Network Storage Server (NSS)

Highly Available Virtualized Storage for Virtual and Physical Servers

FalconStor NSS virtualizes storage to enable business continuity

The FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) is a scalable, highly available solution that enables storage virtualization and business continuity in heterogeneous environments. Supporting existing third-party disk arrays, FalconStor NSS eliminates storage boundaries and vendor lock-in, providing fast and easy data provisioning, mirroring, migration, snapshots, and WAN-optimized replication. With integrated support for Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, and FCoE protocols, FalconStor NSS provides the benefits of storage virtualization across any IT environment or budget.

• Optimize I/O performance: READ, WRITE, and replication
• Automated disaster recovery (DR) via RecoverTrac™ technology
• Migrate and move data across storage platforms without downtime

Performance and specifications

FalconStor NSS lets you consolidate and tier disk assets. Through advanced services such as thin provisioning, FalconStor NSS maximizes resource utilization to help you get the most ROI from storage investments. Thin provisioning enables provisioning of virtual storage that exceeds what is physically allocated. Additional physical capacity is automatically allocated only when needed. Thin provisioning can be applied to primary storage, replica storage, and mirrored storage.

FalconStor NSS benefits VMware environments

FalconStor NSS integrates with and enhances VMware technologies such as VMware vSphere, VMware View, and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Support of VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) extends VMware integration into any storage environment and optimizes VMware deployments with comprehensive, flexible storage virtualization and data protection functionality. Preconfigured FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliances enable iSCSI SAN services on the direct-attached storage (DAS) resources of VMware ESX Server for affordable advanced storage and data protection functionality.

• Certified for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• Heterogeneous support lets you use SANs of different vendors and different sites, reducing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager deployment constraints and cost
• Enable advanced VMware features such as vMotion, High Availability, and Distributed Resource Scheduler
• VMware VAAI support enables storage vMotion and data mobility across different storage protocols and vendor arrays.

Flexible Deployment options, including high-availability (HA) SAN

FalconStor NSS provides enterprise-level storage virtualization technology for organizations of all sizes. It is available in the form of storage appliances, gateway appliances that virtualize existing storage, and small-footprint virtual appliances for VMware environments, as well as HA appliances. In addition, solid-state drive (SSD) models offer storage area network (SAN) acceleration.

• FalconStor NSS Virtual Appliance: for ROBO environments leveraging VMware technology
• FalconStor NSS Appliances: all-in-one appliances for SMB and ROBO environments
• FalconStor NSS VS Series Appliances: high availability appliances for the midmarket and enterprise
• FalconStor NSS Gateway Appliances: integrate with existing third-party storage of midmarket and enterprise organizations.

Network Storage Server (NSS) specsheets

NSS Gateway Appliance

NSS VS Series HA Appliance

NSS Storage Appliance

NSS Virtual Appliance