STORANDER Object One
The STORANDER Object One Platform combines the best and most modern in the world of object (S3) and file (NFS) access storage. The STORANDER Object One Platform is built on STORANDER hardware based on Storage Super Server Supermicro's dual-processor, Intel XEON 6 CPUs, Intel and Mellanox Ethernet adapters, and STORANDER software - the ANDRA Grid Storage Manager environment (Powered by OSNEXUS).
STORANDER Object One Platform is designed and built for 24/7 operations. All approved components are thoroughly tested, and the platform's architecture eliminates Single Point of Failure (SPOF). STORANDER Object One Platform is dedicated to serving the critical and most demanding workload in your organization. On-site 7/24 hardware maintenance and software support for five years are standard terms and are included with the STORANDER Object One Platform.
Andra Grid Storage Manager is a unified software-defined storage platform providing file, block and object storage that addresses a broad spectrum of application workloads. Designed with unique storage grid technology, AGSM’s federated storage management across all systems so that multiple storage clusters spanning multiple sites may be managed within a single grid. This empowers IT organizations with the flexibility they need to reduce costs while increasing security, performance, and uptime.
Grid Technology AGSM’s storage grid technology provides unified management of AGSM servers and clusters. The grid management system is built into every system so that administrators can log in and manage their storage grid from any system without having to install and maintain additional software. Each grid can scale to over 100PB and may contain multiple scale-out and scale-up storage clusters.
Storage grids can also span sites and datacenters. AGSM has powerful access control, encryption, and security compliance features.
AGSM management offers GUI (Graphical User Interface), CLI (Command Line Interface), and API (Application Programming Interface). The user may use the AWS S3 API if it is convenient.
Flexible tuning of storage layout offers Replica/Mirrored (r=3;r=4) for single or multisite configuration. Erasure coding standard features offers schemes from 2k+2m to 20k + 4m. Dual site configuration standard layouts are 3k+5m and 4k+6m. Triple site layouts are 3k+3m, 7k+5m and 15k+9m. Force setup option allows any Erasure Coding scheme setup. The STORANDER Object One Platform 6-node cluster with triple mirror storage layout protection offers data durability of ≈ 0.999999999999999. That’s 15 nines — or a 1 in 1 quadrillion chance of losing data. Erasure coding resilience, node redundancy, and rapid healing make 14 nines data durability.
Stored data is protected in the unlikely event of node failure, as well as simultaneous node failure and SSD NVMe failure located in any other node. Data are always accessible during a single component failure.
AGSM proactively monitors the state of NVMe SSD space and the integrity of stored data objects, and automatically moves fragments of objects stored in worn-out NAND flash memory blocks or unhealthy NVMe SSDs.
Extensive notification services are configurable through Alert Manager. AGSM GUI allows easy configuration of SNMP, email alerting, types of alerting, and integration with several ITSM platforms such as AlertOps, Dynatrace, Freshservice, Google Chat, ServiceNow, Lightstep, Atlassian OpsGenie, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Squadcast, Splumk On-Call, and more. AGSM offers easy integration with RabbitMQ, an open-source message broker software that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).
End-to-End Encryption and Security AGSM delivers end-to-end security coverage, enabling multi-layer data protection on-the-wire and for data-at-rest. With NIST 800-53, 800-171, HIPAA, and CJIS compliance and FIPS 140-2 certification, AGSM provides advanced security features required by government and regulated industries. In addition, AGSM has advanced RBAC capabilities as well as immutability / WORM support.
Unified File, Block & Object Storage AGSM delivers both scale-up and scale-out configurations with file, block, and object storage types. Scaleout configurations provide high-performance NAS and S3-compatible object storage with scalability to over 50PB per cluster. Scale-up configurations provide SAN and NAS storage with less hardware making it more cost effective but are generally limited to 6PB or less per cluster.
STORANDER Object One Platform is tested and supported by a backup solution such as Veeam and Commvault as an S3 backup repository target.
The STORANDER Object One Platform can be protected against physical location disasters or geographical power blackouts. A whole platform copy can be created to tape or other removable media.
Storage SuperServer SSG-222B is 2U front-loading all-flash storage server with 24 E3.S NVMe drives and PCIe 5.0.
AGSM cluster is built from 4 to 64 nodes. Nodes are being added online with no interruption to the workload. Storage capacity and workload utilization are distributed automatically.
Each node is equipped with two M.2 SSDs for AGSM boot operation and 512 GB high speed DDR5 memory, expandable to 4 TB.
Each node is populated with two Intel XEON 6 model 6710E processors.
Each node is equipped with redundant power supplies.
