StorageCraft OneBlox 5210
All-Flash Scale-Out Storage Built on Revolutionary ObjectBased Storage

Scale-Out Architecture

OneBlox employs a seamless scale-out Ring architecture supporting multiple OneBlox appliances presenting a single global file system. A Ring may consist of one or multiple OneBlox, scaling from a few terabytes to nearly 280TBs of raw flash storage capacity. As business storage requirements change, OneBlox is extremely agile; simply add any number of drives, at any time, and in any capacity granularity to meet your storage requirements. OneBlox simply grows the global storage pool with zero configuration and no application downtime.

Scale-Out Storage for Virtual Environments

OneBlox uniquely supports VMware environments by enabling virtual machines to utilize scale-out NFS datastores. Consolidate multiple NFS datastores in a single OneBlox Ring and scale to multiple PBs with OneBlox’s advanced data reduction. Need high performance? OneBlox 5210 is an all-flash array for consolidating performance-hungry virtual machines, delivering 50,000 IOPS. Need more capacity? Simply scale-out OneBlox by adding drives or OneBlox and the virtual servers instantly see additional storage capacity—with zero configuration.

Dynamic Growth

Bring your own SSDs. No RAID, no LUNs, no volumes. OneBlox delivers the flexibility for organizations to mix-and-match drive types (SATA, SAS) and capacity (one to four terabytes) within the same OneBlox and within a OneBlox Ring. Purchase exactly the capacity your organization needs at the beginning and then in the future, increase capacity by mixing and matching any number of additional drives. OneBlox automatically pools the new storage within the existing global storage pool. No disruption to applications or users. No configuration settings to complete. No mouse clicks. No command line entries. No storage PhD required.

Agile and Affordable

OneBlox’s agility to add storage at any time comes with the additional benefit of delivering significant cost savings. StorageCraft’s bringyour-own-drive philosophy treats drives as a commodity. Accordingly, every organization can purchase drives at retail prices and use up to 3.8TB SSDs within OneBlox. Gartner Group’s research indicates disk and flash drives can account for up to 50% of the storage systems hardware costs. Avoiding the 10x markup from legacy storage vendors quickly results in significant cost savings compared to other storage solutions. Combined with OneBlox’s powerful inline deduplication and compression, storage utilization is maximized and waste is minimized.

Zero Configuration

Ease of use is not an afterthought with OneBlox. OneBlox is easily can be installed in less than 15 minutes, provisioned and available to serve data with zero configuration. Simply insert at least two drives, plug in Ethernet, and power it on. It’s that easy. Need to add more storage? Simply add drives and the capacity is added to the same global storage pool. Need to add availability or performance? With no interruption to applications or users, additional OneBlox nodes can be added and automatically configured, enabling organizations nondisruptive scalability with their business.

Flexible Multi-Site Replication

Implement disaster recovery with asynchronous multi-site replication. Employ a flexible one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one bi-directional replication architecture with multiple OneBlox rings. Implement exactly the configuration that suits the business needs of geographically distributed environments. Only deduplicated and compressed data is replicated, ensuring the transfer is very bandwidth efficient. Other vendors require the source and target storage infrastructure to be identical. StorageCraft does not impose any such restrictions for the utmost flexibility.

Always-on Information

StorageCraft’s distributed file system is built on top of a fine-grained content-addressable distributed object store with a hashed ring architecture that has small but variable-sized immutable objects as its foundation. This underlying technology allows OneBlox Ring to fully protect the stored information without legacy RAID technologies. OneBlox transparently replicates and intelligently distributes the data objects across multiple drives within a failure domain and protects against drive or OneBlox failures. In case of failure, data objects are redistributed and rebalanced to ensure full protection.

Scale-Out NAS

• Non-disruptively scale performance by simply adding additional OneBlox appliance into a cluster ring with zeroconfiguration
• Get higher aggregate IOPS and throughput from all the appliances within a cluster
• Add capacity granularly, one disk at a time, and have the aggregate capacity immediately available for applications and users through a single namespace
• Grow capacity on demand with no upfront investments

Cloud-Managed

• OneSystem is an innovative, multi-tenant, cloud-based management service
• Enables storage admins to manage their on-premises OneBlox storage systems from any browser
• Enables a simplified storage management workflow that is visual, point-and-click, drag-and-drop and directly actionable
• Eliminates the need for dedicated servers and software on the customer premises to manage storage

Inline De-Duplication

• Inline de-duplication is automatically performed across the global file system with no configuration questions to answer and no management overhead
• Achieve data reduction up to 10X resulting in a smaller storage capacity footprint

Management Simplicity

• Object based replication (at ring-level) protects data from multiple disk or node failures while eliminating the need for legacy RAID protection schemes
• Provisioning of added capacity is instantaneous since there is no RAID, volume or LUNs to configure
• Failed disks (or nodes) can simply be removed and replaced with no disruption to data services and no reconfiguration of storage

Continuous Data Protection

• Advanced Continuous Data Protection (CDP) automatically captures every file write into the system with zero configurations to the system
• Quick online recovery of previous versions of files from spaceoptimized snapshots without time-consuming restores from backups

Cost-Efficient Cross-Site Replication

• Remote replication for disaster recovery protects against failure of an entire cluster or site
• WAN usage is optimized as OneBlox replicates only the changed and de-duplicated information to the secondary site
• Data is encrypted and fully protected during replication

Cloud-Based Management

Eliminate the need for dedicated servers and software upgrades. Manage your OneXafe or ShadowXafe from any location and from any web browser with this secure cloud-based management platform. Whether you are responsible for one location or many, OneSystem empowers you to manage the entire storage infrastructure, simply and securely.

Global Multi-Tenant Architecture

OneSystem was designed to support every OneXafe and ShadowXafe, regardless of geographic location. Securely manage multiple discrete organizations’ information. OneXafe or ShadowXafe is deployed on-premises so the information is closest to the application for performance, while OneSystem is cloud-based for scalability and for accessibility from any browser anywhere.

Continuous Monitoring

OneSystem continuously monitors the health and status of OneXafe and ShadowXafe so you can rest easy. OneSystem receives real-time updates about OneBlox hardware, software, and network connectivity--all the information that’s critical to supporting organizations’ data.

World-Class Proactive Support

Get peace of mind knowing Support is watching over every OneXafe and ShadowXafe deployment. By constantly monitoring, we often identify and solve storage challenges before customers realize there’s an issue. This proactive approach means we can rapidly address any application disruptions.

Global Reporting

The best storage management decisions are based on information. Get a global view into of your organization’s storage infrastructure, including reporting and trending of storage capacity, data reduction ratios, remote replication, and recovery point objectives.

Private OneSystem

Choose to use Private OneSystem, a hybrid solution offering OneXafe and ShadowXafe storage management deployed as a virtual machine within your data center while leveraging the same proactive cloud-based monitoring and support capabilities.