Server Powered Storage (made with Spreaker)
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In this week’s edition of Next Generation Tech-Talks, Patrick Sliney, from Datrium joins Phil Calzadilla, CEO and Founder to discuss next generation storage technologies.
What is DVX Hyperdriver?
Datrium DiESL (Distributed Execution, Shared Logs) is the name of the DVX Hyperdriver software and file system. To best enable all essential storage operations like deduplication, compression, clones, RAID etc., the Hyperdriver is co-located where ample compute resources are available–on your server!
“Hyperdriver has become the landing spot for so many functions of the data center. VMware calls it the software defined data center. CISCO has application centric infrastructure, we've moved network control functions to the host, we've moved security functions to the host, the last bastion is storage controller functions. And so application data, the closer it lives to the virtual machine, the closer it lives to the application, the better response times we get, the happier our users and customers are. And so our entire thesis of our server powered storage design is to move that data to the hypervisor, where the applications can get the fastest possible access to their data, and of course, the fastest thing in storage today is flash. Everybody loves to flash, unfortunately the large vendors, the storage array vendors have to put a significant markup on that flash in order to maintain their margins. Our model is completely the opposite of that, we want our customers to buy their flash either through a partner like NextNet.” - Patrick Sliney
How Does Hyperdriver Scale?
Scale simply. Management is simple, cohesive, and end-to-end, available through a vCenter plugin. Adding hosts or flash is done through vSphere.
Scale efficiently. DiESL was designed from the ground up with end-to-end compression, deduplication and instant zero-copy clones at the per-VM level. It was designed by ex-VMware Principal Engineers to fit cleanly in the VMware vSphere ecosystem.
Scale dynamically. The Hyperdriver enables storage to be managed like VMs for elastic private cloud data centers. If a VM’s storage performance is slow, simply vMotion to a host with more cache or compute headroom.
Alternatively, if a host has unused local CPU headroom, turn on Insane Mode and accelerate the workload in-place with the touch of a console button. Typical results often show a doubling of virtual server application performance.
To learn more about the benefits of DVX Hyperdriver contact NextNet Partners today.