Cisco 4 Bay Advanced Gigabit Network Storage System Chassis NSS6000-EU Data Sheet
Product codes
NSS6000-EU
Data Sheet
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LEDs
Unit Power, Hard Activity, and LAN Link/Activity
OS
Linux 2.6
Mean time between failures
(MTBF)
(MTBF)
Calculated 130,000+ hours
Power consumption
53W with four 250-GB SATA hard drives (will vary depending on hard drives)
Form factor
1U 19-in. rack-mount design
NAS Features
SATA drive bays
Supports up to 4 internal SATA drives
Supported RAID levels
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RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), RAID1 (mirroring + spare)
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RAID5 (striped set with parity), RAID5 (striped set with parity + spare)
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RAID10 (stripe of mirrors)
JBOD
Independent disk linear concatenation
Intelligent drive spin-up
Intelligent SATA HDD spin-up/spin-down with built in hysteresis to avoid HDD power
up/down “flapping”
up/down “flapping”
File and Storage System Support
Server Message Block
(SMB)/CIFS
(SMB)/CIFS
File sharing for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix (using Samba client) systems
using SMB or CIFS
using SMB or CIFS
NFS
File sharing for Unix/Linux System via NFS
FTP/Secure File Transfer
Protocol (FTPS)
Protocol (FTPS)
File sharing via FTP; secure sessions are supported via FTPS
Journaled file system
XFS
Unified file locking
Helps to prevent possible file corruption by providing a common file locking mechanism to
allow simultaneous, multiprotocol access to common shares by Windows/Mac (CIFS),
Unix/Linux (NFS), and FTP
allow simultaneous, multiprotocol access to common shares by Windows/Mac (CIFS),
Unix/Linux (NFS), and FTP
Virtualization
Supports virtualization of RAID sets across multiple boxes (requires at least one Cisco
NSS6000/6100 on the network)
NSS6000/6100 on the network)
Distributed file system (DFS)
Use multiple NAS systems as a single system via DFS
Security Features
On-disk file encryption
AES 256
VLANs
Port and 802.1q/p
Access control lists (ACLs)
Windows-like ACLs (user, group, access, and filters)
Network filtering
MAC/IP address filtering
High Availability Features
Optional external redundant
power supply
power supply
Support for Cisco RPS1000 380W Redundant Power Supply Unit
Snapshot
Support for share, folder, or file image backup with instant access to previously captured
backup
backup
NAS-to-NAS backup
Backup of NAS RAID set to another NAS system across the network
Hot RAID spare
A spare hard drive can be designated as a hot spare in the event of a disk failure in the
RAID set to provide maximum data protection
RAID set to provide maximum data protection
Redundant LAN connections
Dual Gigabit Ethernet links
LAN Networking Features
VLANs
Port based, 802.1q/p, 802.1q trunk groups
Quality of service
802.1p
Jumbo frame support
Up to 9 KB jumbo frames
Management Features
Web management
HTTP/HTTPS
Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) monitoring
Protocol (SNMP) monitoring
SNMPv3 (monitoring-traps)
Alarm
Alarm support for system alerts and/or system health notifications
Quota management
Support for “hard” and “soft” storage quotas for users, groups, and/or shares