ATTO Technology Atto FastStream VT 5300 increases reliability, Hardware features

1.0 ATTO FastStream VT 5300 increases reliability

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.

Adding RAID ensures your data is protected without compromising performance.

The ATTO FastStream VT 5300 is available in 1U desktop and industry-standard rack-mount enclosures.

Hardware features

•Dual independent 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel Host Interfaces to integrate existing direct attached storage into a high performance SAN environment

•Dual Ultra320 SCSI device high speed connections backward compatible with Ultra160 devices

•O/S and platform independent. 64 bit OS supported

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.

•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

•SpeedWrite feature ensures responsive and error-free backup in the shortest possible time

•Backup and restore data at up to 1.5 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

•Browser-based GUI simplifies configuration, management and navigation

•Advanced Management

•In-band SCSI, FC

•Out-of-band through RS-232 and Ethernet

•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

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ATTO Technology Inc. FastStream VT 5300 Installation and Operation Manual