BrickStor SP Virtual Appliance — Cyberstorage as a VM
The full BrickStor SP Cyberstorage stack delivered as a virtual appliance for private, public, and hybrid cloud. Replace Windows and Linux file servers with an easy-to-manage secure cross-platform solution. Available by subscription. Nutanix Ready; runs on every major hypervisor and cloud.
Actively defend unstructured data — anywhere a VM can run
BrickStor SP Virtual Appliance is the same Cyberstorage platform that ships on bare-metal BrickStor — delivered as a VM image you drop into your hypervisor or your public-cloud account. Every patented technology that defines BrickStor SP — Active Defense, ABAC, ImmutaVault, Intelligent Bulk Remediation, Transparent Data Movement — is included.
Organizations relying on traditional Windows or Linux file servers face growing security and compliance pressure on unstructured data. BrickStor SP Virtual Appliance closes those gaps with built-in data security and management — secure by default, simple to deploy, and engineered by U.S. Intelligence Community veterans who know what classified and regulated environments actually need.
No physical appliance required. Same Cyberstorage architecture. Subscription pricing you can scale by the TB.
The full BrickStor SP stack — as a VM
Stop data theft and ransomware
Active Defense detects and blocks malicious attacks in real time, inline in the storage data path — the same patented technology that ships in the bare-metal BrickStor SP.
Automated remediation
Recover from attacks in minutes with built-in incident management and Intelligent Bulk Remediation — surgical file-level rollback driven by the platform's own forensic audit.
Enforce Zero Trust
Native ABAC and user-behavior analysis evaluate every SMB, NFS, and S3 operation against zero-trust policy at the data layer — anomalies surface automatically.
Seamless data management
Transparent Data Movement (TDM) tiers cold data to S3 object storage for efficiency, while keeping a single namespace and continuous policy across tiers.
Granular data protection
VSS-compliant file versioning and restore. Policy-driven immutable snapshots with sub-minute RPO. Recover individual files or whole datasets on demand.
Rapid disaster recovery
Data protection policies and replication ensure minimal RPO and RTO — protected copies move to a target BrickStor (virtual or physical) on schedule.
Simplified compliance
Built-in reports streamline audits and compliance reporting — overexposed, stale, and stranded data surfaced as a byproduct of how the platform operates.
Ensure data integrity
Self-healing architecture prevents entropy. Checksums on every block detect and correct silent corruption before it propagates.
Deploy in minutes
Minimal configuration. Drop the OVA / qcow2 / VHDX into your hypervisor, allocate resources, and you have secure NAS — without standing up a physical appliance.
Runs where your VMs run today
BrickStor SP is Nutanix Ready certified and compatible with every major hypervisor.
Nutanix Ready
Nutanix AHV
Compatible
VMware ESXi
Compatible
Microsoft Hyper-V
Compatible
KVM
Deploy in the cloud you already use
AWS
Amazon Web Services — EC2 and VMware Cloud on AWS
Microsoft Azure
Azure Virtual Machines for hybrid and public deployments
Google Cloud
Google Compute Engine for public cloud workloads
VMware Cloud on AWS
BrickStor SP as an ESXi VM in VMware Cloud on AWS
Specs at a glance
| Public and Hybrid Cloud Compatibility | AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS |
| Supported Hypervisors | KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi |
| Authentication and Access Control | Integration with Active Directory and LDAP; native ABAC |
| Supported Protocols | SMB (2 / 3 / 3.1), NFS (3 / 4 / 4.1 / 4.2), S3 |
| Encryption and Key Management | FIPS AES-256 encryption (data at rest and in flight); KMIP-compliant key management with automated rotation |
| Maximum Capacity | 384 TB usable per VM (expandable via TDM data archiving to S3 object storage) |
| Minimum VM Resources | 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM |
| Licensing | Subscription-based, scalable by the TB |
Where the Virtual Appliance fits
Replace Windows or Linux file servers
Stand up BrickStor SP Virtual Appliance and migrate file shares off legacy Windows / Linux servers onto a platform with Cyberstorage built in — Active Defense, ABAC, immutable audit, and surgical recovery from day one.
Cyberstorage in public cloud
Protect unstructured workloads in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud with the same Cyberstorage stack that protects on-premises data — no different operational model, no different security posture.
Hybrid cloud with TDM
Run BrickStor SP Virtual Appliance on-premises and tier cold data to S3 in the cloud with Transparent Data Movement — one namespace across tiers, policy and audit continuity preserved across the move.
Edge and remote sites
Deploy a Virtual Appliance at a remote office or edge site on existing hypervisor capacity. Managed centrally from Hub Central alongside the rest of your BrickStor estate.
The same BrickStor SP, three deployment paths
Physical Appliance →
Configure and drop a scalable BrickStor appliance into your infrastructure. Up and running in minutes.
SAN Gateway →
Connect to block capacity via iSCSI or Fibre Channel to create high-performance, highly-available secure NAS.
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Virtual Appliance
Replace Windows and Linux file servers with an easy-to-manage secure cross-platform solution. Available by subscription.
Try Cyberstorage as a VM
Spin up BrickStor SP Virtual Appliance in your hypervisor or your cloud and see Active Defense, ABAC, and ImmutaVault running on a platform you already own.