Nexsan E60

Overview:

• 60-disk RAID system
• 180TB capacity in 4U
• Three active drawers for easy servicing
• Combines SAS, SATA and SSD disks in the same system
• Anti-vibration design maximizes disk reliability
• AutoMAID® level 4 reduces energy consumption by 85%
• Horizontal mid-plane maximizes airflow and cooling
• Future Proof design allows for upgrading IO port types
• Expand with up to 60 additional drives with Nexsan E60X
• Optional 10Gbit iSCSI replaces 8Gb Fibre Channel ports

The Nexsan E60™, a member of the Flexible Storage Platform™, is a next generation high-density and energy-efficient storage system, upping the ante over previous generations by delivering a storage solution that accommodates 60 disks. It provides 180TBs in only 4U and, thanks to Nexsan's AutoMAID® level 4 technology, reduces energy costs by up to 85% - making it the most energy-efficient, enterprise-class storage system on the market.

The E60 contains four 8Gbit Fibre Channel ports, with the ability in the future to add a second IO card, and two 1Gbit iSCSI ports to deliver more bandwidth and connectivity. The E60 seamlessly combines SATA, SAS, and SSD drives to give IT administrators a high degree of flexibility, and its innovative active drawer technology allows the E60 to be safely serviced by one person while remaining in full production - a significant improvement over competitive systems that typically require several people to replace a single disk or fan.

As with all Nexsan solutions, the E60 is built for enterprise-class applications, providing tier-1 full redundancy and high performance at tier- 2 prices. It's very easy to install and use. And the E60 includes technologies that provide a combination of cost-effective high density, space efficiency and Nexsan's AutoMAID® (Massive Array of Idle Disks) level 4 energy-saving technology, which enables the E60 to save up to 85% in energy costs.

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About Nexsan E60

Storage efficiency just made a big leap forward with a 180TB so small, so efficient, so reliable, you will barely know it's there. For the ultimate in high capacity, high density and power efficiency, the Nexsan E60™ delivers 60 disks in only 4U of rack space.

The E60 enables organizations to achieve never-before-seen levels of efficiency with the ability to add more capacity while lowering power, space and overall cost requirements. Relative to comparable storage systems, the E60 requires only 1/3 of the rack space. Active Drawer Technology™ makes servicing the drives a breeze, and keeps them online when the drawer is open, eliminating the need to power down for maintenance. AutoMAID® level 4 power savings technology places drives into low power states when they are not being accessed, saving up to 85% on power and cooling expenses.

Connectivity and Drives

The powerful Nexsan E-Series™ RAID controller contains 4GB of battery backed cache with up to four 8Gbit Fibre Channel ports and four 1Gbit iSCSI ports that can be used simultaneously. By utilizing SATA, SAS, or SSD drives, users can use the

Extreme Density

The E60 boasts the most revolutionary approach to extreme density management with its unique Active Drawer Technology™. Three self-contained disk drawers include 20 SAS/SATA disk drives with tachometer controlled push/pull fan modules. Specially designed cables enable continuous operation even when a drawer is momentarily pulled out to perform easy disk and fan service. Overcoming the challenges of other extreme density offerings, the E60 is safely and easily serviced by one person.

Reliability and Performance

With blazing wire-speed read/write throughput and high IOPS performance, the E60 is the perfect choice for data intensive requirements. The E60 also provides exceptional data protection and fault tolerance as all active components are fully redundant and hot-swappable. Top-tier mechanical design efficiently removes heat and vibration from the chassis to ensure the E60 meets and exceeds the most stringent reliability demands.

Unprecedented Energy Saving

Nexsan's exclusive AutoMAID® level 4 technology delivers up to 85% energy savings. Each disk group can easily be assigned a power savings policy with the Web-based management interface. When a disk group is not accessed for a specified time period, it can be put into a lower power-consuming state, saving up to 85% on power and cooling bills. For instance, in scientific computing applications, when workers go home, disks can be powered down. On first access, they are spun up and stay spinning. In backup to disk applications, drives can be powered down when backups are not being performed. No changes to applications or manual intervention is required to get the benefits of AutoMAID level 4.

Easy Management

The NexScan® management interface is built into the E60 controller, alleviating the need to have a separate server or application manage the storage array. This sophisticated, browser-based management GUI monitors and reports the status of all E60 components over an IP network and includes a phone-home feature for notification of system status.

Common Applications

Common applications for the E60 include: Data Protection - storing large amounts of local data backups on disk instead of tape as well as storing a copy of data offsite. Long-term, Bulk Storage - maintaining large amounts of information online. For performance driven applications, IT professionals can leverage SAS drives in the E60 for their Tier-1 instances.

