HyperScale Converged SAN + NAS + Object Scale Out System
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Enjoy scalability and redundancy with Unified SAN + Scale-Out NAS Products
StoneFly “Unified Scale-Out” Block + file + Object Storage Appliances deliver scalability and redundancy as a Scale-Out NAS and fully featured SAN (iSCSI, Fibre Channel), Infiniband(RDMA) plus object, all in one easy to manage appliance. USO series of appliances were designed for customer’s requiring the flexibility of both SAN, NAS and object technologies in a powerful Storage solution that can scale out Storage capacity while scaling up performance.
StoneFly Scale-Out NAS Storage Appliances delivers unprecedented performance, redundancy and scalability. Designed for customers requiring a powerful Storage solution supporting unstructured data for physical, virtual, and cloud environments Scale-Out Storage capacity while scaling up performance. Each node supports up to 256 drives of 12TB (3 Petabytes) and easily Scale Out to hundreds or thousands of nodes on demand. Perfect for managing large quantities of unstructured file or object within a single global namespace.
The answer to Ever Growing unstructured data!
USO™ HyperScale Integrated Storage Node
StoneFly USO™ a HyperScale Storage Appliance deliver scalability and redundancy as a Scale Out Storage node and fully featured SAN (iSCSI and optional Fibre Channel), NAS( CIFS) and Object all in one easy to manage appliance. USO series of appliances were designed for customer’s requiring a powerful Storage solution that can Scale Out Storage capacity while scaling up performance. The USO products offer large Storage capacities at a low price and are available in 12Gb SAS or SSD combinations of 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, or 36 drives per base appliance. Additionally, StoneFly appliances offer the industry’s most cost-effective expansion via 12, 16 or 24 drive expansion units for USO appliance configurations up to 256 drives per Scale Out node.
USO-HA™ HyperScale High Availability Storage Node
StoneFly USO-HA™ is HyperScale High Availability Storage Appliances deliver unprecedented performance, scalability, and high-availability as a Scale Out and fully featured SAN (iSCSI and optional Fibre Channel), NAS(NFS,CIFS), Object all in one easy to manage modular appliance. Featuring active/active RAID controllers and improved redundancy, while being scalable up to 3600 drives (USO-HA) or a nearly unlimited number of drives in Scale Out deployments. The StoneFly USO-HA series of appliances were designed for customer’s requiring a powerful Storage solution that can Scale Out storage capacity while scaling up performance.
USO™ Scale out Storage Appliance – an ultimate HyperScale
StoneFly’s Unified Scale Out (USO™) Storage Appliances deliver scalability and redundancy as a Scale Out NAS and fully featured SAN (iSCSI and optional Fibre Channel), and object all in one easy to manage appliance. USO series of appliances were designed for customer’s requiring a powerful Storage solution that can Scale Out Storage capacity while scaling up performance.
The Scale Out NAS feature of the USO allows you to “Scale Out” as your business grows by adding nodes without losing performance. With the USO you can expand one or more volumes across multiple nodes using no metadata and a single namespace. Usable bandwidth increases as new nodes are added. Best of all, you can manage multiple nodes with just a single user interface.
Ranging in size from 8 to 36 drives per chassis, the USO can be scaled up to 256 drives per node and Scaled Out with additional nodes added as needed. For added flexibility, configurations can be mixed and matched according to customer need with any combinations of nearline 7200RPM SAS, enterprise 10k or 15k SAS, and SSD drives.
The cornerstone of USO Appliances is StoneFly’s patented Storage virtualization engine running the award winning StoneFly StoneFusion SAN operating system. StoneFusion also provides iSCSI block-level provisioning as well as centralized Storage anagement and advanced Storage features including thin provisioning with space reclamation, synchronous campus mirroring and 2520 delta-based snapshots per subsystem. Optional features include asynchronous replication, hardware-enabled AES 256 block level volume encryption, optimized data deduplication for efficient Storage utilization, Fibre Channel SAN target, and Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) agents for quiescing databases.
What is HyperScale Storage?
HyperScale is a distributed file system that can Scale to several petabytes all while handling thousands of clients. It functions as a distributed data overlay, polling together Storage building blocks over TCP/IP, aggregating disk resources and managing data in a single global namespace. The unified platform handles blocks, files, objects and big data.
Some use cases of HyperScale Storage is:
- Enterprise-wide file sharing with a single access point across data Storage locations.
- Nearline Storage for infrequently accessed data that needs to be online.
- Rich media (audio and video) content distribution with petabyte-Scale Storage and high-read performance requirements.
- High-performance Storage for bandwidth-intensive applications like weather prediction and oil and gas exploration.
- Centralized Storage-as-a-Service to enterprise applications.
- Backup target and archive for on-site or off-site data protection.
Remote iSCSI Boot & Global Scale Out Storage for OpenStack – Cinder, Swift, Glance
StoneFly’s USO-HA and USO-FC “Unified Scale Out” Cluster SAN + Scale Out NAS Storage Appliances fully support OpenStack. Not just for backend Storage, USO-HA and USO-FC appliances can also be used as a remote iSCSI boot device for diskless OpenStack nodes.
Bootable iSCSI volumes can be created within the StoneFly iSCSI Storage pool on the USO-HA/USO-FC Cluster appliance and used to implement diskless OpenStack nodes (and diskless physical server nodes as
required). Rapidly and easily increase the quantity of Nova compute nodes or any other OpenStack nodes by adding diskless blade servers to your OpenStack Cloud environment using StoneFly remote iSCSI boot.
