Raidix and AIC Joins Hands for Cluster-in-a-box Storage Solution

AIC, Inc, and Raidix, LLC joined hands to introduce a fully redundant, fault-tolerant, Cluster-in-a-Box solution.

HA401-CP2

AIC’s HA storage server solution HA401-CP2 features an Intel server board, which supports Xeon processor E5-2600/E5-2600 v2 product family. When installed with Raidix software, the performance of those processors is maximized and this contributes to the overall performance of storage. The chosen AIC configuration, powered by Raidix software, suits the HPC market demand for a solution which should provide 99.999% availability and productivity. The solution is also scalable thus allows users to build a variety of HPC storage architectures to better suit their needs.

Configuration:

• AIC HA401-CP2

• LSI 9300-8i 12Gb SAS HBA (per node)

• Raidix software

AIC HA401-CP2 comes with built-in dual LSI SAS 2×36 SAS expanders and PCIe Gen3 slots. The 9300-8i HBA adds internal 12Gb SAS and 6Gb SATA connectivity to the HA401-CP2 across 8 lanes of PCIe 3.0 connectivity. Together they provide throughput as bottleneck is not even in the picture. To scale for high-performance storage, AIC’s 2U24Bay 12Gb/s JBOD J2024-01 and 9300-8e 12Gb SAS HBAs can be added.

When running Raidix software on the afore mentioned Cluster-in-a-Box storage architecture, no additional expensive modules are required to provide fast failover and data integrity. Everything is implemented on a software level.

Benefits Raidix software:

• Fast failover

• Performance

• Cost effectiveness

• HA Lustre OSS+OST in one platform

• Different IO interfaces – IB, FC, iSCSI

Benefits of HA401-CP2:

• A storage server that leverages the features of SBB standards with the use of COTS components.

• Redundant and fault-tolerant. All FRUs are hot swappable and feature channels in the backplane which allow the use of 10 GbE, NonTransparent Bridging [NTB] or SAS for inter-chassis communication.

• Dual processor SBB with maximum memory and IO support.

Raidix software
Raidix software is essential when it comes to building an cost effective and top performing storage system. Customers operating in the data investment environment have a high demand for fault tolerance and data security. As a result, those professionals (including those in media production, HPC, healthcare and more) choose storage powered by Raidix because of its characteristics that include but are not limited to:

• Productivity: 20 GBPS per Core
  A storage powered by Raidix anticipates workflows of the future and is optimized for sequential data-intensive workloads. It is content operations responsive with an automatic app-optimized QoS. By controlling all disk operations, Raidix uses  fast disks in the array when performing read and write operations and eliminates disk latency factor.
• Cluster-in-a-Box
  The cluster-in-a-box storage architecture enables clasterization of all storage services, including a parallel FS installed onto the storage platform. The proprietary failover mechanism reduces failover time and the connectivity-related latencies.
• Flexibility
  No two businesses are created equally, which is why flexibility is such an part of storage solutions. Likewise, businesses need solutions that will be able to grow and evolve as their own organizations do the same things. The Raidix software platform allows a selection of hardware components, including the ability to provide storage resources locally to the file system as well as through different interfaces like FC, IB, iSCSI. A compatibility with different interfaces allows organizations to tailor an enterprise storage solution and HPC infrastructure to fit to any budget.
• 99.999% storage uptime and availability; data integrity and security
  Triple parity RAID guarantees high sustainable performance even if three HDDs fail. Active/Active dual controller storage architecture secures full fault tolerance. Silent data corruption detection and correction mechanism prevents data from silent errors.