Ahead-IT specializes in servers for big data storage. Every storage server contains a RAID card or JBOD controller with LSI CacheCade software pre-packaged. All of our storage servers are certified for Open-E and/or Nexenta software. Be sure to check out our JBOD and backup hardware components as well.
LSI CacheCade 2.0 solves your hot data problems
Put short, LSI MegaRaid CacheCade 2.0 is a software tool that keeps your ‘hot’ data readily available on flash memory in a solid state drive.
Your storage hardware can consist of SSD, SAS or SATA disks. SSD’s (solid-state drives) perform better but are more expensive than SAS and SATA storage. Our servers use LSI CacheCade 2.0 to store idle data on the SATA or SAS disks and to only engage the SSD for active or ‘hot’ data.
This allows for your big data storage infrastructure to keep performance very high while requiring much less expensive SSD’s. That’s a win-win if ever we saw one.
Open-E and Nexenta software
The Open-E and Nexenta software packages are perfectly suited for several types of storage:
Supermicro SFT-OOB-LIC - Per node license for OOB BIOS management mechanism. IPMI BMC MAC address required.
1x
Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8E, LSI 3008 8 x SATA/SAS III JBOD controller, up to 122 hard drives via expander backplane, PCI-E, ideal for Nexenta/ZFS
8x
HGST Ultrastar 4TB 7K6000 enterprise, SATA III, 128MB, 7200rpm - 512N
1x
Supermicro MCP-220-82609-0N Rear 2 X 2.5" HDD kit for 216B/826B/417B/846X/847B series chassis (cables & backplane included) - REQUIRED if 2 drives need to be installed
2x
Samsung SSD PM883, SATA3, bulk, enterprise medium endurance, 240GB
Selected warranty
Recommended
5 Year EasyRMA+ with advanced replacement (€ 580,71)
Server Label
Storage - 4U - ZFS - Open-E JovianDSS + Supermicro - Single - about 22.9TB netto
Sandisk CloudSpeed Eco Enterprise SSD, 960GB , 2.5in SATA 6Gb/s, Read 530MBs/76k iops, Write 460MBs/14k iops. Extremely reliable, fast and low access time. 0.6DWPD.
1x
Supermicro MCP-220-82609-0N Rear 2 X 2.5" HDD kit for 216B/826B/417B/846X/847B series chassis (cables & backplane included) - REQUIRED if 2 drives need to be installed
2x
Samsung SSD PM883, SATA3, bulk, enterprise medium endurance, 240GB
Recommended
5 Year EasyRMA+ with advanced replacement (€ 818,96)
Server Label
Open-E JovianDSS - full SSD - HA - 8TB
Netto VMware vSphere resource pool usable ( after failover ) - about 8TB storage full SSD - 16 cores - 32 threads - 128GB memory -> expandable to your demands
Cluster in only 2 servers. Each node serves as host for VMware virtual machines and for storage for the high-availablility cluster and general network storage like NFS and SMB.
Backup has been build into the ZFS based storage, each 5 minutes a snapshot is created of all data with a retention time that can can be set to your demands.