Gridstore, the leader in hyper-converged all-flash infrastructure today
announced the release of version 3.6 of their HCI intelligent
software. Enhancements include fine grained performance monitoring and
capacity reporting per VM, support for self-encrypting drives (SED), and
the ability to set minimum performance reserves (IOPS per VM) for
quality of service (QoS). Collectively these additions offer enhanced
operational management, robust security, and the ability to provide
granular clarity and control of resources on a per-VM basis.
Details include:
- Performance
Monitoring: Support has been added for real-time and historical
performance monitoring (with detailed drill-downs at the system,
storage, VM, and network level) and the ability to perform proactive
performance planning
- Capacity Reporting: Ability to see detailed capacity usage metrics and perform proactive capacity planning
- Self-Encrypting
Drives: Support for data-at-rest encryption, which is critical in
highly regulated environments such as Healthcare, Financial Services,
and Government
- QoS Reserves Support: Support for setting QoS IOPS reserves via minimum thresholds on a per-VM basis
The above
capabilities will also be seamlessly extended into 3rd-party management
frameworks such as System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM),
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), and other 3rd-party monitoring
tools.
"We
deployed the Gridstore HCI recently and it's been performing very well
for us," said Stephen Cui, systems engineer, Security Service Federal
Credit Union (SSFCU). "We are looking forward to being able to leverage
these new additional features, especially the ability to set minimum
QoS, which will enable us to provide better service for our critical
applications."
"We've
seen tremendous success in a variety of markets that will appreciate
these new features such as enterprises who require fine grained resource
control to run critical workloads in mixed environments with certainty
and to enable service providers with different service level policies
for their customers," said Kelly Murphy, Founder and CTO, Gridstore.
"Also, the healthcare and government markets have expressed a need for
SEDs and we're pleased to be able to provide this support to help meet
their security and compliance requirements."