NexentaStor Storage Servers

NexentaStor is an OpenSolaris or more recently Illumos distribution optimised for virtualisation, storage area networks, network-attached storage, and iSCSI or Fibre Channel applications employing the ZFS file system.

Fully Compatible NexentaStor Storage Appliances

NexentaStor supports iSCSI, unlimited incremental backups ('snapshots'), snapshot mirroring (replication), continuous data protection, integrated search within ZFS snapshots, and an API.



Cyberstore
Open Storage Servers

  • Open Standards Hardware combined with NexentaStor Software
  • Transformational Approach used by Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn and others
  • No Vendor Lock-In
  • 3 Year Warranty
  • Multi-Vendor Networking
  • Compatible with all major Storage OS's


Our range of CyberStore enterprise-grade storage appliances are fully compatible with NexentaStor storage OS.
NexentaStor Storage Appliances

NexentaStor is an OpenSolaris or more recently Illumos distribution optimised for virtualisation, storage area networks, network-attached storage, and iSCSI or Fibre Channel applications employing the ZFS file system.

  • Fully Compatible Storage Appliances
  • Pre-Configured with NexentaStor
  • Fully Tested
  • Licence Cost:
CyberStore 212S-NVMe 12GB/s Storage Server

2U, 12 Drive Bays, SAS/SATA Rackmount Storage Server with 4x NVMe

Form Factor:
2U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
12 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
256TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with NexentaStor
from: $3,972
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CyberStore 212S 12GB/s Storage Server

2U, 12 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
2U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
12 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
192TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with NexentaStor
from: $4,099
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CyberStore 224S 12GB/s Storage Server

2U, 24 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
2U
Drive Size:
2.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
24 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
360TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with NexentaStor
from: $4,464
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CyberStore 316S 12GB/s Storage Server

3U, 16 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
3U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
16 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
256TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with NexentaStor
from: $4,743
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CyberStore 424S 12GB/s Storage Server

4U, 24 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
24 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
384TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with NexentaStor
from: $5,054
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CyberStore 436S 12GB/s Storage Server

Large Capacity 4U, 36 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
36 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
576TB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with NexentaStor
from: $5,819
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CyberStore 472S 12GB/s Storage Server

Ultra High-Density 4U, 72 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
2.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
72 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
1.1PB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with NexentaStor
from: $6,081
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CyberStore 490S Petabyte Storage Server

Ultra High-Density 4U, 90 Drive Bays, SAS / SATA Rackmount Storage Server

Form Factor:
4U
Drive Size:
3.5" Storage Servers
Drive Bays:
90 Drive Bays
Storage Capacity:
1.5PB
Compatibility:
Fully compatible with NexentaStor
from: $14,027
Configure

NexentaStor is an effective choice for enterprise-grade storage server software. With a number of great features and a strong reputation for being a high-quality storage software, you can't go wrong with NexentaStor.

Advantages of Choosing NexentaStor

NexentaStor is a great choice of platform for server virtualisation, especially when it comes to supporting the most commonly used hypervisors. Virtualising critical applications becomes easier as NexentaStor is powerful enough for you not to have to worry about performance and reliability.
The file system delivers real end-to-end data integrity and is considered by many as one of the most robust, effective and fault tolerant file systems on the market. Working in conjunction with features checksum and copy on write, the file system provides a huge level of reliability.

With Unified Storage Presentation, NexentaStor can deliver both file and block presentation to any hypervisor of your choosing. Performance can be scaled separately from capacity due to the hybrid file system which can give them two separate capabilities for read and write caching.
Additionally, a low TCO means if you choose to configure your CyberStore storage appliance with NexentaStor as your server software, you'll pay a lot less in the long term than if you chose some of the other potential options out there.

The Broadberry CyberStore range of enterprise-grade, open storage servers ensures full compatibility with all major storage operating systems, including of course NexentaStor.

The OpenSDS (open source driven) software offers a variety of enterprise features which include thin provisioning, unlimited snapshots and inline data reduction for a cost that is much reduced in comparison with similar software on the market.
Thousands of large organisations across the world have chosen Nexenta software to power their storage. Some of the world's biggest cloud deployments, huge amounts of entertainment content and large quantities of government data are all powered, hosted and served respectively by Nexenta.

Features

NexentaStor is an agile storage software, which gives you the ability to fully take advantage all-flash, hybrid as well as all-HDD options. Its file system is highly scalable. Based on ZFS technology, you can take advantage of a flexible 128-bit system. You get end-to-end integrity, mostly due to the ZFS system which is self-healing, meaning you won't have to worry data corruption.

This software comes with an unlimited storage capacity and with ZFS there is no limit to the size of the file system. This makes NexentaStor the software with the largest file size commercially available. The expense of primary storage is reduced by the Native Compression feature. Disk management is simplified by the availability of NexentaStor Management Viewer which features a great web-based interface. Block level mirroring allows you to setup up backups at different locations offsite.

