Scale Computing HE550Z - NAS server - 4 bays - 6.48 TB - rack-mountable - HDD 2 TB x 3 + SSD 480 GB x 1 - RAM 64 GB - 10Gbps SFP+ - 1U - with 1 year ScaleCare Support
- Simple, scalable, highly available appliance solution
- HyperCore operating system
- HC3 web interface
- Remote cluster management
- Multi-user management
- SCRIBE storage architecture
- HEAT automation
- Live VM migration
- Non-disruptive rolling updates
- VM high availability
- Self healing
Scale Computing provides a complete virtualization solution for the data center or edge computing in a single appliance designed for rapid deployment, ease of use, reliability, seamless scaling, high performance, and cost effectiveness. It brings virtualization, servers, storage, and backup/disaster recovery into a single solution. All of the components are built together into the solution, including the hypervisor, without the need for any third party components or licensing. Every component has been designed for a highly available, self-healing, highly efficient virtualization infrastructure that is easy to manage locally or remotely.
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HyperCore
The heart of the HC3 platform is the HyperCore operating system which includes a fully integrated KVM-based hypervisor with block access, direct attached storage system called SCRIBE. SCRIBE includes HEAT to automate tiering across hybrid flash storage architecture.
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HC3 web interface
The entire HC3 solution including hardware and software is managed from a single web interface that can be accessed from any node in a cluster. The simple interface design allows both storage and compute resource management and virtual machine management from a single pane of glass. Resource statistics are displayed in real-time along with IOPS, both per VM and cluster wide. VM consoles are also immediately available from the web interface.
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Remote cluster management
Multiple clusters or single nodes across multiple sites may be managed within the HC3 Web Interface. The remote systems can be monitored for errors, warnings, or other issues at a glance. Manage dozens of sites from a single interface for simple, scalable management.
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Multi-user management
For clusters and sites with multiple administrators, HC3 features multi-user administration to allow each administrator a unique account and login. Multiple administrators can be managed with unique logins and activity logging to help troubleshoot issues based on administrator activity.
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SCRIBE
SCRIBE is a wide-striped storage architecture that combines all disks in the cluster into a single storage pool that is tiered between flash SSD and spinning HDD storage. Blocks are striped across all nodes in a cluster redundantly to protect both against individual drive failure and node failure. The use of every drive through wide striping gives a performance advantage to every VM on the cluster.
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HEAT
HyperCore Enhanced Automated Tiering is the part of SCRIBE that manages data efficiently between the flash SSD tier and the spinning HDD tier in the cluster storage pool. It prioritizes blocks of data on SSD or HDD based on a I/O heat map that tracks I/O against each virtual disk. Although HEAT is primarily automation happening behind the scenes, it provides the ability for the user to tune the relative priority of every virtual disk in the cluster to further optimize the SSD usage where it is needed the most.
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Deduplication
SCRIBE includes data deduplication that eliminates duplicate blocks on virtual disks, significantly increasing disk capacity. Deduplication is done with minimal impact to running VMs. Reducing the storage footprint of data to increase your data storage capacity.
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Live VM migration
VMs on HC3 clusters can be non-disruptively migrated between nodes with no downtime. This not only allows for rebalancing resource allocation across the cluster but also allows VMs to be relocated automatically during rolling update process for the HyperCore OS firmware.
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Non-disruptive rolling updates
HC3 receives software/firmware updates directly to the HC3 web interface where they can be applied automatically with no downtime. A single click updates the hypervisor, the storage system, the firmware, and any other part of the complete HC3 system. The automated update process will automatically relocate VMs between nodes to free up the nodes, one at a time, to be updated. When all of the cluster nodes are updated, the VMs are returned to their original configuration across the cluster.
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VM high availability
If a node fails within the cluster, all VMs running on that node are automatically failed over to one of the remaining cluster nodes. Failover happens within minutes for minimal disruption. After the node has been restored or replaced, the VMs can non-disruptively be live migrated back if desired.
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Self healing
The HC3 architecture is built with layers of redundancy, such as dual active/passive network ports, redundant power supplies, and redundant block storage striped across all cluster nodes. Intelligent automation handles drive failures and node failures, redistributing data across remaining drives and VMs across remaining nodes and automatically absorbing replacement drives and replacement nodes into the resource pools.
