The document describes Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliance, which combines compute and storage resources into a single system. It offers both all-flash and hybrid configurations, with the all-flash version providing high performance for applications like VDI and the hybrid providing a balance of performance and cost. The appliance can scale out by adding additional units or storage nodes. It utilizes Gridstore's software to provide features like independent scaling of compute and storage, quality of service controls per VM, and increased efficiency through eliminating data replication.
Ceph is unstable, vSAN got extremely poor performance. Data center need real high end distributed storage to replace traditional disk array support mission critical applications. PhegData X here raise up to answer...
This session covers the engineering strategies and lessons learned at IBM creating industry leading in-memory data warehousing technology for use with both cloud and on-premises software. Along with rich in-memory SQL support for OLAP, data mining, and data warehousing leveraging memory optimized parallel vector processing, we’ll showcase the in-database analytics for R, spatial, and the built-in synchronization with Cloudant JSON NoSQL. We'll take a closer look at the architectural strategy for treating RAM as the new disk (and worth avoiding access to), while dramatically constraining the potential cost pressures of in-memory technology. We’ll describe how we designed for super-simplicity with load-and-go no-tuning technology for any size system, and of course… a demo. Ridiculously easy to use and freakishly fast. Not your grandmother’s IBM database.
The bottleneck in flash storage is often the interface. SAS/SATA interfaces were designed specifically for hard disk drives not for flash media. For example, flash storage can support many more simultaneous I/O operations. The resolution to the problem is to use a different interface, one that is higher throughput and is more directly accessible from the CPU. Leveraging one of these interfaces and extracting optimal performance from the flash media means leaving the confines of the SCSI protocol with customized proprietary drivers. The result is complexity and slow innovation.
Yesterday's thinking may still believe NVMe (NVM Express) is in transition to a production ready solution. In this session, we will discuss how the evolution of NVMe is ready for production, the history and evolution of NVMe and the Linux stack to address where NVMe has progressed today to become the low latency, highly reliable database key value store mechanism that will drive the future of cloud expansion. Examples of protocol efficiencies and types of storage engines that are optimizing for NVMe will be discussed. Please join us for an exciting session where in-memory computing and persistence have evolved.
VMworld 2013: Cisco, VMware and Hyper-converged Solutions for the Enterprise....VMworld
VMworld 2013
Roger Barlow, Cisco
Kishan Ramaswamy, Cisco
Alex Jauch, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
How to Get a Game Changing Performance Advantage with Intel SSDs and AerospikeAerospike, Inc.
Frank Ober of Intel’s Solutions Group will review how he achieved 1+ million transactions per second on a single dual socket Xeon Server with SSDs using the open source tools of Aerospike for benchmarking. The presentation will include a live demo showing the performance of a sample system. We will cover:
The state of Key-value Stores on modern SSDs.
What choices you make in your selection process of hardware that will most benefit a consistent deployment of Aerospike.
How to run an Aerospike mesh on a single machine.
How to work replication of that mesh, and what values allow for maximum threading and scale.
We will also focus on some key learnings and the Total Cost of Ownership choices that will make your deployment more effective long term.
ARM server, The Cy7 Introduction by Aaron Joue, Ambedded TechnologyAaron Joue
The world first ARM Server for cloud storage. It is compatible with Hadoop, GlusterFS, Ceph. Each node consume less than 2.5 Watts. Very high density with 1824TB in a rack.
PCI Express* based Storage: Data Center NVM Express* Platform TopologiesOdinot Stanislas
(FR)
Le PCI Express se démocratise de plus en plus dans les serveurs. Présents depuis des années comme bus pour les cartes d'extensions, on va maintenant le trouver en façades des serveurs pour servir des disque flash 2,5 pouces (connecteur SF-8639) et sous la forme de câble appelés OCulink.
(EN)
PCI Express is becoming more and more present in servers. As a communication bus for extension cards since years, now it will serve 2.5 inches flash drive and through PCIe cables named OCulink.
