NAB Show: Xinnor, Tuxera and Cheetah RAID Join Forces to Deliver Storage Platform

Joint solution powered by Xinnor Software RAID (xiRAID) and Tuxera, Inc.’s Fusion File Share and based on Cheetah RAID Storage’s Raptor platform satisfies the most demanding requirements of M&E businesses.

It allows to get the most out of NVMe drives and provides high performance of sequential and multi-thread workloads over SMB Direct protocol and integrity of media content.

xiRAID is a software RAID solution designed from the ground up for NVMe performance. It provides flexibility while keeping host resource utilization to a minimum. Designed to handle the high level of parallelism of NVMe devices, xiRAID eliminates the bottleneck caused by ‘traditional’ RAID controllers and allows to deliver up to 97% of raw device performance.

Fusion File Share by Tuxera is a performance, scalable, and reliable alternative to Samba and other SMB server implementations. It brings support for Microsoft’s Server Message Block (SMB) protocol to PaaS offerings, SDS solutions, and enterprise-grade NAS. It makes it possible to securely share business-critical files over a network (SMB over QUIC) to many devices at the same time.

The Cheetah RAID Raptor 2U is a performance server designed to meet the demands of the M&E industry, as well as military and autonomous vehicle applications, even in harsh and challenging environments.

2U server with hot-swap NVMe drive canister

xiRAID software was tested on the Cheetah platform through Tuxera’s SMB Direct implementation on relevant media loads and got results:

• Up to 10GB/s writes and up to 10GB/s reads across the network using the SMB Direct share

• Up to 21 GB/s writes and up to 33,5GB/s reads on the local test to the filesystem

Frametest 4 stream, 4K-video and sequential RW across the network and locally using SMB-shares on client (xiRAID RAID-5 with 5 NVMe drives and Nvidia Mellanox ConnectX 5 100GbE adapter)

The 3 companies will demonstrate the performance of a specifically designed for media industry workflows modular NAS and its ability to physically move large amounts of data, which is important for the film industry on the NAB Show, Las Vegas, NV, April 16-19.

Resource:
Blog: Guide to monitoring performance and estimating CPU usage for xiRAID engine