View a 12 minute video demo of Pivot3 High-Definition Storage™ configuration and operation. Filmed live at US Maritime Expo in November, 2007.
Pivot3 Serverless Computing is an enhancement to Pivot3's award-winning RAIGE storage architecture where computer resources are consolidated into the Pivot3 storage hardware platform for dramatic reductions in power, cooling, rack space and cost. The product integrates server and storage virtualization technologies to deliver consolidation benefits to customers that might not ordinarily consolidate servers.
Pivot3 RAIGE software aggregates the capacity and performance of the Cloudbank appliances, presents a single logical management view, supports dynamic expansion of the array and protects against any hardware failures.
Each Cloudbank has the capability to run Windows and one application in addition to the Pivot3 RAIGE software. This allows each Cloudbank to contribute both compute and storage resources to the array.
| Usable RAID5 Capacity (in TB)* | Bandwidth |
| ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 GB | 750 GB | 1 TB | MB/sec | ||
| 1 | 3.6 | 5.4 | 7.2 | 200 | 1 |
| 2 | 7.2 | 10.7 | 14.3 | 400 | 2 |
| 3 | 11.4 | 17.1 | 22.8 | 600 | 3 |
| 4 | 17.4 | 26.1 | 34.8 | 800 | 4 |
| 5 | 23.4 | 35.1 | 46.9 | 1,000 | 5 |
| 6 | 29.4 | 44.1 | 58.8 | 1,200 | 6 |
| 7 | 35.3 | 53.1 | 70.8 | 1,400 | 7 |
| 8 | 41.3 | 62.1 | 82.8 | 1,600 | 8 |
Up to 8 embedded servers connected per Array
Cloudbanks contain 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 Cloudbanks in each array. All volumes can be dynamically resized and can be assigned a rebuild priority
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
Windows Server 2003, SP2, Embedded, 32 bit
Standard layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switch
2 dedicated switches required for storage fault tolerance
Sufficient switch ports for 2 ports per Cloudbank
Thermal rating:
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