Auteurs/Authors:
Michael Hall
Director of Technology Solutions Enabling, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation
Jonmichael Hands
Technical Program Manager, Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, Intel Corporation
Cassandra Day SV 2014: Designing Commodity Storage in Apache CassandraDataStax Academy
As we move into the world of Big Data and the Internet of Things, the systems architectures and data models we've relied on for decades are becoming a hindrance. At the core of the problem is the read-modify-write cycle. In this session, Al will talk about how to build systems that don't rely on RMW, with a focus on Cassandra. Finally, for those times when RMW is unavoidable, he will cover how and when to use Cassandra's lightweight transactions and collections.
WETEC is een professionele onderneming gespecialiseerd in infrastructurele projecten op
het gebied van high-end systemen, storage en netwerken. http://www.wetec.nl/
Ceph is unstable, vSAN got extremely poor performance. Data center need real high end distributed storage to replace traditional disk array support mission critical applications. PhegData X here raise up to answer...
This session covers the engineering strategies and lessons learned at IBM creating industry leading in-memory data warehousing technology for use with both cloud and on-premises software. Along with rich in-memory SQL support for OLAP, data mining, and data warehousing leveraging memory optimized parallel vector processing, we’ll showcase the in-database analytics for R, spatial, and the built-in synchronization with Cloudant JSON NoSQL. We'll take a closer look at the architectural strategy for treating RAM as the new disk (and worth avoiding access to), while dramatically constraining the potential cost pressures of in-memory technology. We’ll describe how we designed for super-simplicity with load-and-go no-tuning technology for any size system, and of course… a demo. Ridiculously easy to use and freakishly fast. Not your grandmother’s IBM database.
The bottleneck in flash storage is often the interface. SAS/SATA interfaces were designed specifically for hard disk drives not for flash media. For example, flash storage can support many more simultaneous I/O operations. The resolution to the problem is to use a different interface, one that is higher throughput and is more directly accessible from the CPU. Leveraging one of these interfaces and extracting optimal performance from the flash media means leaving the confines of the SCSI protocol with customized proprietary drivers. The result is complexity and slow innovation.
Yesterday's thinking may still believe NVMe (NVM Express) is in transition to a production ready solution. In this session, we will discuss how the evolution of NVMe is ready for production, the history and evolution of NVMe and the Linux stack to address where NVMe has progressed today to become the low latency, highly reliable database key value store mechanism that will drive the future of cloud expansion. Examples of protocol efficiencies and types of storage engines that are optimizing for NVMe will be discussed. Please join us for an exciting session where in-memory computing and persistence have evolved.
VMworld 2013: Cisco, VMware and Hyper-converged Solutions for the Enterprise....VMworld
VMworld 2013
Roger Barlow, Cisco
Kishan Ramaswamy, Cisco
Alex Jauch, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
How to Get a Game Changing Performance Advantage with Intel SSDs and AerospikeAerospike, Inc.
Frank Ober of Intel’s Solutions Group will review how he achieved 1+ million transactions per second on a single dual socket Xeon Server with SSDs using the open source tools of Aerospike for benchmarking. The presentation will include a live demo showing the performance of a sample system. We will cover:
The state of Key-value Stores on modern SSDs.
What choices you make in your selection process of hardware that will most benefit a consistent deployment of Aerospike.
How to run an Aerospike mesh on a single machine.
How to work replication of that mesh, and what values allow for maximum threading and scale.
We will also focus on some key learnings and the Total Cost of Ownership choices that will make your deployment more effective long term.
ARM server, The Cy7 Introduction by Aaron Joue, Ambedded TechnologyAaron Joue
The world first ARM Server for cloud storage. It is compatible with Hadoop, GlusterFS, Ceph. Each node consume less than 2.5 Watts. Very high density with 1824TB in a rack.
PCI Express* based Storage: Data Center NVM Express* Platform TopologiesOdinot Stanislas
(FR)
Le PCI Express se démocratise de plus en plus dans les serveurs. Présents depuis des années comme bus pour les cartes d'extensions, on va maintenant le trouver en façades des serveurs pour servir des disque flash 2,5 pouces (connecteur SF-8639) et sous la forme de câble appelés OCulink.
(EN)
PCI Express is becoming more and more present in servers. As a communication bus for extension cards since years, now it will serve 2.5 inches flash drive and through PCIe cables named OCulink.
