Veritas Access 3340 NAS/DAS Storage System

The Veritas Access 3340 NAS/DAS Storage System is engineered to be the backbone of modern data management for enterprises that generate vast amounts of unstructured data. Designed for reliability, scalability, and total cost of ownership, this appliance delivers a unified solution for primary storage, backup, and archival workflows. It combines the flexibility of NAS with the direct attach capabilities of DAS, empowering organizations to consolidate multiple storage silos into a single, centralized platform. As unstructured data grows—from media files and research datasets to logs and content repositories—the Veritas Access 3340 provides a scalable, high-performance foundation that simplifies administration, strengthens data protection, and accelerates access to information across teams and applications. Built with enterprise-grade components, redundant pathways, and a resilient software stack, this system is purpose-built to support long-term retention, regulatory compliance, and data-driven decision making in fast-paced production environments. By delivering efficient data services, fast access to files, and strong governance, the Veritas Access 3340 helps organizations maximize the value of their unstructured data while controlling storage costs and complexity.

• Unified NAS and DAS architecture for flexible data access The Veritas Access 3340 merges network-attached storage and direct-attached storage capabilities into a single appliance, enabling seamless access via common file protocols such as NFS and SMB for shared folders, while also supporting block-level access through iSCSI when needed. This dual capability simplifies how teams store, retrieve, and collaborate on large datasets, media libraries, and scientific archives. With a converged data plane, you can design workflows that balance performance and capacity, implement policy-driven data placement, and run mixed workloads without moving data between separate systems. The solution offers centralized management and consistent data services across both NAS and DAS access paths, reducing complexity and operational overhead while ensuring consistent data protection, access controls, and metadata management.
• Optimized for unstructured data workloads and long-term retention The 3340 is purpose-built to handle the demands of large, unstructured datasets, including high-throughput file transfers, metadata-rich assets, and multi-user collaboration scenarios. It delivers fast metadata operations, efficient caching, and data services that accelerate read-heavy workflows common in media, research, and analytics. Built to support long-term retention and compliant archival strategies, the system integrates with backup and archiving workflows to preserve data integrity over years. With features like policy-driven retention, automated tiering, and durable data protection, organizations can store vast unstructured datasets economically while ensuring quick access when needed for compliance, discovery, or creative reuse.
• Scalable, cost-efficient capacity growth As data volumes grow, the Veritas Access 3340 scales gracefully. The architecture supports adding drive shelves or expanding capacity to meet evolving workload requirements without sacrificing performance. This scalable design helps organizations avoid premature data migration costs and vendor lock-in, enabling a gradual investment approach that aligns with business growth. By leveraging tiered storage strategies, compression, deduplication, and optimized data placement, the system reduces total storage spend while maintaining fast access to active data and preserving cold data for compliance and long-term analytics.
• Comprehensive data protection and compliance features Protecting unstructured data is essential for business continuity and regulatory adherence. The Veritas Access 3340 offers robust data protection capabilities, including snapshots, replication, and policy-driven backups that integrate with Veritas’ broader protection portfolio. Encryption at rest and strong access controls help safeguard sensitive information, while immutability and retention policies support compliance obligations. With granular recovery options, organizations can restore individual files or entire datasets quickly, minimizing downtime and ensuring data integrity across locations and storage tiers.
• Centralized management and seamless integration with the Veritas ecosystem A single, centralized management interface provides visibility and control across all storage resources, enabling policy-based automation, monitoring, and reporting. The 3340 is designed to integrate with the Veritas software family, including NetBackup, InfoScale, and Enterprise Vault ecosystems, to streamline data protection, disaster recovery, and archival workflows. This integration simplifies administration for IT teams, accelerates deployment, and enables consistent governance, reporting, and compliance across the entire data lifecycle—from primary file storage to long-term retention and archival archives.

Technical Details of Veritas Access 3340 NAS/DAS Storage System

• Product type: Enterprise storage appliance designed for NAS and DAS workloads, optimized for unstructured data and long-term retention.
• Form factor: Rack-mount appliance suitable for data center deployment with modular expansion options.
• Protocols and access: Supports common file protocols (NFS, SMB/CIFS) for network file sharing and block access (iSCSI) for application servers requiring block storage; compatible with standard data access patterns used by media, scientific, and analytics workloads.
• Software and data services: Runs on Veritas Access software platform, providing data virtualization, policy-based automation, data protection features, and centralized management for file workloads.
• Data protection features: Snapshots, replication, and encryption at rest to safeguard data; supports retention policies and integration with Veritas protection products for comprehensive backup and archiving.
• Scalability: Supports adding capacity via expansion shelves and scale-out growth to accommodate increasing unstructured data demands while preserving performance and data availability.
• Performance characteristics: Engineered to deliver high throughput and low latency for large file transfers and concurrent access, with caching mechanisms designed to accelerate access to active datasets.
• Security and governance: Role-based access control, auditing, and policy-driven data management to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.
• Power and reliability: Enterprise-grade design with options for redundant power and cooling paths to maximize uptime in demanding environments.
• Management and integration: Centralized web-based management interface with policy-driven automation, status dashboards, and integration hooks for backup and archival workflows within the Veritas ecosystem.

How to install Veritas Access 3340 NAS/DAS Storage System

Prepare the hardware and network environment by verifying rack space, power availability, and network connectivity. Position the appliance in a secure data center or server room with adequate cooling and accessible management access. Connect the device to your network and power sources, ensuring redundancy where available for high availability configurations. Power on the system and access the initial setup wizard through the console or a connected management interface. Follow the guided steps to configure network settings, assign management IP addresses, and establish administrative credentials. Create storage pools and volumes based on your desired data layout, then enable the appropriate file access protocols (NFS, SMB) and any required iSCSI targets for application workloads. Configure data protection policies, including snapshots, replication, and encryption at rest, and integrate with your backup and archiving workflows, such as Veritas NetBackup or compatible archiving solutions. Finally, validate performance, adjust caching and tiering policies, monitor system health through the management console, and plan for future growth by outlining expansion paths and capacity projections.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What workloads is Veritas Access 3340 best suited for? A: It is optimized for unstructured data workloads, including large media libraries, research datasets, content repositories, and analytics workflows, with strong support for backup and archival use cases and unified access across NAS and DAS environments.
• Q: Does the Veritas Access 3340 support both NAS and DAS access? A: Yes, it provides a unified platform that supports network-based file access (NFS/SMB) as well as block-level access (iSCSI) for applications requiring direct storage connectivity.
• Q: What data protection features are included? A: The system includes snapshots, replication, encryption at rest, and policy-driven retention to support data protection, compliance, and rapid recovery.
• Q: Can the system scale to accommodate growing data needs? A: Yes, the architecture is designed for scalable growth through expansion shelves and scalable capacity while maintaining performance and manageability.
• Q: How is management handled? A: Management is centralized via a web-based interface that unifies storage configuration, data services, policy automation, and integration with Veritas protection and archival products for streamlined operations.