Installation and Users Guide: XenData SX-10 Archive Appliance
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Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Overview
The XenData SX-10 Archive Appliance connects to a network and manages one or two stand-alone
LTO tape drives or a robotic LTO tape library. It supports a wide range of LTO libraries with near-
line capacities to 225 TB. The tape drives or libraries are connected to the SX-10 using SAS or
Fibre Channel cables.
The solution presents the LTO archive as one or more standard network shares. An SX-10 network
share supports the standard Windows network protocol (CIFS/SMB) and FTP file transfers. In
addition, storage devices may be plugged into the USB ports on the SX-10 and files may be
transferred locally between the USB device and LTO. This means that the archive can be used
simultaneously by multiple standard applications including those running on Windows and Mac OS
X.
The SX-10 has an Intel Xeon E3 Quad-Core 3.2 GHz processor, 32 GB RAM and includes a 4 TB
disk cache which is used to enhance archive and restore performance and may also be used to
retain selected files on disk.
The SX-10 runs the following software.
A Windows 7 x64 Professional operating system
XenData6 Server software which provides comprehensive management of an LTO tape
archive.
The XenData Alert Module which provides email alerts and on-screen notifications.
Please refer to the respective Administrator Guides for details on configuring the XenData6 Server
software and XenData Alert Module software.
