Netgear RD5200 (ReadyDATA 5200) – ReadyDATA 5200 System Empty Chassis with 10G (2 port SFP+ card) Brochure
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INTRODUCTION
ReadyDATA
®
is enterprise-class technology that’s absolutely liberating for SMB.
For most small and medium businesses, building a virtualization solution that provides scalability, reliability, and data
protection is a difficult task that requires managing both cost and complexity. Every ReadyDATA ships with a full suite
of advanced features, such as block-level replication, unlimited snapshots, and SSD caching, designed to remove the
complexity typically associated with scalability, reliability, and data protection. With a maximum capacity of 240TB and
the dramatic performance boost that comes from storage tiering of SSD, SAS and SATA drives, ReadyDATA redefines the
concept of storage for virtualized server environments in small and medium businesses, remote offices/branch offices
(ROBO), and departments within enterprise organizations. End-to-end data integrity and protection are critical in virtualized
environments. ReadyDATA delivers continuous data protection with unlimited block-based snapshots and clones of virtual
machines allowing administrators to create and track multiple versions and restore any point of time with a single click.
protection is a difficult task that requires managing both cost and complexity. Every ReadyDATA ships with a full suite
of advanced features, such as block-level replication, unlimited snapshots, and SSD caching, designed to remove the
complexity typically associated with scalability, reliability, and data protection. With a maximum capacity of 240TB and
the dramatic performance boost that comes from storage tiering of SSD, SAS and SATA drives, ReadyDATA redefines the
concept of storage for virtualized server environments in small and medium businesses, remote offices/branch offices
(ROBO), and departments within enterprise organizations. End-to-end data integrity and protection are critical in virtualized
environments. ReadyDATA delivers continuous data protection with unlimited block-based snapshots and clones of virtual
machines allowing administrators to create and track multiple versions and restore any point of time with a single click.
Need to restore a file that was recently modified? No problem. Use clones to explore your virtual machines as they
existed in the past without downtime.
Want to protect against a site outage? Designing simple, cost-effective disaster recovery plans is easy with ReadyDATA
block-level replication. By sending only changed blocks for shares & LUNs, bandwidth demands and replication time are
dramatically reduced. ReadyDATA also replicates snapshots along with files and data—complete copies of data sets from a
specific point in time you can easily access and restore.
dramatically reduced. ReadyDATA also replicates snapshots along with files and data—complete copies of data sets from a
specific point in time you can easily access and restore.
Worried that high performance storage for VMware environments won’t fit your budget? Combine SATA and SSD
drives in one volume with read and write caching to balance performance, capacity, and cost. While 15,000 RPM SAS are
recommended for high performance storage applications, SATA and SSD drives can be combined in one volume with read
and write caching. ReadyDATA excels with these hybrid configurations—allowing you to configure write-optimized and
read-optimized SSD drives to act as a performance cache and boost the performance of low-cost, high-capacity SATA
drives. Dual 10GbE ports on the ReadyDATA 5200 and virtual network interface support on all models ensure that even in
I/O intensive virtual environments, network bottlenecks are a thing of the past.
recommended for high performance storage applications, SATA and SSD drives can be combined in one volume with read
and write caching. ReadyDATA excels with these hybrid configurations—allowing you to configure write-optimized and
read-optimized SSD drives to act as a performance cache and boost the performance of low-cost, high-capacity SATA
drives. Dual 10GbE ports on the ReadyDATA 5200 and virtual network interface support on all models ensure that even in
I/O intensive virtual environments, network bottlenecks are a thing of the past.
Having growing pains? ReadyDATA adds automatic—and on-the-fly—volume expansion, making overhead protection
and capacity scaling both simple and powerful. This instant expansion capability allows for large amounts of storage
capacity expansion without downtime, wait time, or risk.
capacity expansion without downtime, wait time, or risk.
Need to be sure of interoperability? ReadyDATA is certified with top hypervisor platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V,
and XenServer.
Concerned about durability and support? ReadyDATA comes with a five year warranty and three years of next business
day (NBD) hardware replacement at no extra charge. Around the clock worldwide support and a dedicated support
number in North America (1-855-RDYDATA) ensures you’ll quickly reach ReadyDATA experts if you need assistance.
number in North America (1-855-RDYDATA) ensures you’ll quickly reach ReadyDATA experts if you need assistance.
Virtualized environments require storage that offers more than support for iSCSI and NFS. They also require flexibility,
scalability, performance, and protection. Follow this Application Note to address all of these requirements for VMWare
using ReadyDATA.
scalability, performance, and protection. Follow this Application Note to address all of these requirements for VMWare
using ReadyDATA.
CONCEPTS
NETGEAR® ReadyDATA is a certified VMware storage platform and can be used to facilitate running Virtual Machines.
This document shows the configuration steps required to create an NFS share on the ReadyDATA and use it as a datastore
on an ESXi server. We recommend NFS as the SAN protocol of choice due to ease of management and flexibility. In virtual-
ization deployments we recommend creating a dedicated storage VLAN for VM traffic. In this example we will use VLAN 51
as our storage VLAN. Also in this document we will configure redundant links between the ReadyDATA and a switch and the
ESXi server.
This document shows the configuration steps required to create an NFS share on the ReadyDATA and use it as a datastore
on an ESXi server. We recommend NFS as the SAN protocol of choice due to ease of management and flexibility. In virtual-
ization deployments we recommend creating a dedicated storage VLAN for VM traffic. In this example we will use VLAN 51
as our storage VLAN. Also in this document we will configure redundant links between the ReadyDATA and a switch and the
ESXi server.