Tacyon® Storage & HCI

Storage Systems for Small & Medium Businesses with Enterprise Features

Tacyon Storage Systems represent modular, high-performance, high-availability SAN environments, with rich feature sets. Tacyon Systems provide cost-effective storage clusters with enhanced automatic failover technologies. Due to the software-defined architecture, Tacyon Storage Systems are also used to build Storage-Server-Clusters for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) scenarios.

Powered by Open-E JovianDSS, Tacyon^®Jovian incorporates advantages from both the Linux kernel and ZFS file system to provide you with a unique mix of data storage benefits, as follows:

Robust & performant Hardware with Linux O/S
128-bit ZFS file system
Pooled storage model
Multi-protocol: iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FC), NFS, SMB (CIFS), Virtual IPs

Extreme scalability with storage expansion during production
Giant file and volume sizes
Arbitrary many Snapshots and Clones
Certified for any Virtualization (Hypervisor-agnostic)

Data Acceleration

With Tacyon^®Jovian you can take full advantage of your data storage appliances' performance thanks to:

Acceleration of random writes with Write Log (ZIL)
Hybrid Read Cache with the first level in RAM (ARC -Adaptive Replacement Cache) and second Read Cache level on an SSD or NVMe (L2ARC)
High cache hit rate by using ARC's most recently used (MRU) and most frequently used (MFU) Read Cache algorithms
Data resilvering of used space only
ZFS Special Devices used to store specific types of data, such as metadata or small file blocks, on dedicated high-performance data storage devices like SSDs or NVMes

Data Integrity and Protection

Protection against data loss is a key challenge these days and Tacyon^®Jovian is the core of your infrastructure's security thanks to:

Data and metadata check-summing
Self-healing to detect and correct silent data errors with Scrub utility
Atomic Transaction Writes to keep data consistent
Transactional copy-on-write I/O operations that eliminate silent data corruption and data fragmentation
Storing multiple copies of user data

Data Optimization

You will have the ability to save data storage space with the following Tacyon^®Jovian features:

On-line Compression (LZ4, LZJB, ZLE, GZIP 1..9)
On-line Deduplication
Thick, Thin and Over-Provisioning
Lightweight snapshots and clones taking up space once changes are made only
NVMe Partitioning

User Authentication & System Monitoring

Tacyon^®Jovian enables access to both internal and external administration tools like:

User Authentication through Local LDAP users and groups authentication for SMB/CIFS protocol, as well as through external active domain server
Open-E JovianDSS System Monitoring with SNMP, Nagios or Checkmk, as well as general GUI statistics

Tacyon SX features

Multilevel Cache Technology

CISC Cache, RISC Cache and SSD Cache provide excellent performance

Wide Range Data Replication

Data Replication for NAS volumes is supported for long distances to save user data to an additional location redundantly

Highly Effective Capacity Utilization

After building the RAID sets, almost 100% of the net capacity can be used for storing user data

Additional Features

Monitoring

Tacyon® SX monitoring provides a multilevel notification system supporting Email as well as SNMP. Hardware based sensors are working in every operation mode also at offline systems.

Substantial Expandability

Featuring a highly modular design, the Tacyon® SX-4 retains the prospect of expanding at any given point in time and at any rate desired. This facilitates the company to upgrade the Tacyon®SX according to their budget in a timely fashion exactly when needed.

Active/Active*

Two nodes located in the storage cluster can be used active/active and written to simultaneously and ensure maximum availability, even in case of failure of one side for SAN services.

Multi-Tier Investment Protection

Existing hardware, even from different manufacturers, can continue to be used, platforms can also be used in Tacyon® or PlatinStor® next generation systems. A modular design allows a simple expansion at any given time.

Outstanding Data Integrity

Each Tacyon cluster contains two nodes. Each node provides its own storage devices, data integrity is ensured even if one site is totally unavailable.

True Synchronous Mirroring

Each block being confirmed by Tacyon, is guaranteed to exist on both nodes, data loss due to failure of one side is therefore controlled optimally.

Flexible Connectivity

All popular media for iSCSI/Ethernet are supported, including iSCSI over 1GBE, 10GBE, 40GBE copper and optical (RJ-45) / SFP+ as well as 8GBit and 16GBit FC.

Enhanced Maintenance

The Tacyon LX Management Console is designed to be used locally or remotely over internet. Multilevel rights management increases security and flexibility as well as making overall management easier.

Storage Systems for Small & Medium Businesses with Enterprise Features