BlueArc - High-Performance Network Storage
     
 

BlueArc, a subsidiary of Hitachi Data Systems, provides cost-effective, intelligent tiered storage solutions with industry leading performance and scalability. They collaborate with partners to solve customers’ storage and data management business challenges while reducing the total cost of ownership. By providing reliable and easy-to-use data storage solutions, BlueArc enables their customers to grow their businesses with confidence and success.

As a BlueArc Partner, Scale Datacom can tailor a complete solution around their product offering that will ensure your data is protected and performing well.

   
  BlueArc Target Markets
 
  • Design and Simulation
  • Internet Services
  • Entertainment
  • Life Sciences
  • Med to Large Enterprise
  • Oil and Gas
  • Government
  • Litigation Support

  BlueArc Benefits:
World-Class Performance, Massive Scalability
  • Hardware-accelerated architecture leverages parallel processing to remove traditional performance bottlenecks
  • Maximum file system and volume size of 256TB
  • Global Namespace capacity of 16PB and 4mil objects per directory
  • Spans single nodes, server clusters, virtual servers and extends to external storage devices
  • Common namespace and mixed-mode security for simultaneous access to native CIFS and NFS based files
  • Dynamic storage balancing ensures that as new capacity is added data is re-striped to immediately benefit from the additional drives

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Powerful Features
  • NAS (File-Level) and SAN (Block-Level) Services
    • CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and NDMP over FC
  • Intelligent Tiered Stor
  • age
  • Non-Intrusive Backup and Replication Technology
  • Block and File Level Replication
  • Remote Volume Mirroring
  • Integrated WORM
  • Snapshots
  • Virtual Volumes and Servers
  • Comprehensive System Management
    • GUI, CLI, SNMP, and LDAP
  • Virus Scanning
  • Thin Provisioning
 

  BlueArc Products:
       
  • Scales to 16PB
  • Enables over 60,000 user sessions and thousands of compute nodes
  • N-Way High Availability Clustering
  • SiliconFS file system
     
     
 
 
Datasheet
Specifications
       
  Model Comparison:
Series
3100
3200
IOPS
100,000

200,000

Thruput
Up to 10Gbps
Up to 20Gbps
Scalability
Up to 8PB in a single namespace
Up to 16PB in a a single namespace
Ethernet Ports
2 x 10GbE or 6 x GbE
2 x 10GbE or 6 x GbE
Fibre Channel Ports
4 x 4GB
4 x 4GB
Clustering Ports
2 x 10GbE
2 x 10GbE
   

     
  The BlueArc Mercury™ Server is a next generation network storage platform that consolidates capacity across multiple applications and simplifies storage management for businesses with mid-range storage requirements—without compromising performance and scalability. The Mercury platform deploys BlueArc’s SiliconFS file system, and its open architecture excels across a variety of application environments, including general purpose file systems, database, messaging and online fixed content.
   
 
  • Consolidates application storage requirements, leveraging advanced file system capabilities and virtualization to reduce the TCO of storage infrastructures
  • Enables the highest performance and scalability of any product in its class through a hardware accelerated file system
  • Simplifies management of large, dynamic data sets with Intelligent Tiered Storage to reduce the cost of keeping more data online
  • Supports best-in-class storage devices and complementary third-party technologies through an integrated Storage Ecosystem to eliminate storage silos
 
 
 
 
 
Mercury Datasheet
Mercury Specifications
       
 
 

  Documentation:
 
Entertainment
Internet Services
Life Sciences
     
Data Migrator
Remote Volume Mirroring
Virtual Servers
     
WORM File System
Media Transcoding
Automated Data Tiers

 

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  Jamie Borst

  Storage Specialist
   888.382.DATA x701

   jamie@scaledatacom.com