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- VTrak A-Class Series -
The All-in-one Storage Appliance For Rich Media
Ideal for multi-user collaboration to ingest, edit, stream and process rich media. This is a true "solution in a box" RAID storage subsystem, with an integrated metadata appliance and embedded file system for big data, along with a NAS Gateway.
Scale out high capacity and high performance
The VTrak A3800 shared SAN appliance is ideal for multi-user collaboration, especially when it comes to rich media. The VTrakFS file system is integrated with metadata controllers and VTrak primary storage in a single box, which enables higher performance and workload productivity, while offering easier workflow management.
NAS Gateway for massive client access
The NAS Gateway enables hundreds of clients in the LAN network to access the highly scalable Fibre Channel SAN appliance via 10Gb Ethernet. While the NAS Gateway contains a file sharing protocol and file system management, the key benefit is the VTrak A3800 SAN can scale to petabytes while still appearing as a single NAS folder interface! This eliminates the need to reconfigure clients, unlike traditional NAS environments where costly, additional storage is required.
Simple and fast: a great combination
VTrak A-Class is optimized for high performance, high bandwidth, rich media applications requiring large block sequential IOPs. And because it's an "all-in-one" metadata appliance, RAID storage subsystem and file system VTrakFS, it's much less complicated that competing solutions.
Scalable, reliable and cost-efficient
With A-Class you can "pay as you grow" from 32TB to over 7PB for long-term storage investment protection. Additionally, VTrak x30 is the only Apple-qualified enterprise SAN subsystem, with high-availability dual controllers, hot-swappable modular disk array and a 3 year warranty. The A-Class can save 30-40% on rack space and help lower energy costs compared to non-integrated multi-vendor solutions.
Optimized for video-centric environments
The Promise VTrakFS file system is optimized for leveraging a 8Gb FC interface for large file data ingesting, streaming or processing between a SAN and its clients - unlike traditional NAS file systems. Data is directly transferred between the SAN appliance and clients over the SAN FC network. This means higher bandwidth performance and lower latency data transfers, perfect for Media & Entertainment, HPC applications and other video-centric environments.
Video storage needs are massive. VTrak is the solution!
Store massive amounts of data required by media-centric and HPC environments. Scale across multiple RAID storage subsystems, thus increasing capacity without sacrificing performance.
• Supports 1024 RAID Logical Drives to make up the volumes
• JBODs can be added to increase the storage space
• RAID heads can be added as Storage Nodes to dynamically increase the storage space as well as increase the number of FC counts, thereby scaling performance
• All this can be done online, without interrupting the clients
Supersized file system for big data
VTrak A-Class virtualizes storage to create a single name space, shared storage volume.
• Each VTrakFS consists of a Metadata LUN MDL and data LUNs DL
• MDL contains information about file location, size, access times, etc
• The VTrak A Class head unit manages directing each client the correct file info over 1Gb Ethernet, but each client has full speed access to actual data via 8Gb Fibre Channel
- SANLink2 Series -
The world's first Thunderbolt 2 Fibre Channel/Ethernet bridge
The new SANLink2 16G FC is a compact device that allows a Thunderbolt 2 host computer to directly connect to a Fibre Channel SAN, doubling the speed of the previous generation 8G FC.
Incredibly fast connectivity
SANLink2 10GBase-T connects devices to the local network to access shared media and SANLink2 10G SFP+ connects devices to the network via optical for remote branches and offices at distances greater than 100 meters. All at blazing speeds.
Offload video capture to a Mac Pro or Windows workstation with SANLink2
Downloading footage from today's data-hungry cameras is one of the major challenges facing production companies these days. Take for example the Phantom Flex 4K camera. It transfers data to a Phantom 10 Gb/s CineStation effortlessly, so that it can continue in an on-set shoot. The CineStation can be connected directly at 10 Gb Ethernet speeds to a MacBook Pro with SANLink2 10GBase-T (copper) or 10G SFP+ (optical). At the same time, this MacBook Pro can have a Pegasus2 M4 SSD attached via a SANLink2 16G FC for the fastest data transfer of over 1300 MB/s - for editing off multi-cameras capturing different points of view. The SANLink2 16G FC can connect this remote set up to a VTrak A-Class for collaborative editing. Similarly, SANLink2 10GBase-T might be selected if cabling for an immediate datacenter is within 30 - 100 meters. For companies that require cabling to reach beyond 100 meters, the SANLink2 10G SFP+ is the ideal choice.
Streamline the creative process
Real-time editing of multimedia files in their native, uncompressed formats has persisted as a challenge for creative professionals. Fortunately, with SANLink2, costly rendering time (due to proxy editing) is eliminated. Gain access to low-latency, high-bandwidth storage through reduced file loading periods. Instantaneous response times during timeline scrubbing and faster media file transfers will become your new standard!
Master the 4K workflow
At the moment high-speed transfer capabilities are placed into the workplace, systems evolve. With SANLink2, all storage bottlenecks for desktop and portable computing systems are immediately alleviated through the introduction of Fibre Channel or 10 Gb Ethernet connectivity into the work process. 4K (Ultra HD) environments consisting of bandwidth-hogging post-production and broadcasting operations now become seamless workflows, where downtime simply ceases to exist.