ARXYS | SENTIO – Software Defined Storage
Ultra Reliability
Atomic Transaction Writes, Data and Metadata Checksumming, Self-Healing, N-Mirrors, up to Triple- Parity, mirrored boot medium.
Data Acceleration
Dynamic caching between RAM, SSD and HDD, most recent and most frequent (hot data) cache algorithm, random to sequential conversion on writes.
Data Virtualization
Default Thin and Over Provisioning with pooled storage model, unlimited and instant Snapshots and Clones.
Unified Storage
iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, OpenStack-Cinder delivering up to 5PB in single namespace via ZFS.
Storage | Defined
Arxys | Sentio Software Orchestrated Storage is purpose-built for enterprise-class Software Defined Storage (SDS) environments that demand optimum performance, non-stop availability and the lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Arxys | Sentio is a high-performance scale-out SDS platform that brings unprecedented scalability, protection, performance and efficiency to your organization.
The Arxys | Sentio Software Defined Storage (SDS) platform is purpose-built to scale-up to make storage management disruptively simple while reducing storage costs and complexity. With verified support for all major SAN/NAS protocols including iSCSI/FC and NFS/CIFS/SMB and a high availability scale-up 128bit ZFS file system with fault-tolerant technologies, Arxys | Sentio delivers a full array of enterprise features and capabilities for file, block and object storage at the lowest TCO in the industry.
Key Advantages
Arxys | Sentio ensures the highest data reliability and integrity – for optimal data storage, protection and recovery. It addresses the needs of enterprise users seeking a unified block and file (NAS and SAN) solution with thin provisioning, compression and deduplication. Arxys | Sentio brings the power and simplicity of true Software Defined Storage together with purpose-built server and storage platforms to bring enterprise-class protection, resiliency and performance to a wider range of applications.
You can seamlessly scale up choosing the most advantageous hardware configuration to meet your needs. Hardware limitations on scaling storage are eliminated via intelligent virtualization and thin provisioning. Arxys | Sentio delivers unlimited file sizes and near limitless scalability to future-proof your infrastructure, making it hyper-agile.
Arxys | Sentio, in collaboration with a certified hypervisor, is able to create sophisticated Hyper-converged Infrastructures for small and medium companies, as well as enterprises. The result is a cost-effective, flexible and highly scalable solution for virtualization that offers performance and data efficiency at unprecedented value.
Storage | Optimized
High Availability Clustering
High Availability Load-balanced Dual Storage Controller Cluster with Ethernet, SAS or Fibre Channel connection- delivers the highest data security with SMB / NFS / iSCSI failover functionality. Choose local or metro failover via Metro HA Cluster Feature Pack (SAS, FC, Ethernet) or Local HA Cluster Feature Pack (SAS, FC). Arxys | Sentio delivers failover functionality for SMB, NFS and iSCSI enabling you to set up High Availability Load-Balanced Storage Clusters that ensure reliability and redundancy through failover in case of a server crash.
Local or Remote Replication
The On- & Off-site Data Protection feature is a strategy for Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery and Archiving (optional) that allows for an instant restore of a company’s crucial data in case of an unexpected disaster.
On- & Off-site Data Protection enables creating consistent snapshots of chosen resources and asynchronous replication to remote (or local) destinations. The rotational auto-snapshots of a chosen dataset or zvol are stored according to a retention-interval plan for secure and structured data archiving that can be set according to specific user needs.
ZFS Solution
- 128-bit ZFS file system – The most scalable & flexible file system.
- Unlimited file size – Most legacy solutions limit the file sizes, in ZFS eliminates those limits.
- Unlimited scalability – Easy and intuitive storage extensions enable unlimited storage capacity.
- Unlimited Compatibility – The Linux architecture provides Arxys | Sentio with much better compatibility.
- Warranted data integrity – Self-healing check-sums, atomic writes and transactional copy-on-write I/O operations eliminate silent data corruption and ‘write-holes’.
Performance & Scalability
Hybrid storage pools – Utilize the I/O performance of SSDs and high capacity of HDDs in a single system.
Thin provisioning – Virtually simulates a bigger volume than is physically available, and allows growing it on the fly without the need to re-format the file system.
Tiered cache – RAM and SSD cache tier hot data between each other to increase performance.
Disk Multipathing support – for higher fault tolerance, Data Integrity and performance.
Software Defined Storage
Sentio is Powered by Jovian SDS
Storage | Protected
Arxys | Sentio Software Orchestrated Storage (SOS) provides compelling options to architect High Availability (HA) storage environments (incl. SMB/CIFS, NFS and iSCSI protocols). Whatever your data and storage requirements, either as a single node, a virtualized High Availability solution or a Big Data cluster environment, Arxys | Sentio ensures uninterrupted data access and protection that scales up seamlessly.
