Ceph Storage Software Appliance

UniVirStor

The UniVirStor is a Unified Virtual Storage Manager (UVS manager) that enables rapid Ceph cluster deployment and configuration, making it possible to have a production-ready Ceph cluster in just one day. It streamlines daily cluster operations, ensuring that management and maintenance are effortless, and provides comprehensive monitoring through integrated dashboards like Ceph Dashboard, UVS dashboard, and Grafana. Additionally, it offers a complete solution for software upgrades, including kernel, OS, Ceph version, and GUI management, ensuring your storage environment remains up-to-date and fully optimized.

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Hardware Requirements

Can be installed on any x86 (Intel, AMD) and Arm64 architecture servers. No need for RAID controllers or proprietary hardware, no vendor lock-in.

Clusters multiple servers through TCP/IP network.

Requires only standard Ethernet switches, reducing network equipment costs.

Features

Full stack software	Includes Linux OS, Ceph storage software, and UniVirStor Manager interface. Only an ISO image installation is needed. Deployment and technical support services are available.
Distributed Storage	Utilizes multiple hosts to form a cluster, providing cross-host data protection to ensure no data loss or service interruption if one or two hosts or hard drives fail.
Data Protection Algorithms (Fig.1)	Uses replication and erasure coding algorithms. Different storage pools with various protection modes can be created in the same cluster system based on usage scenarios.
Scalability	Easily add or reduce hosts and disks on demand, increasing overall system performance as capacity expands.
Support for Large Capacities	Supports storage from tens of Terabytes to hundreds of Petabytes.
Versatile Device Usage	Supports deploying mixed all-flash NVMe, SATA/SAS hard drives, and Hybrid Cache Tier. The system automatically distinguishes device classes, facilitating the creation of storage pools with different performance characteristics.
Disk Mixing	Can mix disks of different sizes and distribute workloads based on disk capacity to balance usage percentages.
Virtualization Platform	Seamlessly integrate with leading virtualization platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, CloudStack, Proxmox, VMWare, and HyperV through various interfaces. These interfaces include libraries, CSI, API, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, and SMB.
Client OS	Linux, Windows, and VMWare.
Self-Healing	Maintains storage system service during disk or host failures by utilizing healthy hosts and disks in the cluster to reheal degrade data and restore it to a healthy state.
Encryption Support	Supports hard drive encryption, encryption of data packets between hosts, and server-side encryption, preventing data breaches during transmission or in the event of disk theft.
Automated Data Scrub	Regular background data scrubs ensure data integrity. The frequency, period, and maximum parallel check threads are adjustable.
Data Compression	Supports snappy, zlib, and zstd compression algorithms. A minimum compression ratio can be set, only compressing files that exceed this ratio.
Provisioning	Supports both Thin and Thick Provisioning.
Diverse Storage Applications	Block Storage: iSCSI, NVMeoF, Linux Block Shared File Systems: NFS, SMB, Linux POSIX Object Storage: Amazon S3, MinIO, and OpenStack Swift

Fig.1 : ceph pool management

Block (Virtual Disk RBD) Storage

Auto Snapshot (Fig.2)	You can set periodic automatic snapshots block images and the maximum number of snapshots retained. If a file is mistakenly deleted or maliciously encrypted, the snapshot rollback function can restore the image content.
QoS	Sets read/write IOPS and throughput for each virtual disk to prevent any client application from occupying excessive performance and affecting other clients.
Asynchronous Mirroring (Fig.3)	Deploys clusters at two or more locations, periodically backing up each other using scheduled snapshots, serving as disaster recovery. If one data center experiences an outage or disaster, simply promote the secondary site via the Web UI with one click to immediately restore service without needing a backup data restore.
Block Device Encryption	Users can format virtual disks with encryption formats like LUKS-1 and LUKS-2. Once encrypted, all upper-layer file system or iSCSI written data is encrypted.
Persistent Cache	Uses NVMe or SATA SSDs on client servers as cache for the virtual disk, providing secure and reliable cache acceleration. Supports read-only and write-back modes.

Fig.2 : Auto snapshot for RBD

Fig.3 : RBD mirroring for different location cluster

NAS File System

Multiple NAS Creation	Can create multiple independent NAS.
Asynchronous Mirroring	Deploy clusters at multiple locations, mirroring directory changes to the remote cluster for backup. Each directory can independently set periodic automatic snapshots and the maximum number of snapshots retained. The snapshot restore function can recover any directory content if a file is mistakenly deleted or maliciously encrypted.

Object Storage

Amazon S3 and Swift Compatible API
Supports HTTPS and Object Encryption
Machine Learning	Supports S3 select, accelerating machine learning data analysis.
Object Locking (Write Once Read Many)	Prevents malicious data encryption and tampering.
Object Versioning	Retains multiple versions of each object in an enabled versioning bucket. Users can store, retrieve,and restore each version of objects stored in the bucket. This helps recover from accidental deletions or overwrites.

Backup Software Compatible

Compatible with Veeam, Commvault, Nakivo, Bareos, and other backup software for backup storage.

Management Interface

Web UI and CLI Management:

Provides quick deployment, automated processes, monitoring, and email alerts.

Built-in Grafana Dashboard

Web UI Function List

Category	Feature
Dashboard (Fig.4)	Cluster health status, error messages, traffic, IOPS, disk status, service status, used capacity, object count, data repair status
Cluster & Host Management (Fig.5)	Cluster creation, host management, disk panel editor, disk status, adding/removing hosts, adding/removing working disks (OSD), cluster storage pool and disk usage
Service Management	Adding Monitor, OSD status, adding/removing
Storage Pool Management (Fig.1)	Creating storage pools, storage list, editing storage pools, deleting storage pools, creating Cache Tier
Erasure Code Profile	Creating and managing erasure code rules
Cluster Map Management	Creating cluster architecture diagrams, creating data distribution rules, editing architecture hierarchy names, moving host locations
File System	Creating file systems, metadata server management
Object Storage	Creating object storage gateways (Fig.6), creating multi-site synchronization (Fig.7), storage pool management, user and key management
Block Storage	Creating/deleting/editing virtual disks, creating snapshots, snapshot scheduling, creating and managing virtual disk mirroring, managing mirroring intervals, iSCSI gateway management, LUN management
System Settings	Software updates(Fig.8), time server creation and synchronization, log viewing, user account management, Prometheus deployment (Fig.9), abnormal event notification settings (Fig.10)

Fig.4 : Cluster Dashboard on UVS manager

Fig.5 : Cluster host management

Fig.6 : Create RGW (Rados gateway) for object storage

Fig.7 : Create RGW multi-sites sync

Fig.8 : Software upgrade with UVS manager

Fig.9 : Prometheus deployment on UVS manager

Fig.10 : Notification setting

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