Mars 524, 24 Bays NVME Ceph Storage Appliance

Mars 524

UniVirStor Flash:Mars 524

Mars 524 Ceph Appliance is designed to meet high-performance cloud-native data storage needs. It utilizes the latest NVMe flash technology to provide a turnkey software-defined storage solution. Mars 524, 24 bays NVMe Ceph Appliance tightly integrates Ampere Altra Arm Server and UniVirStor. UniVirStor (UVS) is a software package that includes Linux, Ceph, and Ceph management GUI (UVS Manager).

With Ampere Altra 64Cores@3.0GHz CPU (optional up to 80Cores@3.0GHz), this 24 bays NVMe Ceph appliance could meet a low carbon footprint without sacrificing its high IO performance, also provide a large usable capacity for the ceph use.

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Specifications And Major Features

Hardware

Server Platform	Mars 524
Processor	Dual socket Ampere® Altra® 64 Core Arm 64-bit v8.2 Processor @ 3.0GHz (optional 80 Cores @ 3.0 GHz)
Memory	256GB DDR4 3200MHz, maximum 4TB bytes
Network Interfaces	2 x 1GbE management LAN ports for UniVerStor (UVS ) Manager 1 x 1GbE IPMI/BMC LAN port 4 x 25 Gbps or 100 Gbps for Ceph public and in-cluster network
Storage Interfaces	System drive: 2 x 480GB SATA SSD OSD: 24 x 2.5" U.3 NVMe Gen. 4 SSD
System Management	IPMI & BMC
Power Consumption (include SSD)	Standby: 300 Watts Maximum: 540 Watts
Power Supply	2 x 1600W redundant power supply, 80 PLUS Platinum AC input: 110/220Vac/ 12A, 50-60Hz 2 x 1.5 meters C13 to C14 power cord
Mechanical	Form factor 2U 19" rack mount Server dimensions: 438 x 87 x 730 mm Packaging dimensions: 1077 x 679 x 300 mm Slide rail: Included
Support and Warranty	3 years software update and technical support 3 years hardware warranty Optional extended warranty

Software

Ceph Version	Ambedded tuned Ceph community versions
Management Interface	Ambedded Web-based user interface: UniVirStor(UVS) Manager Command Line Interface
Automation	The UniVirStor Ceph management GUI (UVS Manager) automates management functions for day-1 and day two operations, including cluster deployment, storage service provisioning, monitoring, and software updates.
Access Authentication Control	Policy control to limit users to access pool & block device Ability to Integrate with Microsoft Active Directory, lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), AWS Auth, and KeyStone
Multi-protocol support	A storage platform supports multiple industry-standard storage protocols for block, file and object storage.
Monitoring & Notification	UVS, Ceph, and Grafana dashboard Alert sent through email SNMP

Ceph storage pool base

Scale-out cluster	Grow the cluster to thousands of storage drives No single point of failure Cluster performance is linearly scalable with the number of drives (OSD).
Self-healing and auto rebalancing	Balances data distribution throughout the cluster nodes Handles failures without interruption, automatically recovering to the predefined data resilience
Highly available	Withstand loss of multiple nodes/racks without disrupting service availability or data safety
Data protection	Striping, erasure coding, or replication across nodes with predefined rule Configurable number of replica and erasure coding profile CLAY erasure coding to reduce the data recovery time Renamable bucket type: root, region, zone, data center, room, PDU, raw, rack, chassis
Disk encryption	OSD disk drives can be encrypted to protect data when drives are removed
Data Compression	Inline object compression with target compression ratio
Cache Tiering	Use faster storage pool as cache tier

Ceph deployment and Management

Software update	Automated rolling update without downtime. Data services are available during the update. Updates include Linux, Ceph, and UVS manager
General management	Host management: Scan and manage server nodes in the Ceph cluster Deploy the NTP server or use an external NTP serv Push NTP client to ceph hosts Log management Notification User management
Ceph daemon services	Cluster initialization Deploy and manage MON, OSD, MDS, RGW OSD encryption

Storage Protocols

RADOS Block Storage (RBD )

RBD Image Management	Image create, delete Select pool, name, image size, object size Image edit
Dynamic volume resizing	Ability to expand Ceph block devices with no downtime
RBD Mirroring for off-site active-standby backup	Create mirroring service between multiple clusters or sites Select pool/image for mirroring Manage snapshot schedules Image promote/demote
RBD Snapshot	Snapshots of individual block devices with no downtime or performance impact Create and manage snapshots of images to retain a history on an image’s state snapshot rollback
Copy-on-Write clone	Instant provisioning of tens or hundreds of virtual machine instances from the same image with zero wait time
Thing Provisions	Enable over-provisioning of storage and immediate VM or container instance launch.
Cloud-Native	K8s container storage interface (CSI) OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova CloudStack
iSCSI	Deploy iSCSI gateway on hosts or VMs Create and manage LUN ACL: IQN and CHAP authentication Multi-Path IO support

Shared File System (NAS)

CephFS

Deploy & manage Metadata servers (MDS)

POSIX compatible file system: kernel and FUSE clients

Multiple CephFS

Support volumes, sub-volume and sub-volume groups

OpenStack Manila

K8s Container Storage Interface (CSI)

Conventional file storage

NFS, SMB, FTP, HTTP

Use CephFS, S3 or block as the back store to export NFS, SMB, FTP, and HTTP through gateways

Object Storage

Object API	Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift compatible APIs
RADOS gateway for Active-Active access	Deploy RADOS gateways Multi-site support for sync and access from multiple ceph clusters RGW User and key management RGW Pool management, auto-create RGW pools
Write-Once-Read- Many (WORM)	S3 object lock with read-only capability to store objects using a the WORM mode preventing objects from being deleted or overwritten
Encryption	Server side encryption and client provided key encryption

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