transtec NAS & SAN Data Storage Server

Take advantage of the enterprise feature set of these unified storage systems for universities, research facilities and SMB companies. With the DSS series you always retain control on the ever growing and complex corporate data, may it be at your local site or spread across multiple locations.


Features at a glance:

  • NAS filesharing and FC/IP SAN storage
  • Scales from 4 to 96 Terabyte
  • Snapshots & SnapBack for non-intrusive hourly backups
  • Data replication for business continuance
  • High availability secured by IP Geocluster
  • Compliance archives with WORM volumes
  • Fast, efficient backup over NDMP, VTL and tape


Feature Rich Operating System
Open-E DSS is a comprehensive, 5th generation IP & FC operating system for storage appliances:
  • Proven, many times over awarded technology
  • Enterprise-class reliability
  • High usable net capacities, bandwidth and IOPS performance
  • Web GUI and console access with very good usability
  • Installation on flash memory module (DOM) reduces the risk of viral infections and accelerates the boot sequence


Unified Storage NAS/SAN
Gain enterprise-class, consolidated access to your data on file and block level over IP & Fibre Channel for filesharing and SAN applications:
  • NFS (v3/4), SMB/CIFS, AppleTalk and Secure FTP
  • Block-based logical volumes over FC and iSCSI target
  • Import and synchronise your users/groups from and between NIS, LDAP and Windows ADS
  • Supports redundant, multi-port host connectivity with automated failover/failback and teaming
  • Supports 10-Gbit-Ethernet and InfiniBand (backend) high bandwidth networks

High Availability & Disaster Recovery Features
Use our backup and restore functions as well as disaster recovery solutions to maintain data access at all times:
  • RAID-6 dual parity
  • Copy-on-write snapshots for shares and logical drives
  • Synchronous & asynchronous data replication
  • iSCSI Geocluster with automated failover
  • Disk WORM support for compliance archives
  • Backup over NDMP, VTL, disk and tape

Ease of Management
You can expect a mature, secure administration on hardware and operating system level from our DSS series:
  • Remote access with password-protected, SSL encrypted Web GUI and scriptable console
  • Easy initial configuration with quick setup routine, task and schedule manager
  • Flash OS update with version rollback security function
  • Remote hardware management & monitoring via IPMI 2.0 and SNMP