NexentaEdge Solutions
Reference Architecture Designs
- Scale out, shared nothing architecture deployed on Linux standard x86 servers
- Fully distributed data and metadata management
- Multi-petabyte scale with low management overhead
- Future proof design, ready for emerging storage media such as Key/Value drives, Ethernet drives and Shingled Magnetic Recording drives
Highlights
- Next-Generation design
- iSCSI with Cinder support
- Swift and S3 Object API
- End to end data integrity protection
- Cluster wide inline deduplication
- Fully distributed architecture with no single point of failure
- Automatic load balancing based on least utilized resources (CPU, network, storage)
- CLI and Horizon management plug-in
- Container converged infrastructure, ready for cloud native applications
Benefits
- Block Cinder, Swift and S3 APIs for OpenStack deployments
- Next generation scale out design optimizing storage and network utilization
- Fully distributed architecture eliminating single points of failure or hotspots
- Minimize CAPEX by running on low cost industry standard servers
- Minimize OPEX with dynamic self-balancing and self-healing capabilities
- Reduce VM image storage footprint with cluster-wide inline deduplication
Functionality
- High performance, low latency, iSCSI Block and Swift and S3 Object services
- Simple scaling from 100’s of TB to 100’s of PBs
- Patent pending FlexHash algorithms for continuous data placement optimization
- Patent pending Replicast protocol for low latency network data transfers
- Ultimate end to end data integrity with chunk level cryptographic checksums
- Cloud Copy On Write powered unlimited space optimized snapshots and clones
- Cluster-wide inline deduplication and compression
Data Protection & Optimizations
- Cryptographic strength hashing and checksums of all data, with automated self-healing for ultimate data durability and integrity
- Inline deduplication is performed on all written data across the entire cluster. Variable size chunking ensures maximum capacity savings
- Object level replication policy control allows the application to set data specific protection levels
High Performance
- Cloud Copy On Write of all content enables high performance data and metadata management
- Replicast network protocol optimizes network utilization, minimizes data transfers and delivers faster response times
- Flexhash dynamically optimizes data placement and data access and automatically ensures effective balancing of performance and capacity loads across the cluster
CLUSTER ROLE |
Storage Servers |
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SRS SKUs |
SRS-128UØØ-NE0T-ØØ |
SRS-128UØØ-NE0S-ØØ |
SRS-628RØØ-NE0T-ØØ |
SRS-628RØØ-NE0S-ØØ |
System SKUs |
SYS-128UØØ-NEØT-ØØ |
SYS-128UØØ-NEØS-ØØ |
SYS-628RØØ-NEØT-ØØ |
SYS-628RØØ-NEØS-ØØ |
Form Factor |
1U |
2U |
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CPU |
E5-2690 v4 2.6GHz, 14-core (x2) |
E5-2630 v4 2.2GHz, 10-core (x2) |
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Memory |
256GB |
64GB (Object Only) - 128GB (Block I/O) |
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Capacity |
8.6TB |
96TB |
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SSDs |
2.5" SATA 6Gb/s SSD, 960GB, Data (x9) |
2.5" SATA SSD MLC (x2) |
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HDDs |
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3.5" SATA 7.2k HDD (x10) |
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HBA controller |
AOC-S3008L-L8e or AOC-S3108L-L8IR |
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Network Interface |
AOC-STG-I2T (RJ45) |
AOC-STGN-I2S (SFP+) |
AOC-STG-I2T (RJ45) |
AOC-STGN-I2S (SFP+) |
Software |
Ubuntu 14.04 | CentOS 7.2 | RHEL 7.2 | NexentaEdge 1.1.0 or above |
CLUSTER ROLE |
Storage Servers |
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SRS SKUs |
SRS-648RØØ-NE0T-ØØ |
SRS-648RØØ-NE0S-ØØ |
SRS-648RØØ-NE0T-ØØ |
SRS-648RØØ-NE0S-ØØ |
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System SKUs |
SYS-648RØØ-NEØT-ØØ |
SYS-648RØØ-NEØS-ØØ |
SYS-648RØØ-NEØT-ØØ |
SYS-648RØØ-NEØS-ØØ |
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Form Factor |
4U |
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CPU |
E5-2630 v4 2.2GHz, 10-core (x2) |
E5-2660 v4 2.00GHz, 14-core (x2) |
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Memory |
128GB |
256GB |
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Capacity |
288TB |
576TB |
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SSDs |
2.5" SATA SSD MLC (x6) |
2.5" SATA SSD MLC (x12) |
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HDDs |
3.5" SATA 7.2k HDD (x30) |
3.5" SATA 7.2k HDD (x60) |
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HBA controller |
AOC-S3008L-L8e or AOC-S3108L-H8IR |
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Network Interface |
AOC-STG-I2T (RJ45) |
AOC-STGN-I2S (SFP+) |
AOC-STG-I2T (RJ45) |
AOC-STGN-I2S (SFP+) |
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Software |
Ubuntu 14.04 | CentOS 7.2 | RHEL 7.2 | NexentaEdge 1.1.0 or above |
* Memory, HDD and SSD configurations can vary depending on the form factor and workload profile
* Øs are defined based on the SSD brands and the quantity of nodes.
* Supermicro team will recommend the minimum quantity of nodes for clients according to the preferred replica method.
* For object storage only, SSDs can be substituted for HDDs to minimize the cost.
All-Flash Supermicro-NexentaEdge Ready Nodes
![]() All-Flash 8.6TB Raw Capacity |
SYS-128UMI-NE0S-01 / SYS-128UMI-NE0T-01 • 1U Single Ready Node for Supermicro-NexentaEdge Scale-out Storage • 28 Cores (2 Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4) each Node • 256GB Memory (16x 16GB DDR4-2400) each Node • 2 PCI-E 3.0 x16 Expansion Slots • 8.6TB Data Storage (9x 960GB SSDs, 1x 240GB boot SSDs), Micron M510DC SSDs • Dual 10GbE SFP+ (NE0S model) or Dual 10GbE RJ45 (NE0T model) • 10X More IOPS (8K Random@75% Read / 25% Write) & 3X More IOPS (8K@100% Read) with iSCSI All-SSD vs. Hybrid Configurations • Supermicro 4-Hour Onsite Hardware Service for 3 Years (OS4HR3) |