Availability of Container Storage Interface by Vast Data

Vast Data, Inc. announced the availability of its Container Storage Interface (CSI).

The CSI enables users to programmatically deploy and manage storage services for a variety of container platforms that have adopted the CSI standard.

Announced in February of 2019, the company’s Universal Storage architecture has combined technology such as QLC Flash, 3D Xpoint and NVMe-oF networking with new firm’s algorithms to transform the economics of flash and make it affordable to put all of data on Flash. CSI driver works with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Red Hat Open Shift to enable the programmatic provisioning of persistent storage volumes. Beyond the benefits of all-flash, containerized applications can also benefit from the capabilities that are inherent to the company’s Disaggregated, Shared Everything (DASE) storage architecture:

RDMA-accelerated persistent volumes: The company’s NFSoRDMA interface can stream data into single containers at nearly 9GB/s, a level of performance for next-gen ML and deep learning applications and 4x the speed of legacy NAS. In recent customer testing, the firm’s CSI driver and Universal Storage delivered 3 times the performance of even an enterprise all-flash SAN storage system
QoS for multiple tenants: With the ability to pool of company’s servers into resource groups that can be dynamically allocated to container pods, Universal Storage can ensure that specific applications do not get overrun by other applications in an environment by hard-allocating file server HW along pool boundaries.

“We are continuing our march toward being a truly universal storage platform by bringing VAST to container environments,” said Jeff Denworth, VP, products and co-founder, VAST. “With our CSI, we are drastically improving the performance of NFS-backed persistent volumes through the implementation of storage CPU pooling and RDMA, which makes this ideal for companies using containers for today’s demanding AI workloads. We can now enable enterprises to bring all-flash performance and capacity at the price of HDD to container platforms that have adopted the CSI standards.“

The company’s CSI driver is available, and can also be pulled from Docker Hub.

Resources:
VAST NVME Enclosure
VAST QUAD Server Chassis

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