KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.)
today announced that its KumoScale storage software based on NVM
Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) now includes a distributed, resilient
provisioner service. KumoScale Provisioner Service joins the software
suite's intelligent control plane, which manages the entire fleet of
KumoScale storage nodes.
KumoScale
Provisioner Service works by tracking the fleet of SSDs and KumoScale
storage nodes and managing the dynamic mapping of user volumes to nodes
and physical drives. The new service facilitates the adaptation of the
KumoScale API to work with any provisioning tool or orchestration
framework used to manage cloud infrastructures.
Kubernetes
has become the de facto standard framework for intelligently assigning
containerized applications to compute resources. Similarly, the new
KumoScale Provisioner Service handles the intelligent assignment of data
volumes to storage resources. "What Kubernetes does for containers,
KumoScale Provisioner Service does for storage volumes," noted Joel
Dedrick, vice president and general manager, networked storage software,
KIOXIA America, Inc. "The provisioner service acts as the gateway to
the entire fleet of KumoScale storage nodes. It removes the guesswork
associated with storage allocation, and automatically provides the right
amount of capacity and performance to each application workload, within
the cloud data center."
KumoScale Provisioner Service features include:
- Performs intelligent mapping of user-specified storage volumes to KumoScale nodes and physical drives
- Processes
provisioning requests: Selects the best KumoScale node, chooses the SSD
and how to map it, and creates the volume via REST API
KIOXIA is a leading provider of NVMe SSDs, technology and data center software.