StoneFly Backup & Disaster Recovery Appliances
- Hyperconverged Backup & Disaster Recovery (DR) Solution
- Supported hypervisors: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, KVM, and Citrix (Formerly XenServer)
- Cloud-Enabled Backup Solution with Built-in Cloud Connect to Azure, AWS, StoneFly private cloud, and S3 compatible clouds
- Supported Protocols: CIFS/SMB, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel (optional)
- Terabytes to Petabytes of Storage Capacity
- Incredible Read and Write Speeds (High IOPS) with Dual Xeon Processors
- Integrated Data Services: Deduplication, Thin Provisioning, Snapshots, Replication, Encryption, and more
- Available in Integrated Backup Appliance, Dual Node Shared Nothing, High Availability (HA) Disaggregated Appliance, and Scale Out Hardware Configurations
Starting Price: $2495
StoneFly DR365™ – Hyperconverged Backup & Disaster Recovery Appliance
Backup and disaster recovery is important for every enterprise because businesses today cannot tolerate data loss or downtime.
StoneFly DR365™ is a purpose-built and feature-rich hyperconverged cloud-enabled backup and Disaster Recovery solution that can scale (scale up and scale out) to multiple appliance nodes, connect with public and private clouds, and deliver Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) of less than 15 minutes.
Equipped with enterprise-grade backup software the DR365 delivers data protection features such as delta-based snapshots, replication, encryption, mountable snapshots, anti-malware, anti-ransomware, and several others.
The DR365 comes with standard iSCSI support and an optional NAS upgrade. By leveraging the pre-installed Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine (SCVM™), our enterprise customers can centrally manage their data backups and create redundant copies of their backups in Azure cloud, AWS cloud, StoneFly private cloud, or any other S3 compatible cloud by creating NAS backup repositories.
To suit a variety of enterprise requirements, StoneFly DR365 is available in different hardware configurations, and a range of form factors with Terabytes to Petabytes in storage capacity.
Backup & Disaster Recovery with StoneFly DR365
What can StoneFly DR365 Backup?
DR365 can be leveraged as an on-premises primary, secondary, or an offsite backup solution for databases, Virtual Machines (VMs), hosts, applications, files and folders, and other enterprise workloads.
The data backup appliance comes with support for MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, Office 365, and supports Microsoft Active Directory Integration.
Looking to backup something specific? DR365 is a versatile data backup and disaster recovery solution. We encourage you to get in touch with us for customized enterprise backup requirements.
StoneFly DR365 – Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliance Technology Overview
Enterprise-Grade Backup & Recovery Features of StoneFly Backup & Disaster Recovery Solution
Data Backup Features
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) Backups
CBT reduces backup time, and bandwidth consumption, for cloud backups, by tracking and backing up block level changes in the enterprise data. Conventional backups require full file or data backups and are thus more time consuming and costly.
Full, Incremental or Differential Backups
Configure full, incremental, or differential backups and use the enterprise backup solution in a way that fits your organization and requirements. And verify each backup with automatic backup integrity verification.
Agent-less Backups
Agent-less backups enable users to backup Microsoft Exchange, MySQL, SharePoint, and Active Directory servers without installing dedicated agents for each server. This simplifies the management and enhances the cost effectiveness of the backup and disaster recovery solution.
Anti-Malware / Active Ransomware Protection
DR365 is equipped with Anti-Malware & Active Ransomware protection features. The intelligent backup software checks for abnormal behavior and prevents attempts at encrypting data, thus making it ransomware attack resistant and a reliable choice for mission-critical enterprise data.
Centralized Backup Management
Manage all your physical and virtual systems with a single centralized backup management console and easy-to-use web GUI.
Enhanced Data Protection with Transportable Storage
Transportable storage comprises of enterprise SAS or SSDs configured to store replicas of mission-critical data. In the event of malware or ransomware detection, this storage automatically disconnects and protects the data inside it from data loss and data corruption.
Blockchain Backups
Integrated Blockchain technology enables users to ensure credibility for their backed up data. Blockchain backups can help with regulatory requirements and to build trust between departments, teams, or organizations / businesses.
Multiple Backup Destinations
The DR365 backup and disaster recovery appliance enables users to setup on-premises/in-house, offsite, and cloud-based backups for mission-critical data. Enterprise users looking for additional redundancy and high availability can also create geo-redundant cloud copies in different data centers worldwide.
