Enterprise IT organizations committed to a Windows Server environment for their private and hybrid cloud deployments will benefit from Microsoft’s Storage Spaces Direct software-defined datacenter (SDDC) technology in Windows Server 2016. To optimize Windows Server 2016 and Storage Spaces Direct performance, manageability, and scalability, DataON is introducing their TracSystem family of purpose-built hyper-converged infrastructure for Storage Spaces Direct deployments. Designed for Windows Server enterprise, private, hybrid and Azure public cloud workloads, the DataON TracSystem Lightening Series of HCI is also certified with Intel Select Program for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage. The First Intel Select Solution with Windows Server 2016 Software-Defined Storage DataON and Intel have collaborated to create an Intel Select Solution for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage. Intel Select Solutions are workload-optimized data center solutions that simplify and accelerate the process of selecting and deploying the hardware and software needed for today’s workloads and applications. Intel Select Solutions: • Simplify evaluation and eliminate guesswork via tightly specified hardware and software components • Have pre-defined settings and system wide tuning enabling smooth deployment • Are designed and benchmarked to perform optimally for specific workloads Based on Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel Select Solutions enable enterprises to make confi- dent choices in deploying data center infrastructure. The Intel Select Solution for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage features: • Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel C620 Series chipsets • Intel Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series or Intel® 3D NAND SSDs in the cache tier featuring the NVMe interface • All-flash in the capacity tier with Intel 3D NAND SSDs using the NVMe or SATA interface Intel Select Solutions are rigorously tested and benchmarked to verify system-wide level. Whenever possible, well-known third party and industry benchmarking tools that simulate real-world loads are used to identify and eliminate pressure points. DataON and Intel Select Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Maximizes IOPS Performance for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage DataON Next-Generation All NVMe SSD Flash-Based Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with Intel C620 Series Chipsets and Intel® Optane™ SSDs. Solution Brief
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Enterprise IT organizations committed to a Windows Server environment for their private and hybrid cloud deployments will benefit from Microsoft’s Storage Spaces Direct software-defined datacenter (SDDC) technology in Windows Server 2016. To optimize Windows Server 2016 and Storage Spaces Direct performance, manageability, and scalability, DataON is introducing their TracSystem family of purpose-built hyper-converged infrastructure for Storage Spaces Direct deployments. Designed for Windows Server enterprise, private, hybrid and Azure public cloud workloads, the DataON TracSystem Lightening Series of HCI is also certified with Intel Select Program for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage.
The First Intel Select Solution with Windows Server 2016 Software-Defined Storage
DataON and Intel have collaborated to create an Intel Select Solution for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage.
Intel Select Solutions are workload-optimized data center solutions that simplify and accelerate the process of selecting and deploying the hardware and software needed for today’s workloads and applications.
Intel Select Solutions:
• Simplify evaluation and eliminate guesswork via tightly specified hardware and software components
• Have pre-defined settings and system wide tuning enabling smooth deployment
• Are designed and benchmarked to perform optimally for specific workloads
Based on Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel Select Solutions enable enterprises to make confi-dent choices in deploying data center infrastructure. The Intel Select Solution for Windows Server Software-Defined Storage features:
• Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel C620 Series chipsets
• Intel Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series or Intel® 3D NAND SSDs in the cache tier featuring the NVMe interface
• All-flash in the capacity tier with Intel 3D NAND SSDs using the NVMe or SATA interface
Intel Select Solutions are rigorously tested and benchmarked to verify system-wide level. Whenever possible, well-known third party and industry benchmarking tools that simulate real-world loads are used to identify and eliminate pressure points.
DataON and Intel Select Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Maximizes IOPS Performance
for Windows Server Software-Defined StorageDataON Next-Generation All NVMe SSD Flash-Based Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure (HCI) Powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with Intel C620 Series Chipsets and Intel® Optane™ SSDs.
Solution Brief
DataON TracSystem – Purpose-Built for the Modernized, Windows Server-Based Enterprise Data Center and Windows Server 2016 Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
DataON TracSystem is a fully integrated and turnkey Windows Server 2016 HCI solution that delivers on the promise of simplicity, scalability and affordability. Comprised of DataON S2D Server Ready Nodes that are field proven with over 600 customers and over 100PB deployed, the TracSystem is customized, performance-tuned and simple-to-deploy.
