Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian

Accommodate your most capacity-intensive workloads with Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian software-defined storage. Get the scalable, S3-compatible storage you need for use cases such as big data, media archives, healthcare records, and video surveillance. Lenovo Object Storage provides intuitive management tools and built-in data protection that make it easy to manage and grow.

Figure 1. Scalable storage for hundreds of workloads. Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian

• Object Lock for Data Immutability

  Data Object Lock prevents object version deletion during a user-defined retention period. Immutable S3 objects are protected using object- or bucket-level configuration of WORM and retention attributes. The retention policy is defined using the S3 API or bucket-level defaults. Objects are locked for the duration of the retention period, and legal hold scenarios are also supported. This functionality provides data protection from accidental or malicious deletion as well as ransomware. Regulatory compliance with SEC Rule 17a-4(f), FINRA Rule 4511, CFTC Regulation 1.31 is validated in an independent assessment.

• Integrated Multi-Site Capability

  Extend your storage with the industry’s most flexible geo-distributed architecture. Replicate data across regions to provide local access and resilience in the event of a data center failure. Configurable consistency levels let you select either synchronous or asynchronous replication. Employ distributed erasure coding to stripe data across sites as a highly efficient disaster recovery option.

• Scalable Performance

  Process multiple requests in parallel, across all nodes in Cloudian’s shared-nothing cluster. This eliminates bottlenecks and allows performance to grow as you add nodes. Multi-part upload lets you transfer large files seamlessly between sites or to the public cloud.

• Security

  Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian supports KMIP standardized key management as a Server-Side Encryption (SSE) option. SSE supports AES-256 and FIPS-validated crypto-graphic modules, allowing enterprises and service providers to easily and securely encrypt data stored at rest. SSL encryption ensures data confidentiality for data in transit (HTTPS). And with S3-compatible ACLs, SAML, MFA, IAM, and secure trust policies, system administrators can better manage access to buckets and objects.

• Hybrid Storage Policies

  Objects are automatically assigned the most appropriate storage policy associated with the bucket; where smaller-size objects utilize a replica factor (RF) policy for optimal performance and larger objects utilize an erasure coding (EC) policy for best capacity efficiency.

• Multi-Tenancy

  Establish multiple user spaces with Cloudian’s multi-tenancy capabilities. Provide individual management domains and namespaces within a shared cluster. Cloudian offers QoS controls and billing features that let you manage bandwidth and chargebacks.

• Intuitive Management

  Manage Cloudian via the intuitive GUI or automate tasks using the RESTful API. Cluster management tasks are simple as well. Add or remove nodes and update system software without disruption.

• Variable-size Metadata Tags

  Record metadata along with user data to facilitate data management and data search. Elastic Search integration provides near real-time search capability. Variable metadata tag sizes give you flexibility not found in other object storage systems.

• GPUDirect
  NVIDIA GPUDirect with S3 RDMA provide the performance needed for demanding AI workloads while significantly reducing infrastructure costs.

Data Protection / Ransomware Protection

Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian makes the perfect storage target for popular data protection applications like Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, Veritas, and any others that support the S3 API. It lets you retain a familiar workflow while ensuring a predictable backup window and low RTO / RPO. The solution has the industry’s best implementation of S3-object lock for tamperproof data immutability, protecting customers’ data against the threat of ransomware. Customers get a robust Data Protection solution with scalable storage, high data durability, and fast recovery times at 70% of the cost of traditional storage solutions.

Figure 2. Data Protection

Data Lakehouse and Analytics

Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian is validated and certified with leading data analytics platforms including Greenplum, Teradata, Vertica, Apache Druid, Microsoft SQL Server 2022, Dremio, Splunk, Elastic, and Cribl.The solution allows customers to ‘Cloudify’ their analytics architecture, giving them the flexibility, elasticity, and scalability of cloud infrastructure while allowing for separation of compute and storage scalability to modernize data analytics architectures on-premises. With a robust data lakehouse solution within the security of your own firewall, customers can create data analytics solutions that comply with data privacy and residency and/or sovereignty regulations at a fraction of the total cost compared to traditional storage solutions.

Figure 3. Data Lake Analytics

Healthcare

Designed to meet the need for large, secure, highly resilient, and flexible storage infrastructure at a low cost, Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian comes HIPAA ready. It integrates with a host of healthcare application vendors as well as vendor neutral archive solutions and acts as a central storage repository for all health care data. The solution allows healthcare IT to consolidate storage and viewing and management of all content and medical images, assuring that clinical staff enjoys real-time access to a more complete view of the patient from anywhere and at any time.

