Webinar recording of the Ceph-based Cluster-in-a-Box solution from February 2022.

Building a large scalable enterprise storage using Ambedded Ceph software defined Mars solution

Ambedded made a splash in the Ceph world at the time when they managed to fit eight independent nodes into a 1U server chassis. This is because each node works with its own power-saving ARM processor, its own hard drive and an additional M.2 SSD for journaling. The highlight: The administrator can declare each of these nodes or micro servers either as a storage node or as a monitor node.

This flexibility brings unimagined advantages, because even with three 1U servers, a complete HA clustercan be set up that keeps its data secure via erasure coding. But that’s not all: Thanks to the Unified Virtual Storage Manager (UVS 2.0) developed by Ambedded, users can set up this variability conveniently via GUI and with just a few clicks.

By the way, an Ambedded HA cluster – consisting of three Mars 400 servers – requires a total of less than 400 watts of power with 21 high-capacity hard disks, 24 SSDs, 24 processors on only three U.

Mars 400 is ideal for:

• Big data analysis and machine learning
• Hadoop applications for the telecommunications and energy industries
• Cloud Storage Service, Backend Storage for OpenStack & Kubernetes
• Edge data center for IoT applications such as sensor data aggregation
• Data backup e.g. with Veeam
• Database as a Service