UniPlex T1 Storage Supercharger Efstathios Efstathiou Voluntary Techie
UniPlex T1 Storage Supercharger
Efstathios Efstathiou
Voluntary Techie
Pain Point
� Sometimes you have
� A proven design
� Spent
� Many hours on your concept
� A lot on education of your staff
� Gathered
� Alot of experience
� Covered most Use cases
Pain Point
� But:
� There are some workload patterns, you simply can not
cover with your current design �
Pain Point
� Facts:
� Mostly Storage Design is always a tradeoff between
capacity and performance
� Buying a new entirely array for special use cases is
expensive
� Modernizing / adding new technolgies to a existing
storage array design often is challenging / impossible
� Agility is becoming more and more a demand, as we can
see from the rise of new Software Defined Storage
Solutions
Pain Point
� Rethink what you really need (and how much):
� Mostly capacity is good
� T1 performance for the top applications could be better
� A «supercharged version» of your current Array would be ideal
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T1 Storage Supercharger
� Features
� Based on the proven Enigma III SDM Storage Appliance
� Software Defined Memory Spanning
� NVDIMM (Tier 1, In-Memory Performance)
� UniPlex NVMe PCIe JBODs (Tier 2, In-Memory Backend)
� Your existing storage (Tier 3, Capacity Tier)
� PCIe over Cable Low Latency Connection for the most demanding
clients
� SuperSockets API for HPC
� A cost efficienty upgrade for your Data Center starting at 10k USD
per T1 brick