The TracSystem Lightning series is the first validated Intel Select Solution with Windows Server Software-Defined Solutions. It leverages the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Family, Intel® Optane™ Technology and NVM Express (NVMe™) to deliver breakthrough performance and incredible responsiveness, with greater VM density.
• Breakthrough performance and dramatically reduced disk latency with over 3M IOPS throughput for write-intensive workloads by leveraging Intel® Optane™ SSDs that are NVMe-based for the fast cache tier for Window Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct.
• Greater VM density per cluster with Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, delivering up to 28 cores per socket, 18 DIMMS per CPU memory density, and 224 physical cores for a 4-node Storage Spaces Direct HCI deployment.
• Highest networking efficiency and throughput with SMB3 RDMA fabric delivering 2x throughput compared to TCP/IP, less than 1 µsec latency from VM-to-VM communication, and fewer CPU cycles per I/O with better core utilization.
Every TracSystem HCI is pre-configured with DataON MUST (Management Utility Software Tool) infrastructure visibility, monitoring and management software, which provides SAN-like storage monitoring features and system alerts based on Windows Health Service faults. The inclusion of MUST is what completes a Windows Server 2016 solution as a viable SAN replacement.
DataON TracSystem solutions are built to optimize the full stack of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct in a hyper-converged platform. They are designed with integrated compute, network and storage infrastructure with near-linear scalability to simplify and maximize the deployment of Microsoft applications, virtualization, data protection and hybrid cloud services. These pre-configured clusters can support over 40 Hyper-V VMs per nodes, for expanded capacity and operational flexibility.
These solutions can achieve over 3M IOPS in a 4-node cluster. They combine high-performance Intel Optane NVMe SSDs with all-flash storage and SMB3 networking to maximize performance and capacity. These appliances run on the Cluster Shared Volumes Resilient File System (ReFS) to maximize data availability, deliver high resiliency, and improve data integrity across scale-out file server (SoFS) and software-defined data center stacks.
• Preconfigured 4-node HCI clusters – Provides expanded capacity with scalable and operational flexibility, with up to 16 nodes.
• Industry-leading application performance – Provides over 30% greater IOPS performance over the previous generation (running VM Fleet) using the latest all-flash Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X cache and Intel 3D NAND SSDs with NVMe to scale IOPS intensive workloads.
• Hyper-V virtualization – Supports more than 40 Hyper-V virtual machines per node
• Storage and networking with SMB3 over RDMA – Increases CPU efficiency while delivering the highest throughput and low latency.
• Hyper-converged scalability – Delivers incremental compute, networking and storage resources while providing near-linear scalability. The HCI cluster can also be expanded via 12GB/s SAS JBODs.
• Automated out-of-the-box deployment – Accelerates time to deployment for Windows Server 2016, Storage Spaces Direct, and Storage Replica environments.
• Integrated data protection and guarded fabric – Supports Windows Server 2016 with Shielded VM and TPM 2.0 trusted attestation for security and business continuity.
• High availability and resiliency – Forms one Windows Server 2016 failover cluster with Cloud Witness as low-cost, low footprint quorum technology.
• Built for Microsoft services and I/O intensive applications – Supports VDI, SQL Server, Dynamics ERP, and business intelligence deployments.
• Fault tolerant – Uses local drives and leverages Storage Replica with Azure Site Recovery.
Performance Tuned
Windows Server based HCI that counts IOPS in millions
Easy to Deploy and Manage
DataON MUST tool provides visibility, monitoring and
management for Windows Server 2016 deployments
DataON TracSystem S2D-5224 Lightening —Optimized for High I/O Performance
The S2D-5224 is a high-performance platform designed to maximize input/output (I/O) transactions per second (IOPS). The S2D-5224 is ideal for demanding in-memory applications, such as virtualization using Hyper-V, Microsoft Hekaton for analytics, Microsoft SQL, large Exchange installations, and other I/O intensive applications. The appliance can easily be combined to expand scale out services on demand with direct linear performance growth.
