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Turnkey Mass Storage using Versity ScoutAM and Dell ECS
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Features and capabilities

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Features and capabilities

  • Modular

    Since storage requirements change frequently, it is important to adopt a platform that is comprised of discreet capacity and performance-based building blocks. Each element of the ScoutAM platform is modular and may be scaled up. This includes metadata devices, data cache devices, ScoutAM nodes, and mass storage devices and services.

    Extensive API Coverage

    Broad API coverage is available to expose functionality to external systems that are part of data acquisition and storage workflows. All significant features and capabilities within the ScoutAM platform are supported by published RESTful APIs.

    High Availability
    ScoutAM remains available despite the loss of servers in a cluster. ScoutAM can tolerate the loss of one or more servers with no impact to availability or continuity of services. High availability (HA) is built into the ScoutAM platform and does not require complex external failover or HA tools.

    Replication and Federation
    ScoutAM supports asynchronous read-only remote namespace replication. Metadata, cache data, and mass storage or archival data may be replicated to one or more disaster recovery or secondary locations to ensure continuity of operations.

    Small file friendly
    Small files are commonly the downfall of mass storage systems. ScoutAM handles both large and small files with maximum efficiency.

    Custom metadata
    ScoutAM supports extensive user-defined metadata and automated rich metadata harvesting and management. User defined metadata can be indexed for fast searching.

    Automatic and Smart
    ScoutAM employs a rich policy engine to automatically move data to the desired media, and to automatically manage cache space. Smart policy rules enable efficient grouping of data to optimize locality of data and overall system utilization and throughput. The application of policies, packaging of work, and execution of archive jobs is packetized, and executed in parallel utilizing all available node resources.

    Scale Out Architecture
    All of the nodes in a ScoutAM cluster deliver parallel data processing and scale-out metadata services.

    Parallel Transfer
    ScoutAM has employed an innovative, highly scalable packet-based architecture to move many data streams in parallel from each node in a ScoutAM cluster.

    Exabyte-Scale Capacity
    The ScoutFS global namespace is designed to accommodate hundreds of billions of files and objects while delivering responsive search and query results. Data storage capacity scales to hundreds of zettabytes. Versity sites can store and retrieve petabytes of data per day under real world conditions.

    GUI
    ScoutAM includes a modern API-driven graphical user interface for administration of the system, monitoring, alerting, and configuration.

    Object to Tape
    The ScoutAM platform supports scalable ingesting of S3 object data and delivery of the object data to tape. This capability is crucial for data analytics platforms and data lakes both for protection and capacity extension. Versity’s object to tape solution is deployed at scale and requires no special tooling, or implementation of custom variations to the S3 protocol. 

    POSIX that performs
    ScoutFS is fully POSIX compliant. Minimum synchronization points ensure maximum performance, while interfacing seamlessly with other POSIX applications.

    Scale Out Extended Cache
    ScoutAM supports the ability to increase cache capacity by adding low cost S3 object storage devices like Dell’s ECS or PowerScale to augment the capacity of the primary cache. Pairing extended cache storage with an all-flash primary cache enables an optimal mix of performance and capacity for sites that require high throughput performance and also wish to have a higher percentage of their recent data cached to improve recall times.

    Ultimate Disaster Recovery
    ScoutAM is the only platform in its class that records all of the data needed to restore the collection on the mass storage media including file and object metadata (including file name path, data, and checksum information). With ScoutAM it is possible to recover an entire data collection directly from the storage media.

    Open Source
    ScoutFS is an open source GPLv2, in-kernel Linux filesystem. Open-source metadata combined with open-source data formats ensure that customers can maintain complete control over their data collections and maintain alignment with their long-term data preservation and data autonomy goals.

    Advanced search and indexing
    Metadata and data sequence numbers are indexed so both ​inode ​attributes and file content changes are quickly discovered. Specific attributes are indexed and can be queried with responsive performance, even among very large file and object populations. Costly filesystem scans are no longer required.