Why buy BDR hardware appliances from Axcient?

Axcient BDR for ShadowProtect delivers your choice of flexible local backup and disaster recovery implementation solutions. 

Some partners choose to purchase hardware through a separate vendor and build out local BDRs with the help of Axcient's BDR Builder tool to aid their BDR software setup.  This is a great route if you have a hardware vendor with competitive pricing and a team to build out and set up each BDR appropriately.

Immediate, long-term value: While “BYO” local BDR works for some Axcient partners, many do not have the time or resources to select, provision and setup their own local BDRs.  These partners have turned to Axcient for a solution and we’ve responded by providing turnkey BDR appliances that not only realize immediate value though cost savings, time savings and streamlined setup but also deliver  long-term value through steadfast reliability, unrivaled warranty and world-class support.

 Customize: You can choose from five preconfigured hardware appliances and then customize with additional storage and memory as needed.  We’ve been building Axcient BDR for ShadowProtect appliances since 2010, so purchasing BDR hardware appliances from us has many benefits including:

• Competitive hardware pricing
• Reliable, top of the line hardware components such as Asus and Kingston
• Preconfigured ShadowProtect, ImageManager and Axcient Cloud Backup software
• Online hardware monitoring and lights out management
• Affordable customization of memory and storage to meet your business needs
• 3-year warranty on new purchases
• World-class Axcient support

Noteworthy 2016 Upgrades

With the 2016 update, models retain their form factor but receive new hardware components and updated software packages.

 Motherboards:

• Extremely reliable Asus motherboards  (Models P9D-MV and Z10PE-D16)
• ** From – StorageCraft – 2014 “…We favor motherboards by Asus over all others. They cost a bit more, but they have proven to be the most reliable motherboards we’ve sold. Asus tends to hold back offering bleeding edge features until the bugs have been worked out which is a departure from some brands who rush boards to market.”

Faster data transfers:

• USB 3.0 – 10x faster data transfer speeds than USB 2.0
• Dual I210 Gigabit Ethernet ports – doubles queues from previous generation

Memory: Kingston memory is now used in DDR3 and DDR4 formats

CPU: All models have been upgraded to Intel Haswell Processors

(i3-4330 |  Xeon E3-1231 v3  |  Xeon E5-2620 v3)

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2016 Axcient BDR for ShadowProtect appliance specifications:

Axcient currently sells 5 distinct models of ShadowProtect BDR:

Model	Motherboard	Memory	CPU
ST-1123	Asus P9D-MV  motherboard USB 3.0 Dual I210 Gigabit Ethernet ports	High density (Kingston) DDR3 1600MHz ECC Unbuffered Base: 8GB (2 x 4GB) Max Memory (upgradable): 32GB* *must be factory configured	Intel Haswell i3-4330    3.5GHz
ST-2243	Asus P9D-MV  motherboard USB 3.0 Dual 1210 GB Ethernet ports	High density (Kingston)                DDR3 1600MHz ECC Unbuffered    Base: 16GB (2 x 8GB) Max Memory (upgradable): 32GB	Intel Haswell Xeon E3-1231v3        3.4-3.8GHz
SR-2343	Asus P9D-MV  motherboard USB 3.0 Dual 1210 GB Ethernet ports	High density (Kingston)                DDR3 1600MHz ECC Unbuffered    Base: 16GB (2 x 8GB) Max Memory (upgradable): 32GB	Intel Haswell 3.4-3.8 GHz Xeon E3-1231v3
SR-2443	Asus P9D-MV  motherboard USB 3.0 Dual 1210 GB Ethernet ports	High density (Kingston)                DDR3 1600MHz ECC Unbuffered    Base: 16GB (2 x 8GB) Max Memory (upgradable): 32GB	Intel Haswell Xeon E3-1231v3          3.4-3.8GHz
SR-3883	Asus Z10PE-D16 motherboard	DDR4 2133MHz ECC Registered memory Base Memory: 64GB     (8 x 8GB) Max Memory (upgradable): 512GB* *must be factory configured	(2) Intel Haswell               E 2.4-3.2GHz            Xeon E5-2620v3  (6 core)

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Model ST-1123  [Replaces Model # ST-1122]

 ST-1123

Operating System: Win Storage Server 2012 R2 Workgroup

CPU: Intel Core i3-4330 Haswell 3.5GHz

Memory Type: DDR3 1600MHz ECC Unbuffered

Motherboard:  Asus P9DMV  |  RAID Controller: LSI MegaRAID (onboard)  |  USB: 2 x USB 2.0;   2 x USB 3.0

Model # ST-1123 Features:
Chassis:	Tower
Base Memory:	8GB (2 x 4GB)
Max Memory (upgradable):	32GB
Storage:	2x1TB-RAID1 (1TB Logical)
Storage Max:	3TB Logical
RAID:	1
VM Acceleration:	Intel VT-x
Gigabit Ethernet Ports:	2
Power:	(1) 400 Watt Fixed
CPU Cores/Threads:	2/4

 

Model ST-2243  [Replaces Model # ST-2242]

ST-2243

Operating System: Win Storage Server 2012 R2 Workgroup

CPU: Intel Haswell    |   3.4-3.8GHz    |   Xeon E3-1231v3

Memory Type: DDR3 1600MHz ECC Unbuffered | Base Memory: 16GB (2 x 8GB) |Max Memory (upgradable): 32GB ECC

Motherboard:  Asus P9DMV  |  RAID Controller: LSI MegaRAID (onboard)  |  USB: 2 x USB 2.0;   2 x USB 3.0 | VM Acceleration: Intel VT-x / Turbo Boost 2.0 

