Solution Matrix

	Scale-Up	Scale-Out	Scale-Out
Solution	SAN / NAS Systems	Scale-Out Block & Object Storage	Scale-Out File Storage
File System	ZFS	Ceph	Gluster
Protocol Support	Block Storage (iSCSI / FibreChannel) File Storage (CIFS/NFS/SMB)	Block Storage (iSCSI) Object Storage (S3/Swift)	File Storage (CIFS/NFS)
Key Features	Snapshots, Bit-rot protection & correction, Remote Replication, Compression, Encryption	High-availability, Compression, Encryption	Single-namespace NAS, High-availability
Minimum System Count	1 system	3 systems per cluster	3 systems per cluster
Benefits	Lower latency / Lower $/TB hardware costs	Greater expandability within a single namespace	Greater expandability within a single namespace
Workload	Virtualization / Databases / High-performance Compute / Archive / Media Editing	Virtualization / Archive / Unstructured Data	Archive only
High-availability Architecture	Use Remote-replication	Erasure-coding, Replicas	Erasure-coding, Replicas
Performance	Between 400MB/sec and 1.6GB/sec R/W throughput per storage pool dnetwork bandwidth limited Hybrid IOPS 10k-30k All-flash IOPS 50K-100k+	Depends on server count ~400MB/sec per server with dual 10GbE network bandwidth limited.	Depends on server count ~400MB/sec per server with dual 10GbE network bandwidth limited. SSDs used to accelerate write performance.
Storage Grids	Up to 384TB raw per QuantaStor 36 bay server instance	Up to 10PB per cluster, 30PB per grid using 36 bay server instances	Up to 10PB per cluster, 30PB per grid using 36 bay server instances
Reference Configuration	SAN/NAS Storage Servers	Scale-out Block Storage Scale-out Object Storage	Scale-out NAS Archive Storage