Auteurs/Authors:
Michael Hall
Director of Technology Solutions Enabling, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation
Jonmichael Hands
Technical Program Manager, Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, Intel Corporation
Cassandra Day SV 2014: Designing Commodity Storage in Apache CassandraDataStax Academy
As we move into the world of Big Data and the Internet of Things, the systems architectures and data models we've relied on for decades are becoming a hindrance. At the core of the problem is the read-modify-write cycle. In this session, Al will talk about how to build systems that don't rely on RMW, with a focus on Cassandra. Finally, for those times when RMW is unavoidable, he will cover how and when to use Cassandra's lightweight transactions and collections.
WETEC is een professionele onderneming gespecialiseerd in infrastructurele projecten op
het gebied van high-end systemen, storage en netwerken. http://www.wetec.nl/
Intel(R) Xeon(R) E7 v3-based X6 platforms + Lenovo Flex System Interconnect Fabric solutions deliver a highly-reliable, cost-efficient and scalable system for your data center.
Help, I need to migrate my On Premise Database to Azure, which Database Tier ...Erwin de Kreuk
During this session we will walk you through all the different Tiers in Azure, DTU, Vcore, Serverless and Managed Instance and will provide examples when to use which Tier.
We will also show you the Microsoft Data Migration Assesment (DMA). This tool will help you to decide which tier you should choose. So if you need help or just interested in the different Azure Database Tiers then visit our session
IBM and VMware can help you implement a highly reliable IT infrastructure with hardware and
software designed for virtualization. As the first authorized reseller of VMware products, IBM has
proven experience in developing and delivering VMware-based solutions that help customers
optimize and simplify their IT infrastructure to drive down operating costs. From virtual desktops to
enterprise-class virtualization and cloud solutions, IBM has you covered with innovative technology
and exceptional services and support.
The JetStor SAS 780JH is a ultra high density 19-inch 4U rackmount JBOD unit. It features the latest SAS2 (6Gb/s) or SAS3 (12Gb/s) interface and designed to fit in with environments that need highly reliable and relentless data growth. The JetStor SAS 780JH is also a versatile Disk Expansion system, ideal for high capacity and scalability storage in IT demands. Based on 6G SAS2.0 or 12G SAS3.0 technology, the JetStor SAS 780JH supports the choice of SAS2 or SAS3 and SATA3 drive configurations to deliver the best cost-performance index with higher bandwidth.
JetStor SAS 780JH comes with a single controller, 80 hot-swappable bays and is perfect for Big Data, Hadoop, HPC (High Performance Computing), ZFS and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 projects.
The IBM System Storage® TS7650G ProtecTIER® Deduplication Gateway is designed to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reduc-tions. The solution offers industry-leading inline deduplication perfor-mance and scalability up to 1 petabyte (PB) of physical storage capacity per system that can provide up to 25 PB or more backup storage capacity. Combined with IBM or third-party storage, the TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway provides a powerful disk-based repository to improve the performance, retention and availability of backup and archive data. Learn more: http://ibm.co/ONeH7m
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1. DATASHEET
Gridstore
HyperConverged Appliance
Converged Elastic Infrastructure
Purpose-Built for Hyper-V
About the Gridstore
HyperConverged Appliance
Gridstore HyperConverged Appliance is a
single system that includes both compute
and storage. Each appliance has up to
four compute/storage nodes, and can be
expanded with additional appliances and/
or Gridstore Storage Nodes, up to 250 total
nodes. Both all-flash and hybrid versions of
the HyperConverged Appliance are available.
The All-Flash
HyperConverged Appliance
Best suited for low-latency and high
transactional applications, the All-Flash
HyperConverged Appliance provides 5TB
of flash capacity and 1TB of flash cache per
node to deliver highly deterministic perfor-
mance for application such as low-latency
VDI and tier-one workloads.
The Hybrid
HyperConverged Appliance
Best suited for mixed workload envi-
ronments, the Hybrid HyperConverged
Appliance provides 8TB of SATA HDD
capacity and 1TB of flash read/write cache
per node to deliver a superior price/per-
formance balance for highly dense virtual
environments at a very attractive TCO.
Gridstore HyperConverged Appliances can
be scaled by adding appliances or with
Gridstore Storage Nodes or mix and match.
Gridstore’s advanced software architecture
additionally eliminates the need for the
typical three-way replica of data which
wastes both capacity and CPU resources.
