RAID Inc. With Certified JBOD for Windows Server 2016

RAID Inc. achieved Microsoft certification status of the Ability EBOD Series of enterprise JBOD storage enclosures for Windows Server 2016, Storage Spaces.

Ability EBOD 4U 84-Bay 12Gb SAS Enterprise JBOD

The company has taken this designation a step further and qualified the complete line of HGST Ultrastar He10 12Gb/s helium drives – including the 10TB model based upon third-generation HelioSeal technology.

With its holistic approach and technical expertise, the firm welcomes the industry’s largest drive with qualification for the dense Ability EBOD 4U 84-Bay 12Gb SAS enterprise JBOD. The 840TB capacity enterprise JBOD is a vital cog in the company’s range of Microsoft certified server, storage and networking solutions optimized for enterprise, cloud, and data center, as strategically aligned with Microsoft’s software-defined data center (SDDC) strategy.

“Working closely with Microsoft, the team at RAID has accomplished notable successes deploying petabytes of scale-out file server architectures featuring Storage Spaces,” says Trenton R. Baker, VP, marketing, RAID Inc. “By earning this Windows Server 2016 certification RAID Inc becomes the leader in storage at scale deployments for Storage Spaces. The Ability 84-bay enterprise JBOD can meet practical budgetary restrictions and achieve a massive capacity architecture when teamed with the HGST Ultrastar He10 HDDs.“

This modular scale-out data center storage architecture delivers the density required by data-intensive applications such as big data analytics, computational simulation, government intelligence, and medical research.

The Ability 84-bay EBOD also includes the capability to accommodate HGST Ultrastar SSDs as a hot tier shared across 12Gb SAS active nodes to leverage smart storage tiering for both structured and unstructured data in a HA design. RAID has designed the Ability EBOD series to be zoned with up to four different DAS hosts or four different zones for performance or security as needed.

This storage enclosure comes standard with dual I/O modules for resiliency each with four host ports at a total of eight 12Gb SAS ports for performance and HA applications, capable of handling over 32GB/s.

Scale-Up architecture resiliency: The Ability end-to-end 12Gb SAS enterprise JBOD provides a scalability resource to various existing file system nodes along with green-field deployments of Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016. For added data integrity and resiliency the Ability 84-bay is an EBOD achieving a certification for enclosure awareness on the Microsoft Storage Spaces platform. The enclosure awareness feature allows for resilient levels thus combating the risk of multiple drive or enclosure failures.

Scale-out file servers flexibility: The company has a vested interest in performance and flexibility of file server functionality within a Storage Spaces design. By securing and protecting data at the source with the Ability EBOD, the firm can focus on delivering technical computing performance-tuned file servers to match each engineered deployment.

Software-defined data center inspired: Microsoft’s virtual data center advancements in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and Networking (SDN) have grown into the Storage Spaces platform which enables firm to design a cloud-inspired infrastructure. Building upon scale-out services and performance virtualization concepts such as tiering, pooling, and automation to all data center resources allows the company to deploy reliable and efficient high density software-defined data center solutions.