StoneFly Unified Storage and Server (USS™)
Hyperconverged Appliance
Built and tested for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Citrix (XenServer), and Proxmox with fully integrated ransomware protection, storage, and advanced data services.
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Why Choose StoneFly HCI Appliances
Secure and Optimized Storage for Machines and Servers
Automated ransomware protection secures critical data, while built-in storage and optimization features enhance storage efficiency, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for your HCI appliance.
Zero Latency High Performance Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Seamlessly integrates virtualization, storage, and networking into one appliance, delivering unparalleled performance with zero latency and high speed IOPs between machines and target SAN, NAS, or S3 storage.
High Availability: RAID, Failover/Failback, and Redundancy
Ensure uninterrupted high availability and seamless business continuity with integrated hardware RAID controllers, automated failover/failback capabilities, and comprehensive hardware/software redundancy measures in place.
Custom-to-Order Turnkey HCI Appliances
StoneFly’s custom-to-order hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances empower you to design the ideal solution for your needs. Tailor processing power, storage (including high-performance NVMe SSDs or cost-effective SAS options), and memory with complete flexibility. StoneFly integrates seamlessly with security, optimization, management, and reporting features, delivering a turnkey experience with thoroughly tested, custom-built appliances.
24/7 Premium Technical Support – No Long Waiting Times
Get prompt assistance from our technical support experts without enduring lengthy queues. Our premium support structure prioritizes your needs, ensuring you receive quality assistance within 24 hours.
Cost-Effective HCI at the Best Price in the Market
Deduplication and thin provisioning optimize storage capacity. The HCI appliance integrates with NVMe SSDs, SAS, and cloud for a cost-effective, all-in-one storage solution. Achieve the best TCO and consolidate your storage infrastructure.
Seamless Integration: Multi-Hypervisor Support with No Vendor Lock-in
Award Winning Integrated SAN, NAS, and S3 Object Storage Stack
The USS, powered by StoneFly’s 8th-gen patented storage virtualization engine, delivers a unified storage solution for virtualization environments. It seamlessly integrates award-winning block, file, and S3 object storage to optimize performance and reduce costs.
What is StoneFly USS?
Turnkey HCI Appliance with Integrated Security, Storage, and Optimization Capabilities
The StoneFly Unified Storage and Server (USS) is a consolidated turnkey hyperconverged solution, bringing together server, virtualization, storage, and networking in one complete package.
Here’s what makes the USS stand out:
- All-in-One Convenience: No need to manage multiple systems. The USS consolidates everything you need into a single, unified, and turnkey solution.
- Tailored Configurations: Choose the setup that fits your needs, whether it’s single-node, dual-node cluster, scale-out, or high availability.
- Seamless Integration: No platform conflicts here. The USS delivers a fully integrated platform for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Citrix (XenServer), and Proxmox.
- Advanced Data Services: Leverage built-in security, optimization, and performance features including air-gapped and immutability functionalities, software-defined network isolation zones, on-demand sandboxes, volume deletion protection, immutable snapshots, deduplication, thin provisioning, and more to optimize performance and security with ease.
- Hot/Cold NVMe, SSD, SAS, and Cloud Tiered Storage: Powered by StoneFly’s 8th gen patented SCVM™ engine, USS offers optional SAN, NAS, and S3 object storage, with integrated Azure, AWS cloud capabilities. Experience the power of NVMe, SSD, and SAS technologies, providing your enterprise machines and servers with dynamic hot and cold tiered storage in one comprehensive solution.
All-in-One Zero-Latency High Performance Hyperconvergence
With the hypervisor, compute, and storage consolidated in a single solution, the USS HCI appliance eliminates bottlenecks and delivers zero-latency for enterprise virtual environments, and machines. Built-in storage optimization features such as variable block deduplication eliminate redundant data, maximizing storage utilization. Flash cache accelerates read/write operations for frequently accessed data, while RAID ensures data integrity and high availability.
Finally, NVMe-based hot tier storage provides a high-performance tier for mission-critical applications and high performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Integrated Air-Gapped and Immutable Storage: The Unbreakable Ransomware Defense
StoneFly USS HCI appliances deliver comprehensive ransomware defense through automated air-gapping and immutability.
Here's how it works:
- Policy-based Air-Gapping: Isolates critical data by physically or logically detaching the storage from the network, creating an unbreachable air gap that ransomware can’t reach.
- Immutable FileLock and S3 Object Lockdown: Prevents malicious actors from modifying, deleting, or overwriting your unstructured data for a predefined retention period.
Unmatched Security with Flexibility:
Air-Gapped & Immutable Repositories
This setup combines a network-facing repository for daily use with a separate, air-gapped and immutable repository for ransomware-proof storage and retention.
Air-Gapped & Immutable Controllers:
Dual-controller setup with one network-facing controller and a separate, air-gapped and immutable controller for enhanced data security.
Air-Gapped & Immutable Nodes
Purpose-built, detachable nodes offering maximum air-gapped and immutable security for sensitive data
All configurations follow the same principle: air-gapped storage is only accessible during designated read/write operations and then physically disconnected, ensuring complete ransomware protection.
Integrated Security and Advanced Data Services
Air-Gapped and Immutable Storage
Automated policy-based isolation for critical data with integrated immutability which stops changes, overwriting, and malicious encryption.
Immutable FileLock
Secure unstructured data (files, images, etc.) for a set time with WORM-like immutability. Stops ransomware and keeps data safe – even after deletion attempts.
