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Appliance-based Secure File Transfer
The Accellion Appliance is a key component of Accellion’s secure file transfer solution. Accellion appliances provide the highest level of security and ease of use of any enterprise file transfer solution.
Accellion Appliance Configurations
Accellion appliances come in a range of sizes to ensure that each of your offices has a properly sized file transfer appliance. Appliances can be mixed and matched in a multi-office installation or installed as a standalone single site solution. With the choice of appliance sizes, Accellion can design an installation that offers room for file transfer usage growth, yet still ensures that you achieve a quick return on investment.
- Accellion Blue—for standalone installations
- Accellion Gold—for multiple office installations
Accellion provides a choice of either hardware-based appliances or virtual appliances designed for VMWare environments.
Accellion Appliance Specifications
| Virtual Appliance | AV100 | AV250 | AV500 | AV1000 | AV2000 |
| Storage | 63GB | 125GB | 250GB | 500GB | 1000GB |
| RAM | 1GB | 1GB | 2GB | 4GB | 4GB |
| Hardware Appliance | A100* | A250 | A500 | A1000 | A1500 |
| Rack mountable | Y (1U) | Y (1U) | Y (1U) | Y (2U) | Y (2U) |
| CPU | 1xCeleron | 1xCeleron | 1xDuoCore Xeon | 2xDuoCore Xeon | 2xDuoCore Xeon |
| RAM | 512MB | 512MB | 2GB | 4GB | 4GB |
| Hard Drive | 80GB/SATA | 160GB/SATA | 216GB/SAS** | 440GB/SAS* | 880GB/SAS** |
| Hot Plug drives | N | N | Y | Y | Y |
| Gigabit NIC | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| LOM | NA | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Storage Redundancy | Software RAID | RAID1 | RAID5 | RAID5 | RAID5 |
| Redundant Fans | NA | NA | Included | Included | Included |
| Redundant Power | NA | NA | Included | Included | Included |
| Battery Backed Cache enabler | NA | NA | Included | Included | Included |
*A100 only available for single site installation
**SAS = Serial Attached SCSI
Accellion Failover Capabilities
- Accellion Local Clustering—provides automated failover capabilities between two appliances installed in the same location, preferably in the same rack. Provides disaster recovery through data and equipment redundancy protection.
- Accellion Remote Failover—provides geographic redundancy protection.
Accellion SAN/Storage Integration
Accellion provides extensive tools for IT to manage the life cycle of files stored on the Accellion appliances, including customizable file deletion policies. Files can reside on the appliance for days or years depending on application requirements. Accellion appliances can also be integrated with SAN to meet expanded enterprise storage requirements.