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Flexible entry points enable ObjectScale appliance to rapidly scale to petabytes and exabytes of data. With minimal business impact, an ObjectScale appliance solution can scale linearly in both capacity and performance by adding nodes and disks.
XF960 is an all-flash object storage solution of hyper-converged nodes for low latency and high IOPs ObjectScale appliance deployments. It has options for 32 cores dual CPUs, 256GB memory, 24 drives, 30TB NVMe drive per node, and up to 5GB/sec reads and 4GB/sec writes per node for large objects (>200MB). This platform starts at 2.9PB RAW minimum configuration and scales to 11.7PB RAW per rack.
Note: ObjectScale appliance supports a minimum deployment of 4 nodes and a maximum of 16 nodes in a single rack cluster. Only a single rack cluster is supported in the ObjectScale 1.3 release.
The XF960 is a hardware stack which includes the server, switch, rack mount equipment and appropriate power cables, and is optimized to run the ObjectScale software.
ObjectScale appliance offers self-encrypting drives (SEDs), hard drives that transparently encrypt all on-disk data using an internal key and a drive access password. Protection is achieved by requiring a key to unlock the drives before any data can be retrieved. This encryption protects the system from data theft when a drive is removed. If a SED drive’s internal key or drive access password is lost, the drive data becomes permanently inaccessible, and the drive must be reset and reformatted to be repurposed. SEDs include boot drives and data drives.
The ObjectScale appliance starting capacity options allow users to begin an ObjectScale deployment with only the capacity needed, and to easily grow as needs change in the future. See the Dell ObjectScale XF960 Hardware Guide for more information.