Software Defined Storage (SDS)
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a storage architecture that distinguishes storage software from its hardware. Unlike traditional network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN) systems, SDS is generally designed to perform on any industry-standard system, removing the software’s dependence on commercial hardware. Dissociating storage software from its hardware allows you to expand your storage capacity as you see fit, when you see fit, instead of scrambling to add another piece of proprietary hardware. It also allows you to upgrade or downgrade hardware whenever you want. Essentially, SDS provides enormous flexibility.
SDS is part of a larger environment called hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) where all software is separated from all hardware. That divide permits you the autonomy to choose which hardware you purchase and how much storage you require.
Overall SDS should have the following:
Automation: Simplified management provides costs reduction.
Scalability: Scale out storage infrastructure without hindering performance.
Virtualized data path: Block, file, and object interfaces that support applications written to interfaces.
Transparency: Monitor and manage storage use while realizing what resources and costs are available.
Standard interfaces: Application programming interface (API) for management and maintenance of storage devices and services.
How does software-defined storage work?
SDS conceptualizes the things that control storage requests, not what’s stored. It’s a software layer between the physical storage and the data request—allowing you to control how and where data is stored. SDS controller software provides storage access services, networking, and connectivity. The most important characteristic of SDS controller software is that it develops no theories about the capacity or suitability of the underlying hardware.
SDS is not storage virtualization
Both SDS and storage virtualization involve extracting something from storage hardware, but the concepts aren’t the same. Storage virtualization permits the capacity of many storage devices to be pooled so it appears all the storage is sitting on one device. SDS, in distinction, extracts the storage services, or storage software, and separates them from the device itself.
Why utilize SDS?
SDS can run on any industry-standard servers and disks. Unlike other types of storage, SDS depends more on its own software than the hardware it sits on. SDS presumes that the hardware underneath regardless of that hardware’s cost or age will eventually fail, and so it prepares for that failure by distributing workloads across the infrastructure. SDS can run both on the server’s standard operating system and in a virtual machine (VM). Several SDS products can even run across containers, which permits users to manage applications and storage services through 1 interface, regardless of the infrastructure that container lives in (bare metal, virtual, or cloud). This process allows it to offer an incredible flexibility of choice for IT managers and avoids vendor lock-in as well as numerous other benefits including:
Centralized Intelligence
Similar to all software defined solutions, SDS distinguishes the intelligence from the physical devices. This significantly streamlines administration and distributes efficient and secure management of all storage silos through automated policies that can adapt and react to ever changing conditions.
Scalability
The cost reduction structure of x86 storage technology provides the ability to rapidly update and increase storage structures to adapt to future growth and fast turnaround.
Flexibility
Unlike a SAN solution, an SDS can be comprised of diverse hardware that can constantly be modified to meet shifting demands.
Reduced CapEx
SDS is built around x86 storage technology that is far less expensive than the proprietary storage arrays found in old school the SAN solutions. By utilizing a universal hardware standard, service providers can lower acquisition costs as well as TCO.
Simplify and modernize your storage management with software-defined storage
Build an SDS-based storage infrastructure to maximize your existing hardware as your storage needs grow.- SDS is distributed and scales out instead of scaling up, allowing you to adjust capacity and performance independently.
- You can join many data sources to build your storage infrastructure to create a unified storage volume.
- Enable AI workloads and consolidate primary and secondary big data.
- SDS automatically adjusts to your data capacity needs and performance without administrator intervention.
- More easily deploy fast, highly scalable storage for AI and big data using simple building blocks.
- Infinitely scalable to storage area networks nodes with IP address assigned devices.
SDS Portfolio Built on Reliability
When your storage needs progresses, SDS permits enterprises to put storage volumes to work without anticipating volumes integrating with other systems. Omni Business Solutions SDS Portfolio are all built on open source enabling developers, technology partners, and customers working together to solve your challenges. Our SDS technology products are used daily by Fortune 500 companies around the globe—draws on decades of open-source knowledge and expertise. With its inherent freedom, openness, and cost-effectiveness, Omni Business Solutions storage solutions can assist you do so much more, with a whole lot less.
A few technology partners from our SDS Portfolio
Omni Business Solutions offers a wide range of storage and data services, we work in unison with our storage technology partners to discuss, test, certify, and integrate the technologies you need to build more efficient, resilient, secure, and compliant storage infrastructure.
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