iTernity iCAS FS

Model number: iCAS FS
Storage Category: Software Defined Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 24 – 6TB SAS 12G Midline HDD
Storage configuration: RAID6, Direct Attached
Firmware version: 1.4.0 (iCAS FS version)
Connection protocol and speed: 10 GbE, Veeam Enhanced Data Mover on Linux server
Additional support: All configurations of iCAS FS with specifications equivalent or greater than the above

General product family overview:
iCAS FS is a software based, highly scalable platform based on Linux and commodity hardware that can be used for data archiving and as a backup target. Data is immediately written to several dedicated cluster nodes with a configured number of replicas. The cluster is externally accessible with virtual IP addresses that will transparently fail over from one node to another, making eventual downtime of individual nodes transparent to the client. In addition, the system is self-healing, so that error conditions will be automatically fixed. Therefore, this ensures maximum protection against manipulation, corruption, and unauthorized data access.

Vendor Settings:

• To limit the external access only to the most necessary ones, a container is configured through which Veeam has access to the backup path.
• All other settings are the default settings of an iCAS FS installation.
• Depending on the required capacity, an iCAS FS cluster can be configured from one up to several nodes.
• A 10 GbE connection has been used for testing; if necessary, a higher network speed can be achieved by using other NICs.