SFA10K-E™

Embedded File System

Eliminating complex storage gateways, IO is streamlined, reducing latency and protocol conversions

Consolidate Powerfully

Provides 10:1 or greater reduction in managed systems, collapsing network, storage & compute resources to reduce TCO and complexity

Ready to Deploy

Arrives at your door as a fully configured appliance, performance tuned and optimized to simplify setup and deployment

Performance Scaling Made Simple

Start small and non-disruptively add appliances as application requirements continue to grow

Industry Leading Performance & Capacity

Significantly reduces capital and operational expenses with fewer systems to purchase and manage

Unified Virtual Server & Storage Appliance

Revolutionizing the way data centers architect their IT infrastructure, the SFA10K-E is the next leap forward. By removing the physical layer and latencies created between servers and storage, now everything is accelerated. Applications and their data can share the same memory space driving more performance, productivity and cost savings for your organization. This is the forefront of storage evolution.

The "E" is for embedded, which enables latency sensitive applications to live right inside of the world's fastest and most scalable storage appliance, eliminating several protocol layers and the need for an external server. Now you can truly do more with less.

The SFA10K-E is purpose-built to simplify and tame big data growth, enabling you to architect and scale your environment more intelligently, efficiently and cost effectively than ever before.

Unified Virtual Server & Storage Appliance

DDN's legendary innovation is once again driving storage evolution. The
SFA10K-E is the first appliance of its kind to provide both virtualized server and high availability storage resources in a single, consolidated platform. This intelligent architecture eliminates the cost, power, cooling, and rack space of physical servers and failover hardware while reducing latencies, improving availability and simplifying management for capacity rich and I/O intensive workloads.

Breaking the cost and performance barriers of traditional architectures, the SFA10K-E ushers in a new era of technical possibilities, cost-efficiencies and opportunities for your organization to accelerate ahead of the competition. By removing the storage bottleneck, now you can achieve significantly higher levels of performance from compute clusters, enabling you to finish jobs quicker. Operational costs will shrink, as you reduce the amount of external servers, switches and less efficient storage to house, power, manage and maintain.

Embedding high performance, latency sensitive right inside the storage appliance enables all transactions to occur in memory - the fastest speed possible. Today, DDN offers our EXAScaler™ and GRIDScaler™ turn-key file storage solutions with the file system embedded and pre-configured inside the SFA10K-E to streamline deployment and configuration. DDN supports OEM application solutions development for the SFA10K-E in areas such as data protection, scale-out NAS, surveillance, rich media, hosting environments, high performance computing and others. Our Application Lab works with OEM partners to ensure interoperability and characterize performance providing a storage-centric application platform alternative.

Unified Virtual Server & Storage Appliance

  • Industry Leading Performance & Capacity

    Significantly reduces capital and operational expenses with fewer systems to purchase and manage

  • Industry Leading Density

    Reclaim valuable floor space, reduce power and cooling costs 60 Drives/4U enclosure; 1.8PB/Rack

  • Supports the Most Drives

    Up to 1,200 disk drives in a single storage system for simple, cost-effective scalability

  • Enterprise-class SATA Data Protection

    Makes large SATA pools with high duty-cycles reliable at half the price of SAS or FC drives

  • Reduces Energy Consumption

    By 50% eliminating unnecessary storage enclosures, switches, fans and power supplies

  • Largest Scalable Storage Building Block

    Block Reduce management cost, complexity and risk

  • Scales Incrementally

    Add as few as 5 disk drives at a time

  • Multi-Threaded Storage Processing

    For today's multi-core, multi-application world

  • Balanced Storage Performance

    For both highly transactional and high-bandwidth applications

  • ReACT™ Intelligent Cache Management

    Analyzes & optimizes I/O traffic in real time to write large file sequential data directly to disk and preserve valuable cache for random IO transactions

