StoneFusion Operating System
 
Product Description
The award-winning StoneFusion® Intelligent Network Storage Platform (NSP), reduces the total cost of ownership by lowering management costs and increasing storage utilization. By adding block level storage intelligence to the IP networking core, StoneFusion enables OEMs to deliver all the benefits of SANs, including increased storage utilization through storage consolidation, feature-rich managed storage capabilities, rapid deployment of new storage and SAN-based backup capabilities. The flexible StoneFusion platform enables storage provisioning, which turns physical disks into virtual storage units, or logical volumes. These logical volumes are presented to the host as normal SCSI disks. Each logical volume points to physical storage in disk arrays by blocks. StoneFusion also facilitates advanced storage management functions, such as synchronous mirroring through StoneFly Reflection and Active-Active FailOver Clustering. StoneFusion has been designed to run on a variety of Hardware platforms and embedded systems. With StoneFusion the power of IP SANs is at your finger tips.
StoneFusion Features & Benefits
Feature |
Benefits |
| IP Network-based SAN Intelligence |
- Universal connectivity on IP networks
- Supports iSCSI protocol
- Uses existing Ethernet network infrastructure
- Lower total cost of ownership by enabling customers to cost-effectively build and manage a SAN that supports networking technologies they already have
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| Disaster recovery and fault-tolerance |
- Supports corporate business continuity objectives with advanced features, such as Active-Active FailOver clustering, mirroring (local and remote data replication), data migration, and disk-to-disk backup & restore
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| Storage Provisioning |
- Users can access storage without needing to know where it is located or how it is configured
- Maximizes utilization of storage resources and eliminates waste by freeing stranded storage, making it available on the IP network
- Allows administrator to quickly respond to changes in storage requirements
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| SAN-based Backup |
- Helps administrators consolidate backup processes for faster and more reliable backups
- Supports disk-based backup for almost instantaneous restores
- Integration with Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Services for seamless snapshots
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| Host Independent HTML-based Management |
- Centralized storage management, control, and monitoring of logical storage volumes
- Easy and intuitive to use
- Reduction in storage administration overhead
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| Storage Device Independence |
- Works with parallel SCSI and Fibre Channel storage
- Easily configured to work with standard off-the-shelf or legacy storage
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| Access Control Lists |
- Allows administrator to designate which physical storage devices are accessible to individual hosts
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Stonefly Modular Storage Concentrator - MSC Configurations
StoneFly Integrated-HA Storage Concentrator - HSC Configurations
StoneFly Integrated Storage Concentrator - ISC Configurations
Stonefly Customers
StoneFly iSCSI IP SAN |
