The knowledge storage and safety firm previously referred to as Toshiba Memory America, Inc.–now known as KIOXIA (phonetically kee-oh-sha) America, Inc.–has launched a brand new set of features in its home-built KumoScale storage software program.
The new options convey a next-gen networked storage strategy to purposes managed by the Kubernetes framework whereas delivering the velocity of NVMe flash. KumoScale software program can now function a container host, offering managed NVMe volumes to storage purposes comparable to distributed file methods and object shops, operating domestically on KumoScale storage nodes.
Additionally, these new capabilities and purposes, together with different KumoScale control-plane providers, are deployed and managed by way of what the corporate calls a Kubernetes “micro-cluster.” This ends in a versatile infrastructure that may serve block, file and object storage concurrently to Kubernetes, OpenStack, and naked steel shoppers.
Designed to enhance the efficiency of consumer, server and storage methods, the NVMe-oF specification is driving new efficiency ranges for cloud and enterprise purposes. The firm claims KumoScale options built-in with the Kubernetes framework take full benefit of the sooner connections provided by NVMe-oF, enabling cloud deployments to serve extra customers per storage node–and enhancing operational prices. For instance, Kioxia claims that KumoScale software-enabled storage not too long ago demonstrated 20X sooner learn and write latencies, and 6X sooner IOPS in comparison with Ceph.
KumoScale function updates for the Kubernetes framework embody:
- The newly launched KumoScale CSI Driver helps low-latency core storage features, knowledge resiliency, snapshots, skinny provisioning and stay pod migration. KumoScale volumes merely seem to host containers as quick native NVMe drives. The driver is on the market within the Cloud-native Computing Foundation repository
- The KumoScale Management Cluster manages dozens or tons of of storage nodes and constantly displays and manages all the providers required for KumoScale software program operation. These management providers are containerized, and put in and managed by a personal Kubernetes “micro-cluster.”
- Multi-tenant Virtual Clusters servicing a number of compute clusters supporting Kubernetes, OpenStack, and/or bare-metal can eat storage concurrently from a single bodily KumoScale cluster. The KumoScale provisioner exposes a digital cluster to every compute cluster, sustaining isolation and storage quotas for every cluster whereas enabling the storage pool to realize excessive useful resource utilization.
- Third-party Application Hosting for Kubernetes Services allows KumoScale storage nodes to function a platform to host container-based storage interfaces, like file and object storage, that may reap the benefits of native NVMe efficiency. The KumoScale Management Cluster robotically installs and displays these further storage providers.
In parallel with the discharge of those new options, KIOXIA is providing a free two-week trial of KumoScale software program, hosted on KIOXIA cloud infrastructure. For extra data on how to enroll in the trial go to, go right here.
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