NexentaStor is a software that has a great track record of successful deployments in a wide variety of diverse industries. Thousands of enterprises have experienced increased performance along with a reduced TCO of by 50% or more.
When combined with NexentaFusion, this software lets you deploy, run and scale really effectively. Daily tasks such as deploying pools or creating file systems can easily be configured in just a matter of minute.

Future Proof

NexentaStor is future proof. Essentially, it has been built to support technology from later generations. If you want to your storage strategy to be future proof and don't want to be stuck with out of date and irrelevant software a few years down the line, NexentaStor is a great choice.

Lowered Costs

Configure the CyberStore Storage appliance with NexentaStor storage software for significantly lower storage costs across the board, most particularly for cloud and enterprise workloads.

Protocols

  • File: NFS 3.1, NFS 4, SMB 2.1, SMB 3
  • Block: Fibre Channel, iSCSI

Data Management

  • All-Flash, Hybrid, All-Disk pools
  • RAID 10, N+1, N+2, N+3
  • ZFS end to end data integrity
  • Unlimited snapshots & clones
  • Inline data reduction
  • Thin provisioning
  • Scheduled replication
  • Continuous replication

Management

  • Self-documenting REST API, CLI, SNMP
  • NexentaFusion (HTML5 without any Plugins is required)

Client OS Support

  • VMware, Microsoft, OpenStack, Docker, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Solaris, AIX

Ecosystem Integration

  • VMware VAAI Block
  • VMware Virtual Volume (VVOL) 2.0
  • VMware vCenter Plugin
  • OpenStack Cinder & Manila
  • Docker Volume Plugin

Optional Extensions

  • Active-Active High-Availability cluster
  • Fibre Channel
  • All-Flash pools
  • Continuous replication

Why Us

Broadberry is one of the top providers of NexentaStor. We have provided storage server technology to many of the largest and most well-known organisations around the world, including the BBC, SONY, NASA, TOYOTA and many, many more.

The storage servers we configure are fully compatible with not only NexentaStor but all other major storage server software available. We pride ourselves on delivering you this full compatibility across the board. Unlike with other brands, you only ever need one box from us to run any storage server software you want. We also never vendor lock, meaning our storage servers are fully compatible with third party hardware. You are never limited to buying only from us, you have full freedom to choose the best option for your system.

When you order from Broadberry there is one price and one price only.With us you never have to worry about hidden costs. Our servers feature some of the best value TCO you will find anywhere.


The Broadberry CyberStore range of enterprise-grade storage servers are designed and built for a wide-range of storage applications.

Completely customisable from processing to storage type and capacity, to operating system - the CyberStore range is your go-to storage platform.

Used by the World's Largest Organisations

The CyberStore range of storage servers are used by the world's largest organisations from the BBC, to the CERN project, governement institutions, universities and much more.

Multi
Award-Winning

Year-after-year, the Broadberry CyberStore range of unified storage appliances has beaten the likes of Dell and HPE to be crowned "Best Storage Appliance" by PC Pro magazine.

Outstanding
Value

When compared to the likes of DELL, HPE, EMC etc, the Broadberry CyberStore range of enterprise-grade unified storage appliances is up to 60% cheaper, although using the same quality components such as Seagate drives and Kingston RAM.

Compatible with your
Favourite Software

The Bradberry CyberStore range has been built from industry-leading commodity hardware, and carefully designed to ensuure full compatibility with leading storage operating systems and database engines.


Lower Cost, Same Components

Broadberry enterprise storage appliances are on average 86% lower cost than EMC and 55% lower cost than DELL although built using the same leading-brand server components such as Intel processors and Samsung memory. HPE hard drives are rebadged Toshiba enterprise-class drives, the exact same models as found in Broadberry storage appliances.

Hard Drive Caddies Included

When you buy a Broadberry storage appliance all drive bays are supplied with caddies - so if in 6 months time you decide to expand the storage you can source it freely from the marketplace or ourselves if you wish. The only way to add hard drives to HPE servers is to buy the drives along with caddies from HPE for 200% the price of Broadberry's price.

No Ongoing Licence Costs

Broadberry storage appliances come with enterprise-grade features like IPMI included, whereas HPE charge large fees for perpetual licences for the same features.

Instant, Accurate Quotations

Our website allows you to configure your server online with accurate prices, as opposed to NetApp who require several face-to-face meetings with them before they'll give you a price.

Market Moving Away from Tier 1 Vendors

Over recent years there's been a massive move from the world's largest organisations such as Google to purchase their servers from the likes of Broadberry rather than DELL and HPE. This move is fuelled by the rise in commodity hardware.



Extensive Testing

Before leaving our build and configuration facility, all of our server and storage solutions undergo an extensive 48 hour testing procedure. This, along with the high quality industry leading components that we use ensures all of our systems meet the strictest quality guidelines.


Customization Service

Our main objective is to offer great value, high quality server and storage solutions, we understand that every company has different requirements and as such are able to offer a complete customization service to provide server and storage solutions that meet your individual needs.

Trusted by the World's Biggest Brands

We have established ourselves as one of the biggest storage providers in the US, and since 1989 been trusted as the preferred supplier of server and storage solutions to some of the world's biggest brands, including: