MPSTOR Technology Overview

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MPSTOR Technology Overview

Delivering operational efficiency to the datacenter through

software defined storage enabling data centers generate new

higher margin revenue streams via a single programmable

framework

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MPSTOR’s open platform cloud operating system enables data centres generate new higher margin revenue streams via a single programmable framework. This unique validated virtual block storage system delivers clients precise, scalable, optimized storage requirements, including ‘end user’ self-service and provisioning, across the full range of fabrics and workloads and from multi-site locations.

MP STOR SOFTWARE IS VALIDATED AND AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE USE

MPSTOR's 30 day trial version is available free to download, create and test a private cloud

http://mpstor.com/index.php/support-mainmenu/software-download

In addition a request can be made for a Trial User Account on MPSTOR's own evaluation cloud

http://cloud.mpstor.com/

MPSTOR’s software suite turns bare metal servers into full featured compute and storage arrays, capable of connectivity through any fabric type and protocol. Through its "out of band" control plane coupled with its unique "in-band" service plane, MPSTOR provisions from any storage provider device type to the many storage consumer types of a data centre.

MPSTOR’s suite of software builds flexible, scalable and customized data

center services simply and

inexpensively, and provides a range of dashboard tools for the end user, cloud administrator and datacenter operator. MPSTOR provides a single pane of

management which allows the

datacenter operator to scale out storage and compute, organize storage and compute into managed pools with specific policies, and create new service

offerings which are then

instantaneously linked to the end user dashboard

MPSTOR software is a datacenter solution, ideally suited to data centers or enterprises which wish to offer a reliable, flexible, scalable and price competitive cloud computing service. The software suite includes three independent modules. The “IaaS” component is the data centre OS built with OpenStack including all the components required to deliver a public or private cloud. The “SDS” component is the software defined storage component and the “SAM” component is standalone Storage Array Management. MPSTOR software is supplied with an Operations Administration and End User dashboard as well as a full set of installation and support tools.

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DELIVERING THE SIX PILLARS OF EFFICIENT STORAGE, WITHOUT COMPROMISE.

Storage technologies for the cloud struggle in the datacenter because there is a BIG 6 requirements list that is very difficult to fulfil, and no single storage technology can deliver all six requirements:

1. Resiliency

2. Security

3. Scalability

4. Diverse Workload Range.

5. Diverse Consumer Types

6. Optimum Cap Ex and Op Ex

Using MPStor’s Software Defined Storage framework to enhance BLOCK, FILE and OBJECT storage protocols delivers a solution that fulfils the BIG6 storage requirements.

A NEW PARADIGM, INCORPORATING THE BEST OF BLOCK AND OBJECT STORAGE

Key to delivering the these BIG6 storage

requirements is MPSTOR’s Software Defined Storage (SDS) software. MPSTOR provide the capability to provision BLOCK, OBJECT and FILE storage, enabling data centres to scale UP and scale OUT block storage technology on open hardware platforms. Using ERASURE code technologies both within and across storage arrays, MPSTOR provide IN-THE-ARRAY resiliency and scale out stripes ACROSS-THE-ARRAYS to deliver a scale UP and SCALE-OUT redundant storage provider pool. From this, pool storage can be automatically provisioned and exported to a diverse range of workloads through the user’s choice of protocol (BLOCK, FILE, OBJECT) over an end user choice of fabrics.

Resiliency

Security

MPSTOR software provides security through strong access control between virtual machines and storage volumes as well as encryption of the user data. Encryption is controlled by the secured software defined storage controller, the policy manager and its integrated encryption key management framework. MPSTOR's software maximises resiliency by using Information Dispersal Algorithms (IDA) when storing scale out data across storage arrays. MPSTOR’s unique Virtual Block Store technology (VBS) creates a Virtual Block Device (VBD) that is stripped across multiple storage arrays with additional parity. Depending on the amount of Parity required the VBD can sustain one or more entire storage array failures. Each VBD chunk is built on resilient storage array RAID6 groups, allowing each storage array to sustain multiple disk failures. By keeping the RAID groups to a fixed size the recovery time can be set to a known acceptable value.