Model # ST-2243 Features:
Chassis:	Tower
Base Memory:	16GB (2 x 8GB)
Max Memory (upgradable):	32GB ECC
Storage:	2x2TB-RAID1 (2TB Logical)
Storage Max:	4TB Logical
RAID:	1
VM Acceleration:	Intel VT-x
Gigabit Ethernet Ports:	2
Power:	(1) 400 Watt Fixed
CPU Cores/Threads:	4/8

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Model SR-2343  [Replaces Model # SR-2342]

Operating System: Win Storage Server 2012 R2 Workgroup

CPU: Intel Haswell    |   3.4-3.8GHz    |   Xeon E3-1231v3

Memory Type: DDR3 1600MHz ECC Unbuffered | Base Memory: 16GB (2 x 8GB) |Max Memory (upgradable): 32GB ECC

Motherboard:  Asus P9DMV  |  RAID Controller: LSI MegaRAID (onboard)  |  USB: 2 x USB 2.0;   2 x USB 3.0 | VM Acceleration: Intel VT-x / Turbo Boost 2.0 

Chassis:	Rack Mount
Base Memory:	16GB (2 x 8GB)
Max Memory (upgradable):	32GB ECC
Storage:	2x2TB-RAID1 (2TB Logical)
Storage Max:	4TB Logical
RAID:	1
VM Acceleration:	Intel VT-x
Gigabit Ethernet Ports:	2
Power:	650 Watt Redundant / Hot swap
CPU Cores/Threads:	4/8

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 Model SR-2443 [Replaces Model # SR-2442]

Operating System: Win Storage Server 2012 R2 Workgroup

CPU: Intel Haswell    |   3.4-3.8GHz    |   Xeon E3-1231v3

Memory Type: DDR3 1600MHz ECC Unbuffered | Base Memory: 16GB (2 x 8GB) |Max Memory (upgradable): 32GB ECC

Motherboard:  Asus P9DMV  |  RAID Controller: LSI MegaRAID (onboard)  |  USB: 2 x USB 2.0;   2 x USB 3.0 | VM Acceleration: Intel VT-x / Turbo Boost 2.0 

Chassis:	Rack Mount – 2U
Base Memory:	16GB (2 x 8GB)
Max Memory (upgradable):	32GB ECC
Storage:	2x2TB-RAID1 (2TB Logical)
Storage Max:	8TB Logical
RAID:	LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i
VM Acceleration:	Intel VT-x
Gigabit Ethernet Ports:	2
Power:	650 Watt Redundant / Hot swap
CPU Cores/Threads:	4/8

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Model SR-3883 [Replaces Model # SR-3882]

Operating System: Win Storage Server 2012 R2 Workgroup

CPU: Intel Haswell    |   3.4-3.8GHz    |   Xeon E3-1231v3

Memory Type: DDR3 1600MHz ECC Unbuffered | Base Memory: 16GB (2 x 8GB) |Max Memory (upgradable): 32GB ECC

Motherboard:  Asus P9DMV  |  RAID Controller: LSI MegaRAID (onboard)  |  USB: 2 x USB 2.0;   2 x USB 3.0 | VM Acceleration: Intel VT-x / Turbo Boost 2.0  

Chassis:	Rack Mount – 3 U
Base Memory:	64GB (8 x 8GB)
Max Memory (upgradable):	512 GB* (*must be requested at time of purchase)
Storage:	6 x2TB-RAID1 (6TB Logical)
Storage Max:	16TB Logical
RAID:	LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i
VM Acceleration:	Intel VT-x
Gigabit Ethernet Ports:	2
Power:	875 Watt Redundant / Hot swap

CPU Cores/Threads:

12/24

IPMI Hardware and Software Health Monitoring

Using IPMI, the Axcient BDR for ShadowProtect appliance provides near-real-time monitoring to the Axcient Backup Portal for hardware health and status, RAID health, disk usage, and Windows logs.

Available report metrics include:

Disk Usage:

• Cache hit rate % by day/week
• Filesystem usage in % by day/week
• Filesystem usage in bytes by day/week
• Logical disk throughput (Read) (Write) by day/ week
• Logical disk utilization by day/week
• Physical disk IOPS  by day/week
• Physical disk queue length by day/week
• File sharing bandwidth (In) (Out) by day/week
• File sharing open files by day/week
• File sharing sessions by day/week

Memory:

•  Free system page table entries by day/week
• Hard page faults by day/week
• Memory usage by day/week
• Size of non-paged pool in bytes by day/week
• Virtual memory usage by day/week

Network:

• Active connections (TCPv4) (TCPv6)   by day/week
• Bandwidth (In) (Out)  by day/week
• Bandwidth – Packets per second –    by day/week

System:

• CPU usage (kernel) or (total) by day/week
• Interrupts per second by day/week
• Number of processes by day/week
• Terminal active sessions by day/week
• Uptime by day/week

Web server:

• Last request execution time by day/week
• Request processing rate by day/week
• Request queue size by day/week

Sensors:

• IPMI fan sensors by day/week
• IPMI temperature sensors by day/week
• IPMI voltage sensors by day/week

Report Examples:

Lights Out Management

Using ASUS's ASMB6-iKVM, you will be able to remotely manage your BDR including the ability to toggle power, use keyboard/mouse redirection, share virtual media, mount remote disk images, and even boot to a remote disk without ever needing physical access to your server.

The ASMB6-iKVM module offers advanced server management functions including remote OS installation, remote power on/off/reset, remote hardware health monitoring and system event log.

For more information on what this feature allows you to do, see the ASMB6-iKVM documentation.

https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/ASMB6iKVM/

Pricing: Please view our Axcient BDR for ShadowProtect Price and Spec Sheet for a full model comparison chart and up-to-date pricing.