Immutable S3 Object Lockdown
Lockdown S3 objects (on-prem or cloud) for tamper-proof protection. Stops edits, overwrites, and ransomware like an ironclad FileLock.
Immutable Snapshots
Create secure, immutable snapshots of your data (block, file, or object storage). These frozen backups shield from edits, overwrites, and ransomware, offering a safe point in time to restore from.
Volume Deletion Protection
Volume deletion protection stops accidental or malicious deletion. Requires multi-step verification with StoneFly support for authorized removal.
End-to-End Encryption
StoneFly HCI encrypts your data at rest with AES 256-bit encryption, and data in transit travels through secure SSL/TLS tunnels. Ironclad protection for your data, wherever it goes.
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Secure your data with multi-factor authentication (MFA) required not just for access, but also for critical administrative tasks like volume deletion, and immutability settings.
On-Demand Sandbox
Spin up a secure, isolated environment (sandbox) on demand. Experiment with software, configurations, or data recovery – all without impacting your production environment.
Variable Block Deduplication
Variable block deduplication analyzes data in 4KB, 8KB, 32KB, and 64KB chunks, storing only unique blocks and referencing them wherever they appear. This significantly reduces storage requirements.
Sync/Async Replication
Choose real-time replication (sync) for instant failover or asynchronous replication for efficient redundancy. StoneFly keeps your data constantly protected and available, on-site or off-site.
Thin Provisioning
Thin provisioning in StoneFly HCI allocates storage only as your data grows. This maximizes usable capacity, lets you optimize resource allocation, and avoids upfront over-provisioning.
Frontend SSD Caching
Utilize frontend SSD caching to accelerate data access. Frequently used data gets stored on high-performance SSDs for faster retrieval, boosting application performance and responsiveness.
Multiple Isolated Environments, One Box:
Integrated Dual Hardware Controller Single Node
This USS HCI architecture takes an efficient and cost-effective approach to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) by offering multiple independent and isolated environments within a single node. The architecture, powered by our patented Storage Virtualization Engine (SCVM™) and dual hardware controllers, delivers the benefits of dedicated appliances while maximizing resource utilization.
Key Advantages:
- Isolated Security Zones: Each environment operates with dedicated hardware controllers, guaranteeing complete separation for enhanced security and data protection. This eliminates the risk of performance bottlenecks or latency often encountered in shared environments.
- Flexible Configuration Options: Solution architects can leverage the dual hardware controllers to create customized configurations.
- Virtualization Host (Source): The primary controller (SC-1) acts as the foundation for your virtualization environment. It supports leading hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox) and a wide range of connectivity options (iSCSI/Fibre Channel, CIFS/SMB, NFS, and S3 REST API) for your production VMs.
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- Secure High Performance Storage (Target): The secondary controller (SC-2) unlocks a variety of storage configurations, including:
- Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication: Ensure business continuity and data availability with flexible replication options.
- Immutable and Air-Gapped Storage: Protect critical data from ransomware attacks with tamper-proof storage solutions.
- S3 Object Lockdown and Immutable FileLock: Further strengthen data security with advanced object and file locking mechanisms.
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP): Minimize data loss with real-time data backups.
- Shared NAS Repository: Facilitate efficient file sharing across your virtual environment.
- Secure High Performance Storage (Target): The secondary controller (SC-2) unlocks a variety of storage configurations, including:
VMware and Hyper-V Cluster for HA: Sync/Async Replication and Automated Failover
StoneFly USS HCI appliances empower organizations to seamlessly scale their IT infrastructure and achieve exceptional business continuity through robust clustering capabilities.
Built-in High Availability:
Automated Failover and Failback: StoneFly USS eliminates downtime concerns with automated failover and failback functionalities. In the event of a node failure, the remaining healthy nodes automatically take over workloads, ensuring uninterrupted application and service availability. Once the failed node is repaired, automated failback seamlessly restores the original cluster configuration.
Simple and Scalable Cluster Management:
- Effortless Clustering: StoneFly USS appliances are delivered as turnkey systems, minimizing configuration complexity. Clustering is pre-configured and easy to activate, allowing system administrators to quickly set up and scale out as their storage and compute demands grow.
- Sync/Async Replication Options: StoneFly USS supports both synchronous and asynchronous replication, providing system administrators with the flexibility to choose the right replication strategy for their specific needs. Synchronous replication ensures real-time data consistency across the cluster, ideal for mission-critical applications. Asynchronous replication offers efficient data replication with lower latency, suitable for disaster recovery scenarios.
StoneFly USS HCI Appliance Use-Cases: Driving Enterprise Innovation and Growth
AI and Machine Learning
Data Analytics
Server Virtualization
Data Warehouses
Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
High Performance Computing (HPC)
Deploy Your Hyperconverged Solution Anywhere, Any Way: Scalable Solutions with StoneFly
Dual-Node Shared-Nothing
Dual-clustered hyperconverged appliances with automated failover & failback
Scale Out
Start with three hyperconverged appliances & scale out to as many nodes as you need.
High Availability
Modular hardware with two HCI controller nodes and one or more HA RAID array(s).
Find Your Perfect Fit: StoneFly HCI Appliance Series
XS-Series
8 to 60-bay appliances with high performance multi-core Xeon processors, high speed network ports, built-in RAID controller, and enterprise NVMe SSDs and/or SAS drives.
XD-Series
8-bay to 60-bay appliances with high performance multi-core dual Xeon processors, high speed network ports, built-in RAID controller, and enterprise NVMe SSDs and/or SAS drives.