The Intel Xeon 6 model 6710E is a 64-core, 64-thread server processor launched in June 2024 as part of Intel’s Sierra Forest-SP platform. Designed for high-density, energy-efficient workloads.
Cores/Threads: 64 cores and 64 threads, utilizing single-threaded Crestmont E-cores.
Base/Turbo Frequency: 2.4 GHz base, boosting up to 3.2 GHz.
Cache: 96 MB shared L3 cache.
Fabrication: Built on Intel’s 5nm "Intel 3" process.
Each node is equipped with two to four of dedicated 25/100/200 Gbit Ethernet adapters for intra-cluster communication (East/Weast) workload and client workload (North/South).
- Intel 25GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810 quad port
- Mellanox ConnectX®-5 100 Gbit Ethernet Adapter Card dual port
- Mellanox ConnectX®-6 200 Gbit Ethernet Adapter Card dual port
Single node offers up to 16 x 25 Gbit Ethernet ports or up to 8 x 100 Gbit Ethernet ports or up to 8 x 200 Gbit Ethernet ports or mix of above mentioned interfaces.
Each node offers dedicated IPMI RJ45, two USB 3.0 ports and VGA port.
Each node offers dedicated dual 10 Gbit Ethernet RJ 45 AGSM management ports.
Each node is populated with 8-packs of Micron 6550 61.44 TB ION NVMe SSD. An 8-pack of Micron 6550 61.44 TB ION NVMe SSD is being added online with no interruption to the workload. Storage capacity and workload utilization are distributed automatically.
The Micron 6550 ION SSD is the world’s first 60TB PCIe Gen5 data center SSD, built to deliver unparalleled performance, energy efficiency and density. It’s ideal for meeting the increasing demands of AI workloads in AI data lakes, high-performance computing (HPC), big data and analytics environments.
With capacity 61.44TB, the 6550 ION SSD provides the high capacity needed for growing SDS workloads while delivering best-in-class performance and up to 20% lower SSD power consumption than competitive SSDs.
As the first 60TB SSD in an E3.S form factor, the 6550 ION SSD provides industry-leading storage density and helps customers reduce their data center footprint up to 67%.
The 6550 ION SSD is designed for end-to-end security, it safeguards data with features like SED, SPDM 1.2 and secure encrypted environment (SEE).
STORANDER Object One Platform* vital components technical links:
• Intel® Xeon® 6710E Processor
• SAMSUNG 32 GB Registered DIMM DDR 5 speed 5600 Mbps
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/dram/module/rdimm/m321r4ga3eb0-cwm/
• Micron 6550 ION SSD E3.S 61.44 TB
• Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-XXVDA4
• Mellanox ConnectX®-5 Ethernet Adapter Card (100 Gbit dual port)
https://network.nvidia.com/files/doc-2020/pb-connectx-5-en-card.pdf
• Mellanox ConnectX®-6 Ethernet Adapter Card (200 Gbit dual port)
https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-accelerated-networking-resource-library/networking-overal-dp
• Supermicro SuperServer SSG-222B-NE3X24R
https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/superserver/2U/MNL-2795.pdf
• Andra Grid Storage Manager (Powered by OSNEXUS)
https://wiki.osnexus.com/index.php?title=OSNEXUS_QuantaStor_Documentation
*STORANDER Object One Platform is designed and integrated under the strict rule of following norm and certification standards: PN-EN ISO 9001:2015, PN-EN ISO 14001:2015, PN-EN ISO/IEC 27001:2017
The STORANDER Object One Platform SKU list
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SKU |
Description |
Remarks |
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AG-SO1-N1 |
STORANDER Object One Platform node |
min. q’ty = 4 |
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AG-512R-M5 |
512 GB DDR5 memory upgrade |
max. 7 per node |
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AG-61S3-M1 |
8-pack of Micron 6550 ION SSD E3.S 61.44 TB
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min. 1 – max. 3 per node |
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AG-25GE-810 |
Dual pack - Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-XXVDA4 (25 Gbit quad port)
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min. 1 – max. 2 per node |
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AG-100G-C5 |
Dual pack - Mellanox ConnectX®-5 Ethernet Adapter Card (100 Gbit dual port)
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min. 1 – max. 2 per node |
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AG-200G-C6 |
Dual pack - Mellanox ConnectX®-6 Ethernet Adapter Card (200 Gbit dual port)
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min. 1 – max. 2 per node |
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AGSM-1TB |
Andra Grid Storage Manager (Powered by OSNEXUS) – 1 TB
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Based on raw capacity |
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AG-SO1-INSX |
STORANDER Object One Platform on-site installation & configuration services |
Up to 8 nodes. Multiply if needed.
