended Data Life Management(EDLM): | Media health reports of cartridges stored for long-term archive, information is collected outside of normal operation. Policy-based data migration to new cartridges. |
| Path Failover: | Control Path Failover, Data Path Failover including support for path failure within the SAN fabric. |
| Library Partitioning: | Supports up to 16 partitions for tape consolidation in the AEL6000 and up to 15 partitions in the AEL6. |
| Operation | ||
| StorNext AEL6 | StorNext AEL6000 | |
| Library Control/Data Interface: | 8Gb fibre channel | 8Gb fibre channel |
| Management Interface: | 1GbE | 1GbE |
| Inventory Speed: | Ranges from approx. 1 min. to 6 min. depending on configuration | 100 slots in 20 seconds |
| Import/Export: | Configurable, 0-50 in 5-slot increments for every module, up to 240 I/E slots. | Up to 1,104 (LTO) physical I/E slots; Extended I/E provides virtual I/E slots; Auto-Import; Non-disruptive bulk loading |
| Reliability | ||
| StorNext AEL6 | StorNext AEL6000 | |
| Library MSBF: | Greater than 2,000,000 | Greater than 3,000,000 |
| Power: | 2N power | |
| Diagnostics: | Embedded monitoring of major subsystems, self-diagnostic procedures, and policy-based email and pager alerts to system administrators and Quantum Global Services | |
| Library MTTR: | 30 minutes | 20 minutes |
| Module Upgrades: | Any storage module may be added in less than 30 minutes; all components are customer-installable | Standard-Density Expansion Modules are included by default with purchase of Capacity-on-Demand license keys. Optional HDEMs replace StandardDensity Expansion Modules, if purchased. |
| Compliance And Certification | ||
| StorNext AEL6 | StorNext AEL6000 | |
| Safety: | IEC 60950 with worldwide country deviations | TUV IEC-60950-1:2006 CB Scheme, EN60950-1 2nd Edition |
| Emissions: | CNS13438 Class A, EN55022:2010 Class A, FCC Part 15 Class A, KN 32, VCCI | Class A: FCC CFR-47 Part 15, CISPR 22, EN55022, VCCI, KCC |
| Immunity: | EN 55024, KN 35 | EN55024, KN55024 |
| International: | CE (Europe), VCCI (Japan), TUV/GS (Germany), FCC (USA), ICES (Canada), cTUVus (USA & Canada), EAC (EuroAsian Conformity Mark), KCC (Korea), BSMI (Taiwan) | CE, cTUVus, KCC (MIC), GOST, VCCI |
| Environmental | ||
| StorNext AEL6 | StorNext AEL6000 | |
| Electrical: | 100-240 VAC, 50-60Hz | 100-240 VAC, 2-24 kVA |
| Temperature: | 16 to 35°C operating | 15 to 35°C operating |
| Humidity: | 20 to 80% non-condensing operating | 10 to 90% non-condensing operating |
| Interoperability |
StorNext AEL Archives are for purchase with StorNext appliances or StorNext software, or can be
added to an existing StorNext deployment. The StorNext AEL family is designed for use with:
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| Supported Environments | |
| Host Operating Systems and Client Types: | Sun Solaris; HP-UX; IBM AIX; RedHat EL; SuSE ES; Microsoft Windows; Mac OS X*; CentOS; Scientific Linux; Oracle Linux |
| Metadata Controller: | Requires StorNext M440/M660 Metadata Appliance or equivalent Linux StorNext Metadata Contoller |
*Mac OS X support provided by Apple’s Xsan product. Go to www.apple.com/xsan for more information. |
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Documentation:
Download the Quantum StorNext AEL Archives Datasheet (PDF).