All-Flash Storage System for Ceph and OpenStack
InfiniFlash System IF150, along with Red Hat Ceph Storage software, delivers a massive scale-out, high-performance, all-flash storage system that provides boundless scale, efficiency, and resiliency for Ceph and OpenStack environments.
Introduction
With the growth of mobile, social, big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT), the quantity and variety of data has skyrocketed. SanDisk’s InfiniFlash™ System IF150, along with Red Hat® Ceph Storage software, delivers a massive scale-out, high-performance, all-flash storage system that provides boundless scale, efficiency, and resiliency for Ceph and OpenStack environments.
Technology
InfiniFlash
The InfiniFlash™ System IF150 provides petabyte-scale capacity, high density and performance for OpenStack® and Ceph environments, and delivers dramatic cost advantages for customers with big data storage requirements. The IF150 delivers the performance of an all-flash array with the economics of an HDD-based system. It is the ideal storage choice for medium to large OpenStack deployments, providing very low latency, extreme IOPS, and sustained throughput.
Each system can be configured with up to 64 hot-swappable cards, delivering up to half a petabyte (512TB1) of raw flash storage in a 3U enclosure and up to 6PB in a single rack. The IF150 scales easily as each unit may connect up to eight servers. The Ceph cluster software provides high availability, load balancing, data replication and storage services required by OpenStack solutions.
Red Hat Ceph Storage
Red Hat Ceph Storage is a massively scalable storage platform that uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux® as its underlying operating system. Red Hat Ceph Storage helps businesses to automatically and cost-effectively manage their storage needs, allowing enterprises to focus on data availability. It scales across physical, virtual, and cloud resources, and allows organizations to add capacity as needed without sacrificing performance or necessitating vendor lock-in.
Red Hat Ceph Storage is offered on the IF150—the latest InfiniFlash storage system. Together, SanDisk and Red Hat have worked to bring Ceph storage with unsurpassed performance, providing over a million Inputs/Outputs per second (IOPS).
Features and Capabilities
- OpenStack integration
- Red Hat Ceph Storage tuned for maximum performance with InfiniFlash
- Modular architecture enabling non-disruptive expansion beginning at 64TB up through 512TB in one chassis, and up to 6PB in one rack
- Low power consumption—only 450 watts typical for 512TB
- Automatic failover prevents server or module failures from impacting data integrity, availability or performance
- Striping, erasure coding, and replication across nodes enables data durability, high availability and high performance
- Achieve ultra-low Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) with all-flash storage modules
- Storage policies can be configured to meet service level agreements (SLAs), performance requirements and failure domains
- Snapshots, thin provisioning and incremental backups
- Automatic rebalancing using a peer-to-peer architecture, adds instant capacity with minimal operational effort
- Hot software upgrades
- Upgrade clusters in phases—adding or replacing cards online—with minimal or no downtime
- RESTful interface, S3 and SWIFT support
Benefits
- High-performance storage for OpenStack and Ceph environments
- Petabyte-scale capacity and high density for OpenStack
- Cost-effective flash storage that can equal the performance of HDD based systems and public-cloud storage
- Industry-leading density, yielding rackspace savings from 64TB to 512TB per 3U module
- Significantly less power consumption than equivalent capacity HDD arrays2
- More than 10x the reliability (AFR) of HDD arrays3
- Independent scaling for compute and storage nodes
- Seamless integration with OpenStack
- Advanced block and object storage capabilities
- On-demand, scale-out architecture
Red Hat Ceph Storage Software Specifications
Scalability
| Per cluster or namespace | 10s-100s of nodes |
| Maximum unique objects (per cluster or namespace) | 1B per device group; no limits on device groups |
| Maximum replicas | 10 per unique object |
| Total cluster maximum | 15PB |
Services and Protocols
| Cloud protocol access | RESTful API, Swift, S3 API |
| Block access | Ceph RBD & OpenStack Cinder |
| Snapshots | 256 |
| Data protection | Snapshots, configurable replicas, erasure coding |
| Disaster recovery | Geographic, asynchronous object replication |
| Management | CLI, RESTful HTTP |
| Maximum storage zones (for protection) | 64,000 per cluster or namespace |
Red Hat Ceph Storage and IF100 Server Node Guidelines
| Entry-Level Solution | Mid-Level Solution | High-Level Solution | |
| IF500 capacity | 64TB to 128TB | 256TB | 512TB |
| CPU | 2 x socket Intel Xeon E5-2690 12C 2.6GHz | 2 x socket Intel Xeon E5-2695 14C 2.3GHz | 2 x socket Intel Xeon E5-2698 16C 2.8GHz |
| Memory | 64 | 64 | 128 |
| Network | 1 x Mellanox X3 Dual 40GbE | 2 x Mellanox X3 Dual 40GbE | 3 x Mellanox X3 Dual 40GbE |
| Network | 2 x LSI 9300-8e HBA SAS cables x 8 | 3 x LSI 9300-8e HBA SAS cables x 9 2 x PCI Express slot for non-volatile random-access memory NVRAM |
4 x LSI 9300-8e HBA SAS cables x 10 3 x PCI Express slot for non-volatile random-access memory NVRAM |
Infiniflash System Product Specifications
Capacity
| Maximum raw capacity | 512TB4 in 3U |
Performance5
| IOPS | > 780,000 IOPS |
| Throughput | 7GB/s |
Power and Connectivity
| Input voltage | 90-264 VAC |
| Input frequency | 47-63 Hz |
| Input current | 12 amps maximum |
| Power cords | 2x IEC C14 |
| Power per node | active: 750W, idle: 250W |
| Connectivity: SAS 2.0–6Gb/s | 8 SFF-8088 connectors; Future zerodowntime upgrade to SAS 3.0 - 12Gb/s |
Physical
| Flash expansion slots | 64, 8TB flash card each |
| Height (3U) x width x length | 5.2” (132 mm) x 17.72” (444.5 mm) x 31.5” (800 mm) |
| Fully populated weight | 100 pounds (45kg) |
Environmental Conditions
| Operating Ambient conditions |
5 to 40˚C, 10% to 90% humidity non-condensing, 10,000 feet; derate 1˚C per 1,000 feet |
| Non-operating Ambient conditions |
-40 to 70˚C, 5% to 95% humidity, 10,000 feet; User data retention not guaranteed |
| Transportation temperature (short term) |
-55 to 85˚C, 5% to 95% humidity, 40,000 feet; User data retention not guaranteed |
Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
| Mean time between failures (MTBF) | 1.5 million hours |
| Hot-swappable hardware | Expanders, fans, power supplies, flash cards |
| Fans | N+2 (sustain any two fan failures) |
| Power supplies | N+1 (sustain any one power supply failure) |
| Expanders | N+1 (sustain any one expander failure) |
Shock and Vibe
| Certifications and materials | Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), and REACH regulations |
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT.
Footnotes
1 490TB usable capacity
2 Results available upon request from SanDisk. Email: RedHat@SanDisk.com.
3 InfiniFlash AFR based on internal testing. Results available upon request to SanDisk. Email: RedHat@SanDisk.com.
4 490TB usable capacity
5 Results and performance may vary according to system adoption, configuration, and broader architecture.
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