TracSystem S2D-5224 Spec Overview
Built On Intel® Technologies
Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with Intel C620 Series Chipsets
The new Intel Xeon Scalable processors are workload-optimized to support hybrid cloud infrastructure and the most high-demand applications. You can drive insight, count on hardware-based security, and deploy dynamic service delivery.
Optimized Performance
New features such as Intel® Advanced Vector Extension 512 (Intel® AVX-512) improve with workload-optimized performance and throughput increases for advanced analytics, high performance computing (HPC) applications, and data compression.
Accelerate Critical Workloads
Speed up data compression and cryptography with integrated Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT).
Operate More Efficiently
High-speed integrated Intel® Ethernet (up to 4x10GbE) helps reduce total system cost. It also lowers power consumption and improves transfer latency of large storage blocks and virtual machine migration.
Improves Security
Deploy hardware-enhanced security to protect data and system operations without compromising performance.
Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center Family and Intel® Optane™ Solid State Drives (SSDs)
Intel® SSD Data Center family of drives and PCIe* storage devices offer end-to-end data protection, consistent performance with low latencies, high write endurance, and scalability for growing storage needs while helping enterprises and clouds to tackle today’s bigger storage challenges. Intel PCIe based SSDs offer incredible performance and enhanced capabilities, with advanced capacity and performance coming in future Intel® Optane™ SSDs based on 3D XPoint™ Technology.
Form Factor 2U 24-bay 2.5”
Appliance Node 2U Server cluster4 Nodes
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor with Intel C620 Chipsets24x Intel SSD Data Center Family with NVMe Intel Optane SSDs
Hyper-V Deployment 150-1500 VMs (scale to 224 physical cores and 18 DIMMs per CPU)
DataON is the industry-leading provider of hyper-converged cluster appliances (HCCA) and storage systems optimized for Microsoft Windows Server environments. Our solutions are built with the single purpose of rapidly and seamlessly deploying Microsoft applications, virtualization, data protection, and hybrid cloud services. Our company is exclusively focused on customers who have made the “Microsoft choice” and we provide the ultimate platform for the Microsoft software-defined data center (SDDC). DataON is a division of Area Electronics Systems, Inc.
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The DataON Difference
DataON is exclusively focused on customers who have made the “Microsoft choice” to deploy a Windows Server-based storage solution. Our team of Microsoft experts know how to design, deploy and support Windows Server storage and will work with you to performance tune your workloads with benchmarks. DataON solutions are:
• Customer-proven with over 600 enterprise deployments and greater than 100PB of DataON Storage Spaces Direct storage deployments.
• Optimized by our team of Microsoft experts to ensure successful deployments into your IT environment, tuned to your workloads.
• Certified for Windows Server 2012, 2012R2 and 2016.
• Certified for Windows Server 2016 Server Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Premium and Standard editions.
• Certified for the Windows Server Software-Defined (WSSD) Program.
DataON has a proud history of supporting Windows Server environments, including:
• The FIRST certified enterprise JBODs for Windows Server 2012 R2
• The FIRST Cluster-in-a-Box (CiB) appliances for small business and enterprise deployments with Hyper-V support
Features:
Dashboard level metrics through a single pane of glass.
System alerts & automated e-mail notifications for hardware failures, configuration issues and resource saturation.
Mobile friendly user interface allows you to monitor your Windows Storage deployments when you’re out of the office.
Pre-configured with DataON hyper-converged solutions at no extra charge.
DataON MUST—Infrastructure Visibility and Management for Windows Server 2016
The DataON TracServer solutions are integrated with DataON’s exclusive MUST visibility and management tool to provide SAN-like storage monitoring features for customers deploying Windows Server software-defined solutions.
Leveraging the Windows Health Service API, MUST provides visibility to system-level information and storage cluster / volume / node-level utilization. It also gives you a dashboard-level view of your cluster, with operational visibility of system analytics, infrastructure health management, storage systems metrics, and event logging insights.
With system alerts based on Windows Health Service faults and SAN-like call home services, MUST notifies system administrators of hardware failures,configuration issues and resources saturation.
DataON is the first to market with a management tool that provides monitoring for Windows Storage deployments.
