DataON Kepler K3N switchless hyper-converged solutions for SMB, ROBO, and edge deployments

 

Ideal for small/medium businesses (SMB), remote office/branch office (ROBO), and edge deployments, DataON Kepler three node (K3N) switchless hyper-converged solutions simplify storage networking environments and reduce cost with direct-attached connectivity, eliminating the need for storage network switches. They can be optimized for high performance with all-NVMe storage or balanced capacity and storage with flexible hybrid NVMe cache and SSD/HDD storage. With better resiliency than Kepler K2N solutions, customers find these switchless hyper-converged infrastructures essential in cost-sensitive environments or multiple ROBO and edge deployments that require three-way mirror fault tolerance.
DataON Kepler switchless solutions are hybrid cloud-ready with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

 

DataON Kepler switchless solutions are validated for Azure Stack HCI, blending Windows Server technologies with new Azure management service integration for hybrid cloud innovation. It helps customer replace aging servers and storage without lengthy design and build times and features based of the same Hyper-V-based software-defined compute, storage, and networking as Azure Stack. Built-in integration with Azure makes it easy for IT staff to start using Azure for cloud management and security services, including Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, and a cloud witness. This can help organizations save on disaster and recovery solutions and provide another layer of resiliency for SMB, ROBO, and edge deployments.

 

 

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How they work

 

DataON Kepler K3N switchless solutions for Azure Stack HCI provide data resiliency by spreading copies of the volumes quickly across multiple nodes whether performing reads or writes, repairs or optimizing data and easily connect directly from node to node via one or two dual-port 25/40/100 GbE RDMA adapters on each node. Without the complexity of switch networking, this full mesh interconnect means less management and risk that switch failures or reboots might cause an interruption to the interconnect network traffic with relatively little difference in performance.
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DataON Kepler switchless solutions are hybrid cloud-ready with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

 

DataON Kepler switchless solutions are validated for Azure Stack HCI, blending Windows Server technologies with new Azure management service integration for hybrid cloud innovation. It helps customer replace aging servers and storage without lengthy design and build times and features based of the same Hyper-V-based software-defined compute, storage, and networking as Azure Stack. Built-in integration with Azure makes it easy for IT staff to start using Azure for cloud management and security services, including Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, and a cloud witness. This can help organizations save on disaster and recovery solutions and provide another layer of resiliency for SMB, ROBO, and edge deployments.

 

 

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DataON Kepler K3N switchless solutions deliver:

 

  • Support for three-way mirroring for better fault tolerance, nested resiliency and simplified deployments
  • Affordability and cost savings for meeting tight budgets, especially with multiple ROBO deployments that previously required the purchase of switches for each location
  • Small physical footprint for deployments where there is limited space to house data center equipment or if the data center needs to be portable for temporary deployments
  • The ability to monitor and send real-time alerts to a system admin via DataON MUST within Windows Admin Center
  • Seamless hybrid cloud integration with Azure cloud services for offsite backup, site recovery, file synchronization, and cloud-based monitoring
  • Industry-standard hardware for simplified driver stacks and immediate access to new technologies without the costly OEM taxes for upgrades and replacement parts
  • All-flash and hybrid Intel® Select Solutions powered by 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with native support for Intel® Optane™ SSDs, and 20/40/100GbE RDMA SMB3 networking
  • Outstanding scalability up to sixteen nodes with up to 4PB per cluster (switch required)
DataON Kepler switchless solutions make it easy to scale from two to three nodes without updating networking infrastructure

 

A key strategic advantage to DataON Kepler switchless solutions is scalability and ease of deployment. Organizations that purchase a DataON Kepler K2N solution can easily add an additional node when planning to scale out. An administrator can create new three-way mirror volumes and safely migrate the data from the older two-way mirror-configured volumes in a simple and quick process. DataON Kepler solutions can scale even further up to sixteen nodes with a switch fabric.
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Manage and Monitor with DataON MUST and Windows Admin Center

 

DataON Kepler switchless solutions include DataON MUST, a management utility software tool that provides a high level of infrastructure visibility, monitoring, and management for Windows Server-based hyper-converged systems, networking and storage. Built to support Microsoft’s suite of software-defined storage technologies, including Storage Spaces Direct, Storage Replica and Storage Quality-of-Service (QoS), MUST simplifies data center management and helps enterprise customers transition from traditional SANs to a Windows Server-based hyper-converged infrastructure

 

As a native extension for Windows Admin Center, MUST provides end-to-end HCI monitoring and management capabilities from a single pane of glass. MUST adds to the Windows Admin Center experience by adding capabilities such as historic data reporting, enhanced disk mapping, system alerts, call home services, and a diagnostic deployment tool with Azure Cloud intregration.

 

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