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FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) Virtual Appliance for VMware Infrastructure is a pre-configured, production-ready virtual machine that provides a cost-effective, feature-rich virtual SAN solution for small and medium businesses and remote/branch offices.

The FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliance creates a virtual SAN on a VMware ESX server by turning internal disk resources into a shareable pool of storage. This is accomplished without the need for external storage arrays, SAN switches, or costly host bus adapters (HBA). Internal data drives are detected by the software and incorporated into the FalconStor NSS management through a simple GUI. At that point, storage can be provisioned and securely allocated via the iSCSI protocol which operates over standard Ethernet cabling.

If the FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliance is deployed on a single VMware ESX server, that server can share storage resources with other servers in the environment. By consolidating all the elements of a shared storage environment into a single server, the FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliance provides a cost-effective solution for delivering highly available shared storage to a VMware ESX Server environment. Thin Provisioning technology and space-efficient snapshots further decrease costs by minimizing consumption of physical storage resources.

To enable high availability (HA), the FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliance can be deployed on two VMware ESX servers that can share storage with each other as well as additional VMware ESX servers. In this model, each NSS Virtual Appliance maintains mirrored data from the other server. If one of the servers is lost, all virtual machines that were running on the failed server can restart using the storage resources of the remaining server. Downtime is kept to a minimum as applications are quickly brought back online.

Technical Specifications

Operating System:

CentOS Linux 5.1 (x86_64)

VMware Tools installed: Yes

Size: 304MB

Allocated Memory (RAM): 1

Applications Installed:

• FalconStor IPStor v6.0 build6085
• Web Server

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