SLS-4U96 Storage Appliance by OpenIO

OpenIO, Inc. announced the SLS (ServerLess Storage) platform.

This storage appliance combines ARM CPUs, high capacity drives and a 40GbE backend. This scalable, fast, and reliable energy-saving appliance offers storage at low cost.

“Teaming up with Marvell, we are achieving the vision we had while designing OpenIO SDS. The SLS-4U96 hardware appliance revolutionizes the storage landscape by providing network HDDs as an industrial reality. Today, we are thrilled to see these new platforms shipping and going live at our customers’ premises. It is truly the latest step in the storage hardware evolution,” said Laurent Denel, CEO, OpenIO.

This new product is based on the Marvell Armada-3700 Dual core ARM v8 @1.2Ghz based nano-node architecture. SLS-4U96 appliances can host up to 96 nano-nodes, each one with a dedicated 3.5″ HDD or SSD and dual 2.5Gb/s SGMII ports, dual six-port 40GbE backend Marvell Prestera family switches for external connectivity and N+1 power supplies. This offers the scalability and efficiency of a petabyte scale-out storage system in a 4U chassis with the ease of use of OpenIO SDS 16.10, for service providers and enterprises.

SLS-4U96 hardware features include:

From three to 96 hot swappable nano-nodes per appliances for a maximum of 960TB with 10TB HDDs or 1,152TB with recently introduced 12TB HDDs.
Two six-port 40Gb/s port switches backend for for both client connectivity and direct chassis interconnect, which can scale up to more than 10PB per rack.
Four N+1 power supplies and five removable fan modules.
No single point of failure.

SLS/SDS software features include:

Automatic nano-node discovery, setup and load balancing.
Easy to use management via a web GUI, CLI and API.
Local and geo-distributed object replica or erasure coding.
Quick fault detection and recovery.
Call-home support notifications.
S3, Swift and native object APIs.
Multiple file sharing access methods: NFS, SMB, FTP, FUSE.
Compatible with existing x86 based SDS installations.

Thanks to the nano-node architecture, company’s SLS introduces a paradigm for management and maintenance of scale-out storage infrastructures. The failure domain is limited to a single nano-node, equivalent to a disk, that can be replaced as needed when failure occurs. New or replaced nano-nodes join the SLS resource pool without needing a re-balancing operation. The entire process takes less than 60s and does not impact performance.

“SLS has all the features of our next generation object storage platform and it is easier to manage, and more power efficient,” said Denel. “With a cost that can be as low as $0.008/GB/month over 36 months for a fully populated configuration and the ease of use of our software, a single SysAdmin can easily manage a large multi-petabytes environment at the lowest TCO.“

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