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DriveScale is a rack scale architecture, providing composable
infrastructure on pooled commodity resources
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Typical Rack
Server Rack
Configuration
• Compute pool:
Processor +
Memory Servers
• 1U DriveScale
Adapter (DA) -
Ethernet to SAS
• Storage pool:
Disks in JBODs,
connected via
SAS to DAs
Rack Scale
Architecture
DriveScale Adapter
DriveScale Adapter
• DriveScale
composes
Logical Nodes
(software defined
physical nodes)
• Example: Logical
node might
consist of dual
proc server and
12 drives across
2 JBODs