The StoneFly ValueSAN product line delivers the ultimate in scalability and advanced features at an incredibly low price. Based on the extensible StoneFusion® 4.0 OS, Storage Concentrator® i3000 delivers best in class flexibility and performance to deliver the best value over time so the IP SAN can grow along with your needs. Starting at 960 GB and scaling to 19.2 TB in a single node, the IP SAN also scales by adding Storage Concentrator nodes.
Key features include advanced storage management functions, such as synchronous mirroring through StoneFly Reflection and StoneFly Snapshot. Complete with the StoneFusion OS, ValueSAN provides storage provisioning to present SAN storage to hosts as local disks.
ValueSAN storage arrays come with an abundance of high-reliability features, including advanced sub-array support with true RAID data protection built with the latest Serial ATA high-speed disk drives. To provide enterprise-level performance, StoneFly also offers a wide range of software and hardware options, such as Continuous Data Protection, D2D Backup and FailOver.


Features

• IP-based block-level provisioning appliance centralizes storage management, control, and monitoring of logical storage volumes
• Easy-to-use HTML-based management interface
• Built-in StoneFly ReflectionTM for local and campus synchronous mirroring of Storage Concentrator volumes
• Includes StoneFly Snapshot to protect against loss of critical data
• Centralizes access and control, allowing administrator to designate which physical storage devices are accessible to individual hosts
• Allows administrator to quickly respond to changes in storage requirements
• Supports a wide range of software, including StoneFly Replicator®, StoneFly Replicator® CDP, and StoneFly Business AdvantageTM
• All ValueSAN storage arrays features hot-swappable drive tray mechanisms automatic drive failure detection, online rebuild, and hot-swappable power supplies and cooling fans
• Scales in capacity in six-drive increments that also support different size drives in a single array
• Completely compatible with existing StoneFly IP SANs

StoneFly IP SAN

Scalable IP SANs based on StoneFly Storage Concentrators® 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.

Affordable IP SAN with Enterprise-Class Features
Scalable IP SANs based on StoneFly Storage Concentrators® 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.
Storage Concentrators provide storage provisioning, which turns physical disks into virtual storage units, or logical volumes that are presented to the host as local SCSI disks. Key features include advanced storage management functions, such as synchronous mirroring through StoneFly Reflection and FailOver Clustering.

StoneFusion® Intelligent Network Storage Platform
StoneFly's IP SANs are based on the company's patent-pending storage networking foundation architecture, StoneFusion®. An intelligent iSCSI storage packet routing technology, the StoneFusion Intelligent Networking Platform effectively standardizes message/file and storage I/O onto an Ethernet/IP network to ultimately "converge" existing networking and storage architectures.

Serial ATA RAID With Next Generation Performance
With an abundance of high-reliability features, including hot-swappable drive tray mechanisms automatic drive failure detection, online rebuild, redundant hot swappable power supplies, and three cooling fans, StoneFly RAID storage delivers users the highest levels of availability. In short, it provides a highly sophisticated and reliable storage solution for a StoneFly Scaleable IP SAN.

Storage Concentrator i3000

Shipping since June 2002, Storage Concentrators® have been installed across key vertical markets, including insurance, healthcare, education, government, financial services and manufacturing. The Storage Concentrator, which is powered by the 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, Storage Concentrators 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.
Storage Concentrators enable 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. StoneFly's Storage Concentrators also facilitate advanced storage management functions, such as synchronous mirroring through StoneFly Reflection and FailOver Clustering.

StoneFly Backup Advantage (SBA) is a completely integrated software and hardware disk-to-disk backup solution for IT professionals who are experiencing shrinking backup windows, failed backups and slow/unreliable restores. Backup Advantage provides a platform for centralized disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T)backup on a cost effective IP SAN platform.

Feature	Benefit
Complete solution from StoneFly Networks	Faster implementation Centralized support
Integrated solution with cost effective IP SAN and ATA and serial ATA	Reduces cost Simplifies operations
Offloads backup and restore traffic to dedicated IP SAN ("LAN Free Backup")	Reduces backup window Increases performance of messaging network
Disk-to-Disk backup	Error free backups to disk Nearly instantaneous restores Better data protection vs. tapes that have frequent media errors Lower risk of data loss
Nearly instantaneous restores	Increases productivity
Consolidates backup and restore tasks	Automated operation with lights out efficiency Faster and more reliable backups
Supports extensive variety of Tape Drives and Libraries	Leverage existing Tape Assets Move disk backups to Tape without impacting backup window

StoneFly Replicator® CDP is an integrated data recovery solution that replicates not only files, but also databases and entire applications. It is ideal for meeting data recovery point objectives (RPO). Specifically designed to work in an IP SAN environment, StoneFly Replicator CDP is application-aware, with modules that support the following applications:

• Replicator CDP for Microsoft SQL servers is designed explicitly for SQL databases
• Replicator CDP for Microsoft Exchange supports the special needs of Exchange email applications
• File Servers in Windows 2000/2003 environments

An advanced Rewind technology provides a comprehensive undo capability that allows system administrators to instantly roll back damaged data resources to a previous, valid state. Because the Rewind is application aware, it can rollback transaction by transaction until the exact point of data loss. Regardless of the type and severity of the challenge your information infrastructure may face, StoneFly Replicator CDP can ensure data integrity.

