Storage clusters
fivetimesnine can provide you with an individually tailored shared-storage cluster to meet your requirements. You can choose between diverse interconnects such as cost-effective iSCSI, fast InfiniBand or the standard, Fibre Channel. Redundant cabling protects against the failures of individual components, storage replication protects against data loss.
Some advantages of storage clusters:
- Consolidation of storage space
- Central data storage instead of expensive synchronization across several servers
- Simple expansion of storage space without downtimes
- Trouble-free increase in throughput by adding further servers without downtimes
Other advantages…
… result from combining the storage cluster
with high-availability and load-balancing technologies,
for example:
- Maintenance of individual components without service downtimes
- Load-balancing across the connected servers
- Failover of applications accessing the storage
Depending on requirements, we use different parallel filesystems like OCFS2 and GFS2, or distributed cluster file systems like Lustre or PVFS2, that can be accessed simultaneously by a few servers and up to thousands of clients.
When setting up and operating our storage cluster solutions, we prefer to use cost-effective off-the-shelf hardware plus fully developed, proven, free and open source software from the Linux© domain.
If you need further information or you wish us to prepare a tailored quotation, then simply call us or send us an e-mail.
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Kirschgarten 15
21031 Hamburg
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