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QXS Hybrid
Storage

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Automated, intelligent systems providing flash speeds
at a fraction of the cost

As businesses aim to achieve
faster time-to-market and greater
customer satisfaction, they look to
IT to keep pace by providing a faster,
more responsive infrastructure.
This challenge is compounded by
unrelenting data growth and ongoing
pressure on IT budgets. IT leaders
recognize that, all too often, storage is
the bottleneck in their business. Many
of today’s storage systems are either
all flash—which are fast but are also
very expensive—or lack robust data
management, effective data protection,
and the ability to expand seamlessly.

REALTIME, INTELLIGENT TIERING
TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE

Traditionally, storage system
tradeoffs have been between cost,
manageability, reliability, and
performance. Acquiring a storage
system that had the performance
needed was very expensive and
often very difficult to manage. With
less-expensive storage systems,
performance was often inadequate
and the reliability questionable.
Having a storage system that was
high performing, highly reliable, easy
to manage, and securely expandable
while staying within budget was seen
as a pipe dream. That is, until now.

OPTIMAL COMBINATION
OF PERFORMANCE, SCALE,
FLEXIBILITY, AND ECONOMY

Quantum QXS™ hybrid storage
systems’ real-time, automatic,
intelligent tiering, Q-Tier, enables
all-flash-like performance. The QXS
Q-Tools provide easy-to-use storage
management capability including
thin provisioning and caching. With
scalable, customizable configurations,
QXS storage enables IT to achieve the
perfect blend of flash and disk to meet
all their requirements with respect to
reliability, performance, and cost.

The performance of the QXS
arrays exceeded all of our
expectations and demands,
enabling us to deliver on our
‘3 minutes to boot, 15 minutes to

“

recover’ service level agreement,
we call this our ASAP SLA!

- Kevin Woodley,

Data Centre Manager,

Oxford Health Informatics Service

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FEATURES & BENEFITS

Intelligent, real-time tiering

Optimizes your storage investment by
ensuring frequently accessed data is
in the highest performing storage.

Blazing Speed

Designed for demanding sequential
I/O performance, QXS hybrid storage
maximizes performance regardless
of disk type or configuration.

Designed for reliability,
proven 99.999% availability

Ensure your mission-critical
applications always have access to
data. QXS hybrid storage systems are
designed with industry-leading, high­reliability specifications and no single
point of failure.

Optimizing your budget

QXS provides all-flash performance
at a fraction of the cost of an all­flash system.

LEARN MORE:

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www.quantum.com/hybridstorage

BUILDING BLOCKS FOR QXS ARCHITECTURE

CONTROLLER

(Performance)

• QXS-3

• QXS-4

• QXS-6

Interface Options

• iSCSI

• FC

• SAS

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CHASSIS OPTIONS

(Capacity)

2u48

4u56

2u24

DEVICES

(Flexibility)

2.5” HDD

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3.5” HDD

Ensure you get the intelligence
and connect speed you need.

Q-Tier

■ Real-time

■ Intelligent

■ Automated

Ensures the most frequently used data
is in the highest-performing storage.
Constant background scanning for
“hot” data with the “hot” data moved
immediately—no waiting.

2u12

Maximize storage capacity;
combination of SSD and HDD,
all HDDs or all SSDs.

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SSD

Based on your application
performance needs and your
budget. Use all HDDs, all SSDs,
or mix SSD with HDD to achieve
the optimal system.

QXS Q-Tools

1. Cache – SSD Read Cache

Cache supports SSD / HDD configurations, which dramatically
increases the amount of read-cache available to the storage system.

2. Thin – Thin Provisioning

Thin provisioning streamlines the tasks of provisioning and modifying
volumes, allowing IT managers to respond to data growth as needed.

3. Pool – Automatic Pooling

Pool simplifies the definition and management of tiered pools of storage
with a powerful, yet simple to manage, storage virtualization layer.

4. Quick – RAID Rapid Rebuilds

Quick delivers an accelerated rebuild operation as only the sectors
that contain actual data are rebuilt, resulting in up to 5 times faster
restoration of the RAID set.

5. Snap – Virtualized Snapshots

Snap is a powerful new Advanced Copy which includes point-in-time
snapshots and asynchronous replication.

Designed to Meet Industry Rugged Standards: NEBS and MIL-STD-810G