UNIFOSA Corp.

UNIFOSA CORP. released a whole new NAS product line based on proNAS 3.0 OS, now offering Enterprise and SMB complete data protection, great performance, with high reliability and scalability.

The latest proNAS 3.0 operating system supports a variety of advanced storage management and application features such as VAAI, HA, Thin-Provisioning, Snapshot, Replication, etc, and it can be deployed easily in any IT environment since it supports multiple interfaces for host servers and clients. The NAS server comes with 1Gb/s Ethernet as default and supports 10Gb/s Ethernet or 8Gb/s Fibre for options. It’s a solution consolidating NAS, SAN and iSCSI into one box which provides both file level and block level I/O access.

All proNAS 3.0-based storage has built-in hardware RAID engine to offer fault tolerance and data protection. Drives can be set as hot spare, have automatically hot rebuild and allow online capacity expansion within the enclosure or externally via JBODs. For capacity expansion and scalability, there is a full JBOD product line for options which enables NAS supporting up to 228 drives totally.

ProNAS3.0 has fully-featured backup solutions including manual or scheduled backup for file, folder, and shares, and it can be backup and restore from multiple local or remote devices. Besides, there are volume clone, snapshot, remote replication, encryption, and data copy for options, which are all designed to secure precious data at rest.

There are total 6 models released for Enterprise and Entry level series:
Enterprise-level 2U and 3U rackmount series includes 12-bay EN-2123S6T-RQX and EN-2126JS6T-SQX, and 16-bay EN-3163S6T-RQX and EN-3166JS6T-SQX. And entry-level series includes EN-2120A6T-PDC and EN-3160A6T-PDC .

Features for proNAS 3.0:
1. VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration) for both block and NFS storage: Aside from VAAI support for block storage iSCSI and Fibre volumes, proNAS 3.0 also supports VAAI for NAS (NFS) to greatly improve VM performance. With VAAI support, VMs have great operation performance by offloading cycles from ESXi to storage and storage can be further effectively utilized by VMs.
2. 3 nodes High Availability cluster: proNAS 3.0 offers up to 3 nodes active/active high-availability service for storage which ensures no service down time when any NAS server failed.
3. Thin Provisioning for file and block level volumes: All volumes can be configured with thin provisioning to optimize storage capacity and further reduce cost.
4. Data backup and remote real-time replication: Complete backup solution, including full, differential, and incremental two-way backup via attached storage (USB/eSATA/iSCSI/RDX), or to remote share, Rsync server, and cloud storage. And proNAS3.0 is the only unified solution supporting remote real-time replication for iSCSI and Fibre volumes.
5. App support: User can monitor proNAS system remotely through App, both Android and Apple, on mobile devices.