Scalable 128TB Device
Solera Networks Offers Storage Support Scalable to 128TeraBytes of Networks Forensics Storage.
Solera Networks, a premier provider of deep network packet capture appliances, announces today support for up to 128TBytes of network forensics stream-to-disk storage.
The Solera DS series of Linux 2.6-based network packet capture appliances offer storage of captured network traffic. This data is managed as a first-in-first-out (FIFO) self-annotated on-disk cache. As such, the Solera DS appliances and DSFS File Systems provides an infinite storage architecture which allows network administrators a time-based view of stored network traffic. The time window of captured traffic is dependent on average network traffic rates and the quantity of attached storage.
“Many of our customers want weeks or months of network packet capture,” said the VP of Sales and Marketing for Solera Networks. “Some want much more time for views to traffic and events that happened. This increased time window allows our customers to have a forensics trail of all events that happened should there be a need to investigate a network management or security concern.”
Solera offers a 3U configured capture appliance, the DS 3000. This appliance has 6.4TB of in-chassis storage and Fibre Channel support for Solera managed external storage. This external storage is offered in two ways; Solera provides storage nodes (DS 4000) that are 3U configured 6.4TB storage boxes that can be attached to a Fibre Channel switch. Up to 20, DS 4000 storage nodes can be configured to a single DS 3000 giving over 128TB of captured data. Additionally, customers have the option of attaching storage supplied by others attached to the Fibre Channel switch. Both of these storage options are directly managed by the Solera Networks storage software of the DS 3000.
This attached network forensics storage is viewed to forensics and management applications as either time-indicated LIBPCAP files or through Solera’s unique “virtual Ethernet devices”. These two access methods provide a “no-API” interface to the captured network traffic. Additionally, time-based windows of captured traffic can be retransmitted or regenerated to external appliances or applications including both Linux and Windows-based applications.
Solera Networks is a privately-held company which provides network monitoring solutions designed to improve the quantity and quality of network data used for mission-critical performance analysis and forensics. Complete visibility with Solera Networks will speed diagnostics, provide accurate audits of all traffic flows, archive network knowledge for event correlation, and enable reconstruction of historic events with full data integrity. The rack-mountable Solera DS Series appliances are available in several configurations, differing in bandwidth and storage capacity. Detailed information can be found at www.soleranetworks.com