HP offers free licenses of the Virtual Storage Appliance
HP and Intel announced a collaboration in the incentive program, under which HP provides a free license to use the HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) with a volume of 1 terabyte to all buyers of servers based on Intel Xeon E5 v3 processors.
To popularize the software, HP plans to distribute terabyte licenses for capacity with a total volume of more than 72 petabytes. This will allow users to evaluate this software, and, given the scale of the action, there is reason to believe that the repository was worked out conscientiously.
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For those who have never come across this system, we suggest watching a video about deploying a Virtual Storage Appliance.
Architecture
The point is pretty simple. On each server in the cluster, the VSA virtual machine comes up. It uses local disks of the server on which it works and mirrors these disks to other virtual machines of this cluster. Due to mirroring, we get fault tolerance - our data is not lost when planned or unplanned shutdown of one of the servers.
The configuration of this cluster on two and three ESXi servers is different. In the case of a two-node cluster, you will need to install a support service of the VSA cluster service on the vCenter server, which will act as an arbiter in handling disputes between two virtual machines.
When there are three - they figure out on their own.
“The cost of shared storage is a common obstacle when using server virtualization for small and medium businesses,” said David Scott, senior vice president and general manager for storage at HP.
By offering licenses for servers at no charge, HP and Intel make software storage (software-defined storage) more accessible to the world, providing users with access to storage-independent services and hardware, thereby reducing costs.
According to HP, the StoreVirtual VSA software takes full advantage of the server’s capabilities to provide reliable storage on VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V or Linux Kernel Virtual Machine virtual machines.
With VSA, you get these features:
On its new Gen9 servers, HP has added a VSA auto-deployment feature at the touch of a button. One of the objectives of the company is to provide full-fledged functionality of a public repository. VSA can scale to dozens of nodes and 1.6 petabytes of capacity.
HP also offers a free trial version of its StoreOnce VSA software for 10 TB of hardware-independent, software-based deduplication backup software. More information can be found here .
To popularize the software, HP plans to distribute terabyte licenses for capacity with a total volume of more than 72 petabytes. This will allow users to evaluate this software, and, given the scale of the action, there is reason to believe that the repository was worked out conscientiously.
')
For those who have never come across this system, we suggest watching a video about deploying a Virtual Storage Appliance.
Architecture
The point is pretty simple. On each server in the cluster, the VSA virtual machine comes up. It uses local disks of the server on which it works and mirrors these disks to other virtual machines of this cluster. Due to mirroring, we get fault tolerance - our data is not lost when planned or unplanned shutdown of one of the servers.
The configuration of this cluster on two and three ESXi servers is different. In the case of a two-node cluster, you will need to install a support service of the VSA cluster service on the vCenter server, which will act as an arbiter in handling disputes between two virtual machines.
When there are three - they figure out on their own.
“The cost of shared storage is a common obstacle when using server virtualization for small and medium businesses,” said David Scott, senior vice president and general manager for storage at HP.
By offering licenses for servers at no charge, HP and Intel make software storage (software-defined storage) more accessible to the world, providing users with access to storage-independent services and hardware, thereby reducing costs.
According to HP, the StoreVirtual VSA software takes full advantage of the server’s capabilities to provide reliable storage on VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V or Linux Kernel Virtual Machine virtual machines.
With VSA, you get these features:
- shared storage for all hosts based on local server disks;
- the ability to use the functions of migration vMotion and High Availability;
- full storage duplication due to cross replication;
- fault tolerance at the server level and fault tolerance at the storage system level;
- easy return of the physical server after its failure back to the cluster structure.
On its new Gen9 servers, HP has added a VSA auto-deployment feature at the touch of a button. One of the objectives of the company is to provide full-fledged functionality of a public repository. VSA can scale to dozens of nodes and 1.6 petabytes of capacity.
HP also offers a free trial version of its StoreOnce VSA software for 10 TB of hardware-independent, software-based deduplication backup software. More information can be found here .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/238723/
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