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Key Features |
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Distributed Management Architecture (Grid Technology enables management of systems and storage clusters across sites, ideal for hybrid and private cloud) |
Yes |
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Grid Configuration Analytics - identifies potential network and system configuration issues and can be configured to send as a health report via email |
Yes |
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REST API (100% API coverage) |
Yes |
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Python Client Library (100% API coverage) |
Yes |
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Scriptable CLI (99% API coverage with XML, JSON, CSV output) |
Yes |
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PowerShell module |
Yes |
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Client OS Support |
Linux, Windows, MacOS, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, VMware, XenServer |
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Upgrade Management (Web, CLI, API accessible) |
Yes |
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Ansible Modules (File & Block Storage) |
Yes |
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Base Platform OS Options |
Ubuntu LTS |
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Web Management / WUI (Native JS/HTML5) |
Yes |
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Web Management - Real-time Stats |
Yes |
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Web Management - Grid/Global Dashboard |
Yes |
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Distributed Management Control Plane (Storage Grid Technology enables WUI access and API access from all systems simultaneously) |
Yes |
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Alert Management (over 200 call-home alert types covering system, storage, and networking related issues and maintenance items) |
SNMP, Email, Teams, Google Chat, Pagerduty, Slack, Splunk On-Call, ServiceNow, DynaTrace, Squadcast, Lightstep, Discord, etc |
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Health Reporting (HTML & CSV) |
Yes |
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Capacity Usage Reporting (HTML & CSV) |
Yes |
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Zero-touch Maintenance System (automatic repair/heal on replacement of bad media) |
Yes |
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Data scrubbing Schedule Management (bit-rot correction) for both scale-up and scale-out solutions. |
Yes |
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Composable Infrastructure Management - NVMeoF JBOFs and correlation of pool device to enclosure view |
Yes |
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Hardware Monitoring & Management - Servers |
Yes |
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External System Integration |
Seagate Corvault, WD Data24 |
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Hardware Monitoring & Management - Controllers, Enclosures and correlation of pool device to enclosure view |
Yes |
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Deploy as Virtual Storage Appliance |
Yes (VMware, HyperV, VirtualBox) |
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Out-of-box experience - QuantaStor has a Getting Started configuration workflow manager built-in to the web management interface that makes it easy to configure new systems through a set of steps. |
Yes |
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Branded all-in-one QuantaStor OS platform media packaged as ISO for bare-metal or VM installation |
Yes |
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Heterogeneous Storage Grids - Bare metal deployment on hardware from multiple vendors and generations of hardware |
Yes |
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Scale-out Cluster Management (Full management and monitoring of all services including monitors, RGWs, MDS, file/block/object pools, EC policies, Clusters, OSD, WAL, MDB, and associated protocol services) |
Yes |
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Block Storage Copy Engine |
FC, iSCSI, NVMeoF, Cloud |
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Block Storage Pass-thru |
FC, iSCSI, NVMeoF |
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Block Storage Software Adapter for using 3rd party SAN storage back-end |
iSCSI & NVMeoF |
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Backup Policies - Copy/Move/Auto-tier to/from Object and NAS storage |
NFS, SMB, S3 |
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NAS Gateway to Cloud |
Yes |
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Intelligent Pool Provisioning with Automatic Enclosure Redundancy |
Yes |
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Multi-tenant Resource Groups |
Yes |
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Multi-tenant Tagging |
Yes |
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Multi-tenant Provisioning Quotas |
Yes |
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Automatic Multipath Device Management |
Yes |
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Network - Port Bonding, VLANs and VIF management |
Yes |
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Network - FIrewall Management (System & Port level) |
Yes |
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Network - DNS, NTP Management |
Yes |
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Security - FIPS-140-2 L1 Certification |
Yes |
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Security - Key Management - KMIP Integration |
Yes |
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Security - SED Opal/Ruby Hardware Encryption |
Yes |
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Security - 2FA - Time-based OTP |
Yes |
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Security - Single-sign-on AD/LDAP with automatic grid user creation based on AD/LDAP group settings |
Yes |
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Security - Role Based Access Controls (security management system does authentication and authorization checks for every API call) |
Yes |
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Security - RBAC + Multi-tenancy |
Yes |
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Security - NIST 800-53 Compliance |
Yes |
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Security - Audit Logging |
Yes |
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Security - Data-shredding (DoD, Army, random) |
Yes |
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Security - GDPR compliant Log Send System |
Yes |
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Security - CJIS Compliance |
Yes |
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Security - HIPAA Compliance |
Yes |
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Licensing System (capacity per system, subscription based, cloud native for service providers) |
Yes |
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Cluster Management System for HA VIFs |
Yes |
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OEM Branding System |
Yes |
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VMware Certification |
