Product Description
Overview:
Challenges
The management of large-scale, rapidly growing infrastructures is a constant challenge for many data center operation teams and it is not surprising that data storage is at the heart of these challenges. The traditional dedicated SAN and dedicated workloads cannot always provided the scale and flexibility needed. A storage array can’t borrow capacity from another SAN if demand increases and can lead to data bottlenecks and a single point of failure. When delivering Infrastructureas-a-Service (IaaS) or high performance applications, delays in response are simply not acceptable to customers or users.
EMC ScaleIO: Public Cloud Agility With Private Cloud Resiliency
EMC® ScaleIO® is software that creates a server-based SAN from local application server storage to deliver flexible and scalable performance and capacity on demand. It converges storage and compute resources of commodity hardware into a single-layer architecture, aggregating capacity and performance, simplifying management, and scaling to thousands of nodes. As an alternative to a traditional SAN infrastructure, ScaleIO combines HDDs, SSDs, and PCIe flash cards to create a virtual pool of block storage with varying performance tiers. In addition, it provides enterprise-grade data protection, multi-tenant capabilities, and add-on enterprise features such as QoS, thin provisioning, and snapshots. ScaleIO is hardware-agnostic, supports physical and/or virtual application servers, and has been proven to deliver significant TCO savings vs. traditional SAN.
Massive Scalability
ScaleIO is designed to massively scale from three to thousands of nodes. Unlike most traditional storage systems, as the number of storage devices grows, so do throughput and IOPS. The scalability of performance is linear with regard to the growth of the deployment. Whenever the need arises, additional storage and compute resources (i.e., additional servers and/or drives) can be added modularly so that resources can grow individually or together to maintain balance. Storage growth is therefore always automatically aligned with application needs.
Extreme Performance
Every server in the ScaleIO cluster is used in the processing of I/O operations, making all I/O and throughput accessible to any application within the cluster. Such massive I/O parallelism eliminates bottlenecks. Throughput and IOPS scale in direct proportion to the number of servers and local storage devices added to the system, improving cost/performance rates with growth. Performance optimization is automatic; whenever rebuilds and rebalances are needed, they occur in the background with minimal or no impact to applications and users. The ScaleIO system autonomously manages performance hot spots and data layout. EMC lab testing results demonstrate:
Key Features:
- Enables storage tiering across server-based HDDs, SSDs, PCIe flash cards
- Ensures high availability with two-copy data mirroring
- Handles self-healing and rebalancing after configuration changes or hardware failures
- Controls bandwidth/IOPS use for quality of service
- Eases data recovery with consistent, writeable snapshots
- Supports multi-tenancy storage with data at rest encryption
- Offers multiple consumption models, including Software Only, ScaleIO Node, and VCE VxRack
Essentials
- Software-defined block storage
- Performance and capacity on demand
- Multiple deployment options
- Infrastructure agnostic
- Elastic architecture
- Data protection across the cluster
- Meet the needs of traditional and next generation applications
Benefits
- Low TCO
- Scales to thousands of nodes
- Tens of millions of IOPS
Features Essential for Enterprises and Service Providers
- Partitioning / Protection Domains
- Tiering
- Multi-tenancy
- Snapshots
- Fault set domains
- Two-Way Mesh Mirroring
- Storage QoS
- Integrations with VMware™ vSphere® and OpenStack
New Essential Features In ScaleIO 2.0
- In-flight Checksum
- 5 Node MDM Cluster
- Read Flash Cache
- EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS)
- Instant Maintenance Mode
- Software Component Validation
- CoreOS Support
- Ubuntu Support
- OpenStack Support
Specifications:
ScaleIO Specifications | |
---|---|
Supported Operating Systems | Microsoft Windows Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS Linux SUSE Linux |
Storage Media | HDD SSD PCIe Flash |
Hypervisors | VMware vSphere Microsoft Hyper-V Linux KVM Citrix XenServer |
Minimum Number of Nodes | 3 |
Maximum Number of Nodes | Unlimited |
Product | ScaleIO Products |
Solution For | Cloud Scale-Out Storage Storage Consolidation Mid-Range Storage Enterprise-Class Storage |
Browse By | Software Software-Defined Storage Primary Storage |