Gridstore’s design increases usable capacity
by 50%, increasing resource utilization and
decreasing TCO.
VDI: where each HyperConverged
Appliance can support up to 600
desktops in a typical deployment. Since
VDI scales in uniform chunks based on
the number of desktops being added, a
hyper-converged solution is a fast and
easy way to scale these deployments.
Hyper-V / Cloud in a box: initial
deployment where a HyperConverged
Appliance can be installed and up and
running the same day ready for appli-
cation deployment or migration from
existing environments.
Remote Office/Branch Office
(ROBO): deployment of a complete
compute and storage solution in a box
for those remote or branch offices
that need turnkey, easy-to-deploy and
manage systems.
Key Benefits
■■ Power on and provision
■■ Predictable
performance per VM
■■ 50% lower TCO
■■ Flash performance
■■ Scaling to fit your needs
“Gridstore’s ability
to not only deliver
a complete hyper-
converged system
but also allow
for independent
extensibility of the
storage and compute
makes it stand out in
this market.”
— Arun Taneja, Founder
The Taneja Group
Built to increase performance, maximize resources and streamline IT costs, IT
administrators gain even more control over Microsoft Hyper-V environments,
realizing lower TCO over traditional deployments.
Use Cases HyperConverged Appliances are well suited to certain crucial contemporary IT challenges including:
2. DATASHEET | GRIDSTORE HyperConverged Appliance
Hybrid | Capacity
Any Virtual Any Physical
Any
Windows Server
Hyper-Converged
Appliances Storage Nodes
Independent Scaling
VM VM VM VM
Hyper-V
vController
Hybrid Storage
VM VM VM VM
Hyper-V
vController
Flash Storage
VM VM VM VM
Hyper-V
vController
Exchange | SQL
WS2012
vController
Unique Features
Native Integration
With the only hyper-converged architecture that offers native Windows integration,
Gridstore installs a software driver (vController) at the Windows kernel level. This
eliminates guest-VM complexity and provides the tightest integration possible with
Windows management and functionality.
End-to-End I/O Control per VM
Gridstore offers granular visibility and control with its True Quality of Service (QoS)
per VM. QoS enables precision I/O for each VM based on user-defined priority—
giving you top performance for the most critical VMs while reducing noisy neighbors.
End-to-End Flash Architecture
With both read and write cache positioned optimally to provide the lowest
latency, Gridstore is architected for end-to-end flash performance using SSDs.
Independent Scaling
Unlike other hyper-converged vendors, Gridstore enables compute and
storage scaling either together or independently. By simply adding either
HyperConverged Appliances, Storage Nodes, or any Windows Server, customers
achieve maximum flexibility that fits into existing environments or standalone.
Efficient Elastic Scaling
Pay-as-you-grow while reducing TCO up to 50%. Gridstore eliminates the need for three-
way replicas, improving efficiency and eliminating waste. Using erasure coding, customers
achieve/experience 50% better CPU utilization and 50% lower TCO. Performance steadily
increases linearly as nodes are added (up to 250 nodes per pool).
Fastest Data Path – Minimized Resource Utilization
System Center
Hyper-V
vController – Native SCSI Device
VM.4 VM.5 VM.6 VM.nVM.1 VM.2 VM.3
Native Data Path
Hyper-Converged Appliance
PLATINUM GOLD BRONZE
Precision VM and I/O Control
Hyper-V
vController – Native SCSI Device
VM.4 VM.5 VM.6 VM.nVM.1 VM.2 VM.3
Parity
3-Way Replicas
12 Servers Total
Replica
Replica
6TB
Replica
Replica
6TB
Replica
Replica
6TB
Replica
Replica
6TB
Gridstore
50%
Lower TCO
6 Servers Total
24TB Useable24TB Useable
Parity
6TB
6TB
6TB
6TB
Hyper-V
vController
Flash CapacityFlash Cache Parallel I/O
VM.4 VM.5 VM.6 VM.nVM.1 VM.2 VM.3
End-to-End Flash Architecture
VM-I/O Cache Control
No Wasted Flash on Replicas
Fractional
Parallel I/O
Parallel
Flash Writes
20% I/O
80% I/O
Low
Latency
Reads
Read Write