iSCSI, FC |
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Veeam Ready Certified |
Yes |
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Veeam SOSAPI Integrated |
Yes |
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Docker Volume Driver |
Yes |
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Openstack Cinder Driver |
Yes |
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Kubernetes CSI Integrated |
Yes (scale-out) |
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Weka IO Certified |
Yes |
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Seagate Corvault - Integrated Management & Certified |
Yes |
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Western Digital Data24 - Integrated Management & Certified |
Yes |
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Pliops Certified |
Yes |
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AGSM cluster Object Storage features
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S3 Compatible |
Yes |
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S3 User and Tenant Management |
Yes |
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S3 Bucket Management |
Yes |
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Bucket Object Locking (Governance/Compliance) |
Yes |
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Data Compression |
Yes |
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Thin Provisioning/Over Provisioning |
Yes |
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Write Log (SSD acceleration) |
Yes |
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Read Caching (SSD acceleration) |
Yes |
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Meta-data Offload (SSD acceleration) |
Yes |
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Async Replication |
Yes |
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SMB bucket access |
Yes |
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Scale-out NFS bucket access |
Yes |
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S3 Bucket Management |
Yes |
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Erasure-coding (any K+M) |
Yes |
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Replicas (r=2, 3, 4) |
Yes |
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Multi-site Clusters |
Yes |
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Multiple Clusters per Storage Grid (Multi-cluster / Zone Management) |
Yes |
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Bucket replication |
Yes |
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Bi-directional bucket replication |
Yes |
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Quotas (Tenant, User & Bucket) |
Yes |
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Multi-tenant (Group users by tenant) |
Yes |
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Hierarchical Fault-tolerance (Rack / Site / Building) |
Yes |
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Supported Media |
SSD, HDD |
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Hybrid storage optimized HDD+SSD |
Yes |
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Snapshot Rollback |
Yes |
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Encryption-at-rest (AES256) |
Yes |
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S3 Reverse Proxy |
Yes |
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Multi-site / Multi-cluster Management |
Yes |
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Clustered High Availability Interface Management |
Yes |
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Multiple S3 Gateways per system |
Yes |
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S3 Gateway optimization for NVMeoF |
Yes |
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Built-in Load Balancer |
Yes |
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Open Data Storage Technology |
Ceph RGW |
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Multi-tenant Charge-back Accounting Data (API/CLI/WUI) |
Yes |
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Intelligent Placement / Auto-tiering of objects to specific Storage Classes via rules |
Yes |
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Multi-Zone / Zone-to-Zone Replication |
Yes |
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Overflow Rules to redirect objects to specific Storage Classes based on available capacity |
Yes |
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Maximum Object Size |
50TB |
AGSM cluster File Storage features
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NFS v3/v4 |
Yes |
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SMB v2/v3 |
Yes |
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Native scale-out client |
Yes |
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Sync Replication / Multi-site strech clusters |
Yes |
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Data Compression |
Yes |
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Thin Provisioning/Over Provisioning |
Yes |
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Write Log (SSD acceleration) |
Yes |
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Read Caching (SSD acceleration) |
Yes |
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Meta-data Offload (SSD acceleration) |
Yes |
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Async Replication |
Yes |
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N-way & Cascading Replication |
Yes |
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Snapshot Shares |
Yes |
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Clone Shares |
Yes |
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Share, User & Group Quotas |
Yes |
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Multiple Clusters per Storage Grid (Multi-cluster / Zone Management) |
Yes |
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AD Integration for SMB users |
Yes |
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Supported Media |
SSD, HDD |
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Hybrid storage optimized HDD+SSD |
Yes |
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Encryption-at-rest (AES256) |
Yes |
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Clustered High Availability Interface Management |
Yes |
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Snapshot Schedules (instant) |
Yes |
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Multi-site / Multi-cluster Management |
Yes |
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Share aliases & sub-share Mangement |
Yes |
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Grid Network Share Namespaces (NFS v4 referrals & SMB DFS) |
Yes |
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Open Data Storage Technology |
CephFS |
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NAS to Cloud Storage Tiering |
Yes |
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NAS to Cloud Storage Gateway |
Yes |
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Backup Policy - Move/Copy to/from NAS and Object Storage |
Yes |
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Maximum Files per Directory |
configurable |
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Maximum File Size |
configurable |