Multi-Protocol Archival Storage System for HPC & AI
On Demand Archive is a preconfigured, appliance-based archival solution, built on Ceph storage, designed for midsized HPC/AI environments to safeguard research and user data. With easy horizontal scalability, it allows seamless performance and capacity expansion by adding more nodes.
The solution offers flexibility, allowing customers to choose between OPEX or CAPEX business models to best suit their needs.
Key Features
System Architecture
On Demand Archive is powered by Ceph Storage, designed for production environments where performance, security, scalability, and manageability are crucial. Ceph enhances data durability with erasure coding technologies and provides the ability to replicate data across nodes for increased availability. With dynamic block resizing, Ceph block devices can be expanded or contracted without any downtime. The snapshot feature allows you to capture snapshots of block devices or entire pools, enabling easy recovery to an unaffected state in case of issues.
Ceph is both self-healing and self-managing, continuously monitoring for failed nodes. In the rare event of a failure, it automatically replaces the affected node with a replicated one, ensuring minimal disruption. The architecture is designed for high reliability and fault tolerance.
Disaster Recovery is critical for modern businesses, and Ceph offers robust disaster recovery solutions. Notably, multisite replication replicates data across locations, providing a safeguard against potential failures and ensuring data protection.