Features

• Seamless Recovery: Recovering from data loss or corruption is effortless and practically immediate. Entire databases, along with open files and system settings are synchronized, ensuring that every bit of information, up to the moment catastrophe strikes, is backed up and ready to serve again
• Application Aware: Modules tailored specifically for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and File Servers for ease of application management
• Intuitive Management GUI: Simple and centralized disaster recovery management
• Soft Installation (patented): Non-disruptive installation with no downtime. Users can continue to use the application during install
• Rewind Technology: Accelerated recovery from data corruption minimizes loss of data
• Granular Restore: In addition to entire datasets and volumes, easily restores a single file, email message, or SQL database record
• Enhanced Availability: Supports manual switch over and switch back at the server and database level

StoneFly Snapshot

StoneFly Snapshot is designed for IT professionals who want an efficient and easy-to-use method of recovering critical data quickly and is ideal for meeting recovery point objectives (RPO). Snapshots are virtual, temporary, and perishable point-in-time images of an active live volume. Snapshot volumes appear to the host as if they were regular volumes and can even be written to while preserving the original.
Snapshots can be created nearly instantaneously requiring less time to quiesce applications and far less server overhead for backups. A Snapshot contains an intelligent replica of the volume at the exact point in time that the Snapshot was taken yet requires significantly less disk space than a full copy. The primary benefits of Snapshots are their smaller storage requirements and their low system overhead. Snapshots persist across reboots and can be mounted and accessed just like any other volume.

Features

• Protects against loss of critical data
• Permits rollback to return to an earlier known good state in the event of a disk failure or virus
• Highly efficient, thereby conserving disk space
• Fully compatible with StoneFly Backup Advantage™, StoneFly Replicator™ and StoneFly Reflection as well as customer defined applications for integration of snapshot functions into backup, archive, and remote replication functions
• Autonomously maintains all Snapshots
• Features a command line interface utility used to support zero-window backup operations
• Features a built-in scheduler for automatic Snapshot operations

StoneFly Replicator®

StoneFly Replicator® is designed for IT professionals managing environments where business operations would suffer a severe financial blow if critical data were lost or offline for even a moderate period of time.
StoneFly Replicator is a remote asynchronous disaster recovery solution that maintains mirror images of critical data and can support multiple locations.

Replicator Feature	Replicator Benefit
Replicates any type of volume	DAS, NAS, FC SAN or IP SAN volumes can be replicated to IP SAN volumes
Storage-independent	Replicates any type of storage, eliminating vendor lock-in
iSCSI protocol	Block data transfer over any distance using IP
API/CLI interface	Facilitates integration with other software programs
Asynchronous Operation	Provides optimum efficiency for remote replication over MAN/WAN
Central console with Graphical User Interface	Manage the whole replication environment and performance monitoring from one console
Logical Grouping	Improves manageability and preserves database integrity, ensuring the copy is usable at all times
Tunable parameters Optimizes resources	SmartRefresh Reduces network traffic by only sending differences between primary and secondary volumes

StoneFly Reflection™

StoneFly Reflection™ synchronous mirroring solution is designed for IT professionals managing environments where business operations would suffer a severe financial blow if critical data were lost or offline for even a moderate period of time.

StoneFly Reflection provides continuous access to a volume without interruption to data availability by substituting an exact mirror image, simplifying disaster recovery and reducing system downtime.

StoneFly Reflection synchronous mirroring simplifies deployment, operating transparently to users, applications, databases, and host processors. The result is "Next Generation" performance, reliability and high data availability for critical applications.

Features

• Protects against loss of critical data
• Increases productivity
• Reduces the risk of downtime
• Offloads mirroring functions from servers and consolidates disk management and mirroring functions at the Storage Concentrator
• Fully compatible with StoneFly Backup Advantage and StoneFly Replicator as well as customer defined applications for integration of synchronous mirroring functions into backup, archive, and remote replication functions
• Saves time getting applications back on line by substituting identical mirror images when required
• Autonomously maintains local and campus mirrors