View a 12 minute video demo of Pivot3 High-Definition Storage™ configuration and operation. Filmed live at US Maritime Expo in November, 2007.
High-Definition Storage is a collection of Databank appliances connected with standard Gigabit Ethernet connections where each Databank runs the RAIGE Storage Software. Databanks are automatically discovered on the Ethernet network and assigned to virtual RAIGE Arrays of up to eight Databanks.
The RAIGE software aggregates the capacity and performance of the Databank appliances, presents a single logical management view, supports dynamic expansion of the array and protects against any hardware failures.
RAIGE HyperPath leverages standard multipath software in Microsoft or Linux environments to provide connection fault tolerance and bandwidth aggregation.
| Usable RAID5 Capacity (in TB)* | Bandwidth |
| ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 GB | 750 GB | 1 TB | MB/sec | ||
| 1 | 3.6 | 5.4 | 7.2 | 200 | Disk |
| 2 | 7.2 | 10.7 | 14.3 | 400 | Disk |
| 3 | 11.4 | 17.1 | 22.8 | 600 | Disk & Appliance |
| 4 | 17.4 | 26.1 | 34.8 | 800 | Disk & Appliance |
| 5 | 23.4 | 35.1 | 46.9 | 1,000 | Disk & Appliance |
| 6 | 29.4 | 44.1 | 58.8 | 1,200 | Disk & Appliance |
| 7 | 35.3 | 53.1 | 70.8 | 1,400 | Disk & Appliance |
| 8 | 41.3 | 62.1 | 82.8 | 1,600 | Disk & Appliance |
Up to 128 servers connected per Array
Databanks contains 12 Enterprise SATA drives of 500GB, 750GB, or 1 TB capacity
Up to 128 Volumes per Array
RAID Levels 0, 1, and 5e can be dynamically selected. RAID 5e protects against a drive failure or a complete appliance failure and all of its 12 drives
One or more non-dedicated RAIGE Director Management Station
Up to 8 Databanks in each array. All volumes can be dynamically resized and can be assigned a rebuild priority
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32 bit or 64 bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4, Update 4
CentOS 4.4
RAIGE Director manages the RAIGE Array and runs on any x86 desktop or server with an IP connection to the RAIGE Array. RAIGE Director is available in both a graphical user interface and CLI version.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows XP Pro with SP-2
512MB RAM
Display size of at least 1024 x 768
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows XP Pro with SP-2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4, Update 4
CentOS 4.4
Storage Connection: 2 x Gigabit Ethernet connections in addition to standard network connectivity
Standard Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switch
2 dedicated switches required for storage fault tolerance
Sufficient switch ports for 2 ports per Databank
Thermal rating:
# Databanks
Data Protection