Diskless OpenStack nodes will enjoy the numerous benefits of StoneFly iSCSI including delta-based snapshots, mountable read-write snapshot volumes, and real-time synchronous mirroring. Robust optional iSCSI features include thin provisioning, hardware-enabled block level AES 256 volume encryption, optimized data deduplication, VSS support and asynchronous replication all combine to make StoneFly the most advanced Storage solution currently available for any OpenStack environment.
A common limitation when using Cinder is that although volumes can be added to increase Storage, those volumes cannot be expanded. With StoneFly Scale Out NAS, volumes for Cinder Block Storage can easily be expanded by adding either bricks (drives) or additional Scale Out NAS nodes. Since volumes can be easily expanded across multiple USO-HA or USO-FC Scale Out NAS appliance nodes, the volume for OpenStack will expand readily and expansion is nearly limitless.
Key advantages of using StoneFly USO-HA and USO-FC for OpenStack shared Storage and remote iSCSI boot:
- Cost-effective alternative to using local Storage.
- Increased reliability since StoneFly USO-HA and USO-FC feature high-availability active-active cluster nodes with failover and failback, active-active hardware RAID controllers with battery-backed cache, hot-swappable disk drives and redundant hot-swappable power supply modules. You do not lose access to your data if a compute node goes down (in OpenStack environments running multiple compute nodes).
- Reduces CapEx and OpEx since OpenStack nodes no longer need dedicated physical OS drives when using StoneFly remote iSCSI boot. Node reliability and availability increases since they are no longer at risk of disk failure.
- Remote iSCSI boot allows OpenStack nodes to enjoy the built-in benefits of StoneFly iSCSI including snapshots and mirroring. Optional StoneFly iSCSI features such as data deduplication, encryption, asynchronous replication, and more provide for an even more feature-rich solution for diskless OpenStack nodes.
- Makes it possible to share Storage for other purposes beyond OpenStack (NAS or iSCSI Storage for regular physical and virtual servers in your datacenter).
- Ability to scale/expand and increase the performance of a particular volume since you are not limited by the number of disks in a single physical machine.
- Management and recovery of compute nodes running Nova is much easier because you do not have to maintain their state. Since Storage is not tied to another node, compute nodes can just be restarted as a new instance.
Key advantages of using StoneFly USO for OpenStack shared Storage and remote iSCSI boot:
- Cost-effective alternative to using local Storage.
- Increased reliability since all StoneFly Scale Out NAS nodes feature hardware RAID, redundant hot-swappable power supply modules, and you do not lose access to your data if a compute node goes down (in OpenStack environments running multiple compute nodes).
- Reduces CapEx and OpEx since OpenStack nodes no longer need dedicated physical OS drives when using StoneFly remote iSCSI boot. Node reliability and availability increases since they are no longer at risk of disk failure.
- Remote iSCSI boot allows OpenStack nodes to enjoy the built-in benefits of StoneFly iSCSI including snapshots and mirroring. Optional StoneFly iSCSI features such as data deduplication, encryption, asynchronous replication, and more provide for an even more feature-rich solution for diskless OpenStack nodes.
- Makes it possible to share Storage for other purposes beyond OpenStack (NAS or iSCSI storage for regular physical and virtual servers in your datacenter).
- Ability to Scale/expand and increase the performance of a particular volume since you are not limited by the number of disks in a single physical machine.
- Management and recovery of compute nodes running Nova is much easier because you do not have to maintain their state. Since Storage is not tied to another node, compute nodes can just be restarted as a new instance.
StoneFly StoneFusion 8.0 Base SAN + NAS Management 64-Bit Operating System
- 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
- Compatible with OpenStack – Cinder (Block/Volume), Swift (Object) & Glance (Image)
- System-Wide Graphical Performance and Utilization Reporting
- Advanced Report Management
- Automated Online Volume / Storage Expansion
Available Software Upgrade Options
- Asynchronous Replication (One-to-Many & Many-to-One)
- Hardware-Enabled Block Level AES 256 Volume Encryption
- Fibre Channel SAN Target (License Bundled with Choice of 4Gb/8Gb/16Gb HBAs)
- Optimized Block Level Parallel Data Deduplication with High-Performance Index Engine
- VSS Support
StoneFly StoneFusion 8.0 Advanced Features Package
- 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 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
USO Series Hardware Features
- Single or Dual Hexa-Core Storage Virtualization Engines
- 16GB, 32GB or 64GB Data Packet and Command Queuing Cache for SSPP®
- RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50 and 60 with RAID Cache Battery Backup
- 12Gb SAS Technology
- 8 to 36 Hot-Swappable 12Gb Disk Drives per Chassis
- Choice of SAS, SSD or Tiered Storage
- Scale Capacity with up to 10 Expansion Units per Node (12-Bay & Larger)
- Supports 1Gb Copper, 10Gb RJ-45/CX4 Copper, SFP+, SR/LR Optical
- One Gigabit Management Port
- Redundant 80-PLUS® Certified Hot-Swappable Power Supplies
- Dynamic Storage Expansion
- Operating Temperature: 10° to 35°C (50°F to 95°F)
- Relative Humidity: 8 to 90%, Non-Condensing