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Overland Storage Snap Guardian OS Datasheet/Specifications
Operating system for Snap Server storage systems for the distributed enterprise
SnapServer Guardian OS Highlights:

Operating system for Snap Server storage systems for the distributed enterprise

The award-winning GuardianOS™ operating system combines file-level (NAS) with block-level (IP SAN) data on a single device to provide a simple and flexible solution ideal for any storage infrastructure. In addition to its unified storage architecture, GuardianOS offers seamless scalability, centralized storage management, and a comprehensive suite of data protection tools ideal for consolidating data and simplifying management to reduce storage total cost of ownership (TCO).
Integrates BakBone NetVault WorkGroup Server including free upgrade to 500GB virtual tape library (VTL) license
Easy system setup and management, RAID set changes, volume management, and share creation
Simplest migration of large amounts of data, including security permissions, from file servers to a Snap Server
Instant Capacity Expansion™ (I.C.E.) dynamically scales Snap Servers to meet growing storage needs
Create volumes up to 16TB each
Unified Storage Architecture: simultaneous iSCSI (block) and NAS (file) support
Customer Needs
High-performance NAS operating system that simplifies storage management and protection with exceptional scalability.
Benefits
Key Differentiators
Price/performance, unified block and file storage in a single device significantly lowers capital costs and long-term TCO.
Simplicity, proven reliability, security, centralized management, seamless integration into existing environments, cross-platform support, simple data migration, print server functionality, Microsoft Windows support, non-disruptive scalability and provisioning, comprehensive data protection.
Operating System Basis
Derived from Linux

Journaling File System
Yes - Asynchronous

File System Type
XFS with Enhancements

Block Size Variability
512 Bytes to 64 KB

Max File Size
Client/Protocol Dependent

RAID-Levels Supported
0,1,5,6 & 10

Network File Protocols
Microsoft Networks SMB (1.0)/CIFS (NTLM); CIFS via OSX, NFS v2/3/4 (UDP/TCP); Apple AFP + TCP; FTP/FTPS; HTTP/HTTPS (1.1)

Network Transport Protocols
TCP/IP; UDP; AppleTalk

Network Clients Supported
Windows: 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7
Mac OS 9.x, Xv10.2/3/5; AFPV2/V3
UNIX: Solaris 7, 8, 9; HP-UX 11; AIX 4.3.3, 5.3
Linux: Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7.2, 8.0, 9.0; Red Hat Enterprise 3.x, 4.x
Fedora 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
Novell SuSE Pro 9.x
Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.x, 9.x, 10.x

Server Emulation Types
Windows 2003 Client, Windows 2008
Appleshare

Microsoft Active Directory support
Operates in both native and mixed domains.
Dynamic DNS name resolution.

Block Protocol Support
iSCSI - Draft 20 compliant
Support for local Tape Backup
Yes- including tape libraries using BakBone NetVault: Backup Workgroup Edition connection is platform dependent through either USB SCSI U160 or SCSI U320 or using Symantec Veritas Backup Exec 12.5 with Remote Media Agent for Linux

Antivirus Support
Yes - CA Antivirus software

Volume-based Quotas
User & NIS Groups

Simple Network Mgmt Protocol (SNMP) support
V2, MIB II (RFC 1213)
Host Resources MIB (RFC 1514)

iSCSI Software Initiators Supported
Microsoft Initiator v2.03, v2.04, v2.05, v2.06, v2.07 (Windows 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7); RHEL 5 / SLES 10 iSCSI Initiator; SmallTree abcSAN iSCSI Initiator Version 1.0; CentOS v5.0 iSCSI Initiator; VMWare ESX 3.01, 3.02, 3.5 & 4.x Solaris 10 (x86) update 3 & 4 iSCSI Initiator; Novell NetWare v6.5 SP7 iSCSI Initiator; Emboot, netBoot 1.2 & 2.0, Winboot 2.5

iSCSI Hardware Initiators Supported
Qlogic 4010, 4050/52 4060/62 for Windows 2003 and Linux

VSS/VDS Support
VSS/VDS support is provided for iSCSI LUNs created with GuardianOS 5.2 or later

Management Interface
Both Browser based and command line via SSH

UPS support
APC UPS (USB & Network Management card)

Backup 3rd Party Agent Support (For network backup support)
File data Only
Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec v10, v11d, v12d, v12.5 including Remote Media Agent for Linux
Symantec/Veritas NetBackup v6.5
EMC/Legato NetWorker 7.3, 7.4
CA ARCServe v11.5, 12.0

Replication Support File Data only
Supports Snap EDR 5.2.2 1195 or later for GOS 5.0
Supports Snap EDR 7.2 - only for GOS 5.2 or later


UNIX NIS Security
Yes

Windows Security
NTLMv2
Full Windows ACL Security

Share/ File- Level security
Both Share-level and File-level permission including UNIX file permissions and specific NT ACLs

Microsoft Kerberos Support
Yes v5

File/Directory Ownership
User, Group, Other

Unix/NFS Permission ACE Support
Read (R), Write (W), Execute (X)

Windows/CIFS Permission ACE Support
All

Microsoft Inheritance Levels Supported
All

Maximum number of Volumes
255 (# of Shares + Snapshots + SnapShot Shares)

Maximum number of Snapshots
254 (# of active volumes + # of active snapshots)

Maximum number of Quota entries through browser
Default Quota - up to the maximum users
546 entries (exception to the Default Quota)

Maximum Volume Size
16 Terabytes

Maximum number of iSCSI LUNS
256

Default RAID Chuck Size
64KB

Maximum iSCSI Disk Size
2TB

Maximum Number of Home Directories
Limited to the Maximum number of Users

Maximum Share Name Size
27 characters

Maximum Local Users
2,000

Maximum Microsoft Windows Domain Users
46,535

Maximum NIS Users
16,900

Maximum Total Users
65,436

Maximum Home Directories
65,436

Maximum Number of Shares
255 for AFP only; all other protocols 500 excluding Home Directory Share, which are virtual -limited to the max number of total number of Users

Maximum Disk Drives per RAID set
8 recommended / 24 maximum (all except RAID 6)
12 max recommended (RAID 6)

Recommended Active Concurrent Users Served - Up to:
(Where each user is presenting a significant file access demand)
Note that Practical Concurrent is not the same as Concurrent connections. The SnapServer can handle many more connections.
SnapServer 110/210 - 50 users
SnapServer 410 - 75 users
SnapServer 510 - 125 users
SnapServer 520 - 125 users
SnapServer 550 - 200 users
SnapServer 620 - 300 users
SnapServer 650 - 300 users

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