  • Single System Multi-Tiered Storage

    Intermix SAS, SATA and SSD drives in the same enclosure

  • SATAssureTM Real-Time Error Detection & Correction

    Increases data resiliency and reliability with no performance impact

  • Highly Available N+! Architecture

    With no single point of failure

  • Journaled Drive Rebuilds

    Reduces rebuild times by only requiring new/changed blocks to be written to recoverable drives

In just two racks, a single system scales to:

  • • 1,200 Drives
  • • 6GB/s

Aggregate multiple systems and scale beyond:

  • • Dozens of PBs
  • • 300+GB/s

Simple to Scale

According to IDC, data is poised to grow 40x over the next 10 years. How will you stay ahead of the demand?

Deploying SFA10K-E means the fewest number of systems to buy, support, power and manage as you scale your environment to multiple petabytes.

Highly flexible, the SFA10K-E supports multiple RAID levels and configurations. Start as small as 5 enclosures. A single SFA10K-E scales to 1,200 drives in just 2 racks and additional systems can be added to efficiently manage dozens of petabytes.

SFA10K-E EXAScaler™ Appliance

Client Access
  • Native Linux Clients
Client Connectivity
  • 16 x 10GbE Host Ports or
    16 x 40Gb IB Host Ports
  • Support for InfiniBand RDMA I/O
  • Client Side Load Balancing and Failover
  • Many to one and one to many client to gateway access
  • Up to 20,000 Native Clients
Scalability
  • Up to 400TB usable capacity per SFA10K-E Appliance
  • Aggregate multiple Appliances in one File System
    up to 10's of Petabytes
Performance
  • 6GB/s per SFA10K-E System (read & write)
  • Aggregated Performance up to 200GB/sec 100,000s
    of File Operations/sec
Scale-Out Configuration
  • Add additional SFA10K-E systems to the network for automatic storage and performance scaling
Data Protection
  • Fully Fault Tolerant, Highly Available system with zero single points of failure
  • Data: RAID 6 (8+2)
  • Metadata: Active/Passive Server
  • SATAssureTM Data Integrity
Data Management
  • Online File System Growth
  • Object-Based File Locking
  • Monitoring and Event Notification System
 

SFA10K-E GRIDScaler™ Appliance

Client Access
  • Native Linux and Windows Clients
  • Highly Available NFS v3
Client Connectivity
  • 16 x 10GbE Host Port or
  • 16 x 40Gb Infiniband Host Port
  • Support for InfiniBand RDMA I/O
  • Client to Gateway Load Balancing
  • Many to One, and One to Many Client to
  • Gateway Access
Volume Scalability
  • 600TB usable in the 5 enclosure system (300 drives)
  • 1.2PB usable in the 10 enclosure system (600 drives)
  • Over 10PB+ of Aggregated Capacity
Performance
  • 6GB/s per SFA10K-E System (read & write)
  • Aggregated Performance up to 200GB/sec 100,000s
    of File Operations/sec
Scale-Out Configuration
  • Add additional SFA10K-E systems to the network for
    automatic storage scaling
Data Protection
  • Data: RAID 6 (8+2)
  • Metadata: RAID 60
  • 256 Snapshots per file system
  • SATAssureTM Data Integrity
  • Synchronous File System Replication
Data Management
  • Online File System Growth
  • Object-Based File Locking
  • Monitoring and Event Notification System

SFA Storage Systems are available through a variety of channels:

  • Direct

    DDN's Worldwide Presales Team of Account Managers and Systems Engineers will assess your business objectives and technical requirements and prescribe the right size storage to fit your needs and budget.

  • OEM System Providers

    The world's largest technology companies provide SFA Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

  • Resellers and Integrators

    Specialized VARs and System Integrators provide SFA Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

    Contact sales@ddn.com and we will work with you to understand your needs and determine the best source.

  • Contact DDN Sales

    Email: sales@ddn.com
    Toll-Free: 1.800.TERABYTE
    Global Sales