Sanapptx
Driving the New Paradigm of Software
Defined Storage Solutions
White Paper
The New Software Defined Storage Opportunity
Organizations everywhere are experiencing an explosion in the growth of data requiring them to manage and maintain their data as a high business priority. This has led to unprecedented demand in the need for back-up and cloud storage solutions that are highly reliable, highly secure, scalable and cost effective. The rapid growth in storage is being driven across a broad spectrum of business, including database and related applications such as data warehousing and business intelligence, seismic data
processing for energy companies, high performance computing applications, healthcare and server virtualization. Increasingly large computational clusters of teraflop and
petaflop scale are generating more data than ever before.
Unfortunately, most of today's storage architecture and solutions remain complex, proprietary, lack flexibility and capacity and are expensive, with vendors seeking lock-ins and expensive software licensing. In this environment, special-purpose hardware based designs have hit hard limitations in terms of performance and scalability. Limits for power, cooling and real estate have also become very real considerations, and energy costs are rising while IT budgets remain fixed. New requirements for power and cooling are also driving many to rethink the way that they deploy both computational and storage infrastructure.
Unfortunately, storage solutions have remained one of the last strongholds of proprietary technology, and most of today’s unified storage solutions remain largely expensive, closed and rigid in their capabilities. Vendors often hold their customers hostage for software fixes and hardware upgrades. Unfortunately, this proprietary approach ultimately puts organizations at risk, making it nearly impossible for them to quickly respond to business needs and limits their competitiveness.
Organizations across a broad swath of industries, and running a variety of applications, are struggling to keep pace with rapid storage growth. These firms are looking for a radically easier and faster way to manage storage with a substantially better return on investment (ROI). A variety of applications are driving an appetite for new storage models.
A decade ago, servers went through a transition that incorporated industry-standard components and open source software. This transition resulted in increased flexibility for those who used server technology, even as it reduced costs. Now the same shift to open systems is taking place in storage technology, with similar benefits and
advantages.
Software Driven Storage Model
ZFS, addresses a $25 billion storage market in 2014 and is a new approach to storage pioneered by Sun based on their Solaris operating system. ZFS also leverages
commercial grade high performance hardware. The SanapptX solutions were founded based on the principle of offering highly scalable, highly reliability storage at a very low cost effective price point. The SanapptX product family in 2011 and optimized its use
for 2nd-tier NAS and iSCSI applications with additional focus on dramatically simplifying provisioning, expansion, backup, replication, and archiving. It is also used as a primary NAS in businesses that wish to expand at lower price points. It supports unlimited
snapshots, snapshot mirroring (replication), block level mirroring, integrated search, and easy management of extremely large storage pools.
Additional capabilities of the SanapptX ZFS solution include protection against data corruption, support for efficient data compression, high storage capacities, integration of file system structures and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair.
The SanapptX platform is not only great for NAS but also pairs well with server
virtualization. With SanapptX, you can virtualize underlying storage in order to provide high performance, low cost, vendor independent enterprise storage to virtualized environments, including Citrix / Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware.
With SanapptX, almost any underlying storage can be managed and presented to virtual servers via NFS, iSCSI or Fiber Channel.
Sanapptx Overview
SanapptX™, Sanapptx’s leading open-storage solution is driving the new paradigm of software-defined storage solutions. The SanapptX platform has already been
implemented by hundreds of enterprises in verticals that include Big Data, Health care, Finance, and CRM. The full-featured NAS/SAN software platform leverages standard Dell commercial hardware with capabilities that meet and exceed that of legacy systems and accelerating the adoption of cloud-based storage solutions.
The SanapptX platform is not only great for NAS but also pairs well with Server
Virtualization. With Sanapptx, you can virtualize underlying storage in order to provide high performance, low cost, vendor independent enterprise storage to virtualized environments, including Citrix / Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware.
ZFS provides advanced features and functionality, including:
• Data protection features include a complete suite of snapshot functionality, including essentially unlimited snapshots as well as snapshot replication. Comprehensive file system replication is also provided. For backup, the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) is supported. ZFS RAID and RAID-Z is supported.
• Broad data accessibility is provided through multiprotocol support, including support for: NFS v2, v3, and v4 CIFS iSCSI HTTP and HTTPs FTP, FTPs, and SFTP (ssh FTP) NDMP v2 and v3
IP v4 and IP v6
• Data recovery support includes instantaneous backup and restore through the ZFS file system. The NDMP V3 and V4 backup/recovery protocol is supported via both Fibre Channel and SCSI. In addition, a number of backup/restore partners have been certified. Disaster recovery replication is provided, and numerous asynchronous replication modalities are supported.
• High availability is provided and self-healing software proactively monitors and manages system components that automatically diagnoses, isolates, and recovers from many hardware and application faults
Sanapptx Solution Options
Sanapptx a leading ZFS based storage solution provider offers multiple options for companies to access their storage technology as follows:
‐ On premise infrastructure solution - SanapptX ‐ Cloud- ITWorks365
‐ Hybrid- Combined premise and cloud solution
Many companies prefer to manage their own technology and Sanapptx can provide a premise based solution to meet these needs as shown below.
Premise Storage Option
SanapptX can offer storage with the following capacities/performance and including a host of standard features that are included in the product offering. Premise based solutions can start with the Apollo series and 30 TB of storage and reach the near petabyte level of storage with the Zeus series, all at very good price points.
Sanapptx SanFlex Series
Standard features include: built in replication, de-duplication, self-healing, compression, dynamic volume expansion, snapshots. High availability solution options can also be supported to achieve higher levels of redundancy.
SF-44TB (1TB) SF-44TB (2TB) SF-88TB (2TB) SF-112TB (2TB) SF-228TB (2TB) SF-240TB (2TB)
Companies that wish to have a solution provider manage their storage and IT needs can access their storage solution via public or private cloud architecture from
ITworks365, Sanapptxs IT solution company as follows. The capacities and performance start at 500GB of storage and can reach petabyte levels of storage capacity.
Cloud Based Storage Option
ITWorks 365 also offers the following additional value added services: Desktop and server monitoring, cloud hosting, managed services, server virtualization, network and security assessment, and help desk
Sanapptx can also provide combinations or hybrids of these types of solutions where a premise storage platform can have automatic replication to the cloud for back-up or archiving of data. This options as shown below:
Summary
As a leading provider of ZFS based storage solutions, Sanapptx can provide storage options for the premise, cloud and also a complete solution including both premise and cloud. Sanapptx has implemented solutions for many enterprises with substantial storage needs where ZFS based solutions are a better architecture, more scalable and lower cost. With Sanapptx you have immediate access to a team that is here to support your needs today and into the future.
