ZyXEL UNS2300, UNS2700 Specifications
Integrating NAS (network-attached storage) and IP-based SAN (storage area network)
functionality into a unied solution, ZyXEL’s new UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage
are tailor-made for a wide variety of business storage applications including private cloud, server
virtualization, data backup and disaster recovery. The ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 are 2U, 12-
bay Unied Network Storage with 10-Gigabit connectivity (UNS2700) and support for 4 TB hard
drives. They are designed with enterprise-class features like the ZFS le system, thin provisioning,
data deduplication and SSD caching to deliver rock-solid data integrity, ultra-fast RAID building
times and best-of-class storage eciency. They also provide multiple backup options with
local and remote data replication, and cloud backup with Amazon S3. Designed with the most
advanced hardware and software features within their class, the UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied
Network Storage are the most ideal storage solution for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Benets
Rock-solid data integrity
Businesses that have ever lost important les or experienced data corruption know that their storage
solutions’ le systems need improvement. Featuring the industry’s most resilient ZFS le system,
the ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage oer much better data integrity than
competitors in the same class. These ZyXEL Unied Network Storage are designed with a focus on
data integrity. Their ZFS le system can detect silent data corruption (errors that go unnoticed in other
les systems) and repair corrupt data on the y with its self-healing architecture. Combining proven
technologies, such as copy-on-write transactional model and 256-bit checksums, the ZyXEL UNS2700
and UNS2300 deliver end-to-end data integrity at all times and protect businesses against costly data
loss.
Ultra-fast RAID building times
The long hours in building new RAID arrays or adding new storage to servers can be very stressful,
especially in business environments where demand for storage is large. As the competitive business
landscape pushes forward the need for faster application deployments and the capacity of hard drives
continue to grow, businesses need a solution that provides faster storage deployment times to stay
competitive and to lower deployment overhead.
• NAS and iSCSI (IP SAN) unied
solution
• Features the industry’s most
resilient ZFS le system
• Silent data corruption detection
and self-healing ensure data
integrity
• Ultra-fast RAID building times
• Thin provisioning, data
deduplication and compression,
and SSD caching
• Local and remote replication, cloud
(Amazon S3) backup
• Free Acronis Backup & Recovery
Server OEM
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
• Comes with McAfee VirusScan
Enterprise for Storage (free 3-year
license)
Best-in-class Storage Efciency, Performance
and Data Integrity
UNS2300/UNS2700
Unied Network Storage
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UNS2300/UNS2700
Unied Network Storage
The ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage utilize advanced ZFS technology to deliver ultra-fast RAID building times that put competitors
to shame. Compared to other solutions that use legacy le systems, the UNS2700 and UNS2300 oer signicant performance improvements in building
new RAID arrays, recovering from outages, and replacing hard drives. For example, it takes merely 1 minute for a UNS2300 to build a RAID 5 array with six
(6) 1 TB hard drives, while a competitor running on a legacy le system will take over 3 hours to complete the same task. With the ZyXEL UNS2700 and
UNS2300, users can literally have the storage up and running in less than 10 minutes.
RAID Initialization Comparison
Model File System Hard Drives Level Volume Size Build Time
ZyXEL UNS2300 ZFS 6 x 1 TB RAID 5 5 TB 1 min
Other brand EXT3 6 x 1 TB RAID 5 5 TB 3 hrs 3 mins 12 secs
Extraordinary storage eciency
The ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage provide enterprise-class features like thin provisioning, data deduplication and compression,
and SSD caching to optimize disk utilization and storage eciency.
• Thin provisioning allocates storage capacity dynamically, which maximizes the utilization of available storage and minimizes wasted storage space. The
result is much improved disk utilization and more exible resource management.
• Data deduplication and compression allow businesses to get the most out of their available storage space. It reduces data volume and eliminates
duplicate copies of repeating data. This function allows the ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 to save up to 90% storage space*1.
• SSD caching can vastly improve deduplication and synchronous write speeds to provide faster data backup, database and NFS applications. Each
storage pool supports up to 4 SSDs for read cache and 2 SSDs for write cache. Test results show that SSD caching boosts data backup throughput with
deduplication enabled by up to 210% and synchronous write IOPS (input/output operations per second) by up to 310%.
Complete backup solution
The ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage oer a complete backup solution to fulll every backup demand of small- to medium-sized
businesses. They provide multiple backup options including local le and volume cloning, remote le and volume replication, as well as cloud backup
and disaster recovery with Amazon S3. To form a complete backup solution, these ZyXEL Unied Network Storage support Apple Time Machine, a total of
4,096 snapshots, and comes with Acronis Backup & Recovery Server OEM.
Advanced data protection
In addition to the more commonly supported RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10, the ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 Unied Network Storage oer more
advanced data protection options than competitors with support for RAID 50 and RAID 60. RAID 50 is a RAID 0 array striped across the distributed parity
of RAID 5, and RAID 60 combines RAID 0 with the distributed double parity of RAID 6. With support for RAID 50 and RAID 60, the ZyXEL UNS2700 and
UNS2300 oer both better performance and better protection against drive failures than competitors within their class.
Additionally, the ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 come with McAfee’s award-winning VirusScan Enterprise for Storage to provide continuous protection for
storage data and to prevent malicious les from spreading in the system. Together with advanced data integrity features and multiple backup options, the
ZyXEL UNS2700 and UNS2300 are the most advanced data protection solution for businesses.
*1: Compression ratios dier according to data type. Data archives can have redundancy rates of up to 90%.
240 GB
0%
Data Backup Throughput
with Deduplication Enabled
100%50% 150%
250%
200%
Data backup throughput teste d by copying 240 GB of data
with deduplication turned on.
8 KB
Random
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Synchronous Write Input/
Output Operations per Second (IOPS)
100%50% 150%
250% 300% 350%
200%
512 KB
Sequential
512 KB sequential write and 8 KB random write IOPS tested.
No SSD caching
SSD caching with 2 SSDs
No SSD caching
SSD caching with 1 SSD
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