Migration to All Flash Enterprise Data Center Accelerated With Violin Memory Starter Kits

Violin Memory, Inc. launches two Starter Kits that feature firm’s Flash Storage Platform (FSP) 7700, deliver HA in a single system and enable enterprise data center customers to scale their data center capacity while maintaining HA.

Flash Storage Platform (FSP) 7700

The Scalable Starter Kit enables customers to start their all-flash data center with 70TB of raw capacity. When more space is needed, additional firm’s arrays can be added as storage shelves up to a maximum of 1.4PB raw capacity.

Scalable Starter Kit

With the Stretch Cluster Starter Kit, customers can implement the only native all-flash stretch cluster for data protection that ensures comprehensive and automated recovery for all critical applications, business data, and services in case of a catastrophic event. The FSP 7700 is integrated with firm’s Concerto OS 7 to deliver enterprise data services, consistent, high performance and management simplicity to create a new class of flash-based solutions for primary storage applications.

Aimed at offering enterprise data center customers an easy and affordable way to add the power of flash while preserving the ability to scale storage as business needs grow, both Starter Kits enable enterprises to immediately take advantage of an all-flash array on a small scale and grow, over time, up to 2+ million IO/s and 1.4PB raw capacity in a single namespace. Additionally, the Stretch Cluster Starter Kit adds the benefit of DR to deploy an HA solution between two geographically separated sites.

“For enterprises, the move to an all-flash data center is an increasingly attractive and realistic step to not only reduce storage costs and lower power consumption but to do so with accelerated performance, increased efficiencies, and hence improved overall ROI,” said Mark Peters, practice director and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Violin’s Starter Kits give organizations all the fundamental tools they’ll need to take the first steps in making that migration, and Violin is making that transition even easier by providing everything out-of-the-box at reduced cost.“

Scalable Starter Kit
This Scalable Starter Kit features the FSP 7700 which can deliver up to 2+ million IO/s of performance with consistent sub-millisecond latency. Users can start with as little as 70TB of raw capacity; as space is needed, additional Violin arrays can be seamlessly added as storage shelves up to a maximum of 1.4 petabytes raw capacity. Customershave the option to scale with full data protection for stretch clusters deployed over metropolitan distances.

Scalable Starter Kit includes:

• Two FSP 7700 modular scalable array controllers

• Two switches

• Two all-flash arrays with total 70TB of raw flash capacity (35TB per shelf)

• Concerto OS 7 and Symphony management software

Stretch Cluster Starter Kit
This Stretch Cluster Starter kit builds upon firm’s comprehensive data protection technology to provide data centers with the ability to survive a catastrophic event without business impact. Violin’s integrated stretch cluster technology delivers synchronous mirroring of all selected LUNs across geographically dispersed locations. With support for zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and RTO, a FSP 7700 Stretch Cluster can keep your business running.

Stretch Cluster Starter Kit includes:

• Two FSP 7700 modular scalable array controllers

• Four switches

• Two all-flash arrays with a total 70TB of raw flash capacity (35TB per site)

• Concerto OS 7 and Symphony management software

• Stretch Cluster license

FSP 7700 is an enterprise storage solution designed to provide both capacity and performance. It eliminates issues of complexity and reliability for BC by providing robust data services for the enterprise’s entire primary storage needs, managed easily at a granular, group or global level. The features of the FSP 7700 deliver the high performance expected from an all-flash platform and data protection resulting in comprehensive and automated recovery for all critical applications, business data, and services.

All company’s FSP solutions are built upon highly redundant, no-single-point-of-failure hardware platforms, which are integrated with Concerto OS 7 to provide Enterprise Data Services that offer data efficiency, data scalability, and BC.

“With the transformative benefits of flash that include higher performance, greater efficiencies, and reduced overall costs, it’s a matter of when, not if, enterprises will start making the migration to an all-flash data center,” said Amy Love, CMO, Violin. “It’s Violin’s goal to make that process as smooth as possible. By providing everything organizations need and bundling it together as a starter kit, it’s now easier than ever for enterprises to begin their journey to an all-flash environment.“

Resources:
Demartek’s benchmark performance testing of Violin’s Flash Storage Platform to learn how a single FSP can do the work of multiple storage arrays
Why AFA Architecture Matters as Enterprises Pursue Dense Mixed Workload Consolidation, sponsored by Violin Memory and written by Eric Burgener, Research Director for IDC’s Storage Practice
Flash Storage Technologies:  Resource library and watch Technology Video Series
Company’s portfolio of flash-based solutions