Optimize Storage for Your Workload

With Flexspaces, all data types and protocols can share one logical pool, including block (NVMe-oF, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SRP), file (NFS, SMB), and object (S3-compliant) storage. “Logical” is the critical term, because while other so-called unified storage systems may promise block and file support, those systems still need to be partitioned for each data type. As a result, administrators must manage the underlying storage capacity separately, resulting in poor resource utilization, challenges in capacity forecasting, and greater complexity.

While “universal” may suggest a “one-size-fits-all” approach, HALO delivers the exact opposite. Flexspaces offer four built-in policies to optimize the data pipeline for specific workloads.

• Intelligent: optimizes for virtualization, databases, and cloud infrastructure, enabling compression, snapshots, and more
• Extreme: supercharges the storage for maximum bandwidth and IOps, perfect for AI, technical computing, and rich media workloads
• Archive: enables deep compression algorithms to maximize utilization and reduce cost, ideal for high-speed backup and archives
• Transport: leverages encryption and mirroring to capture data at the edge that will later be physically transported to other locations

With Flexspaces, organizations can simplify and future-proof their storage infrastructure while optimizing for virtually any use case.

Multiprotocol Versatility with One Platform

With FlashRack, block (SAN) protocols, file (NAS) protocols, and object (Amazon S3 compliant) protocols can coexist simultaneously on one array. All data types can even share the same logical pool of capacity, without any artificial silos. This not only eliminates the need for different storage arrays, but it also simplifies capacity planning and improves storage utilization with global data reduction. FlashRack arrays offer the latest Ethernet (up to 400G), Fibre Channel (up to 64G), and InfiniBand (up to 400G/NDR) connectivity.

Scale Capacity and Performance in Lock-step

Scaling FlashRack is easy – and fast. Since each FlashRack is fully-redundant, you can start with one and simply add more arrays as needed, on-demand and without disruption. With each new FlashRack, performance and capacity increase in unison. The federated architecture does not depend on cluster-wide metadata, battery backups, nor a backend network fabric. This approach offers superior resiliency (no global metadata risk), much lower cost (dramatically less hardware), and more consistent performance (lower latency).

Be the Master of Your Storage Domain

With our web-based management platform, you have one pane of glass from which to visualize your complete storage infrastructure, whether that’s one or hundreds of FlashRack arrays. It collects telemetry from the entire federation of FlashRacks, providing centralized reporting to facilitate capacity planning, performance analysis, and administrative tasks. A powerful and fully-documented REST API simplifies integration of FlashRack into existing enterprise management platforms.