One Stop Systems Delivers 8 Million IO/s SSD Array

One Stop Systems, Inc. (OSS), in PCIe HPC solutions, unveils its Fusion-powered Flash Storage Array (FSA) product line to customers demanding storage performance in a small footprint.

The FSA is the platform for high-speed data recording and processing, fast data response time, HA and flexibility in the cloud, in the lab or on the battle field.

It offers enterprise, financial and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications a fast, flexible and powerful turnkey storage solution.

Fusion-io, Inc.’s ioScale flash memory products coupled with four 128Gbps OSS PCIe 3.0 server links in the FSA, provides the performance demanded by mission-critical applications. Uniting these innovations creates a 100TB network attached flash array that can reach 40GB/s throughput and over 8 million IO/s.

“The 2nd generation OSS Flash Appliance platform has been enhanced with the new FSA appliance by combining the most advanced, standards-based PCIe solutions from OSS with the latest generation, high-performance ioMemory and ION Data Accelerator technologies from Fusion-io,” said Steve Cooper, CEO, OSS. “It was easy to see that combining the unmatched flash storage density and expansion capabilities of OSS with the market-leading shared storage performance of Fusion-io would make a flagship storage appliance for the HPC market.”

The FSA fits in most datacenters with its compact size and light weight. At an overall height of 3U and 24″ deep, the 19″ rack mount FSA packs up to 32 Fusion ioScale products into four individually removable sleds. The sleds and enclosure are made of lightweight, rugged alloys with ample redundant power and filtered air cooling optimized to the installation environment.

The local IPMI module optimizes the enclosure parameters to the environment while also allowing the power user to set features through SNMP or the built in user interface based on the overall policy of the installation. The small footprint, removable sleds and light weight allows easy one-person installation in data centers, airborne ISR platforms, mobile shelters and portable transit cases. The 3U x 18″ x 3.4″ memory sleds fit into an available roll-aboard style locking transportation case or standard data safe to protect investment and data in secure environments.

The FSA supports OSS PCIe DAS as well as FC SAN or IB NAS storage options via the Fusion-io ION Data Accelerator software. In direct attached mode, an internal switch matrix allows from one to four servers direct access to the ioScale products in multiple configurations. The sleds act in concert or separately to fit the changing needs of any storage application while supporting any RAID level available to the servers. In network attached mode, the ION Data Accelerator software provides a FC or IB path across servers, VMs and more concurrent users than the direct attached mode. Up to 100TB of shared ioMemory becomes available to the entire datacenter with performance, minimum latency and visibility.

The FSA achieves end-to-end HA at every level in the system. At the ioMemory level, Fusion-io Adaptive Flashback software increases flash reliability and endurance by rebuilding data at the individual NAND banks. At the module level, ioScale offers the reliability proven in large datacenters. At the chassis level, the OSS switch matrix, removable sleds and IPMI module allow for environmental monitoring, physical rerouting of storage traffic and hot-swap of the ioScale platform. At the array level, the ION Data Accelerator software provides replication clustering and SNMP real-time performance and physical array monitoring.

“The reliability and simplicity of turnkey solutions like the OSS FSA powered by Fusion-io, help enterprises focus on meeting strategic business needs with proven solutions,” said Marius Tudor, Fusion-io senior director of strategic partners and channels. “Fusion-io is pleased to team up with innovators like One Stop Systems to deliver all-flash shared storage solutions powered by Fusion ION Data Accelerator software and ioMemory platforms.”

The FSA is available in several standard configurations and is customized due to its COTS building blocks. The FSA50 family has 50TB of ioMemory with direct attached, SAN or NAS connectivity options. Similarly, the FSA100 touts 100TB of ioMemory.

All of the FSA solutions will be available in November with additional density increases expected in 2014.