OSNexus QuantaStor 6 Storage Automation Capabilities with Seagate Exos Corvault Systems

OSNexus Corp. announced storage automation capabilities in QuantaStor 6 with Seagate Exos Corvault.

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The new one-click complete auto-configuration of Corvault systems enables simple expansion of QuantaStor scale-up and scale-out clusters with Corvault systems.

QuantaStor integrates with Exos Corvault enabling scale-up and scale-out cluster configurations deployed with 2 layers of erasure coding provided by the Corvault and a 2nd layer provided by QuantaStor. QuantaStor also monitors Corvault systems to provide distributed management and alerting.

“With this release we’ve expanded our Seagate Exos Corvault integration by adding easy one-click auto-configuration via pre-set profiles which will greatly accelerate deployment times and provide greater consistency,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO, OSNexus.

Exos Corvault is a fully configured, self-healing, DAS array which combines Seagate’s highest capacity enterprise HDDs with Seagate’s ADAPT and Autonomous Drive Regeneration (ADR) data protection and self-healing technologies. The Corvault system presents logical disk groups instead of physical disks to the QuantaStor software and also implements hardware-based erasure coding data protection, which reduces the server CPU resources needed to run QuantaStor by 50% as compared with using JBODs.

QuantaStor uses the Corvault’s built-in VelosCT ASIC-based ADAPT erasure coding to enable faster system performance and simplified maintenance with faster drive rebuilds within each Corvault storage array, eliminating east/west network disk rebuild traffic resulting in less backend system pressure. It implements a second layer of erasure coding between Corvault systems, increasing system data durability up to 14 9’s.

“Integration and automation of the Seagate Exos Corvault systems provides a unique solution to scaling with two-layers of erasure-coding and this is key to enabling customers to deploy clusters in the 100PB-200PB and beyond as Seagate continues to increase per platter densities,” said Umbehocker. “With this release we’ve expanded our Seagate Exos Corvault integration by adding easy one-click auto-configuration via pre-set profiles which will greatly accelerate deployment times and provide greater consistency.“

QuantaStor’s management and auto-configuration of Corvault units covers the entire line from the 4U106 based Corvault to the 5U84 Corvault that fits within standard rack depth.