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NAS: Enterprise Grade On-demand Storage Services

NAS: Enterprise Grade On-demand Storage Services

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NAS on Cloud

Sify's Network Attached Storage is an industry standard storage solution offering simple & faster on-demand storage provisioning / expansion on an end-to-end redundant path to match the assured high-availability.

With provisioning options from SAS/SATA, this solution drives in an assured transfer rate through GigaBit Ethernet connectivity. Scalable and pay-as-you grow flexibility; Sify NAS' automation policy based data migration simplifies management.

Multiple snapshots with versioning for instant recovery, file level access through NFS/CIFS shares mounting to the servers through ethernet connectivity are the other noteworthy highlights.

NAS

Highlights

Features	Benefits
File System support	Supported with industry standard file system like CIFS / NFS with an option of provisioning from SAS / SATA drives in an assured transfer rate through Gigabit ethernet connectivity
Storage Platform	Built on High Performance SAS/ FC drives & High capacity SATA II drives driven through fully redundant high performance active-active storage controllers.
Anti-Virus	Data in the Network Attached Storage secured through Industry standard anti-virus software assuring a secured storage space
Intelligent File Tiering, Snapshots & Versioning	Each subscribed Share can accommodate up to 16 Million files. Economical automatic policy-based data migration simplifies management; Supports multiple snapshots with versioning for instant recovery
Monitoring & Management	Entire storage platform is monitored and managed by a dedicated team of storage administrators 24/7 – 365 days assuring response and resolutions as per the SLA
Performance Reporting	Periodic performance and utilization reports sent to the stakeholders and instant notifications escalated in case of a threshold exceed
Sify Backup Services	Customer can also subscribe NDMP backup from Network Attached Storage with multiple backup plans based on the need and compliance

Plans & Packages

Network Attached Storage (NAS) Tiers
Category	Service Feature	Enhanced Tier	Standard Tier
Storage Specifications	Performance	450 Mbps	250 Mbps
	Storage Availability Guarantee (SLA)	99.99%	99.99%
	Access Mechanism to Storage	10 Gbps FCOE / 1 Gbps iSCSI	10 Gbps FCOE / 1 Gbps iSCSI
	HBA Cards Compatibility	2x 4Gbps FC HBA's / 4x iSCSI Hardware HBA's	2x 4Gbps FC HBA's / 2x iSCSI HBA's
	File System	CIFS / NFS	CIFS / NFS
	Snapshots / Versioning	Up to 10 Snapshots	Up to 10 Snapshots
	Files Per Directory	Up to 16 Million	Up to 16 Million
	Anti-virus	Optional	Optional
	Single Name Space	Yes	Yes
	WORM Feature	Optional	Optional
	File System Audit	As Required	As Required
	Storage Backup	Optional	Optional
	Backup on Dedicated Tape Media- LTO4 (At additional fee)	Optional	Optional
	Deployment scenario's	Near line as well as Long Distance over WAN Link	Near line as well as Long Distance over WAN Link
Subscription Parameters	Minimum Storage Capacity Subscription	100 GB	100 GB
	Additional Storage Capacity Subscription	25 GB	25 GB
Data Security	Fabric Zoning	Yes	Yes
	Fiber Channel SAN Interface	Yes	Yes
	IP SAN Interface	Yes	Yes
	Customized Security Deployment	Optional	Optional

Resources

Comparative - NAS v/s SAN

NAS	SAN
Identifies data by file name, transfers file data or file meta-data and handles security, user authentication, file locking	Addresses data by disk block number and transfers raw disk blocks.
Protocol: TCP IP / NFS / CIFS	Protocol: iSCSI / Fibre Channel
File System managed by NAS head unit	File System managed by servers
Good for Graphical oriented Apps, File serving based Apps	Good for OLTP App, DB Clusters, ERP App, Messaging, etc..
Backups and mirrors are done on files, not blocks, for a savings in bandwidth and time.	Backups and mirrors require a block by block copy, even if blocks are empty.