StorPool V19 Resolves Challenges of Large-Scale Data Center Storage

StorPool Ltd. announced its release v19.

The distributed storage vendor caters to the needs of enterprises with distributed deployments in several data centers and to companies, which manage large-scale environments. Notable features in v19 are multi-stack deployments support, lower latency for NVMe storage, and improved bare-metal Kubernetes support.

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The updated SDS solution brings better hardware resource utilization, scalability in the multi-petabyte range, and eliminates vendor lock-in.

Companies, managing large-scale deployments have different needs and complexity.

The top challenges identified by a number of them are:

• Improving unified management and utilization

• Managing hardware end of life and refresh cycles

• Reducing infrastructure costs and TCO

The company’s SDS solution is solving these challenges. The v19 adds multi-cluster support for larger-scale deployments from 10PB to hundreds of petabytes in the same datacenter. It provides the ability to scale storage systems in one physical location by creating a cluster of clusters and moving volumes between them.

Another feature from v19 is the multi-stack support. Large companies need the freedom to manage multiple IT stacks with mixed workloads. The company’s multi-stack support allows one storage system to provide shared storage to multiple IT stacks – Windows, VMware, KVM, Kubernetes (K8S), bare metal, and more. The firm’s customers can now shift workloads between several IT stacks.

“When building a datacenter, companies often have a hard time choosing which technologies to utilize. Imagine a Software-Defined Datacenter project, which needs to be fast, reliable, flexible and future proof, to protect the investment for years ahead. The best datacenter design should deliver exceptional performance and reliability; should be automated, scalable; should support multiple software stacks, and use standard hardware of any vendor. This is our definition of New-Age IT. And New-age storage solutions are key in this design. This is what drives the shift from legacy storage boxes to best-in-class storage software,” said Boyan Ivanov, CEO, StorPool.

Managing data center-scale deployments means complex planning, management, optimization, and maintenance. This also involves utilization management and hardware end-of-life or refresh cycles. Most, if not all of the issues of this work can be eliminated by using the newest gen software-defined technologies. And with the company’s solution all storage-layer related capabilities come at a fraction of the TCO, compared to traditional high-end SANs or AFAs.

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