Raidix V.5.0.1 SDS Management Software for Hybrid Storage Systems

Raidix Corporation introduced 5th gen of managing software for hybrid storage systems.

The version 5.0.1 is optimized for all types of workloads and combines proprietary technologies to get the most speed and stability from HDD and SSD drives. The company’s SDS guarantees storage performance and therefore ensures uninterrupted continuity of business processes according to the highest industry standards.

The V.5.0.1 employs ERA Engine technology, designed by the company’s in-house research lab. New integrated engine is used to create high-speed AFAs that show up to 5 million IO/s, making the solution suitable for highly loaded databases, financial transactions systems and workplace virtualization services (VDI). ERA Engine maximizes capabilities of flash drives and triggers increase in the overall storage performance that reduces IO/s/$ cost compared to the classic software RAIDs.

“Raidix 5.0.1 is the largest software update throughout the last five years of our development. We have completely redefined our approach to data path execution. We encourage our partners worldwide to create the best storage systems in the market employing Raidix together with various tools for business digitalization, including deep learning and ML technologies. Raidix 5.0.1 is our first step towards revolutionary solutions for private and public clouds, based on the new architectures“, comments Sergey Platonov, VP, strategy, Raidix.

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The V.5.0.1 RAID arrays have become more resilient to single IO failures, that, according to the latest studies, are more frequent than failures of the entire drives. Latent sector errors can appear during storage operation and usually lead to array loss, but V.5.0.1 handles dozens of them and keeps RAIDs running. To find out IO failures and correct them, an improved the firm’s reconstruction mechanism scans every drive independently at a higher speed. The reconstruction feature is effective for handling large volumes of data and systems with a number of drives, that are mostly used by M&E companies, for building and managing large-scale video surveillance systems, in research centers and universities.

The V.5.0.1 supports iSER protocol (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA) that is used to operate databases, virtual environments, cloud services and web applications. iSER is actually a transport between the system and the initiators, providing performance with lower load on the processor.

Monitoring of the company’s based storage operations has become simpler with SNMP v.2/v.3 support and real-time notifications sent-out about system parameters and operation statuses. The web interface has become more convenient; the list of supported equipment has been traditionally expanded.

The V.5.0.1 implements additional technologies to preserve the data and ensure increased storage reliability with new drives monitoring features. Scheduled scans are useful for proactive error detection in the large systems where access to certain data sets, such as archive copies, content repositories, is rare. Scheduled integrity scans and drive status monitoring (including SSD wear check) are performed in the background.

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The V.5.0.1 introduces RAID-50, 60, and 70 – levels of RAID arrays that provide performance with less data access latency for write intensive storages or systems with mixed load: post production, virtualization, SQL and noSQL databases.

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