Cloud Connect Backup to Public & Private Clouds
Leverage built-in cloud connect technology and backup to Azure, AWS, StoneFly private cloud, or any other S3 cloud of your choice. Create NAS volumes in the cloud and configure them as backup repositories with the pre-installed StoneFly SCVM™ software defined solution.
Delta-Based Snapshots per Subsystem
Configure automated delta-based snapshots and create backup images. Backup images can be used to recover to a certain system state and restore lost or corrupted data. DR365 also enables users to store these backup images on offsite iSCSI storage media and cloud storage tiers.
Synchronous & Asynchronous Replication
Configure real-time multi-site/multi-appliance replication (campus mirroring) of iSCSI volumes and nodes and failover in the event of primary system failure and failback when the system’s repaired. Or leverage asynchronous replication (optional) to replicate (One-to-Many & Many-to-One) data to secondary and offsite backup appliances.
Encrypted Backups
The DR365 backup and disaster recovery solution encrypts data at rest with advanced AES 256-bit encryption and data at transit is secured with SSL-encryptions. The encryption provides total ownership of the data and prevents malicious and unwanted access to important data.
Data Recovery Features
Automated Conversion to VMs & Direct Spin Up for Instant Recovery
DR365 is a hyperconverged backup solution. It enables users to restore backups of physical machines as a VM directly on the backup and disaster recovery appliance for instant recovery and reduced RTOs and RPOs.
Multiple Restore Options
DR365 delivers a number of restore options. Users can restore their backups to the same hardware, dissimilar hardware, or a different hypervisor. The DR365 supports restore choices of Physical-to-Physical (P2P), Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P).
Granular & File-level Data Recovery
Instead of recovering the complete data volume each time, DR365 enables users to recover specific files and folders with granular recovery. This reduces the time taken to recover data, the cost of data recovery, and optimizes bandwidth consumption (when using cloud connect backups).
Recover within minutes
Reduce Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) to less than 15 minutes with data services like Instant VM restore and spin up servers, applications, databases, and hosts as Virtual Machines (VMs) on the hyperconverged backup appliance.
Remote & Automated Recovery
Recover remote sites and systems by accessing bootable media and restoring bare-metal servers remotely over Wide Area Network (WAN). Users can also automate the recovery process by customizing bootable media with scripting.
Backup & Recovery Data Services
Block-Level Data Deduplication
Reduce copies of backup files by leveraging block-level deduplication. Deduplication keeps the original copy and replaces other copies with a hash redirecting towards the original data. This optimizes storage consumption and frees-up space for backup data.
Thin Provisioning with Space Reclamation
Instead of fat provisioning (or thick provisioning) in anticipation of backup data growth, leverage thin provisioning and repurpose unused storage space for backup data; thus enhancing storage space usage.
Tiered Architecture with Hardware & Software Support
The DR365 supports hybrid population of storage drives: combinations of enterprise SAS and SSDs. The pre-installed SCVM™ allows for easier management and data transfers between storage tiers for effective data management and storage space utilization.
Advanced Reporting & Monitoring
DR365 provides system-wide graphical performance and utilization reporting enabling users to monitor the hardware, and the storage capacity usage and consumption with customizable reports and dashboard.
Hardware-Enabled Volume Encryption
In combination with software-level data encryption, DR365 also allows users to configure hardware-based volume encryptions by dedicated processors; hence adding another layer of protection for mission-critical enterprise data.
Volume Access Control
Maintain full control of your backups, backup images, and cloud-based backed up data with features like volume access control and dynamic volume management.
Flash Cache™
Configure SSDs / flash drives as front-end cache and enhance data accessibility, reduce backup time, and recover mission-critical workloads faster thus ensuring business continuity for your IT environments.
Independent Back-end Storage
DR365 backup solution can also be repurposed and used as a back-end storage repository. The DR365 appliance comes with iSCSI as base configuration and supports optional Fibre Channel and NAS upgrades.
Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution with Integrated Blockchain Technology
Improve regulatory compliance, establish validity of recovery, and ensure the authenticity and integrity of backups with blockchain generated verifiable audit trail.
Blockchain backup technology adds a level of confidence to the authenticity of your enterprise data backups. You can acquire a certificate that verifies when your data backup was created and when it was changed / edited, if it was ever edited.
Available Hardware Configurations for StoneFly Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliances
StoneFly backup and disaster recovery solution is available in the following hardware configurations capable of supporting a wide variety of enterprise data protection requirements.
