Simgenet SMG Unified Storage Server

Simgenet SMG Unified Storage Server

The Simgenet SMG Unified Storage Server is a central storage solution where you can safely keep all of your organization's data. It brings together very different needs — file sharing, backup, camera and voice recordings, virtual-server disks and long-term archiving — in a single device. So instead of buying several devices from different brands, you work with a single solution that is easy to install and manage and that grows as you grow. The product is entirely designed and developed in Türkiye; installation, maintenance and technical support are provided with Simgenet assurance.

What sets Simgenet apart: it combines object, file and block access in a single panel; a single software runs on all hardware (hardware-agnostic, no vendor lock-in); Simgenet devices recognize each other automatically and communicate encrypted; as the data layer of the Simgenet platform it consolidates IP PBX recordings, router backups and central logs in one place; it integrates fully as a datastore with VMware, Proxmox VE and Hyper-V virtualization systems; and it is developed entirely in-house, Simgenet-branded and managed from a single user-friendly panel.

Unified Access: Object, File and Block

The device provides all access methods expected from a storage server at the same time. The S3-compatible object store (MinIO) works with versioning and object-lock; SMB/CIFS serves Windows shares with Previous Versions support; NFS serves Linux and virtual machines; the iSCSI block target is provided with CHAP authentication; and SFTP supports secure file transfer. While file sharing or S3 can be used freely on the local network, S3 is recommended over the wide-area network (WAN), because multipart upload, resume and TLS use bandwidth in the most efficient and secure way.

Data Protection and Security

Data integrity is protected by ZFS's Copy-on-Write architecture and automatic repair (autoreplace + regular scrub). The device supports mirror, RAID-Z1/Z2/Z3, stripe and nested RAID 10/50/60 levels, instant and scheduled snapshots, object versioning and immutable WORM/object-lock archiving. On the security side, data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3; access is managed with role-based access control (RBAC), destructive operations require two-step approval, and enterprise authentication is centrally handled through RADIUS, LDAP and TACACS+.

Management and Ease of Use

The management interface is comprehensive yet simple and user-friendly. Thanks to its Excel-like matrix table structure, disk, RAID, folder, quota, share, S3, iSCSI, snapshot, user and replication operations are configured easily from a single panel. Success or error information is shown instantly after every operation, the interface refreshes live every 30 seconds without a page reload, and serial-number-based disk labeling makes it easy to find the correct physical disk during a failure. Multiple Ethernet interfaces are auto-detected and a separate IP can be assigned to each interface.

High Availability and Platform Integration

The device provides high availability with two-node encrypted ZFS replication and MinIO site-replication (S3 active-active); Simgenet devices recognize each other automatically and connect encrypted. It also serves as the data layer of the Simgenet platform: IP PBX call recordings, SMGOS router configuration and firmware backups, central syslog and telemetry are consolidated on this storage. The built-in syslog server stores logs with RFC3161 timestamping and a signed, tamper-evident archive.