VMworld: AccelStor NeoSapphire H710 Scale-Up and HA All-Flash Array

AccelStor, Inc. announced its whole scale-up and HA all-flash array, the NeoSapphire H710, offering a choice from 27 to 221TB usable capacity for mission-critical enterprise applications.

The H710 is designed to support an expanding range of existing and emerging data center applications, including cloud computing, performance computing, artificial intelligence, virtualization, OLTP and data mining. Besides its scalability and HA, the H710 offers data protection features and outperforms the market with over 600,000 IO/s for 4KB synchronous random write.

It will be showcased during VMworld 2017, at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV.

“Digital transformation is accelerating. Every industry is improving and streamlining through digital changes. Software-defined storage is replacing fixed-function infrastructure and AccelStor is just on the right track,” said David Kao, VP, AccelStor. “We believe data should not be stored in the digital box. It should be reviewed by powerful analytics and artificial intelligence, discovering new insight and business opportunity. The powerful NeoSapphire H710 is a total solution for storage efficiency, scalability, reliability and flexibility. It could assist IT managers in meeting the challenge of keeping in-line with storage resources and data center demands as business needs change over time. The H710 combines high-velocity and seamless scale-up capabilities, presenting enterprises with the best-in-class storage solution to perform outstandingly in this highly competitive business landscape, with smart budget allocation.“

Scalability, flexibility and agility without disruption
The NeoSapphire H710 all-flash comes with a 4U form factor and built on an elastic scale-up architecture, which offers performance, scalability, density and efficiency. With the power of FlexiRemap, the H710 consolidates storage hardware into a single namespace with outstanding storage operational efficiency. Supporting online expansion, customers don’t need to suffer disruptions and management complexity.

To scale-up the system capacity, the H710 provides two expansion enclosure options, NeoSapphire J212 with a 2U 24 bay form factor and NeoSapphire J214 with 4U 72bay form factor, which expand the overall system and a flexible capacity option is easily created ranging from 27TB to a maximum of 221TB usable.

Storage efficiency
FlexiDedupe is one of the software feature on the H710. It offers the benefit of block-level deduplication by eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data yet far more efficient than the pure block-level deduplication, common in the market. The system starts by analyzing file attributes to identify the similarity of the file to others before it dedupes the data at block level. This approach could intelligently locate the repeating data while providing deduplication efficiency without requiring a heavy system overhead. The H710 also offers inline deduplication, which is an efficient type of deduplication. It can reduce the raw capacity needed before being written to SSD. It features the suite of software functions and performance-boosting technology, including Free Clone, remote replication, thin provisioning, thick provisioning and SED support.

HA with data protection features
Powered by FlexiRemap technology, the breakthrough scale-up and HA NeoSapphire H710 offers both responsive speed and dependability, without compromise. With two completed nodes as a system, it achieves 100% no single point of failure based on a rock-solid shared-nothing architecture and the symmetric active-active failover design. The HA NeoSapphire H710 provides a sustained 600,000 IO/s for 4KB random writes, with standard configuration options of 16-port 10GbE iSCSI connections or 8-port 16Gb FC, and modular design for redundancy to protect data and avoid downtime. It also comes embedded with a battery backed power module (BBP) ensuring data consistency for mission-critical data operations. In order to provide support for data protection, it comes with Redirect-on-Write Snapshot, Snapshot Backup/Recovery and Group Snapshot for database usage as standard.

Management plug-in for even easier management
The company provides storage solution for virtualization environments, and is compatible with vSphere. The H710 features a NeoSapphire management plug-in for vSphere. Users of vSphere can perform management tasks, including volume manipulation on NeoSapphire all-flash arrays, via the user interface of vSphere, and within the existing virtualization environment. This management plug-in underlines firm’s commitment to the broad community of virtualization users, and evidences thecloser integration between the company’s products and VMware, Inc. solutions.

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Resources:
NeoSapphire H710 product sheet     
HA NeoSapphire series      
FlexiRemap technology