Years • Established 1987, Bethesda, MD, USA • Corporate Headquarters • Denver, Colorado - USA • Milan – Italy • Worldwide Sales & Support • With partners in 60 Countries on 6 Continents, over 19,000 installations worldwide A Trusted Leading Global Provider of Archiving and Data Managem ent software and solutions About QStar Technologies Inc.
• “Tape-as-NAS” – SMB or NFS file system in front of tape • “Tape-as-Cloud” – S3 API in front of tape • “Cloud Gateway” – SMB or NFS file system in front of private / public cloud Network Migrator - Storage Reporter and Data Migration Software • Reports on primary storage by standard file attributes • Policy-based Copy, Move, Delete, Stub and Migrate Object Storage Manager - S3-compliant cloud storage platform QStar Products
moved, migrated leaving stubs) Prim ary Storage Agents or API needed for stub creation Disk Cache Archive Manager and Network Migrator Tape Library Public / Private Cloud OR Both on server of your choice Windows or Linux Web Services
RAM per Integral Volume Redundant Power Supply Fast Ethernet (25GBit) as 3 x LTO9 drives performance will be limited by 10Gbit Library HBA connection and possible switch – FC, SAS Cache (dedicated or shared) 1TB minimum to large cache depending on user requirements RAID or Mirrored Disk configuration preferred NVMe preferred, or SSD / FC / SAS drives in RAID configuration Cache used must be at least double the archive performance Archive Manager Hardware Requirements
iSCSI, FC, WAN 2- Disaster Prevention Copy 1- Secure Archive Copy Tape or Cloud Tape Library ARCHIVING & BEST PRACTICE . . 3 2 1 DATA PROTECTION Application Servers QStar Archive Replicator On server of your choice Windows or Linux SSD / HDD RAID Replicator supports up to 4 synchronous replicas on any combination of technologies Offline / Offsite Media
tens to hundreds tape drives • Scales Capacity – tens of thousands of media, exabyte archives • Provide Global Access – single namespace • Node redundancy – high resilience with auto-failover • Simple administration – to create and manage domains and multiple file systems • No tape library partitioning needed • Windows or Linux based node options ANY NODE CAN ACCESS ANY MEDIA USING ANY TAPE DRIVE QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM New
/ ML fast compute farms • Hyperscalers and cloud storage providers • Archive Manager users can upgrade to Global ArchiveSpaceTM • Higher Resilience – better option than clustered servers • Highest Scalability – more easily supports largest tape libraries QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM New
back-end communication) • Multi-node tape library sharing architecture • Physical Library Manager module which manages the tape library and supports failover, including media databases • Media ownership concepts. Protects media usage by non-authorized nodes in another Domain • Multi-node cloud storage configuration and multi-node access Enhancing a single node software to support a multi node environment QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM
on multiple nodes and tools to create global file system • Load balancing using DNS based and software balancer for balance client access • Test tools to measure global file system performance • Licensing model based on the Global ArchiveSpaceTM domain name/UUID • Multi-Drive option for higher performance with policies for file distribution to several tape drives Enhancing a single node software to support a multi node environment QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM
800MB/sec Three LTO9 drives = 1.2GB/sec Store and Retrieve via SMB, NFS or S3 Application Servers Very Fast Cache • Data written to multiple tape drives from a single high performance cache • Multi-write splits data sets based on rules across multiple drives for higher write performance • Single media loaded for reads as we do not use RAIT (redundant array of independent tapes) Each Integral Volume can use single tape drive or the new Multi-Drive Option for enhanced performance Higher Tape Performance with Multi-Drive Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3
9 11 Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Unique Set of Media – accessed through any drive Single Tape Library Not Partitioned Many Tape Drives Gateway Nodes use SMB, NFS and / or S3 12 A unique set of media is called an “Integral Volume” QStar Global ArchiveSpaceTM