- Integrated Backup & DR Appliance (DR Site in a Box)
- Dual Node Shared Nothing Backup & DR Appliance
- Scale Out Backup & DR Appliance
- High Availability (HA) Disaggregated Backup & DR Appliance (DR365-HA™)
Each hardware configuration is modular, has redundant key components, is cloud-enabled, and has storage capacity ranging from Terabytes to Petabytes.
DR365 – Integrated Backup & DR Appliance (DR Site in a Box)
The DR365 integrated appliance is a single integrated data backup appliance with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Controller, RAID Controller, and storage drives.
Our enterprise data backup appliance has built-in cloud connect to Azure, AWS, StoneFly private cloud, and supports most S3 compatible clouds.
Businesses can leverage the DR backup solution to setup the 3-2-1 rule for data protection by creating copies of data in the appliance and redundant copies in the cloud.
Enterprise users can also leverage the built-in cloud to replicate VMs, databases, files and folders to StoneFly’s private cloud. This enables them to recover instantly in the event of a disaster. And also facilitates ransomware protection.
The integrated appliance configuration is a turnkey solution that comes pre-configured and is ready-to-use.
DR365 – Integrated Backup & DR Appliance Architecture
Supported Hypervisors:
StoneFly DR365 – Integrated Backup & DR Appliance Hardware Overview
Choose Single Node from Any of Your Favorite Hardware Vendor Such As HPE, IBM, CISCO, Dell
Enterprise customers looking for choices, other than StoneFly’s standard hardware, can choose to get StoneFly’s reliable DR backup solution on the hardware of their choice such as HPE, IBM, CISCO and others.
Highly Scalable Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution
The DR365 integrated appliance configuration comes with Terabytes to Petabytes of storage capacity and can scale up (increase storage capacity) and scale out (increase storage capacity and performance) without limits.
- To scale up, users can add expansion units.
- To scale out, users can add single appliance nodes.
Expansion units (EBODs – Expandable Bunch of Drives) are available in 12 to 108-bay form factors with support for 7200RPM, 10k, and 15k enterprise SAS and flash drives (SSDs).
Each integrated RAID controller is capable of supporting a maximum number of 256 drives with expansion units.
Dual Node Shared Nothing Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution
Leverage the Dual Node Shared Nothing configuration to setup redundant on-site or offsite mirrored backup systems. The Dual Node Shared Nothing configuration is deployed with two or more single backup appliances and synchronous or asynchronous replication.
Users can choose to setup one appliance at one location and the other backup system at a geographically separate location with replication configured between the two. This configuration ensures that even if one complete appliance fails, the other continues to operate and data isn’t lost.
Dual Node Shared Nothing Backup & DR Appliance Architecture
Highly Scalable & Redundant Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution
The Dual Node Shared Nothing backup and disaster recovery solution comprises of two completely independent clustered integrated data backup appliances. It is available with Terabytes to Petabytes of storage capacity and facilitates scale out to virtually unlimited number of data backup appliance nodes.
The redundant DR backup solution is capable of scale up (addition of storage capacity) and scale out (addition of storage capacity and performance) via the addition of expansion units and appliance nodes respectively.
The integrated RAID controller, in each single appliance, is capable of supporting 256 7200RPM, 10k, and 15k enterprise SAS drives and 12Gb SSDs.
Scale Out Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliance
The scale out hardware configuration starts with three integrated backup appliances and is capable of scaling out to virtually unlimited number of appliance nodes with support for Petabytes of backup data.
Each integrated data backup appliance is a DR site in a box with built-in HCI controller, RAID controller, and storage drives.
No backup data volume is too big for the scale out hardware configuration.
As the enterprise backup data grows, the scale out backup and disaster recovery system can grow with it. And with dual Xeon processors and data aggregated over the total number of appliance nodes, users do not have to worry about bottlenecks or performance issues.
The DR365 scale out configuration comes with built-in cloud connect backup to Azure, AWS, StoneFly private cloud, and S3 compatible clouds for additional redundancy and cost effective scalability.
Pre-configured with StoneFly SCVM, the scale out configuration makes it easy to manage the entire backup system.
DR365 Scale Out Appliance Architecture
Virtually Unlimited Scalability with the Scale Out Hardware Configuration
Add Storage Capacity
Increase storage capacity by adding 12 to 108-bay EBODs with Terabytes to Petabytes of storage capacity and support for enterprise SAS and flash drives (SSDs).
