To face the constant growth in the production process and increased demand, Viasit required a reliable data storage solution to store the data safely. Additionally, there were several requirements to be followed:
- Continuous data accessibility (High Availability)
- Advanced data protection
- Scalable data storage solution for the potential further expansion
- Compatibility and certification with the VMware environment
- Affordable price-performance ratio
Challenges
The data had to be easily accessible for all the employees in order to simplify the company’s workload without the need for expanding the IT department with data storage specialists. The main goal of Viasit was to focus on the core business of manufacturing.
Solution
To respond to the demand for a flexible, scalable, and affordable solution, Viasit chose EUROstor, a German hardware and storage solutions provider. EUROstor in turn recommended Open-E JovianDSS as the data storage software. All in all, the solution consisted of two pools configured in a Single storage Shared High Availability cluster. The two Open-E JovianDSS nodes were externally connected to the JBOD via Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) protocols. The solution worked on the basis of a 2-way mirror redundancy level, consisting of a total of eight disk groups. Should there be a need for storage extension, the configuration allows a user to add up to 2 more disk groups, or to add an extra JBOD. An additional benefit of the solution was proper Load Balancing, achieved thanks to the Active-Active cluster configuration, which increased both the performance and data availability.
Technical details
| Total capacity: | 13,85TB |
| High Availability: | Standard HA Cluster |
| Hypervisor: | VMware |
| License: | Open-E JovianDSS |
| Features: | Standard HA Cluster Feature Pack |
| Support: | Premium Support |
Thanks to the proper configuration and implementation of the system, as well as the assurance that we will receive assistance in case of any difficulties, we sleep much better now. The software has ensured easy maintenance without unplanned downtimes, with simple accessibility to the data stored. In the event of any configuration issue, we always got very fast and professional support from both EUROstor and Open-E
Hardware details
| Motherboard: | Supermicro® X11DPH-T |
| CPU: | 2x Intel® Xeon® Silver Processor 4215R |
| RAM: | 192GB DDR4-2933 REGISTERED ECC DIMM (per Node) |
| Storage Raw Capacity: | 13,85TB |
| Storage Controller: | Broadcom SAS Adapter (4 external ports) |
| Storage Device: | 24 Slot JBOD with 16x Seagate Nytro 3331 SAS SSD, 1920GB |
| Storage Configuration: | 2 Pools each with 4 Mirror VDEVs |
| Network Interfaces: | 4x 10 GbE RJ45, 2x 10 GbE SFP+ |
| Boot Medium: | 2x SSD SATA (Mirrored - RAID 1) |
