QxStor Microsoft Backup Solution

A Turnkey Storage Spaces Direct Solution Optimized for Modernized Backup and Recovery

The QxStor Backup Solution enables a more cost efficient way and an easy-to-manage experience to meet petabyte level backup demands, which can achieve over 200TB backup amount per night, and can easily scale as needed.

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QCT WSSD Solution

QxStack Windows Server Cloud Ready Appliances

The T21P is the largest capacity system ever certified for Storage Spaces Direct and WSSD. QCT and Microsoft have collaborated throughout the development of Windows Server to help deliver this incredible solution to customers. We believe that a whole new world of uses become possible with solutions built around a high-density storage platform like the T21P.

Carmen Crincoli, Program Manager, Microsoft

Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2019 is immensely more scalable, up to 4 petabytes (4,000 TB) per cluster. This makes it ideal for backup and archival use cases, where the lower cost of software-defined storage is especially significant.

Cosmos Darwin, Program Manager, Microsoft

Features

Space-condensed 4U form factor

78 disk 4U form factor that provides over half a petabyte per node

Greater Capacity Utilization

Leveraging ReFS3.0 with Block Cloning technology, one can achieve up to 30% capacity reduction

Unparalleled Rebalance Time

Highly-available backup site warrants quick rebalancing times during patch updates/hardware failure scenarios

Lower TCO

Cost-effective open x86 platforms with S2D helps avoid paying high premiums to maintain traditional backup storage

Intuitive Management Experience

Simple, and ease of mind management experience leveraging QCT’s Windows Admin Center, and Lifecycle Management Suite

Benefits

Achieve cost efficiency

Cost-effective open x86 platform with S2D, coupled with 50%+ raw to usable data ratios and very-high data throughput, in a rack dense 4U per 512TB form factor, allows you to avoid paying high premiums to maintain traditional backup storage.

Ensure business continuity with powered quality

Pre-configured hardware and software ensures nightly backup of over 130 TB of data under optimal performance and raw space utilization. Drive down backup and restore times, cost and complexity by removing tape from clients ultra-high-capacity data archiving workloads.

Simplify your entire management experience

Deliver simple, and ease of mind management experience leveraging QCT’s Windows Admin Center, and Lifecycle Management Suite.

specification

QuantaPlex T21P-4U

Optimized for capacity and throughput

Orderable BOM	QuantaPlex T21P-4U
Position	Backup/Archive or Large Storage
Scale	5-8 Nodes
Form Factor	4U 1-Node Rackmount Server
RDMA / TPM 2.0	Yes / Yes
CPU	Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2698 v4
Memory	512GB
HBA	2x LSI 3008
NIC	2x Mellanox CX4, Dual Port 25G
Drives (Per Node)	Type	Qty.	Size
Cache	SATA SSD	8	1.92TB
Capacity	SATA HDD	64	8TB

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