As current data center applications and architectures become increasingly complex, a truly unified storage solution is more than just a simple collection of block and file components. With the growth of enterprise business and the advancement of digital transformation, traditional NAS+SAN solutions cannot cope with the increasing data storage and data processing requirements brought about by complex multi-virtualization and multi-applications:
Software-defined storage (SDS) infrastructure can help enterprise users build an efficient and flexible infrastructure that provides a solid foundation for future expansion. Specifically, the new storage platform can meet the following requirements:
How can software-defined storage be both “sensitive” and “stable”?
Software-defined storage architecture in the digital transformation era can well meet the needs of users for agile deployment on standardized X86/ARM servers. It can be flexibly expanded, and performance and capacity grow linearly with the number of server nodes. Hardware upgrades and replacements do not require data migration across storage systems, and the benefits of hardware upgrades and replacements are immediately enjoyed. The business layer is unaware and unaffected.
However, how to ensure stable connection with traditional businesses while achieving agility is a key issue that software-defined storage must help users consider under digital transformation, such as: stable support for multiple virtualization platforms, reliable delivery of a unified platform for files + blocks, and professional A series of issues such as stable support for the FC protocol of storage devices, coordinated switching of multipathing and upper-layer services, feature support for enterprise data protection and disaster recovery, etc. are all urgent issues that users need to solve after using SDS.