Video Surveillance Solution

NexentaStor: Unified Storage Solutions for Video Surveillance

Video Surveillance is being driven by new requirements for higher resolution (HD), longer retention times (increasing storage capacity), high performance (more cameras, higher frames per second), and the need to implement advanced features, such as video search and cloud storage.

Video Surveillance mostly is an Event Driven Workflow, sometimes 99% write intensive, sometimes requiring Priority Read or analysis of archived video. The storage system supporting Video Surveillance has to be high performance, reliable, and flexible so as to easily allocate resources and seamlessly implement new technologies, such as SSDs.

NexentaStor, Nexenta’s Unified Storage Solution, provides the features needed to obtain the full benefits from a video surveillance solution. NexentaStor can implement any mix of storage technologies (i.e., HDD, SSD, JBODs, etc.) to deliver Class of Service(s) based on Video Surveillance requirements.

Whether centralizing a singular surveillance solution, or deploying a distributed environment with 1000s of camera streams and petabytes of storage to manage, NexentaStor enables a high-performance storage system while saving up to 70% in procurement costs and long-term TCO.

With more than 4000 customers worldwide, including service providers, government agencies, enterprise businesses large and small, Nexenta has many examples of delivering a cost-effective, scalable, easy to manage, high-performance storage infrastructure, thereby providing scalability, data integrity, cost controls, and more.

Video Surveillance Benefits Overview


  • Hybrid Storage Pools
    • Combined I/O bandwidth of all devices is available to all file systems at all times.
    • Abstract physical devices.
    • Storage pools (combinations of SSD, HDD, and JBOD) as SAN and NAS.
  • Accelerated Write Performance
  • Dynamic Scalability
  • 128-bit File System
    • Unlimited file size, unlimited capacity, unlimited snapshots.
  • Dynamic Backup and Synchronizing
    • To multiple local or remote destinations.
  • Copy-On-Write
    • End-to-end data integrity.
  • 256-bit Checksum
    • Detect and correct data corruption.
  • Ditto Blocks
  • Automated Scheduling
  • Auto-Tiering
  • Auto-Sync
  • Auto-Snap
  • APIs and Plug-ins