Description
The DSA E2800 is a cutting-edge addition to the DSA E-Series, an iSCSI-based digital video storage platform engineered by Bosch for the security industry’s demanding video surveillance applications. This state-of-the-art solution is designed to efficiently handle the rapidly growing volumes of digital video data generated in surveillance environments.
**System Overview**
The DSA E2800 features a 2U controller unit equipped with 12 internal 3.5″ NL-SAS (Nearline Serial Attached SCSI) enterprise hard drives. It offers flexible deployment options with configurations available for single or dual controllers to cater to high-availability requirements.
This high-performance video storage solution boasts robust flexibility, making it ideal for a wide range of video surveillance needs. It offers balanced performance to support high bandwidth and I/O-intensive workloads, ensuring that data integrity, availability, and security are prioritized through redundant I/O paths, advanced protection features, and extensive diagnostic capabilities.
The DSA E2800 is part of the NetApp E2800 series and is designed as a scale-up network storage solution. It provides industry-leading “in-the-box” scalability, ensuring peace-of-mind data protection and simplified management of all video data.
Users can connect up to seven 12-bay expansion units to the DSA E2800 in either single or dual controller configurations, offering a fully-featured hardware RAID/DDP protected disk array. This setup includes RAID-5 protection for capacity-focused environments and RAID-6/DDP protection for environments prioritizing availability.
**High Reliability and Availability**
The DSA E2800 ensures data safety and availability through features such as redundant hot-swappable power supplies and fans. It offers high-performance RAID-6 or DDP protection to guard against double-disk failure and single bit errors during rebuilds. With its redundant components, automated path failover, and online administration, organizations can maintain productivity 24/7.
Additional high-availability features include:
– Automatic drive failover, detection, and rebuild using global hot spare drives.
– Battery-backed data cache with de-stage to flash.
– SANtricity proactive drive health monitoring to detect issues before they arise.
**Monitoring**
Comprehensive SNMP support with MIB-II and custom MIBs from NetApp is provided. In case of component failures, SNMP and email alert notifications are generated, along with an event monitor to send notifications to a centralized event log. Additionally, Auto Support messages can be automatically sent over the Internet/Intranet, helping to preemptively address potential issues.
