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QuantaStor 5 SDS on Bare Metal servers delivers new levels of agility to IT organizations seeking dedicated, highly-secure and hyper-scale storage across the IBM Cloud. Featuring unified file, block and object protocol support, and unique grid management technology, QuantaStor Storage Systems address a broad set of workloads including server virtualization, big data, cloud backup, media editing, deep archive, and high-performance compute applications. QuantaStor 5 is designed, integrated and certified for use with all Mass Storage Servers in IBM Cloud datacenters worldwide
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) |
| File System Features | Snapshots / Bit-rot protection Remote Replication / Compression | Erasure-coding and replica-based data distribution for high availability and fault-tolerance | Highly-available file storage suitable for archive applications with lower performance requirements. Each NAS Archive cluster must contain a minimum of 3x systems. |
| Benefits | Lower latency / Lower $/TB hardware costs | Greater expandability within a single namespace | Greater expandability within a single namespace |
| Use Cases | Virtualization / DatabasesHigh Performance ComputeArchive / Media Editing | Virtualization / Archive / Unstructured Data | Archive storage only |
| Architecture | Standalone servers, with unified grid management | Clustered servers, min 3xUnified grid management | Clustered servers, min 3 xUnified grid management |
| Performance | Between 400MB/sec and 1.6GB/sec,depending on block size and number of disk;adding SSD will increase IOPS to 10k-20k;all-flash systems will deliver 100k+ sustained R/W IOPS | Between 400MB/sec and 1.2GB/sec,depending on block size;adding servers will boost performance | Adding systems or SSDs will boost performance. Small 3x system configurations will deliver between 400MB/sec and 1.2GB/sec sequential throughput depending on block size and number of concurrent client connections. Erasure-coding is recommended for best write performance and replica mode is recommended for best read 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 new servers to the QS grid | Scale-Out configurations can scale up to multi-petabyte in size by adding new servers to the QS grid |
| Reference Configuration | SAN/NAS Storage Servers | Scale-out Block Storage Scale-out Object Storage |
Scale-out NAS Archive Storage |
Solution Integrations
QuantaStor NAS gateway systems can be configured to periodically back-up local NAS storage to IBM Cloud Object Storage as objects or cache metadata as a pure NAS pass-thru gateway to IBM Cloud Object Storage.
QuantaStor Software Defined Storage Systems are designed with high-availability and scale-out features needed for mission-critical desktop and server virtualization solutions. QuantaStor storage servers provide VMware certified NFS and iSCSI storage with advanced features including encryption, compression, and remote-replication.
Deployment
The QuantaStor Provisioning Guide provides easy-to-follow instructions for the optimal configuration and set up of your QuantaStor solutions in the IBM Cloud. The Guide includes reference configurations for each of the QuantaStor 5 on IBM Cloud Bare Metal solutions, including SAN/NAS System, Scale-out Block & Object systems and NAS Gateway systems.
