VCL-SAN
Industrial Grade Storage
Area Network with Cybersecurity

Cluster Management and Scalability:

• Dynamic Node Addition / Removal: Expand or shrink capacity without service interruption
• Automatic Rebalancing: Data automatically redistributes when nodes or disks are added or replaced
• High Availability Architecture: Continuous access even during node or disk failure
• Integrated Cluster Health Dashboard: Live status of Nodes, Disk Store and services.

Storage and Data Management:

• Thin Provisioning for efficient capacity usage
• Data Scrubbing to detect silent corruption
• Storage Pools for logical grouping
• Mirrored and Parity-based Pools
• Quality of Service (QoS) per volume (per image).

Monitoring and Reporting:

• Real-Time Performance Graphs: throughput, latency, IOPS and capacity visualization
• Capacity forecasting: Predictive analytics for expansion planning
• Integrated Health Reporting: Displays utilization, error counts, and snapshot schedules.

Cybersecurity and Access Control:

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Define user roles with specific privilege levels
• Storage Quotas: Set per-volume limits to manage resource utilization and ensure balanced allocation
• Client-Based Access Restriction: iSCSI clients are authenticated and authorized using unique initiator ID's for secure volume access. (IQN Based and CHAP)
• Volume-Level Encryption: Data at rest is protected through the system's integrated storage-encryption mechanism
• Secure HTTPS Web Interface: All administrative operations occur over SSL-encrypted HTTPS sessions.

Backup and Recovery:

• Read-Only Snapshots with long-term retention policies:
• Daily - 2 weeks,
• Weekly - 1 year,
• Monthly - 5 years,
• Annually - 10 years
• Automated replication between nodes
• Automated data healing: Self-healing mechanism reconstructs missing or corrupted data blocks
• NTP synchronization: Ensures time-aligned replication and logs across all nodes.