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Avere and Fujitsu Team Up to Offer 100/100/100 Storage Solution
October 2012 by Marc Jacob
Avere Systems announced its intent to develop a new joint solution with Fujitsu to provide customers with 100TB of capacity and 100,000 IOPs for $100,000 (US). Labeled the “100/100/100” bundle, the new solution marries the Fujitsu Core filer with UDS NAS controllers and ETERNUS® DX80 S2 Disk Storage System with a two-node Avere FXT 3100 Edge filer cluster, delivering a high capacity, high-performance solution at an extremely attractive price point. The 100/100/100 bundled solution helps customers optimize their NAS environments by boosting application performance while significantly cutting CAPEX and OPEX costs. The joint solution is scalable to 2.5 million IOPs and 2PB in storage for ultimate flexibility in keeping up with growing volumes of data.
The Fujitsu system features dual active/active UDS NAS controllers with high availability failover, Symantec FileStore OS, 256 snapshots and standard 4x 1GbE connectivity. Its ETERNUS DX80 S2 Disk Storage System includes 1x control enclosure with dual RAID controllers and 12x 3.5-inch disks, 3x disk enclosures with 12x 3.5-inch disks each and 48x 3TB 7.2k SAS disks. 10GbE connectivity is optionally available and the unit can be expanded with additional drives up to 2PB. It includes a 3-year warranty, including NBD parts replacement.
The Avere 2-node FXT 3100 cluster provides 96GB RAM with 2GB NVRAM and 4.8TB of SAS disk storage, 12 1GbE ports and four copper 10GbE ports. Performance is 100k ops/sec for a rendering application workload, expandable to 2.5 million ops/sec. Avere’s Edge filer, built on the latest Avere Operating System (AOS), enables automatic tiering of data for optimal performance, clustering of up to 50 nodes for linear performance scaling and high availability, advance monitoring to provide deep visibility into the entire NAS environment and a global namespace for managing all storage as a single pool.
