SANOS

The Most Comprehensive Enterprise Level Storage Management System

SANOS is QSAN’s proprietary SAN storage management operating system. It is equipped with a refreshingly simple to use web GUI and is easily deployable into any infrastructure. SANOS delivers comprehensive storage functionality and brings enterprise-level features to the SMB and Enterprise businesses with high performance, high availability, and unparalleled scalability.

What's New in SANOS 1.4

In every generation of firmware, SANOS continues to evolve and advance on the enterprise features, user-friendly interface design, and performance improvement. In this latest firmware version 1.4.0, we introduce SANOS with

Feasible – Volume QoS for workload consolidation
More Sensitive – Advanced disk awareness
More Adaptable – Optimize media editing application
Easier Deployment – Provide a unified approach for integration
Easier Process – Enable advanced features in minutes

Volume Quality of Service

Deliver Service Workload Consolidation

If different applications share the same storage platform, we can predict that workloads with I/O may conflict. For multi-tenant applications, QSAN QoS (Quality of Service) feature always ensures that your business-critical workload go smoothly with consistent performance. Through the traffic policies and throughput management assures a better service consolidation.

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Predict Disk Health to Avoid Performance Degradation

When disk drives are running for a while, some disk drives may age and affect overall performance. If more unfortunate, they will cause no response and make the system get stuck. SANOS provides advanced disk awareness to predict the abnormal disk drive with high latency. This mechanism becomes more sensitive without performance impact. Alert IT administrators in advance to avoid affecting overall performance.

More Stripe Size Options

Optimize Media Editing Application

Considering better performance in some environments, SANOS enhances several stripe size options. The original setting is 64KB only, now we have several options from 64KB to 1,024KB for chosen. With our experience, larger stripe size is suitable for the following applications.

2K/4K/8K video editing
Media streaming
Broadcasting
Archiving

Depending on your application,
choosing the right stripe size will improve stable I/O performance.

Stripe Size	64K	128K	256K	512K	1024K
Simultaneous Writes without Frame Loss ^*	30	46	49	44	43

* Benchmarked with XS5224, 16GB memory, 16 x NL-SAS HDD, NetTest utility for each write 100MB/s.

RESTful API Support

Easily Develop Cross-Platform Utilities

QSAN meets the trend of the times and supports the RESTful API (Application Programming Interface) which is becoming the most popular API design specification. With RESTful API, you can design your management utilities more scalability, simplicity, portability, and make applications distributed and independent across the Internet.

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Enable Advanced Features in Minutes

Haven't tried QSAN SANOS advanced features? Now you have chance to get a free trial of these features. All you have to do is to register in a few clicks and then get a 30-day trial license via email. After enabling, you can fully experience SANOS with SSD Cache(QCache), Auto Tiering(QTiering), and future advanced features. Interested? With this effective mechanism for free trials, advanced features can be deployed by demand to achieve budget control and cost saving. Start enjoying your journey now!

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Operating System	64bit embedded Linux
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 SSD Cache (QCache¹) Auto Tiering (QTiering¹) Global, local, and dedicated 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 migration² 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 Volume QoS (Quality of Service) Advanced disk awareness
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
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-point³ and loop Up to 256 hosts per controller
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 Dual-ported HDD tray connector Multipath I/O and load balancing support (MPIO, MC/S, Trunking, and LACP) Firmware update with zero system downtime
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
Storage Efficiency	Thin Provisioning (QThin) with space reclamation Auto Tiering (QTiering¹) with 3 levels of storage tiers
Networking	DHCP, Static IP, NTP, Trunking, LACP, VLAN, Jumbo frame (up to 9,000 bytes)
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 Remote Replication (QReplica) 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 Configurable N-way mirroring Integration with Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) Instant volume restoration Cache-to-Flash memory protection¹ M.2 flash module Power module: BBM (Battery Backup Module) or SCM (Super Capacitor Module) Support USB UPS and network UPS with SNMP management
Virtualization Certification	Server Virtualization & Clustering Latest VMware vSphere certification VMware VAAI for iSCSI &, FC Windows Server 2016, 2012 R2 Hyper-V certification Microsoft ODX Latest Citrix XenServer certification
Easy Management	USB LCM¹, serial console support, online firmware update Intuitive Web management UI, secured web (HTTPS), SSH (Secured Shell), LED indicators S.E.S. support, S.M.A.R.T. support, Wake-on-LAN, and Wake-on-SAS RESTful API support
Green & Energy Efficiency	80 PLUS Platinum power supply Wake-on-LAN to turn on or wake up the system only when necessary Auto disk spin-down
Host Operating Systems Support	Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016 SLES 10, 11, 12 RHEL 5, 6, 7 CentOS 6, 7 Solaris 10, 11 FreeBSD 9, 10 Mac OS X 10.11 or later
Note	The function is optional and is not included in the default package. The feature is based on RAID level migration of disk groups on the fly in thick provisioning pools. 16Gb Fibre Channel only supports Point-to-Point topology.