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SUSE Enterprise Storage

An intelligent software-defined storage solution, powered by Ceph technology, which enables you to transform your enterprise storage infrastructure.

Providing IT organizations with a simple to manage, agile infrastructure with increased speed of delivery, durability and reliability. Accelerate innovation, reduce costs and alleviate proprietary hardware lock-in by transforming your enterprise storage infrastructure with a truly open, and unified intelligent software-defined storage solution. Let SUSE and our partners provide you with the most flexible enterprise-grade storage solution.

An Introduction to SUSE Enterprise Storage 5

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Key Features

Unlimited scalability with a distributed storage cluster designed to scale to thousands of nodes and multi-hundred petabyte environments and beyond to meet your growing data requirements.

A single truly unified software-defined storage cluster that provides applications with object, block and file system storage providing ubiquitous and universal access to your legacy and modern applications and automated durability of your data with high availability and disaster recovery options.

Utilize commodity off-the-shelf hardware that is at minimum 30 percent less expensive than average capacity optimized solutions to drive significant CAPEX savings

Highly redundant storage infrastructure design maximizes application availability with no single points of failure.

Self-healing capabilities minimize storage administration involvement and optimize data placement, enabling rapid reconstruction of redundancy, maximizing system resiliency and availability.

Automated re-balancing and optimized data placement with an easy to manage intelligent solution that continuously monitors data utilization and infrastructure without any manual intervention and without growing IT staff.

Reference Architecture:

Included with the solution are the following supported protocols:

Legacy Protocols
- iSCSI
- NFS
- CIFS/SMB

Native Protocols
- RBD (Block)
- RADOS (Object)
- CephFS (With multiple active MDS Servers)
- S3 & Swift

Partner reference architectures can be found here

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Tech Specs

Minimum Cluster Configuration

Four Object Storage Nodes
- 10 GB Ethernet (two networks bonded to multiple switches)
- 32 OSDs per storage cluster
- OSD journal can reside on OSD disk
- Dedicated OS disk for each Object Storage Node
- 1 GB of RAM per TB of raw OSD capacity for each Object Storage Node
- 1.5 GHz per OSD for each Object Storage Node
- Ceph Monitors, gateway and Metadata Servers can reside on Object Storage Nodes
  - Three Ceph Monitor nodes (requires SSD for dedicated OS drive)
  - Ceph Monitors, Object Gateways and Metadata Servers nodes require redundant deployment
  - iSCSI Gateways, Object Gateways and Metadata Servers require incremental 4 GB RAM and four cores
Separate management node with 4 GB RAM, four cores, 1 TB capacity

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Minimal recommendations per storage node:

2 GB of RAM per Object Storage Device (OSD)
1.5 GHz of a CPU core per OSD
Separate 10 GbE networks (public/client and backend)
OSD disks in JBOD configurations, or local RAID
OSD disks should be exclusively used by SUSE Enterprise Storage
Dedicated disk/SSD for the operating system, preferably in a RAID 1 configuration
Additional 4 GB of RAM if cache tiering is used

Minimal recommendations for monitor nodes:

3 SUSE Enterprise Storage monitor nodes recommended
2 GB of RAM per monitor node
SSD or fast HDD in a RAID 1 configuration
On installations with fewer than seven monitor nodes, these can be hosted on the system disk of the OSD nodes
Monitor nodes should be bare metal, not virtualized, for performance reasons
Mixing OSDs or monitor nodes with the actual workload is not supported
Configurations may vary from, and frequently exceed, these recommendations depending on individual sizing and performance needs
Bonded network interfaces for redundancy

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Success Stories

Pacific Textiles

Faster, more flexible operations help the business meet tight production timeframes
Supports quick and easy application deployment, saving time and effort for IT teams
Reduces hardware footprint by running more applications in a private cloud

QSC

Increased flexibility for customers without risking security
Decreased latency for connecting to cloud resources
Created unique hybrid-cloud offering for German mid-market

Experian

Optimizes use of storage capacity, reducing the need for significant CAPEX investment
Increases performance and strengthens business continuity
Automates workload allocation, enabling IT staff to dedicate more time to value-add tasks

Swinburne University of Technology

Offers a powerful, flexible storage platform to support cutting-edge scientific research
Delivers on-premises storage at approximately half the cost of an equivalent public cloud service
Extreme scalability makes it easy for Swinburne to keep pace with rising volumes of research data

IRIS

Gained low-cost, enterprise-class mass-storage capabilities
Ensured non-disruptive scalability for mission-critical client environments
Reused existing commodity hardware to keep costs low

Orchard Park Police Department

Maintains network performance of 400-500 IOPS
Supports body cameras and critical surveillance tools
Provides the ability to retain video data for legal purposes

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server reviews from your enterprise peers – verified by Gartner.

"First in class Ceph feature-rich product with great automation, fast support (bug fixing, feature implementation, ...). SUSE provides us with a supreme support for our installations including consulting on architectural topics, hardware selection, network and implementation."

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"Easy deployment, lots of options afterwards, always helpful support. SES allows us to exactly offer/configure what is needed."

Infrastructure and Operations in the Healthcare Industry

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"SUSE Enterprise Storage, a software solution that gives us the possibility of transforming our storage infrastructure to store large amounts of information and that its management is easy to use."

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Webinars

Ceph Promo Video 2017

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Technical Webinar: Transform your data center with Open Software-defined Storage

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Cost effectively transform your data center with Open Software-defined Storage

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CephFS: A File System for the Future

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