Synology UC3400 and SA3400D dual-controller systems for high availability
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The UC3400 and SA3400D dual-controller systems are the latest additions to Synology’s line of enterprise storage products. These platforms are meant to meet one of the most important needs in today’s IT environments: making sure that data and applications are always available. These systems offer strong storage architectures that help businesses stay open, follow the rules, and grow without having to stop working.
Epis Technology helps businesses turn these platform features into reliable production deployments, making sure that high availability is not just a goal, but a reality in everyday operations.
UC3400 SAN Storage for Mission-Critical Tasks
The UC3400 is a dual-controller system that works best in SAN environments. Both controllers work at the same time, so workloads can keep going even if one of them fails. This architecture works especially well for virtualization platforms, databases, and transactional systems that need to be up all the time.
The UC3400 works with both iSCSI and Fibre Channel, so it’s great for VMware, Hyper-V, and other enterprise hypervisors. Features like self-encrypting drive support and snapshot replication add an extra layer of security that helps businesses meet strict data protection and compliance standards.
Epis Technology helps businesses build SAN architectures around the UC3400. This includes setting up multipath networking, testing controller failover, and tuning performance for workloads that are sensitive to latency.
SA3400D provides high availability for NAS and mixed workloads.
The SA3400D has an active-passive dual-controller design that lets it fail over at the minute level. This makes it a great choice for file services, office apps, and mixed NAS and SAN workloads. One controller actively serves data, while the other is always ready to take over if something goes wrong.
Organizations can mix SSDs and HDDs in hybrid storage arrays, which helps them balance performance and cost. The SA3400D runs on Synology DSM and works with a wide range of apps, such as file sharing, collaboration tools, backup services, and virtualization storage.
Epis Technology helps businesses figure out when active-passive high availability is the best balance between cost and reliability, and makes sure that failover behavior is tested and in line with business recovery goals.
Backup and business continuity built in
Synology’s data protection tools work perfectly with both platforms. Snapshot Replication and Hyper Backup keep shared data and system settings safe. Active Backup Suite, on the other hand, lets you protect all of your endpoints, virtual machines, and cloud workloads, like Microsoft 365, from one place.
This layered method makes sure that high availability is backed up by strong backup and recovery options. Epis Technology designs these environments as a whole, bringing together high availability, backup, and disaster recovery into one plan instead of separate systems.
Scaling Up with Safety and Confidence
The UC3400 and SA3400D let businesses expand their storage space without having to redesign their infrastructure. They can support up to hundreds of terabytes. These systems are good for healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and other regulated fields because they have centralized management, encryption, and features that make it easy to follow the rules.
Epis Technology helps organizations keep their systems running by supporting ongoing lifecycle management tasks like capacity planning, firmware updates, health monitoring, and compliance alignment.
How Epis Technology Provides Availability for Businesses
Epis Technology is an expert at setting up and supporting Synology high-availability storage for businesses. Their team makes sure that storage platforms work with business continuity goals by designing dual-controller architectures, testing failover behavior, adding backup and security controls, and making sure that storage platforms work with business continuity goals. Epis Technology helps businesses get the most out of their Synology UC3400 and SA3400D systems while keeping risks, downtime, and operational complexity to a minimum. They do this by helping with everything from the initial design to long-term optimization.