Drobo B800i - 8-bay - 12TB - iSCSI SAN Storage Array for Business
Mfg # DR-B800I-2A21-P04
CDW # 2827494
| UNSPSC 43201802
Quick tech specs
- iSCSI SAN
- 3U
- 12TB (included)
- 8 drive bays ( 3.5" / SATA-600 )
- 32TB capacity and beyond
- Certified for VMware vSphere; Symantec Backup Exec; Veeam Backup; and Citrix XenServer environments
- Hard drive array
- Desktop or Rackmount
- (4) 3TB Enterprise SATA drives
- (2) Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI (multiserver)
- BeyondRAID technology
- Configuration for both Windows and Mac OS X servers
Know your gear
Power and sophistication in an easy & affordable solution.
Built on proven BeyondRAID™ technology, the Drobo B800i delivers award-winning iSCSI SAN storage and advanced capabilities usually reserved for more expensive enterprise solutions. In fact, the Drobo B800i recently won the Editor's Choice Award from Storage Review.
The Drobo B800i is optimized for small businesses to provide reliable and high-performance storage to servers running applications like file services, data protection, email, and server virtualization. It integrates seamlessly into your TCP/IP network infrastructure and utilizes the industry-standard iSCSI protocol to provide simple, consolidated storage for your servers.
Drobo B800i Highlights:
• Built specically for SMB IT, also great for departments in larger companies.
• Great for Windows, Mac, and linux servers, for both primary and backup storage.
• Innovative BeyondRAID™ delivers powerful protection with automated storage management.
• Thin provisioning, instant expansion, single or dual-drive redundancy.
• Certified with VMware, Citrix, XenServer, Symantec. BackupExec, Veeam, and more.
BeyondRAID Technology:
A Drobo B800i iSCSI array can hold up to 24TB of raw storage and beyond. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all drive bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology in Drobo enables you to leverage different drive capacities, allowing for continuous expansion as larger drives become available. With Drobo, expansion is automatic and instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.
Smart Volumes with Thin Provisioning:
Create new volumes up to 16TB in seconds and manage them over time with ease. The innovative and time-saving Smart Volume management technology with Thin Provisioning integrated into the Drobo B800i allows volumes to pull storage from the common pool of disks rather than a specific physical disk allocation. The labor of resizing and migrating volumes is replaced with the simplicity of intelligent engineering.
Protection from Two Drive Failures:
Enable the dual-drive redundancy option to protect your data from failure of up to two hard drives. It's all done with a single click and without ever losing access to your data. Running out of space? Switch back to single-drive redundancy at any time. Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 and RAID 6, there's no need to reformat or migrate data from the Drobo B800i, potentially saving you hours or days of downtime.
Optimizing Business Applications:
Similar to business applications, Drobo is ideal for building your first scalable backup server or server virtualization cluster. It has been certified for VMware vSphere, Symantec Backup Exec, Veeam Backup, and Citrix XenServer environments.
About iSCSI SANs:
Unfamiliar with iSCSI? It's a high-performance protocol that's become extremely popular storage networking technology in IT environments, but it can often be complex to manage. Drobo B800i changes that by introducing zero-click iSCSI configuration for both Windows and Mac OS X servers.
With an iSCSI SAN, centralized storage is provided to each server over a high-speed Ethernet network and storage can be allocated or expanded instantaneously. Also, no single server can tie up free space and there are fewer storage devices to maintain.
Rack Mount Ready, Desktop Quiet:
Drobo B800i can be deployed in a server room for IT use or on a desktop for workgroup sharing of storage, thanks to its compact design and quiet operation. Dual smart fans automatically manage their speeds to optimize cooling and minimize operating noise. (Drobo B800i Rack Mount sold separately.)
The Drobo B800i is optimized for small businesses to provide reliable and high-performance storage to servers running applications like file services, data protection, email, and server virtualization. It integrates seamlessly into your TCP/IP network infrastructure and utilizes the industry-standard iSCSI protocol to provide simple, consolidated storage for your servers.
Drobo B800i Highlights:
• Built specically for SMB IT, also great for departments in larger companies.
• Great for Windows, Mac, and linux servers, for both primary and backup storage.
• Innovative BeyondRAID™ delivers powerful protection with automated storage management.
• Thin provisioning, instant expansion, single or dual-drive redundancy.
• Certified with VMware, Citrix, XenServer, Symantec. BackupExec, Veeam, and more.
BeyondRAID Technology:
A Drobo B800i iSCSI array can hold up to 24TB of raw storage and beyond. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all drive bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology in Drobo enables you to leverage different drive capacities, allowing for continuous expansion as larger drives become available. With Drobo, expansion is automatic and instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.
Smart Volumes with Thin Provisioning:
Create new volumes up to 16TB in seconds and manage them over time with ease. The innovative and time-saving Smart Volume management technology with Thin Provisioning integrated into the Drobo B800i allows volumes to pull storage from the common pool of disks rather than a specific physical disk allocation. The labor of resizing and migrating volumes is replaced with the simplicity of intelligent engineering.
Protection from Two Drive Failures:
Enable the dual-drive redundancy option to protect your data from failure of up to two hard drives. It's all done with a single click and without ever losing access to your data. Running out of space? Switch back to single-drive redundancy at any time. Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 and RAID 6, there's no need to reformat or migrate data from the Drobo B800i, potentially saving you hours or days of downtime.
Optimizing Business Applications:
Similar to business applications, Drobo is ideal for building your first scalable backup server or server virtualization cluster. It has been certified for VMware vSphere, Symantec Backup Exec, Veeam Backup, and Citrix XenServer environments.
About iSCSI SANs:
Unfamiliar with iSCSI? It's a high-performance protocol that's become extremely popular storage networking technology in IT environments, but it can often be complex to manage. Drobo B800i changes that by introducing zero-click iSCSI configuration for both Windows and Mac OS X servers.
With an iSCSI SAN, centralized storage is provided to each server over a high-speed Ethernet network and storage can be allocated or expanded instantaneously. Also, no single server can tie up free space and there are fewer storage devices to maintain.
Rack Mount Ready, Desktop Quiet:
Drobo B800i can be deployed in a server room for IT use or on a desktop for workgroup sharing of storage, thanks to its compact design and quiet operation. Dual smart fans automatically manage their speeds to optimize cooling and minimize operating noise. (Drobo B800i Rack Mount sold separately.)