OPEN STANDARDS PLATFORM
STRATISTOR
STRATISERV
HYPERSERV
The StratiSYSTEM family of products is built on a foundation of open standards, embracing a philosophy that prioritizes flexibility, innovation, and interoperability. By leveraging best-in-class technology, it delivers a robust yet simple-to-deploy platform, empowering organizations to harness cutting-edge capabilities with minimal complexity.
In addition, the platform offers unparalleled support for a wide range of third-party integration options, ensuring seamless interoperability with existing enterprise tools, applications, and infrastructure. Its fully extensible architecture enables tailored modifications, not only to address diverse customer-specific use cases but also to facilitate smooth integration with popular third-party solutions, ranging from cloud services and storage systems to monitoring tools and virtualization platforms. This ensures the platform remains adaptable to evolving business needs, unique operational requirements, and rapidly changing technology landscapes.
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| Completely Hardware Agnostic | Provides unmatched flexibility in hardware choice, enabling cost-effective deployments, ease of scaling, and the ability to integrate with existing infrastructure seamlessly. |
| Unified Storage System | Provides a single namespace and unified storage foundation across any combination of nodes and node configurations. |
| Enhanced Storage Performance with SDCache | Improves application performance by leveraging in-memory caching and advanced algorithms to accelerate I/O for both high-speed SSDs and traditional HDDs, ensuring consistent performance even under heavy workloads. |
| Transparent Data Compression | Lowers storage costs by increasing data density without compromising throughput, enabling efficient storage of large datasets and improved resource utilization. |
| Simultaneous Data Protection Schemes | Offers flexible data resiliency options tailored to workload requirements, maximizing hardware efficiency and ensuring data safety even in the event of hardware failures. |
| Autonomous Maintenance and Self-Healing | Minimizes administrative overhead and downtime by ensuring the system automatically detects and repairs faults, keeping the storage cluster healthy and operational at all times. |
| Checksum Protected Data Structures | Guarantees data integrity by detecting and correcting silent data corruption, ensuring reliability for all workloads. |
| Automated Inline Snapshots | Simplifies data protection and recovery processes, enabling rapid restoration of files without impacting ongoing operations. |
| Non-disruptive Cluster-wide Upgrades | Enhances operational efficiency by enabling seamless upgrades, ensuring the cluster remains fully operational and secure during maintenance. |
| Advanced Networking | Provides robust, high-speed networking support for demanding workloads and massive scalability, and compatibility with modern data center topologies leveraging SR-IOV, RDMA, Infiniband, VLAN, VxLAN, inter-datacenter mesh connectivity (IDMC), NetFlow, sFlow, QoS policy and policing, Geneve, GRE, STT, ERSPAN, GTP-U, SRv6, 802.1ag connectivity fault management, and integrated DPDK support. |
| Broad Protocol Support | Provides a broad range of access protocol options such as SMB v3, NFS v4, iSCSI, NVMeoF, S3, Web, AFP, and others. |
| Metadata Offload | Increases filesystem efficiency and responsiveness by separating metadata operations from data operations, reducing latency and improving throughput for metadata-heavy workloads. |
| Native At-Rest Encryption | Provides strong, regulatory-compliant security for sensitive data, ensuring that data remains protected even if physical drives are compromised. |
| Public Cloud Storage Integration | Provides seamless access to public cloud storage for direct access, backup, or migration use cases. |
| Support for Single Node and Multi-Node Deployments | Supports starting with a single or dual node deployment and expanding to hundreds of nodes per cluster. |
| Quality of Service (QoS) | Guarantees consistent performance across workloads by allocating specific resources (e.g., IOPS, bandwidth) to critical applications. |
| Secure Multi-Site / Multi-Cluster Replication | Allows multiple clusters to sync securely and bidirectionally, supporting active-active configurations. |
| Simple Cluster Expansion | Effortlessly scale the cluster by adding capacity and nodes without downtime, ensuring seamless growth to meet increasing data demands while maintaining high availability and performance across the cluster. |
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| Live Migration (vMotion) |