Add Performance & Storage Capacity
Looking to add performance and storage capacity to the scale out backup infrastructure? Add integrated appliance nodes with built-in RAID controllers and HCI controllers for Petabytes of backup data storage capacity.
Available StoneFly DR365 Backup & DR Appliance Series
Choose from a range of value-tier, mid-tier and enterprise-tier backup & DR appliances & build your data protection system as per your requirements and budget. Available StoneFly DR365 appliance series include:
- D-Series (Mid-Tier Appliances for SMEs)
- XS-Series (Enterprise Single Xeon Appliances)
- XD-Series (Enterprise Dual Xeon Appliances)
Supported DR365 Storage Expansion Units
- 12-bay 3.5” 2U 12Gb SAS Expansion Unit
- 16-bay 3.5” 3U 12Gb SAS Expansion Unit
- 24-bay 3.5” 4U 12Gb SAS Expansion Unit
- 24-bay 2.5” 2U 12Gb SAS Expansion Unit
- 44-bay 3.5″ 4U 12Gb SAS Expansion Unit
- 60-bay 3.5″ 4U 12Gb SAS Expansion Unit
Note: DR365 I-Series appliances only support scale out. The I-Series appliances do not support expansion units. For details, contact StoneFly pre-sales engineers.
High Availability Disaggregated Appliance (DR365-HA™)
The DR365-HA is a disaggregated hardware configuration. It comprises of the following chassis:
- Dual HCI Controllers (1U or 2U)
- RAID Array
Each HCI controller, both 1U and 2U chassis, comrpises of the hypervisor (the virtualization layer), and the Software Defined Storage (SDS) that acts as the management layer. The SCVM enables users to integrate data services, manage stored resources, and integrate cloud-based storage tiers for additional redundancy. The HCI controllers come with 12Gb SAS ports as base configuration. Users can choose 16Gb Fibre Channel ports as an optional upgrade.
Each RAID array comprises of dual active / active RAID controllers and the storage drives. The RAID arrays are available for both 12Gb SAS attached ports and the optional 16Gb Fibre Channel ports.
The DR365-HA is capable of storing Terabytes to Petabytes of data and has built-in cloud connect to Azure, AWS, StoneFly private cloud, and other S3 compatible clouds for additional redundancy.
DR365-HA – High Availability Disaggregated Appliance Architecture
Highly Scalable Disaggregated Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution
The DR365-HA is capable of supporting Terabytes to Petabytes of backup data. The disaggregated backup solution is capable of scaling up (increase in storage capacity) and scaling out (increase in storage capacity and performance) via the addition of HCI controllers, expansion units, expansion arrays, and disaggregated appliance nodes.
- The dual 1U HCI controllers, both 12Gb SAS and 16Gb Fibre Channel, can support up to 1776 enterprise SAS and SSDs.
- The dual 2U HCI controllers, both 12Gb SAS and 16Gb Fibre Channel, are capable of supporting 4440 enterprise SAS and SSDs.
Expansion Arrays: Storage expansion units with integrated dual active / active RAID controllers available with support for 12, 16, and 24 7200RPM, 10k, and 15k enterprise SAS and 12Gb flash drives (SSDs).
Expansion Units: Expandable Bunch of Drives (EBODs) available in 12 to 108-bay form factor with support for 7200RPM, 10k, and 15k enterprise SAS and 12Gb flash drives (SSDs).
Disaggregated Appliance Node: The disaggregated appliance node comprises of dual HCI controllers (1U or 2U) and RAID array with support for 12, 16, 24, and 36 7200RPM, 10k, and 15k enterprise SAS and 12Gb SSDs.
Available Disaggregated DR365-HA Appliance Models
Choose from a range of value-tier, mid-tier and enterprise-tier high availability backup & DR appliances & build your HA cluster data protection system as per your requirements and budget. Available StoneFly DR365-HA appliance series include:
- D-Series (Mid-Tier Appliances for SMEs)
- XS-Series (Enterprise Single Xeon Appliances)
- XD-Series (Enterprise Dual Xeon Appliances)
DR365-HA Appliances: D-Series
2 x 2U HCI Controller
- Quad-Core (Standard) to 16-Core (Optional) Xeon Processor
- Support upto 1776 SAS drives or SSDs with EBODs
- 32GB per Node (Standard) to 128GB per node (Optional) System Memory
Note: DR365-HA appliances have 2 x HCI controllers + one or more HA RAID arrays. The supported D-Series HA RAID arrays are listed under.