Features & Benefits:

Features	Benefits
60 Drive Capacity	Populate with combinations of 1TB/2TB SATA drives, 450/600GB SAS drives, or 64/200/400GB SSD drives
Mix SAS, SATA, and SSD drives	Optimize storage for cost, capacity, and performance to meet the needs of varying applications.
Active Drawer Technology™	Allows one person to easily gain access to hot-swappable disks and fans, in any of the three sliding drawers, which remain operational when opened.
High Availability	Can be configured so there is no single point of failure between the servers and storage system, or within the storage system. All power, fans, disks, and I/O ports are fully redundant.
Active / Active	When both controllers are health, they each service storage requests, delivering twice the performance of the active/passive architecture offered by others.
Energy Savings	AutoMAID® is the storage industry's most sophisticated power management system, delivering delivers up to 85% energy savings. When a disk group is not accessed for a specified time period, it can automatically be put into a lower power-consuming state. No changes to applications or manual intervention is required to get the benefits of AutoMAID level 4.
Anti-Vibration Design™	Hard drives are mounted so that all disks are not spinning in the same direction. This, plus the advanced anti-vibration chassis combine to provide unprecedented hard drive MTBFs.
Cool Drive Technology™	The chassis is designed to deliver uniform, plentiful airflow that is not subject to a single point of failure. The hot-swappable fan on the front of a drawer pulls in air, and two fans at the rear push the air out.
Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN Connectivity	Each controller provides two 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel ports, and two 1Gb/s iSCSI connections – all four ports can be used simultaneously in SAN or direct-attached applications.
Revolutionary Ease of Administration	A built-in Web server utilizes the dedicated 100Mb/s Ethernet port to deliver an industry-leading GUI that sets the gold standard for ease of management.
4GB Battery-backed Cache per Controller	The two RISC engines on each controller share a 4GB high speed cache which is supplied with enough battery power to permit it to be saved to flash memory in the event of a sudden loss of power.
Hardware RAID	Supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5, and 6 using two dedicated hardware RAID engines per controller. RAID6 protects against the failure of two drives in a RAID set.
Automatic RAID Set Maintenance	In the event of a drive failure, spare drives are automatically added to a RAID set and a RAID set rebuild is run – all without any manual intervention being required. Administrator can receive email alerts, SNMP alerts, or monitor the storage system’s health remotely.
Flexible Storage Configuration	Supports multiple RAID sets and multiple volumes per set with full LUN security and up to 254 LUNS per system.
Redundant Power	Dual redundant 220-240V power supplies
Expansion	Expand with E60X for up to 60 additional SSD, SAS, or SATA drives
Rack	A 1200 mm rack is required to accommodate the depth of the storage system. Cable contol is internal to the storage system’s 3 active drawers.

AutoMAID™ Energy Saving Technology:

Nexsan offers the first and only high performance, high capacity RAID storage systems to provide the energy saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks). SATABeast employs Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology transparently place SATABeast disk drives into an idle state vastly reducing power consumption and operational costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) but without the limitations of slow access times and special host software. Nexsan's AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings enabling users to determine the right level of access speed and energy savings for their environment. AutoMAID is the first MAID architecture that supports VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries), full file format D2D and standard high performance RAID implementations.

By integrating Nexsan's AutoMAID™ technology into our high performance, multipurpose SATA storage arrays, users now have the flexibility to support multiple applications within the same storage subsystem. AutoMAID is user-selectable allowing this feature to be implemented as desired. AutoMAID can be applied selectively by drive units and can be disabled for volumes requiring the very best response time.

Key Points

• E60 with AutoMAID can cool all drives at 100% activity (even with one or two fans failed, even in a hot room)
• MAID reduces operational costs
• Nexsan’s AutoMAID gains the benefits of MAID without the limitations

AutoMAID Defined

• AutoMAID automatically reduces power consumption and heat generation on idle drives
• Trade-off between response times and power savings are user configurable
• AutoMAID behavior happens automatically and transparently to host – no software changesrequired
• AutoMAID is analogous to power saving modes on laptops
• Typical configuration settings:
  • 30% savings – after 5 minutes of idle time, drives are programmed to unload heads and slow down to 4000 RPM. Very fast recovery time.
  • 52% savings – after 5 minutes of idle time, drives are programmed to spin down. Recovery time on the order of 30 seconds.

