Data center and hardware
SAN and NAS storage
Block, file and backup storage designed, migrated and supported.
Storage is where outages hurt most and where vendor pitches are least honest. These pages cover the arrays and NAS platforms we deploy and support, the protocols underneath them, and how we migrate between them without losing a file.
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Dell PowerVault ME5 SANDell PowerVault ME5012, ME5024 and ME5084 entry SAN arrays: iSCSI, Fibre Channel and SAS connectivity, expansion, firmware and support from ...Dell PowerVault ME4 SANSupport for Dell PowerVault ME4012, ME4024 and ME4084 arrays: firmware, controller and drive replacement, expansion and migration to ME5 or ...Dell PowerStoreDell PowerStore 500T to 9200T unified NVMe storage: block, file and vVols, always-on data reduction, replication and RackLedge design and su...Dell Unity XTDell EMC Unity XT 380 to 880 unified storage support: block and file services, snapshots, replication, firmware and migration planning.Dell Compellent / SC SeriesLegacy Dell Compellent SC series (SC4020, SC5020, SC7020, SCv2000/SCv3000) support and migration off the platform.Dell EqualLogic PS SeriesLegacy Dell EqualLogic PS4000 to PS6610 iSCSI array support: firmware, member replacement and migration to a current platform.NetApp FAS and AFF (ONTAP)NetApp ONTAP storage support: FAS and AFF A-series systems, SnapMirror, CIFS/NFS, iSCSI and FC, upgrades and migrations by RackLedge.HPE MSA, Nimble and AlletraHPE storage support: MSA 1060/2060/2062 entry SAN, Nimble/Alletra 5000/6000 arrays, firmware, expansion and migration.Pure Storage FlashArrayPure Storage FlashArray//X and //C support: host connectivity, Purity upgrades, ActiveCluster, snapshots and replication.Synology NASSynology RackStation and DiskStation NAS deployment and support: DSM setup, SMB shares, Active Backup for Business, Hyper Backup, snapshots ...QNAP NASQNAP TS and TVS series NAS deployment, hardening and support: QTS/QuTS hero, snapshots, HBS 3 backups and security lockdown.TrueNAS (SCALE and CORE)TrueNAS SCALE and CORE on iXsystems hardware or your own servers: ZFS pool design, SMB/NFS/iSCSI, replication and support.Windows Server Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)Storage Spaces Direct and Azure Stack HCI design and support: hyper-converged Windows clusters on Dell AX, Lenovo and Supermicro nodes.iSCSI SAN designiSCSI storage networking done right: dedicated VLANs, jumbo frames, MPIO, redundant switches and host configuration for Windows, VMware and ...Fibre Channel SANFibre Channel fabric design and support: Brocade and Cisco MDS switches, zoning, HBAs, 16/32/64 Gb FC and NVMe over FC for Dell, Pure, NetAp...NFS and SMB file servicesEnterprise file services: Windows file servers, DFS namespaces and replication, NetApp and Synology SMB, NFS for VMware and Linux, permissio...Ceph and software-defined storageCeph on Proxmox and Kubernetes (Rook), plus Longhorn and MinIO: scale-out block, file and object storage on commodity servers designed and s...Backup storage and immutable repositoriesBackup target design: Veeam hardened Linux repositories, Dell PowerProtect DD, Synology WriteOnce, object lock in S3/Wasabi/Backblaze and ta...Direct-attached storage and JBOD expansionDell PowerVault MD1400/MD1420/ME484, Lenovo D1224/D3284, Supermicro JBODs and SAS HBA expansion for servers that need more drives without a ...Storage migration and SAN refreshRackLedge plans and executes storage migrations: SAN to SAN, file server to NAS or SharePoint, legacy Compellent/EqualLogic/Unity to ME5, Po...
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