Atto Faststream Vt 5300 Increases Reliability; Hardware Features; Virtual Tape Features; Backup And Restore Features - ATTO Technology FastStream VT 5300 Installation And Operation Manual

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The ATTO FastStream™ Virtual Tape 5300 Appliance is a mid-range storage solution that emulates a
tape library for fast backups on demand and error-free restores of critical data.
The ATTO FastStream Virtual Tape 5300 is seen
by system applications as a conventional tape
library, allowing you to use existing disk-based
storage as if it were tape.
The ATTO FastStream VT 5300 delivers
immediate performance improvements to backup,
restore and archive applications.
Adding a disk-based Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
ensures high speed access to your data. The
FastStream VT can be seamlessly integrated into
existing storage environments as if it were a
traditional tape library. The ATTO FastStream
VT 5300 also provides high performance RAID
parity protection to existing disk-based storage
without regard to manufacturer, type of drive,
capacity or speed.
RAID improves data accessibility and reliability
during normal operations, however, you still need
a good backup strategy for long-term protection
of your data.
The ATTO FastStream VT 5300 is available in
1U industry-standard rack mount enclosure.

Hardware features

• 2 independent 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel Host
Interfaces to integrate existing direct attached
storage into a high performance SAN
environment
• 2 Ultra320 SCSI device high speed connections
backward compatible with Ultra160 devices
• O/S and platform independent. 64 bit OS
supported
• RoHS compliant

Virtual Tape features

• Seen by ISV applications as a conventional tape
library.
• Configure one or two Virtual Tape libraries
• Configure up to 30 Virtual Tape drives and 256
Virtual tapes for each library.
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• Hardware RAID Level 0, RAID Level 1, RAID
Level 5, RAID Level 10 and JBOD, all user
configurable

Backup and restore features

• Performs up to 30 concurrent backups for each
Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
• ATTO SpeedWrite™ feature ensures
responsive and error-free backup in the shortest
possible time
• Backup and restore data at up to 1.89 TB per
hour
• Uses reliable disk storage to take the place of
conventional tape to deliver immediate
performance improvements to backup and
restore applications

Management and control features

• The ATTO ExpressNAV™ interface, a browser-
based GUI simplifies configuration,
management and navigation
• Field updateable firmware with the ability to save
configuration settings for easy field replacement
• Automatic rebuild of RAID groups and Rebuild
Priority keep the system operational if a drive
fails
• Global Hot Spares ensure continuous operation
if a drive fails. The Hot Spare automatically
comes on-line and rebuild starts if a disk failure
is detected
• ECC Protected Memory assures data integrity
and continued up time by implementing Error
Correcting Checksum (ECC) and Parity checks
on all data paths. Potential corruption cannot go
undetected
• Phone Home error notification automatically
generates an E-mail alert in the event of a failure
• Drive initialization and verification identifies
attached drives which exhibit poor performance
or soft failures
• Capable of measuring performance during
normal operation and during the drive
initialization process