XEUS® Unified Storage
Unified storage of distributed architecture
Unlock hardware to deliver high-performance and high-reliability file and block storage services
Container
Supports various container cloud platforms based on K8S, officially certified by CSI, and supports Containerd and Kubevirt type PODs
Corporate office
Supports office scenarios such as file sharing, network disk, and FTP
Industrial manufacturing
Supports SMB mounting of industrial manufacturing production line machines to collect data, and supports fast data query in combination with data analysis products
Multiple virtualization
Meet the storage needs of different virtualization platforms such as OpenStack, VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix, etc., and simplify the storage infrastructure
Multiple database applications
Supports the performance and storage requirements of enterprise-level databases such as OLTP Oracle RAC, SQL Server and MySQL, while eliminating data islands and achieving a flexible and controllable data resource pool
High-performance computing
Supports high-performance computing scenarios for autonomous driving, rendering, genetics, simulation, and chip design
User Needs

Software-defined storage bids farewell to traditional architecture and realizes data center transformation

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:

  • System capacity and performance have upper limits and cannot be continuously, stably and flexibly improved
  • The replacement of storage devices requires the migration of a large amount of data, and controller failure will affect or even cause business interruption
  • The procurement cycle of newly purchased equipment or components is long, the online process is complex, and it is not timely

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:

  • Integrate multiple application systems to meet the needs of multiple applications for different storage architectures
  • Flexible expansion, able to meet current and future expansion needs, and TCO controllable
  • Software and hardware are decoupled, hardware replacement does not require data migration across storage pools, and hardware procurement does not affect business cycles

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.

Product Value

XEUS empowers users' digital transformation with a worry-free experience

XEUS (XSKY Enterprise Unified Storage) is a unified storage provided by XSKY for traditional architecture. XEUS is based on the flexible SDS architecture and can provide two different data services: file and block, providing users with multi-virtualization (VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, OpenStack), virtual desktop (Citrix Hypervisor), database (OLTP, OLAP), etc. Core applications, file sharing, data archiving/backup, high-performance computing and other application scenarios provide high-performance unified solutions with elastic expansion and decoupling of software and hardware. The unique SSD acceleration engine can effectively solve boot storms in user VDI scenarios. At the same time, professional enterprise-level functional features and data protection and disaster recovery solutions make XEUS easy to connect with traditional applications, helping users not only experience the various value-added advantages of SDS, but also help users experience the advantages of SAN+NAS unified storage.

Product Advantages

Unified storage of distributed architecture

Unified storage
  • Provide a unified, sustained and high-performance file and block service platform to break through traditional distributed processing bottlenecks: supporting both structured block data and unstructured file data
  • Multi-protocol support: Supports multi-path iSCSI, FC, RBD, SCSI, NFS, CIFS, FTP, HDFS, Manila, CSI, Cinder and other protocols, simplifying the business IT architecture while releasing the lock-in of traditional storage on the business
  • Distributed files: supports unified namespace and multiple active file gateways. Supports writing of 10 billion files and 100PB capacity, efficiently meeting the needs of enterprises for massive unstructured data storage
Rich enterprise-level features
  • Data redundancy: supports multiple copies and different EC redundancy strategies, and provides three levels of fault domain management based on servers, racks, and data centers
  • High performance: memory multi-copy write cache, memory read cache, and intelligent SSD cache to improve the fast reading and writing performance of data
  • Block enterprise-level features: supports ROW snapshots, clones, thin provisioning, online volume expansion and shrinkage, extended active-active, asynchronous replication, multiple quality of service (QoS), recycle bin and other enterprise-level features
  • File enterprise-level features: supports AD domain, LDAP domain authentication, local authentication and other authentication methods, and also supports extended active-active, asynchronous replication, quotas, QoS, snapshots, WROM, directory pooling, directory management, protocol interoperability, and recycle bin and other advanced features
Flexible expansion
  • Software-defined, node attributes can be customized, and supports various brands of general X86 servers and mainstream domestic servers
  • Flexible deployment, expandable from 3 nodes to 4096 nodes to meet different business needs
  • One pool, multiple cores: Support X86 and domestic servers in a single pool, empowering customers to replace their systems with domestic alternatives
  • On-demand expansion, performance and capacity grow as the number of nodes increases, meeting the performance and capacity requirements of growing business
  • No business awareness, support the entire pool expansion, no need for data rebalancing, no business awareness