Network Storage

[Leah Davis]

Network Storage Products NSS4000 4 Drive Bay Gigabit Network RAID Storage System Chassis Approved Vendor List Technical documentation, release notes Firmware, Discovery Tool, Recovery Bootloader Firmware version 1.12 and corresponding release notes are now available for download from the Cisco Software Center. Important Note: Please advise customers to perform the upgrade to 1.12 twice - upgrade the firmware, reboot, and upgrade again. This is to make sure 1.12 will be in the primary and backup image locations. Product information, data sheets, Q and A http://wwwin-tools.cisco.com/dir/details/doishi http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9963/index.html NSS4100 4 Bay Gigabit Network Storage System Chassis With 1.0TB RAID Approved Vendor List Technical documentation, release notes Firmware, Discovery Tool, Recovery Bootloader Firmware version 1.12 and corresponding release notes are now available for download from the Cisco Software Center. Important Note: Please advise customers to perform the upgrade to 1.12 twice - upgrade the firmware, reboot, and upgrade again. This is to make sure 1.12 will be in the primary and backup image locations. Product information, data sheets, Q and A http://wwwin-tools.cisco.com/dir/details/doishi http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9960/index.html NSS6000 4 Drive Bay Advanced Gigabit Network RAID Storage System Chassis Approved Vendor List Technical documentation, release notes Firmware, Discovery Tool, Recovery Bootloader Firmware version 1.12 and corresponding release notes are now available for download from the Cisco Software Center. Important Note: Please advise customers to perform the upgrade to 1.12 twice - upgrade the firmware, reboot, and upgrade again. This is to make sure 1.12 will be in the primary and backup image locations. Product information, data sheets, Q and A http://wwwin-tools.cisco.com/dir/details/doishi http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9961/index.html NSS6100 4 Bay Advanced Gigabit Network Storage System Chassis With 1.0 TB RAID Approved Vendor List Technical documentation, release notes Firmware, Discovery Tool, Recovery Bootloader Firmware version 1.12 and corresponding release notes are now available for download from the Cisco Software Center. Important Note: Please advise customers to perform the upgrade to 1.12 twice - upgrade the firmware, reboot, and upgrade again. This is to make sure 1.12 will be in the primary and backup image locations. Product information, data sheets, Q and A http://wwwin-tools.cisco.com/dir/details/doishi http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9940/index.html RPS1000 380W Redundant Power Supply Unit Technical documentation Product information, data sheets, Q and A Continuous Data Protection for Files Continuous Data Protection for Files Available as 3-User License (LBACDP03), 15-User License (LBACDP15), and 25-User License (LBACDP25) 30-Day Trial ChannelWeb: Linksys Adds Continuous Data Protection To Network Storage Portfolio - April 2008 Technical documentation Product information and data sheet http://wwwin-tools.cisco.com/dir/details/doishi /#top Hard Drive Trays The HDT family of storage spare trays hold additional SATA Hard Drives (purchased separately) for quickly replacing a single drive unit at a time or an entire array of drives. Allows VARs to configure hard drives with empty trays and even build RAID arrays prior to installation at the end user. Benefits: Expansion - easily increase capacity to meet growing storage, back-up, sharing, and archiving demands Availability - Spare HDT units will decrease downtime Flexibility - Compatible with Cisco Small Business Network Storage System series products HDT0000 Spare NAS Drive Tray (No Hard Drive) for Business Series Network Storage Products HDT0004 Spare NAS Drive Tray - 4 Pack (No Hard Drive) for Business Series Network Storage Products HDT0250 Spare NAS Drive Tray (with 250GB 7200RPM Hard Disk) for NSS Series of NAS Products HDT0500 Spare NAS Drive Tray (with 500GB 7200RPM Hard Disk) for NSS Series of NAS Products http://wwwin-tools.cisco.com/dir/details/doishi NSS2000/NSS3000 Providing the robust security and advanced data backup capabilities, at a price small companies can afford. Ideal solution for storing, sharing, and archiving mission-critical business information.
	Small, versatile form factor with lockable drives Same software features as NSS4000 and NSS6000 File encryption – Data is encrypted on the drive Support RAID 0,1,5, and 10 (Raid 5 and 10 require more than two drives thus supported on NSS3000 only) Smart Drive support NSS2000 Data Sheet - December 2008 The specified document was not found- December 2008 NSS2000 Whitepaper and Use Case Scenarios  - Updated December 2008 Discover NAS on the network Verify and modify NAS settings Add a user Map a network drive in Windows FTP Connection
Tolly Podcast  Talking Outside the Box with Charles Bruno and Shawn Fitzgerald The Tolly Group presents a Question and Answer interview with Shawn Fitzgerald, Technical Marketing Manager, about Network Storage Solutions. This interview covers:       NAS Performance RAID Levels RPSU vs. UPS On-Disk Encryption

Comparisons

• NAS Product Comparison Chart - Davin Oishi, Product Manager, October 2008

Competition

Highlights:

• Achieves highest peak throughput and average response time of the devices tested
• Sustains high file performance
• Suffers minimal performance degradation of file server performance
• Offers versatile deployment options

Marketing

• NAS Product Brief
• NAS Tri-fold - Updated March 2008
• NAS Example - includes glossary and FAQs, updated March 2008
• Networking (LAN) Example- includes Key Features, FAQs, and Glossary of Terms, updated March 2008

Presentations and Videos

• Network Attached Storage Products This Video on Demand covers the basics of NAS from a sales perspective:  what is a NAS, what do you do with one, how does it fit into the network and what is required for clients to access it.  It also includes information on NAS technology (RAID) and the organization of NAS Elements (Arrays, Volumes, Shares, Files, permissions) and an overview of the current backup/restore solution paradigm.

Sales Tools

• NSS2000 Use Case Scenarios
• Application Note: Video Surveillance and Storage - Three tried and tested ways to sell Cameras and NAS TODAY!
• Approved Vendor List for Hard Drives - updated March 2010

Technical Bulletins

• Using Network Storage System Devices with Mac OS X Leopard Time Machine
• Network Attached Storage System Recovery Procedure
• Setting Up Symantec Backup Exec for NSS4000 and NSS6000
• Using the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Backup Utility with Network Storage Systems for Large File Sizes

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White Papers

• White Paper: Network Storage for the Small Business

NAS Acronyms

• NAS - Network Attached Storage
• JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks
• RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
• CIFS - Common Internet File System, successor of SMB protocol with enhanced functionality, Microsoft
• NFS – Network File System, Sun (MAC, Unix, Linux, Novell)
• FTP – File Transfer Protocol