FD Insights Issue 7 | Page 35

Enterprise Features Whether you are a service provider delivering hosted infrastructure as a service or your IT department delivers infrastructure as a service to functional units within your organisation, ScaleIO offers a set of features that gives you complete control over performance, capacity and data location. Data Protection and Resiliency With ScaleIO there is no single point of failure. ScaleIO provides data protection and resiliency through two-copy meshed mirroring of randomly sliced and distributed ‘data chunks’ across multiple storage devices and servers. Simple Management and Monitoring Managing a ScaleIO deployment is easy; installation, configuration, monitoring and upgrade are simple and quick. Reduced TCO Versus Traditional SAN There are obvious cost benefits to ScaleIO that have been proven to deliver greater than 60 percent TCO savings. Hardware and Software Requirements • Minimum installation of three server nodes and three local storage devices • Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE • Hypervisors: VMware vSphere, Citrix Xe nServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux KVM • Optional EMC XtremSF PCIe flash cards for local storage • Optional EMC XtremCache caching software for accelerated read performance Sascha Schmidt-Ries First Distribution EMC Product Manager A ccording to First Distribution’s EMC Product Manager, Sascha Schmidt-Ries, First Distribution has extensive experience in traditional server and storage architecture. “ScaleIO is uniquely positioned to give customers that are using server storage and not a traditional SAN environment the option of converging their existing server infrastructure into an easy to manage and powerful virtual storage architecture” says Sascha. “First Distribution’s Solution Architects leverage from their existing expertise to optimise any storage need.” Contact Sascha on [phone] or email [email protected] EMC2, EMC, the EMC logo, and ScaleIO are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. © Copyright 2014 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 33 | www.firstdistribution.co.za