We tested the EPIC iO DeepInsights capability to automatically replicate the video captured and stored on our bus device in the lab to another virtual machine playing the role of a DeepInsights system running in a bus depot. The bus system was configured to simulate two daily stops at the bus depot between being in service. We simulated two in-service periods:

1. From 5 am to 1 pm
2. From 3 pm to 1 am

The following screenshot shows that video replication was configured to use up to 3 Mbps while the bus is out of the depot and in service if a Carrier LTE/5G network is available and unlimited bandwidth when the vehicle returns to the depot between servicing routes.

Our lab did not have a wireless service available, so all replication occurred between 1 am to 5 am and 1 pm to 3 pm. Our initial configuration used storage local to the bus depot VM as shown in the following screenshot. We then switched to an SMB share hosted on a Dell PowerScale scale-out NAS solution for the video transfer destination in our simulated bus depot.

EPIC iO DeepInsights can be configured to automatically replicate a video archive from one or more depots to a centralized Private Cloud; however, for this validation, we used the Sync IO feature of the Dell PowerScale solution.

Dell PowerScale SyncIQ is an application that enables the flexible management and automation of data replication. SyncIQ offers powerful, flexible, and easy-to-manage asynchronous replication for collaboration, disaster recovery, business continuity, disk-to-disk backup, and remote disk archiving.

SyncIQ leverages the full complement of resources in a PowerScale cluster and the scalability and parallel architecture of the Dell PowerScale OneFS file system. SyncIQ uses a policy-driven engine to run replication jobs across all nodes in the cluster. The following screenshot shows the steps we completed to enable replication between two PowerScale systems in our lab.

When a SyncIQ job is initiated from a scheduled or manually applied policy, the system takes a snapshot of the data to be replicated. SyncIQ compares this to the snapshot from the previous replication job to quickly identify the changes that need to be propagated. Those changes can be new files, changed files, metadata changes, or file deletions. SyncIQ pools the aggregate resources from the cluster, splitting the replication job into smaller work items and distributing these among multiple workers across all nodes in the cluster. Each worker scans a part of the snapshot differential for changes and transfers those changes to the target cluster.

The following screenshot shows the statistics from the initial replication managed by SyncIQ.