Excelero was inspired by how Tech Giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google have redefined IT for web-scale applications, leveraging standard servers and shared-nothing architectures to ensure maximum operational efficiency and flexibility, and to provide the highest reliability. Their approach is referred to as the Software-defined Data Center (SDDC). Based on the same architectural principles and with the same objectives, Excelero has designed a Software-Defined Block Storage solution utilizing client-side services for scale-out applications.
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Corporate Overview
We enable businesses to build storage that meets the flexibility and efficiency standards as defined by the Tech Giants
Founded in 2014, Excelero is headquartered in Silicon Valley with R&D in Tel Aviv
Strong Executive team with many years of storage, virtualization and networking experience
Well-funded by Battery Ventures & strategic investors
Intellectual Property includes patented RDDA and 10 more patents pending
Targeted Markets include web-scale cloud & service providers and financial services
4. Tech Giants Force rethinking
Scale-Out Infrastructures
• Flexibility & Efficiency are Key
• Standard Hardware & Intelligent Software
“The Software Defined Data Center”
5. Market Trends
Modern, scale-out applications require
flexibility to optimize for performance, scale, cost…
25/50/100G networking & RDMA enable new
distributed storage architectures
New-generation SSD performance and density are evolving
rapidly but capabilities are underutilized
Server SAN enables maximum utilization of
high-performance flash over the network
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Key SDS Requirements
Efficiency
Flexibility
Performance
Scalability
Ease of use
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How NVMesh Server SAN meets these Requirements
• Scale linearly to any
size, data center-
readiness
Scalability
• Enable high NVMe SSD
utilization rates
• Use standard hardware
• No CPU Overhead
Efficiency
• Mix different storage
media types, server
types and deployment
models
• Use native NVMesh
and/or NVMf transports
to future-proof your
environment
• Avoid one-type fits all
logical volume
simplifications
• Scale Storage and CPU
independently
Flexibility
• Leverage the full
performance of your
NVMe SSD at scale,
over the network
• True convergence to
ensure deterministic
application performance
– no noisy neighbors.
• Leverage high IOPS,
high bandwidth or
mixed.
Performance
• Easy to manage &
monitor
• Integration with
orchestration layers for
provisioning of logical
volumes
• Storage access API -
block is the common
building block
Ease of Use
8. Maximum NVMe SSD Utilization
Support Widest Range of Media
Deterministic Application Performance
Architectural & Hardware Flexibility
Data Center Scalability
Simple Management
Software-defined Block Storage
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What is NVMesh Server SAN?
Local File Systems Shared/Parallel File Systems
Standard Servers
NVMesh Software-
defined Block
Storage
Block Devices
Logical Volumes
Files systems
Applications
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NVMesh: Software Hierarchy
Management
Storage Services
Hardware Abstraction
• Provisioning
• Monitoring
• Data Protection
• Multipathing
• Logical Volumes
• Create a pool of block storage out of Non-Volatile
devices and networking
• Supports RDDA & NVMf for transport
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NVMesh Software Components
Centralized Management
(GUI, RESTful HTTP)
Control Path
Effective Data Path
NVMesh Client(s) NVMesh Target
(unmodified)
Applications
Intelligent
Client Block
Driver
High Speed Network
R-NIC
CPU
NVMe SSD’s
NVMesh
Target Module
R-NIC
Topology
Manager
RDDA
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NVMesh 1.2 Features Overview
Data Management & Protection
Multiple transports NVMf-ready, Patented RDDA,
Logical Volumes Concatenated, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10
Multiple Drive Types NVMe, NVMf, SATA, SAS, 3D XPoint
Failure Domains Host, rack & row aware
Management & Monitoring
Interactive Interfaces Web GUI & CLI commands
Automated Provisioning RESTful API, Docker Persistent Volumes
Next-gen Data Center
Flexible Topologies Physically converged, disaggregated or mixed
High Performance Limitlessly scalable at near 100% linear performance
Scale-out Architecture Intelligent clients utilizing multiple hosts, drives, network-paths and racks
Supports multiple fabrics Ethernet (RoCE v2), InfiniBand
13. NVMesh Benefits
• Leverage the full performance of your NVMe SSD’s at scale, over the network.
• Predictable application performance – no noisy neighbors.
• Scale your performance and capacity linearly.
• Leverage high IOPS, high bandwidth or mixed
Scale & Performance
• Maximize the utilization of your NVMe SSD’s.
• No data localization.
• Easy to manage & monitor, reduces the maintenance TCO.
Efficiency
• Mix different storage media types to optimize for cost, scale or performance.
• Use native NVMesh and/or NVMf transports to future-proof your environment.
• Utilize products from any server, storage and network vendor, no vendor lock-in.
• Scale storage and compute separately.
Flexibility
14. What Makes NVMesh Unique?
Provides the only virtual SAN approach for
shared NVMe SSD’s: 100% software-only
Pools NVMe storage across a network at
local speeds and latencies.
Enables 100% converged infrastructure
Deployed as a virtual, distributed non-volatile
array and supports both converged and
disaggregated architectures
Brings the only NVMe storage sharing
technology that scales performance linearly
at near 100% efficiency.
Unified NVMe
No CPU
100% Efficiency
Flexible
Virtual SAN
