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. |
| Grids | SAN/NAS configurations can scale up to 432 TB raw by adding HDD to a 36-bay storage server | Scale-Out configurations can scale up to multi-petabyte in size by adding QuantaStor servers to the storage grid | Scale-Out configurations can scale up to multi-petabyte in size by adding QuantaStor servers to the storage grid |
| Reference Configuration | SAN/NAS Storage Servers | Scale-out Block Storage Scale-out Object Storage |
Scale-out NAS Archive Storage |