Self-healing check-sums, atomic writes and transactional copy-on-write I/O operations eliminate silent data corruption and ‘write-holes’ ensure warranted data integrity without compromise. Additionally, S.M.A.R.T. attributes for all disks in the log files enable rapid detection of key early indicators of drive reliability to avoid disk failure. Your data is continuously and actively protected and optimized ensuring ultimate peace of mind.
High Availability Load-balanced Clusters with Ethernet, SAS or Fibre Channel connection delivers ironclad data security with SMB / NFS / iSCSI failover functionality in either local-local and/or in a metro-wide solution.
Arxys | Sentio High Availability Clusters with Ethernet, SAS or Fibre Channel connections ensure reliability and redundancy by intelligently eliminating single points of failure. The Standard HA Cluster Feature Pack (SAS, FC) enables High Availability for dual server nodes connected to a single shared storage system.
With the Advanced Metro HA Cluster Feature Pack (SAS, FC, Ethernet) you can achieve next level High Availability for two server nodes over an Ethernet LAN of up to 50 miles (80km), with distinct storage systems at each physical location (Dual Storage).
The Arxys | Shield-Prime running Sentio Software Defined Storage (SDS) platform, is purpose-built to scale-up to make storage management disruptively simple while reducing storage costs and complexity. With verified support for all major SAN/NAS protocols including iSCSI/FC and NFS/CIFS/SMB and a high availability scale-up 128bit ZFS file system with fault-tolerant technologies, Arxys | Sentio delivers a full array of enterprise features and capabilities for file, block and object storage at the lowest TCO in the industry.
Off-site Data Protection provides consistent snapshots of chosen resources and asynchronous replication to remote (or local) destinations. Arxys | Sentio Off-site Data Protection effectively prevents data loss and minimizes the recovery time with high-speed Disaster Recovery protocols, lowering the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in every backup strategy. It allows setting up an application-consistent backup with a retention interval as a Disaster Recovery plan for virtual environments based on VMware. The software does not require the installation of any backup agent. This way, servers with crucial data can be easily and instantly restored in case of an unexpected disaster.
Arxys | Sentio delivers unlimited snapshots and clones. In many legacy solutions, the limit for snapshots is under 255. Arxys | Sentio allows unlimited snapshots and auto-snapshots that can be remotely activated via CLI and enable easy cloning, versioning and backup.
Your data is secured, protected and recoverable with Arxys | Sentio. Bring enterprise storage solutions to every level of your organization with the breakthrough value and resilience of Arxys Software Orchestrated Storage platforms.
Storage | Secured
Off-site Data Protection in Arxys | Sentio delivers a winning strategy for Backup, Archiving and Disaster Recovery by enabling asynchronous replication to local sites or co-locations. This way, servers with crucial data can be easily and instantly restored in case of an unexpected disaster. The Off-site Data Protection functionality can create unlimited, consistent, real time snapshots and asynchronously replicate snapshot deltas to local or remote destinations to deliver true data security using advanced Software Defined Storage.
Additionally, replication tasks can be scheduled according to your specific requirements for secure archiving. Secure encryption enhances security even further in case of malicious attacks, while buffered data replication significantly increases the efficiency of storage environments orchestrated by Arxys | Sentio. All management functionality can be executed via the Command Line Interface (CLI) as well for additional fine tuned control. Arxys | Sentio software is pre-built with VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI) for iSCSI data acceleration and virtual machine management simplicity.
Arxys Solutions Running Sentio Software Defined Storage
Arxys | Shield
Arxys | Shield delivers the intense multi-streaming throughput and data resilience required by advanced Video Management Systems at the lowest Total Cost of Ownership of any solution in the industry.
Arxys | Intego
Arxys | Intego is protection. If your organization positively, absolutely must have continuous uptime for your critical applications and data Arxys | Intego delivers. Extreme environments and extreme uptime is where Arxys | Intego thrives.
ZFS Pool Design
A virtual storage pool is used by Arxys | Sentio to control its data groups. The pool treats each data group as single device. This means that performance of the pool is dependent on the amount of groups and not the amount of total disks. For high performance installations, mirrors with 2 or 3 disks in each data group are recommended. In normal scenarios, redundancy levels Z-1, Z-2 and Z-3 are used to increase the pools capacity efficiency. Thanks to RAM and SSD Caching, enough performance for typical scenarios can still be achieved.
Data groups
Data groups are virtual devices that consist of any amount of HDDs or SSDs. It is very important to use the same disks for the whole pool. Data stored in the pool, is striped evenly over all data groups in order to maximize performance. Redundancy is provided by parity disks within each data group. Their amount is determined by the redundancy level. The number of parity disks equals the amount of disks that are allowed to fail within a data group without losing data.
Non-data groups
These groups are not included in the Storage License Calculator, because they don't affect the license's required storage capacity. Non-data groups are disks in read cache, write log and spares. Typically, SSDs are used for read cache and write log, to increase the systems overall performance. Spare disks are identical to the disks in the data group and available in the pool to replace faulty disks. None of these are used to store the original data, and are therefore not licensed by Arxys | Sentio.