AutoMAID Safety Features

• In maximum power saving mode, drive spin up is sequenced to reduce power surges
• Drives automatically wake up for periodic surface scan to ensure data integrity (typically, once a week for a few hours – user configurable)
• AutoMAID feature has no impact on performance if left on in data-intensive server applications – busy systems will never invoke the AutoMAID behavior
• Only two simple configuration settings – "timeout" and "power savings desired"

Technical Specifications:

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Nexsan E60 Specifications
Disk Bays	60
Rack U	4U
Controllers	1 Standard Dual RAID Engines per Controller Optional second controller for dual Active/Active
Dual Optional	Active/Active fault-tolerance and increased performance with optional second controller
Supports E60X Expansion	1 / 2 / 3TB SATA, 450 / 600GB 15K RPM SAS, 64 / 200 / 400GB SSD
Drives Supported	4GB Standard
Battery Protected Cache per Controller	2GB
Host Ports	2 FC 8Gbit ports & 2 iSCSI 1Gbit ports Optional 2 iSCI 10Gbit ports replace 2 FC 8Gbit ports
Dedicated Management Ports per Controller	1 Ethernet 10/100Mbit port
Hardware RAID 6	Included
RAID Levels	0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5, 6
Volumes and LUNs	254 volumes per system / 254 LUNs per port
Power
Standard Dual Redundant Power Supplies	Two Redundant Standard 1600 watt - 220-240v Only
Dimensions and Weight
Height	7 inches / 17.78 cm. (4U)
Width	Width, with flanges is 19 inches / 48.26 cm.
Depth	31.5 inches / 800mm 40.36 inches /102.6 cm. (does not require cable mgt. unit is fixed)
Maximum Installed Weight w/ mounting rails, all drives and controllers	approx - 102 Kg / 225 lbs
Rack Mount	Fits into a standard 19 inch rack (16.9 inches / 43.00 cm chassis width)
Environmental
Operating Temperature Range	5ºC to 35ºC (41ºF to 95ºF)
Operating Humidity Range	20% to 80% non-condensing
Operating Altitude	0 to 2,133m (0 to 7,000ft)
Non-operational Altitude	0 to 12,192m (0 to 40,000ft)
Features
Global "Hot Disk Spares"	Yes
Hot-pluggable Controllers, Expansion Modules, Disks, Power Supplies	Yes
Multiple RAID sets and LUNs per RAID set	Yes
254 volumes per system / 254 LUNs per port	Yes
ACL with read only, read and write and denied access policies	Yes
Nexsan multi-unit manager software	Yes
Onboard Browser Based GUI	Yes
Nexsan Tele-Guard Phone Home Manager	Yes
3 yr. Warranty, Advanced Exchange, 24 x 7 Support	Yes

Management:

From Anywhere to Anywhere.

That's because–whether you're across town or halfway around the world–you can manage all Nexsan storage products remotely. Our management capabilities are intuitive and easy to use. They require minimal training. And all of our interfaces provide different levels of security to ensure proper authentication and prevent unwanted users from gaining access.

You can configure Nexsan E-Series, Beast and Boy products through our unique, secure and intuitive Web-based GUI tool. The interface uses standard HTML and is compatible with all mainstream browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, etc.) that aren't hardware-, software- or Java™-runtime-specific. The embedded Web-browser GUI operates over the 10/100/1000 port, and supports e-mail alerts and SNMP traps. We also provide a standard serial port for local and direct system configuration.

In addition to the GUI, Nexsan Storage Tools – a comprehensive set of storage management software tools for Windows Server families–make it easy to manage and configure multiple units from a single GUI. Nexsan Storage Tools provide support for Windows Virtual Disk Service (VDS) and Microsoft Management Console (MMC), and include MPIO support for Nexsan RAID storage systems.

Nexsan Storage Tools:

All Nexsan disk arrays, including the SATABoy, SASBoy, SATABeast, SASBeast, and the B-Series come with Nexsan Storage Tools – a comprehensive suite of software, which was purpose-built for mid-sized organizations. Nexsan Storage Tools are available for Windows, Apple OS X, AIX and popular versions of Linux.

Nexsan Storage Tools for Windows

Storage Manager provides a single console from which multiple local and remote Nexsan storage products can be easily and securely managed and monitored. Key features include.

• Management for one or more disk arrays on the LAN or WAN
• Easy to use GUI to configure advanced disk array features
• Red-green-yellow status display of all disk arrays being monitored
• Create and expand volumes
• Use as a stand-alone application or from within Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

Nexsan Data Migration Manager makes it easy to move data onto your new Nexsan disk array or to migrate it from one RAID Disk Set to another – for load balancing, increased storage capacity or any number of other common goals.

