vSHARE SAN Attached

ENTERPRISE-GRADE MEMORY GATEWAYS
CHOICE OF CONNECTIVITY:
FIBRE CHANNEL; 8GB/S OR 4GB/S
10 GBE; ISCSI OR FCOE
INFINIBAND
COMBINATIONS OF ABOVE
CAPABLE OF HANDLING FOUR VIOLIN MEMORY ARRAYS
400K IOPS AND OVER 3GB/S
HIGH AVAILABILITY CONFIGURATION OPTION

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      INTRODUCTION      

INTRODUCTION

Violin Memory Arrays are designed for high IOPS, spike-free latency and network flexibility. Multiple Memory Arrays can be attached to the network and made available as a shared strategic storage resource that scales to petabytes (PB) with high aggregate bandwidth. Violin 6000 Series arrays have internal Memory Gateways integrated within the chassis; Violin 3000 arrays utilize one or more external Memory Gateways. Memory Gateways that provide any of the following high bandwidth connections:

  • Fibre Channel; 8Gb/s or 4Gb/s
  • 10 GbE; iSCSI or FCoE
  • InfiniBand or
  • Combinations of the above! 

Violin 6000 systems support up to 1 million IOPS and 4 GB/sec. of bandwidth. External Memory Gateways used with 3000 Series can support up to 4 Violin Memory Arrays, 400K IOPS and over 3GB/s. Through striping, each LUN on the system can get the full bandwidth and IOPS capability of the cluster. LUNs can range in size from 1GB to 120TB!

This cluster architecture enables either Violin or partners to provide a Memory Gateway with value added functionality such as:

  • LUN Masking & MPIO
  • Thin Provisioning of LUNs
  • Read & Write Caching to HDD storage
  • Snapshots & Continuous Data protection

If the network changes, the cluster can be reconfigured to support the new network interfaces or higher bandwidths.

Violin’s Fibre Channel Memory Gateway supports up to 8 ports of 2/4/8 Gbit/s FC and enables very low latency and high bandwidth connectivity to the data center network. This network can include virtualization platforms like EMC’s VPLEX.

Typical deployment scenarios have the Violin Memory Arrays and gateways operating as peers to existing HDD arrays on the same network. Applications with high IOPS or low latency requirements move their LUNs to operate on the Memory Arrays.

vSHARE

vSHARE software runs on one or more memory gateways (internal or external to the memory array) virtualizing the flash resources and providing dynamic LUN management functions. It provides high performance active-active multipath connectivity, block storage functions, and implements Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI protocols.

      ORDERING DETAILS      

VMG-8GFCx4 Violin Memory Gateway: 4 Port 4/8 Gbit/s Fiber Channel Interfaces with vSHARE
VMG-8GFCx8 Violin Memory Gateway: 8 Port 4/8 Gbit/s Fiber Channel Interfaces with vSHARE
VMG-10GEX4 Violin Memory Gateway: 4 Port 10 GBE-SFP+ Ethernet ISCSI with vSHARE

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Case Studies:

  • SQL Data Warehouse Case Study
    A leading real estate information company based in California was about to buy a new SAN and/or outsource their data center to deal with massive amount of real estate transaction data when they discovered Violin Memory Arrays which after a short POC proved to greatly accelerate their SQL Server based data warehouse...
  • Healthcare Case Study
    This provider of healthcare revenue cycle management services by assuming the responsibility for the management management and cost of their customers' revenue cycle operations, supplementing existing staff with state-of-the-industry technology, expertise, and resources. Their specific problem was managing the massive data ingest of healthcare business data. Violin Memory greatly accelerated their operations and lowered their costs...
  • VDI Case Study
    A growing number of Federal staff are being asked to telecommute and driving the need to virtualize the physical desktop. Supporting the increased demand of thousands to work anywhere, any place is stressing traditional storage subsystems. Because Violin Memory enables extreme IO load, you can increase the number of virtual centers well beyond the hardcoded maximum effectively enabling dramatically higher virtual deployments. As a result, organizations will realize savings in CAPEX, OPEX (space and power) while providing greater performance and larger operating windows.

    The Windows desktop I/O has a strong impact on storage system performance. Therefore, separating the desktop operating system I/O from the rest of the enterprise storage can reduce the negative impact on critical enterprise application performance. This reference architecture segregates the desktop I/O to the flash memory storage, while keeping the valuable persistent user data in an enterprise network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN) via folder redirection and persistent disk. This approach can optimize the storage performance against data value and overall system cost by shifting intensive Windows I/O to a higher-performing Violin flash Memory Array. Violin Memory enables the ability to provision thousands of machines in minutes. The boot times and latency of the virtual desktops can be up to 10x better under load....

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