For customization options, contact StoneFly sales.
DR365-HA Appliances: XS-Series
2 x 1U HCI Controller
- Choice of 2 x 12Gb SAS Ports or 2 x 16Gb FC Ports for HA RAID Arrays
- 10-Core (Standard) to 28-Core (Optional) Xeon Processor
- Support upto 1776 SAS drives or SSDs with EBODs
- 32GB per Node (Standard) to 512GB per node (Optional) System Memory
- 256GB (Standard) to 3.8TB (Optional) NVMe SSD for OS
2 x 2U HCI Controller
- Choice of 2 x 12Gb SAS Ports or 2 x 16Gb FC Ports for HA RAID Arrays
- 10-Core (Standard) to 28-Core (Optional) Xeon Processor
- Support upto 4440 SAS drives or SSDs with EBODs
- 32GB per Node (Standard) to 512GB per node (Optional) System Memory
- 256GB (Standard) to 3.8TB (Optional) NVMe SSD for OS
Note: DR365-HA appliances have 2 x HCI controllers + one or more HA RAID arrays. The supported XS-Series HA RAID arrays are listed under.
For customization options, contact StoneFly sales.
DR365-HA Appliances: XD-Series
2 x 1U HCI Controller
- Choice of 2 x 12Gb SAS Ports or 2 x 16Gb FC Ports for HA RAID Arrays
- Dual 10-Core (Standard) to Dual 28-Core (Optional) Xeon Processor
- Support upto 1776 SAS drives or SSDs with EBODs
- 64GB per Node (Standard) to 1TB per node (Optional) System Memory
- 240GB (Standard) to 1.9TB (Optional) SSD for OS
2 x 2U HCI Controller
- Choice of 2 x 12Gb SAS Ports or 2 x 16Gb FC Ports for HA RAID Arrays
- Dual 10-Core (Standard) to Dual 28-Core (Optional) Xeon Processor
- Support upto 4440 SAS drives or SSDs with EBODs
- 64GB per Node (Standard) to 1TB per node (Optional) System Memory
- 256GB (Standard) or 3.8TB (Optional) NVMe SSD for OS
Note: DR365-HA appliances have 2 x HCI controllers + one or more HA RAID arrays. The supported XD-Series HA RAID arrays are listed under.
For customization options, contact StoneFly sales.
Supported Storage Expansion Arrays and Units
Supported RAID Expansion Arrays:
- 12 x 3.5” 2U High IOPS HA RAID Expansion Array – 12Gb SAS or 16Gb FC
- 16 x 3.5” 3U High IOPS HA RAID Expansion Array – 12Gb SAS or 16 Gb FC
- 24 x 3.5” 4U High IOPS HA RAID Expansion Array – 12Gb SAS or 16Gb FC
- 24 x 2.5” 2U High IOPS HA RAID Expansion Array – 12Gb SAS or 16 Gb FC
Supported Storage Expansion Units:
- 12 x 3.5” 2U HA Expansion Unit – 12Gb SAS
- 16 x 3.5” 3U HA Expansion Unit – 12Gb SAS
- 24 x 2.5” 2U HA Expansion Unit – 12Gb SAS
- 60 x 3.5” 4U HA Expansion Unit – 12Gb SAS, Single Drawer
- 60 x 3.5” 4U HA Expansion Unit – 12Gb SAS, Three Drawer
12 Bay
16 Bay
12 Bay
16 Bay
24 Bay (3.5″)
24 Bay (2.5″)
24 Bay (2.5″)
60 Bay
SAP HANA Data Backup & DR Appliance
Backup complete SAP HANA servers to StoneFly DR365 and leverage the built-in backup software to granularly recover data whenever needed. The DR365 supports direct restore to the file storage or block storage provisioned on the DR backup solution.
Our data backup appliance also enables users to deploy hybrid backup and DR environments by leveraging the built-in cloud backup gateway. Users can backup and restore data to the local appliance, offsite appliance, or a cloud storage tier in Azure, AWS, StoneFly private cloud or any other S3 compatible cloud.
Enterprise users can enhance the data protection experience for their SAP HANA servers by leveraging DR365’s enterprise data services such as delta-based snapshots, replication, encryption and others.
Secure your SAP HANA workloads effortlessly and recover within minutes (RTOs & RPOs < 15 minutes) with StoneFly DR365.
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