| Operating System |
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| Storage Management |
- RAID level 0 ,1 ,0+1 ,3 ,5 ,6 ,10 ,30 ,50, 60, and N-way mirror
- RAID EE level 5EE, 6EE, 50EE, and 60EE
- Flexible storage pool ownership
- Thin Provisioning (QThin) with space reclamation
- Global hot spares
- Write-through and write-back cache policy
- Online disk roaming
- Spreading RAID disk drives across enclosures
- Background I/O priority setting
- Instant RAID volume availability
- Fast RAID rebuild
- Online storage pool expansion
- Online volume extension
- Online volume migration
- Auto volume rebuilding
- Instant volume restoration
- Online RAID level migration
- SED & ISE drive support
- Video editing mode for enhanced performance
- Disk drive health check and S.M.A.R.T. attributes
- Storage pool parity check and media scan for disk scrubbing
- SSD wear lifetime indicator
- Disk drive firmware batch update
- QSLIfe to monitor and analyze the activity of SSDs
- QSRAID for SSD endurance optimization
- Multiple volume creation
- Volume QoS (Quality of Service)
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| iSCSI Host Connectivity |
- Proven QSOE 2.0 optimization engine
- CHAP & mutual CHAP authentication
- SCSI-3 PR (Persistent Reservation for I/O fencing) support
- iSNS support
- VLAN (Virtual LAN) support
- Jumbo frame (9,000 bytes) support
- Up to 256 iSCSI targets
- Up to 512 hosts per controller
- Up to 1,024 sessions per controller
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| Fibre Channel Host Connectivity |
- Proven QSOE 2.0 optimization engine
- FCP-2 & FCP-3 support
- Auto detect link speed and topology
- Topology supports point-to-point and loop
- Up to 256 hosts per controller
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| High Availability |
- Dual-Active (Active/Active) SAN controllers
- Cache mirroring through NTB bus
- ALUA support
- Management port seamless failover
- Fault-tolerant and redundant modular components for SAN controller, PSU, FAN module, and dual port disk drive interface
- Multipath I/O and load balancing support (MPIO, MC/S, Trunking, and LACP)
- Firmware update with zero system downtime
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| Security |
- Secured Web (HTTPS), SSH (Secure Shell)
- iSCSI Force Field to protect from mutant network attack
- iSCSI CHAP & mutual CHAP authentication
- SED & ISE drive support
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| Storage Efficiency |
- Thin Provisioning (QThin) with space reclamation
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| Networking |
- DHCP, Static IP, NTP, Trunking, LACP, VLAN, Jumbo frame (up to 9,000 bytes)
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| Advanced Data Protection |
- Snapshot (QSnap), block-level, differential backup
- Writeable snapshot support
- Manual or schedule tasks
- Up to 64 snapshots per volume
- Up to 64 volumes for snapshot
- Up to 4,096 snapshots per system
- Snapshot recycle bin
- Remote Replication (QReplica)
- Auto remote replication without doing configurations
- 1 Step Local-to-Remote
- Asynchronous, block-level, differential backup based on snapshot technology
- Traffic shaping for dynamic bandwidth controller
- Manual or schedule tasks
- Auto rollback to previous version if current replication fails
- Up to 32 schedule tasks per controller
- Volume clone for local replication
- Auto local clone without doing configurations
- Configurable N-way mirroring
- Integration with Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service)
- Instant volume restoration
- Cache-to-Flash memory protection
- M.2 flash module
- Power module: BBM (Battery Backup Module)
- Support USB UPS and network UPS with SNMP management
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