Enables seamless workload balancing and maintenance without downtime, ensuring continuous application availability during planned or unplanned host events. |
| Storage Live Migration (Storage vMotion) |
Provides flexibility for storage management, allowing you to optimize storage performance, upgrade infrastructure, or redistribute disk resources without disrupting running workloads. |
| High Availability | Protects against hardware failures by automatically restarting virtual machines on healthy hosts, ensuring minimal downtime and high service availability. |
| VM Templating | Accelerates deployment times by standardizing VM configurations, reducing manual errors, and ensuring consistency across environments. |
| VM Snapshots | Enhances backup and recovery operations, allowing you to quickly restore virtual machines to a previous state in the event the VM operating system becomes inoperable |
| Shared Cluster Filesystem (VMFS-type filesystem) |
Enhances storage flexibility, enabling multiple hosts to access the same block storage device, improving scalability and redundancy in clustered environments. |
| Hardware Passthrough | Delivers native hardware performance for applications requiring specific hardware features, such as GPUs or ethernet adapters, without sacrificing virtualization flexibility. |
| Advanced Networking | Provides robust, distributed high-speed networking support for demanding workloads and massive scalability, and compatibility with modern data center topologies leveraging SR-IOV, RDMA, Infiniband, VLAN, VxLAN, inter-datacenter mesh connectivity (IDMC), NetFlow, sFlow, QoS policy and policing, Geneve, GRE, STT, ERSPAN, GTP-U, SRv6, 802.1ag connectivity fault management, and integrated DPDK support. |
| Integrated Image Level Backups | Simplifies disaster recovery by enabling efficient, full-image checkpoint-based backups of virtual machines, reducing backup windows and ensuring rapid restore capabilities. |
| Integrated Migration | Streamlines platform conversion and transition of environments such as VMware, Hyper-V and others.. |
| Performance Trending and Analysis | Enables capacity planning by providing insights into workload performance trends, resource utilization, and bottlenecks |
| Full Stack Hardware Monitoring | Provides comprehensive health monitoring of the physical infrastructure and immediate insights into hardware issues across the cluster. |
| Container Clustering Support | Combines the flexibility of containerized applications with robust virtualization, enabling efficient deployment of modern workloads in hybrid environments. |
| VDI Support with Data Loss Prevention | Delivers a secure and high-performance virtual desktop experience, enabling workforce mobility and ensuring compliance with data protection and access policies. |
| Global Task Automation | Reduces administrative overhead and enhances operational efficiency by automating routine, complex, or repetitive tasks across the virtualized environment. |
| Supports Tiered, Hyper-Converged and Hybrid Architectures | Adapts to varied infrastructure needs, offering scalability and flexibility to balance performance, cost, and resilience in dynamic IT environments. |
| Site Recovery Support (when using StratiSTOR or HyperSERV) | Ensures business continuity with robust disaster recovery capabilities, enabling rapid failover to secondary sites during outages or disasters. |
| Virtual TPM | Provides support for operating systems requiring Trusted Platform Module security protections. |
| Per VM vMotion CPU Compatibility Mode | Allows migration across different CPU families on a per-VM basis. |
| NVIDIA GRID Virtual GPU | Enables native graphics performance for virtual machines. |
| Virtual (vGPU) Support | Supports multiple vGPUs per VM. |
| Seamless Integration with StratiSTOR | Supports external third-party storage systems as well as full integration with the StratiSTOR Storage Cluster. |
| Support for Single Node and Dual Node Deployments | Supports starting with a single or dual node deployment and expanding to 64 nodes per cluster. |
| Stretch Clustering (when using StratiSTOR or HyperSERV) | Support for synchronous stretch clustering deployments across multiple sites providing resilience against site failures. |
| Simple Cluster Expansion | Easily expand the hypervisor cluster by adding new nodes without service disruption, enabling seamless scalability to accommodate growing workloads while maintaining high availability and balanced resource utilization. |
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HyperSERV features include all features included in StratiSTOR and StratiSERV.
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