Windows VDS Integration and Shell Extensions allow administration of Windows volumes and multiple Nexsan disk arrays directly from Windows management tools. Key features include:

• Seamless integration with Microsoft management tools including: Microsoft Storage Manager for SANs, DISKRAID and DISKPART command-line tools, Microsoft Server Manager and Computer Management, Microsoft Device Manager, Microsoft Disk Management and Windows Explorer
• Create, delete, expand and migrate volumes
• Map LUNs to Windows servers
• Supports both Fibre Channel or iSCSI
• Drill down on all of the Nexsan configuration data from within Microsoft Disk Management

IP Configuration Tool is used to configure Nexsan disk arrays. Features include:

• Automatically detects any Nexsan disk array on the local subnet
• Display status of each disk array (red-green-yellow)
• View and change IP settings
• View and change disk array details such as System name, unique ID and firmware version

Host Identification Tool displays the identifiers of local storage adapters such as Fibre Channel WWPNs and iSCSI IQNs.

MultiSan IO (MSIO) Manager and Drivers provides Multi-path I/O (MPIO) drivers and management software for Windows servers to deliver greater aggregate bandwidth and fault resilience. Features include:

• See detailed information about what paths, target disks and connections the Nexsan DSM (device specific module) has discovered
• Configure the path load balancing policy, path failover strategy and path priorities
• Monitor the health of multipathing, troubleshoot issues and view logs
• Configure alerts, email alerts and other options
• Manage MultiSan IO from a GUI or from a command line

Supports popular versions of Windows including:

• Windows XP (all 32-bit versions)
• Windows Server 2003 (all 32-bit and x64 versions)
• Windows Vista (all 32-bit and x64 versions)
• Windows Server 2008 (all 32-bit and x64 versions)
• Windows 7 (all 32-bit and x64 versions)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (all x64 versions)

See the Nexsan Support site for details

For Linux Nexsan Storage Tools for Linux provides an IP configuration tool to set up the disk array from a Linux system. Nexsan does not need to ship any specific software to enable interoperability and compatibility with Linux. Key features include: IP Configuration Tool is used to configure Nexsan disk arrays Multi-path I/O capabilities built in to Linux delivers greater aggregate bandwidth and fault resilience. No special software is needed Supports popular versions of Linux including Redhat, Centos, SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Unbuntu, KNOPPIX, Debian, Linux Mint and Slackware. See the Nexsan Support site for details

For OS X Nexsan Storage Tools for OS X provide an IP configuration tool to set up the disk array from an OS X system. Nexsan does not need to ship any specific software to enable interoperability and compatibility with OS X. Key features include: IP Configuration Tool is used to configure Nexsan disk arrays Multi-path I/O capabilities built in to OS X delivers greater aggregate bandwidth and fault resilience. No special software is needed

For VMware Although Nexsan disk arrays are qualified with VMware, Nexsan does not ship any specific software to enable interoperability and compatibility with VMware ESX. Key features include: Multi-path I/O capabilities built into ESX 4.1 and ESXi 4.1 deliver greater aggregate bandwidth and fault resilience. No special software is needed Map LUNS to Hosts with built-in VMware ESX administration tools

For AIX For AIX, Nexsan provides a Multi-path I/O driver. Key features include: Multi-path I/O drivers leverage the advanced Multi-path I/O capabilities of AIX to deliver greater aggregate bandwidth and fault resilience

Support:

Three Years Advance Replacement Warranty
Nexsan Technologies storage systems are warranted for three full years from the date of shipment. Upon verification of failure, replacement equipment will be shipped out to our customers. Return material authorizations will accompany all equipment shipped and can be issued either by our phone, fax, or email. (warranties are non-transferable without prior consent from Nexsan) Several levels of service upgrades are available for purchase.

Onsite spares Program
For maximum convenience and protection of critical storage devices, this program provides customers with on location spares. This program enables our customers to have in their facility all commonly used spare parts to facilitate rapid restoration of operations. . Along with our optional 24x7 telephone support, customers can now be assured of rapid resolution to any problem. Defective components can then be advance replaced for constant availability.

Next Business Day Onsite
Next Business Day support provides Monday through Friday, 8:00AM – 5:00PM (your local time excluding Nexsan holidays) on-site service with "Next Business Day" response. Replacement parts are shipped via overnight service and if requested, a service representative will be onsite between 8:00AM - 5:00PM the following business day. Software related issues are generally managed remotely from our support center.

24 x 7 x 4hr Onsite
Gain the fastest and most comprehensive level of support, which delivers 24x7 with 4 hour response. Replacement parts are hand delivered with a service representative that will be onsite within 4 hours following diagnosis of hardware failure. Software related issues are generally managed remotely from our support center.

24 x 7 Telephone Support
For your convenience 24 x7 access to the Nexsan technical support team is also available as an upgrade to either the standard warranty or Next Business Day onsite upgrade.

Regulatory Approvals
CE, UL, CUL

Documentation:

Nexsan E60 Datasheet (.PDF)

Nexsan E60 Specification Datasheet (.PDF)