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Our software defined storage array ‘plug and discover’ capability automates capacity expansion. Our SDS controller aggregates raw/base provider storage into managed pools of media tiers, across different fabrics, provisioned on demand, through end user or admin dashboards, at the required SLA for the end user workload. Storage is provisioned from scale out storage pools as block, file or object storage.

Diverse Workload Range

MPSTOR’s software automatically surfaces to the End User Dashboard each data centre’s unique configured offerings, allowing the end user to choose the appropriate SLA to its needs. This is achieved by utilising MPSTOR’s SDS Tool Kit, to efficiently organise each datacentres assets into managed pools of media types at specified SLA/QoS levels available across multiple fabrics. End users can use simple dashboards to provision the compute and storage required for their workload type.

The VSA UI is a more advanced provisioning tool which provides the user with complete control of his storage provisioning and management of volume services and policies. Disks are attached to the VSA instance; the user can than provision storage for his tenant VMs by creating RAIDs, provisioning volumes and exporting them over iSCSI, CIFS and NFS. The user has control over the volumes services for each LUN using the Snapshot, Replication, thin provisioning and volume to object store backup tools.

End user Dashboards

End users can choose between two provisioning tools

• Cloud dashboard

• Virtual Storage Array.

The cloud dashboard provides the user with a choice of storage and computes groups; each group has a configured storage policy set by the datacenter administrator. The storage policy, which is visible to the user, controls the storage TIER, FABRIC, QoS and SLA options.

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Multiple Consumer Types

MPSTOR’s SDS enables a wide range of software delivery tools to provision efficiently all consumer types within the data centre, including:

Tenant Spaces Virtual Machines Storage Centric Services Bare metal Nodes

Our plug-ins for Cloud Frameworks includes OpenStack and VMWARE ESXi. MPSTOR’s Virtual Storage Array Appliance can provision a complete vSAN storage array into a tenant space, allowing the tenant administrator full control of all storage polices. The MPSTOR VSA appliance can provision vSANs in the tunnelled virtual tenant space or in the FLAT network space of the datacenter.

Cap Ex and Op Ex benefits

MPSTOR’s software turns low cost bare-metal commodity servers into high value compute and

storage replacing costly proprietary storage

appliances. MPSTOR’s software allows the datacenter operator to customise his hardware for his specific

requirement. MPStor’s software also allows the

datacenter to take full advantage of the extra services offered by premium proprietary storage appliances. The figure opposite shows the MPSTOR software platform process and toolset.

(1)MPSTOR provides a single pane of management which allows the datacenter operator to scale out storage and compute, and organise storage and compute into managed pools with specific policies. (2)Create new service offerings which are then instantaneously linked to the end user dashboard. Once a new service offering has been created it can be automatically provisioned by the end user through his dashboard.

(3)MPSTOR’s software automatically surfaces to the End User Dashboard each data centre’s unique configured service offerings.

(4)End users can provision compute and storage from the datacenter service offerings presented in the end user dashboard.

4) MPSTOR’s vSAN allows advanced users to have complete control over all storage provisioning using virtual storage array VSA technology. Each VSA instance which runs in the tenant’s network space is

provisioned with disks from within the datacenter storage pools.

(5)MPSTOR’s single pane of management presents to the datacenter operator monitoring, diagnostic, fault finding and recovery tools for every physical and logical element captured in the datacenter CMDB (Common Management Data Base).

(6)MPSTOR’s SDS toolkit tracks and monitors the datacenter usage so that accurate resource planning can be implemented.

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MPSTOR SOFTWARE IS VALIDATED AND AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE USE

MPSTOR's 30 day trial version is available free to download, create and test a private cloud

http://mpstor.com/index.php/support-mainmenu/software-download

In addition a request can be made for a Trial User Account on MPSTOR's own evaluation cloud