XSKY Technology XSEA Distributed All-Flash Architecture and Xinfini Storage Solution

Beijing XSKY Technology Co., Ltd. announced its distributed all-flash architecture XSEA (eXtreme Shared-Everything Architecture) and Xinfini, a all-flash distributed storage solution.

XSEA architecture
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Xu Xin, CEO, stated that leveraging the pioneering XSEA architecture, XSKY has developed Xinfini, an all-flash distributed storage solution would  reduce the cost of using all-flash storage. This move aims to propel the entire industry into the era of ‘All Data on All Flash’.

Embracing XSEA shared-everything architecture for all-flash data centers
Wang Haomai, CTO, explained that the XSEA architecture is the result of 8 years of continuous refinement and innovation in storage technology.

Built on the latest standard storage protocols and network technologies, XSEA introduces 3 key technological innovations:

• Shared everything: XSEA employs a shared-everything model, enabling each node to directly access all SSDs. This provides better performance scalability and service quality, offering a global perspective on data logic.

• Single tier flash: Utilizing Append Only writing method, optimized for TLC NVMe SSD, reducing hardware configuration complexity.

• End-to-end NVMe: The storage system provides NVMe-oF protocol externally, while internally, replication networks and IO processing also use NVMe-oF , ensuring efficient handling of IO paths.

With innovations, XSEA achieves 3 milestones:

• Achieving a latency of 100ms at 40%-60% loads；

• Achieving over 100% storage usable efficiency (usable capacity/raw capacity) through global EC and data compression technologies；

• Swift switching within 100ms during slow drives or subhealthy network scenarios, ensuring system stability.

Xinfini all-flash storage serving diverse business scenarios

Xinfini 9000 appliance

Leveraging the XSEA architecture, the company introduced the Xinfini software and Xinfini 9000 all-flash storage appliance, marking the industry’s 1st shared-everything architecture for distributed all-flash primary storage.

Xinfini software is an integrated and modular storage system, inheriting the capabilities of the firm’s SDS block storage and file storage. It provides a unified storage platform supporting converged deployments for scenarios such as virtualization, private cloud, OLTP, HPDA, and AI/ML.

Xinfini 9000, combining validated hardware with Xinfini software, delivers all-flash storage performance, the reliability of centralized storage, and space efficiency, ensuring a storage experience.

The Xinfini software and Xinfini 9000 are dedicated to providing a storage solution for all-flash data centers across various business scenarios. During the launch event, the company, in collaboration with customers and partners such as Intel, showcased NVMe DAS comparative tests, centralized all-flash comparative tests, and public cloud high-speed disk comparative tests.

Built on the XSEA architecture and Xinfini all-flash storage, the company has established a robust ecosystem. It has collaborated with partners including Intel, Inspur, GDTV Wuzhou, Kirin Software, openEuler, ZStack,Alauda , OceanBase, Transwarp, SinoSoft, and SCUTECH, and more, to validate the entire stack of technology from hardware devices, cloud platforms, OSs, critical business components to core business applications.

Haomai emphasized that the Xinfini products based on the XSEA architecture will further integrate with the existing XSKY SDS V6. The company remains committed to its single technology platform strategy, ensuring a consistent storage experience. The firm will continue to provide SDS products and solutions to help customers achieve its goal of data ‘make data alive’.