IBM Cloud Solution Matrix
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Solution | SAN / NAS Systems | Scale-Out Object Storage | Scale-Out File Storage |
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File System | ZFS | Ceph | CephFS (Q319) |
Protocol Support | Block Storage (iSCSI) File Storage (CIFS/NFS/SMB) |
Object Storage (S3/Swift) | File Storage (NFS) |
Key Features | Snapshots, Bit-rot protection & correction, Remote Replication, Compression, Encryption | High-availability, Compression, Encryption | Single-namespace NAS, High-availability |
System Count | Minimum 1 system | Minimum 3 systems per cluster | Minimum 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 / HPC Archive / Media Editing |
Virtualization / Archive / Unstructured Data | Virtualization / Archive / Unstructured Data |
High-availability Architecture | Use Remote-replication | Erasure-coding, Replicas | Erasure-coding, Replicas |
Performance | Up to 1.6GB/sec R/W throughput per pool Network bandwidth limited (dual 10GbE) Hybrid IOPS 10k-30k All-flash IOPS 50K-100k+ |
Depends on server count ~400MB/sec per server with dual 10GbE Network bandwidth limited (dual 10GbE) |
Depends on server count ~400MB/sec per server with dual 10GbE Network bandwidth limited (dual 10GbE) SSDs used to accelerate write performance. |
Storage Grids | Up to 384TB raw per QuantaStor 36 bay server instance up to 64x servers per grid |
Up to 10PB per cluster 30PB per grid using 36 bay server instances up to 64x servers per grid |
Up to 10PB per cluster 30PB per grid using 36 bay server instances up to 64x servers per grid |
Reference Configuration | IBM Cloud SAN/NAS Storage Servers | IBM Cloud Scale-out Object Storage | IBM Cloud Scale-out File Storage (Release date: Q319) |