This system is a Synology RAID system (specifically RS3614xs), with 12 4-TB disks. 9 of these disks provide RAID5 (total ~29 TB of space) with 3 disks acting as hot spares. The system runs a linux distribution (DSM) and is generally administrated either from the command line (e.g. ssh) or via a web interface.
The primary purpose of this machine is to synchronize with the Internal DB/Raid system.
See here.
Replication of the local DB occurs via a tunnel through the optimal system. If a new system needs to be setup to replicate all dbs from the internal DB server, then one can use the following script: