HyperScale USO-HA™ High Availability Cluster
NAS + SAN + Object Appliance
If you are looking for high availability and greater scalability in powerful storage solutions, you are in the right place. Distributed parallel file system supporting thousand of clients scalable to thousands of nodes..
The USO HA series were developed considering the requirement many of our customers have for a powerful storage solution, inexpensive, scale out, high performance.
14,000 nodes deployed by one of most popular silicon valley social media company .
Server Virtualization, Large-scale hosting, Backup and Archive, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Media and entertainment , Life sciences , Oil gas, research and High-performance Applications.
Technical Specifications
StoneFly StoneFusion 8.0 Base SAN + NAS Management 64-Bit Operating System on Each Cluster Node
- Logical Volume Creation and Patented Advanced Storage Virtualization Services
- 200 iSCSI Volumes Supported with 1022 Concurrent Host iSCSI Sessions
- iSCSI/NAS Port Teaming, Failover and Load-Balancing
- Volume-Level Access Control and Dynamic Volume Management
- Support for iSCSI, NAS (CIFS/SMB & NFS), SNMP Traps, UPS, Nagios, RAID Monitoring, Call Home
- Global Shared Storage for OpenStack – Cinder (Block/Volume), Swift (Object) & Glance (Image)
- System-Wide Graphical Performance and Utilization Reporting
- Advanced Report Management
- Automated Online Volume / Storage Expansion
- Licensed to Support Unlimited NAS Clients per Cluster
StoneFly StoneFusion 8.0 Advanced Features Package on Each Cluster Node
- StoneFly Active / Active Clustering Services with Host and SAN Load Balancing, Seamless Failover and Failback Operations
- StoneFly Snapshot Services with 2520 Delta-Based Snapshots per Subsystem
- Mountable Read-Write Snapshot Volumes
- Snapshot Schedule Utility, Command Line Interface Utility
- Scale Out NAS using a Single Name Space and No Meta-Data to Scale Capacity & Performance
- Add Nodes to Scale Capacity and Performance
- StoneFly Real-Time Synchronous Mirroring of iSCSI Volumes and Nodes (Campus Mirroring)
- Multi-Site/Multi-Appliance Replication and Unified Central Management System
- Thin Provisioning with Space Reclamation
- Tiered Storage Architecture with Hardware and Software Support
Available Software Upgrade Options
- Asynchronous Replication (One-to-Many & Many-to-One)
- Optimized Block Level Parallel Data Deduplication with High-Performance Index Engine
- Hardware-Enabled Block Level AES 256 Volume Encryption
- Fibre Channel SAN Target (License Bundled with Choice of 4Gb/8Gb/16Gb HBAs)
- VSS Support
USO-HA and USO-FC Series Hardware Features
StoneFly Dual 2U or StoneFly Dual 3U Storage Concentrator Cluster
- Choice of Low-Profile 2U Storage Concentrators or Full-Height 3U Storage Concentrators, Two Nodes per Cluster
- Hot-Swappable Cluster Nodes with Failover and Failback
- Choice of Single or Dual Hexa-Core Storage Virtualization Engines per Cluster Node
- 16GB, 32GB or 64GB Data Packet and Command Queuing Cache for SSPP® per Cluster Node
- USO-HA: 6Gb or 12Gb SAS Ports on Each Cluster Node for Connection to Expansion Array(s)
- USO-FC: 8Gb or 16Gb FC Ports on Each Cluster Node for Connection to Expansion Array(s) or FC Switch(es)
- Scale Capacity to 3600 Drives with StoneFly Expansion Arrays/Units
- USO-FC can scale even higher when using Fibre Channel switches between the Cluster Nodes and the Expansion Arrays
- Two Hot-Swappable OS Drives Mirrored at RAID 1 with Cache Battery Backup in each Node
- Supports 1Gb Copper, 10Gb RJ-45/CX4 Copper, SFP+, SR/LR Optical
- One Gigabit Management Port per Cluster Node
- Redundant 80-PLUS® Certified Hot-Swappable Power Supplies
StoneFly Expansion Array
- Dual Active-Active Hot-Swappable Storage Controllers with Transparent Failover/Failback
- 6 to 60 Hot-Swappable RAID Certified Drives per Chassis
- Choice of Nearline SAS, Enterprise SAS, SSD or Tiered
- RAID Levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Global Spares
- ECC-Protected RAID Cache with Battery Backup on Each Controller for Up to 72-Hour Cache Data Protection
- Choice of 6Gb/12Gb SAS Host Connectivity to Dual USO-HA Cluster Nodes
- Choice of 8Gb/16Gb FC Host Connectivity to Dual USO-FC Cluster Nodes
- Dual Out-of-Band Ethernet Interfaces for Remote Status Monitoring & Configuration
- Redundant 80-PLUS® Certified High-Efficiency Hot-Swappable Power Supply Modules
- Scale Capacity with Additional Expansion Units
StoneFly Expansion Unit
- Redundant JBOD Expander Controllers for Dual RAID Controller Configurations
- 6 to 60 Hot-Swappable RAID Certified Drives per Chassis
- Choice of Nearline SAS, Enterprise SAS or Tiered
- In-Band Enclosure Management Service to Monitor/Control All Enclosure Elements
- Redundant 80-PLUS® Certified High-Efficiency Hot-Swappable Power Supply Modules
Virtual Storage for Virtualized Environments
We continue to try to maintain certification with the latest version of:
- VMware
- Citrix Xen
- Microsoft HyperV
- KVM
Ease of Use
- Web-based intuitive graphical user interface
- Simple, on-demand, no downtime volume or storage expansion