CirraStor – Designed to Meet Today’s Demanding Scale Out Storage Requirements
CirraStor™ Petascale Storage Appliances marry Cirrascale’s breakthrough Vertical Cooling Technology™ (VCT) with powerful NexentaStor™ unified storage management software to deliver highly scalable, multi–tiered storage arrays for SAN, iSCSI, NAS and DAS applications. The convergence of these technologies enables single-rack storage appliances with up to 2PB of capacity with the highest performance, flexibility, and reliability and the lowest power utilization in the industry. VCT makes it possible to move the application servers closer to the physical storage, minimizing network bottlenecks and increasing performance while NexentaStor’s feature-rich management software, based on the ZFS file system, enables quick and easy configuration of appliances with the following capabilities:
- Powerful GUI with single login management over multiple appliances.
- Unlimited snapshots and clones.
- Block level and file level replication with management of virtualized storage.
- Predictable linear performance improvement as storage is added.
- Isolation to support multi-tenancy and the ability to shrink and grow capacity dynamically as user needs dictate.
- Easy integration with cloud vendor management portals.
- Extensibility with customizable plug-ins.
- In-kernel CIFS stack and support for NFS and WebDAV
CirraStor appliance components include a range of head nodes and storage blades in the company’s BladeRack2 chassis. CirraStor blade-based appliances fulfill the critical need for massively scalable storage systems that are highly efficient, easy to manage and cost effective. CirraStor offers:
- Massive Storage Capacity – in a single rack with a standard data center footprint
- Breakthrough Vertical Cooling Technology – reduces data center power utilization by 35% or more
- High Reliability – supported by study by leading disk drive manufacturer
- Unmatched Flexibility – enables integration of new processors, high performance I/O, and high speed system memory coupled with easy to use, feature-rich, extensible storage management software
- Lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
To learn more, please download the CirraStor product brief.
Additional Cirrascale Blade Storage Solutions
Cirrascale is a recognized leader and innovator of blade-based storage solutions for the data center. We offer a comprehensive range of scalable, cost-effective blade storage for the cloud -- specifically designed for a wide range of storage applications from high-availability Web 2.0 and cloud applications to large pools of unstructured data.
Our BladeRack2-FE, BladeRack2-XL and FOREST blade storage solutions deliver key advantages:
- Up to twelve 2TB drives per storage blade
- Up to four blades per storage head node
- Hot-swappable drives for easy serviceability
- Ideal solutions for cloud, ISP/ASP, and more
- Compatible with compute, GP/GPU and workstations