Pivot3,
a pioneer and innovator in the development of hyper-converged
infrastructure (HCI), today announced the availability of its Global
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure software on Dell’s PowerEdge FX2 servers.
The new platform delivers exceptional hyper-converged performance in a
very dense form factor by combining the storage efficiency of Pivot3’s
patented HCI technology with the physical density of Dell’s PowerEdge
FX2 servers.
The combined platform leverages the storage efficiency made uniquely
possible by Pivot3’s patented Scalar Erasure Coding, which eliminates
wasteful replication as a data protection methodology, to make available
up to 94 percent of raw flash storage capacity. The cross-cluster
virtual storage area network (SAN) preserves performance for running
customer workloads by using only seven percent of compute power and
yielding 320,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) per 2U
enclosure.
With Pivot3 HCI layered upon Dell’s PowerEdge FX2 servers, customers get
a hyper-converged system that features density similar to that of the
standard 16-blade chassis, but with the granularity of rack-mount
servers.
Flash drives deliver high IOPS performance but remain premium-priced and
limited in number when deployed within very dense servers. This makes
using a replication-based hyper-converged solution in a high density
environment financially prohibitive because of the low useable storage
capacity it yields and high resulting cost per terabyte stored when
using flash drives.
“This is a completely new approach to data center infrastructure,” said
Ron Nash, CEO of Pivot3. “With most bare metal infrastructure solutions,
the data is protected by replication, which is nearly impossible to do
for most applications on dense nodes since they have such limited
storage. Adding our Scalar Erasure Coding technology is the unique
element here that allows customers to effectively use a far higher
percentage of raw storage capacity.”
The platform based on Pivot3’s HCI software and Dell’s PowerEdge FX2
servers can be combined with Pivot3’s standard rack-mounted all-flash
HCI nodes to achieve the optimal balance of performance, density and
capacity to flexibly match the needs of any workload. Four PowerEdge FX2
enclosures with Pivot3 HCI software constitute a 4x4 Scalar Erasure
Coding Protection Group that can be scaled-out linearly without
limitations.
“Storage space is at a premium, and businesses are looking for
inexpensive ways to maximize the amount of flash storage and IOPS
available for workloads,” said Ron Pugh, executive director, general
manager, Dell OEM Solutions. “Dell’s FX2 platform combined with Pivot3’s
hyper-converged capabilities is an economically viable and secure
solution that enables customers to maximize performance and meet
significant workload demands.”
For more information, visit http://pivot3.com/vmworld_2015/.