Alibaba Cloud provides high-performance, highly scalable, and reliable SDS distributed storage by integrating distributed storage technology with best practices from public cloud deployment and O&M. This service helps you reduce costs, accelerate service launches, and easily build hybrid cloud storage.
Benefits
Flexible, agile, and elastic scale-out
You can start with three nodes and scale out by adding more nodes for linear growth in capacity and performance.
Provides petabyte-scale data storage capacity that is scalable up to the exabyte level.
Integrates hybrid cloud features for seamless data migration to the cloud.
Stable and reliable for continuous business operations
Comprehensive data protection and reliability designs ensure data security.
Guarantees strong data consistency.
Software-defined storage features reduce O&M difficulty and costs.
Worry-free and easy to build an enterprise storage cloud
The one-stop delivery model lets you quickly build a data center.
The service is built on standard x86 or ARM servers.
Provides full data lifecycle services to support your business growth.
Product specifications
Product specifications | 2U standard | 4U storage-optimized |
CPU | Two Intel® Xeon® 16-core 2.4 GHz processors | |
Memory | 128 GB or 256 GB | |
Network interface | Gigabit, 10 Gigabit, or 25G Ethernet interface | |
Scalability | 3 to 4,096 nodes | |
System disk | Two 480 GB SATA SSDs (DWPD ≥ 3) | |
Cache disk | Two, three, or four 3.84 TB NVMe U.2 drives (2 TB usable, DWPD ≥ 3) | |
Data disk | ● Twelve 8 TB, 12 TB, or 16 TB HDD disks | ● Thirty-two 8 TB, 12 TB, or 16 TB HDD disks ● Thirty-six 8 TB, 12 TB, or 16 TB HDD disks |
RAID card | Independent RAID card. Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10. Passthrough mode. | |
Protocol support | iSCSI, RBD, FC, OSS, S3, NFS, CIFS, FTP | |
Data redundancy protection | ● Supports multiple replicas, such as dual replicas or triplicates. ● Supports N+M erasure coding (EC), where K=2^n (n ≤ 6 is recommended) and M ≥ 1. | |
Datasheet
For more information, see SDS Distributed Storage Datasheet.
Technical Whitepapers
For more information, see SDS Distributed Storage Technical Whitepaper.