Figure 4. Healthcare

Service Providers

Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian comes ready with industry leading multi-tenancy, QoS, Billing, Quotas, and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC), making it an ideal solution for service providers of all sizes. Revenue-ready use cases for service providers range from Storage as a Service (STaaS), Backup as a Service (BUaaS), Ransomware Protection as a Service (RPaaS), DR as a Service (DRaaS), MS O365 Backup as a Service, and many others. Scalability goes from one to thousands of nodes to support 100s of petabytes (PBs), with flexibility of storage access via the Amazon S3 Restful API.

Figure 5. Service Provider

When sizing and configuring hardware systems for Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian, it is part of best practices (and a requirement) to engage in a sizing exercise to assess the workflow and workload and determine what resources between the minimum and recommended values (or even above them) may be required. As a guideline, below are some of the recommended and minimum supported configurations for Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian. 

To make it easier, Lenovo and Cloudian have certified the following systems for Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian.

The following Solution IDs and attributes are as follows:

• SR650 V3 SID0000839
• SR635 V3SID0000840
• HS350X V3 Ready Node

SR650 V3 SID0000839

Figure 6. SR650 V3 Ready Node powered by Cloudian

The following are the attributes of SR650 V3 Ready Node:

• 2U rack server
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5418Y 24C 185W 2.0GHz
  • Memory: 256GB minimum, 384GB recommended
• Networking
  • ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 dual-port 25G, SFP28, PCIe4 x8
  • ThinkSystem Broadcom 57508 dual-port 100G, QSFP28, PCIe4 x16
  • Mellanox ConnextX-6 25Gb, SFP28
  • Mellanox ConnectX-6 100Gb QSFP28, PCIe4 x16
  • 10GBaseT options
• 2x 3.84TB NVMe / 2x 7.68TB NVMe
• Capacity:
  • 18x 18TB HDD; 324TB raw
  • 18x 20TB HDD; 360TB raw
  • 18x 22TB HDD; 396TB raw
• Best for:
  • HDD, mid-level capacity and performance workflows
  • Backup / Archives
  • Video surveillance
  • Media repository
  • Data lake

The following are the attributes of SR635 V3:

• 1U rack server
  • AMD EPYC 9354P 32C 280W 3.25GHz
  • Memory: 192GB minimum
• Networking
  • ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter
  • ThinkSystem NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NDR200/200GbE QSFP112 2-port PCIe Gen5 x16 Adapter
• Capacity:
  • 2x 7.68TB SSD & 8x 61.44TB SSD; 506TB raw
• Best for: Performance centric workloads
  • Data analytics
  • AI/ML
  • Data Lakehouse
  • Data Observability

HS350X V3 Ready Node

Figure 8. HS350X V3 Ready Node powered by Cloudian

The following are the attributes of HS350X V3 Ready Node:

• 2U rack server
  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6448Y (32 cores, 64 Threads total)
  • Memory: 256GB Minimum, 384GB Recommended, 512GB Maximum.
• Networking
  • ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 dual-port 25G, SFP28, PCIe 4.0 x8
  • ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 dual-port 25G, SFP28, OCP 3.0 Ethernet Adapter
  • ThinkSystem Broadcom 57508 dual-port 100G, QSFP28, OCP 3.0 Ethernet Adapter
  • Mellanox ConnectX-6 100GbE QSFP56 2-port OCP 3.0 Ethernet Adapter2x 3.84TB NVMe / 2x 7.68TB NVMe
• Metadata Options:
  • o 2x 3.84TB or 6.4TB 2.5” U.3 NVMe Drives
• Capacity:
  • 24x 16TB HDD; 384TB raw
  • 24x 18TB HDD; 432TB raw
  • 24x 20TB HDD; 480TB raw
  • 24x 22TB HDD; 528TB raw
• Best for: HDD, high-level capacity, and mid-performance workflows
  • Backup / Archives
  • Video surveillance
  • Media repository
  • Data lake

Click here to find the pre-configured, optimized server platforms for Lenovo's Object Storage powered by Cloudian. These provides flexible building blocks for unlimited growth ideal for large scale object workloads like backup, archive, and data lakes. It features Lenovo industry-leading reliability, XClarity management and end-to-end ThinkShield security.

Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian makes it easy to build fully featured, Amazon S3-compliant cloud storage, on-premises. Available as either Software Defined Storage on the DCSC, or as either way, Lenovo Object Storage powered by Cloudian ensures unlimited scale, multi-datacenter storage, fully automated data tiering, and support for all S3 applications—all behind your firewall. It combines robust availability with system management control, monitoring capabilities and reporting.

A host of features, including hybrid cloud streaming, virtual nodes, configurable erasure coding, and data compression and encryption sets it apart with highly efficient storage and seamless data management that lets users store and access their data where they want it, when they want it.

Built on a robust object storage platform for effortless data sharing, cloud service providers around the world use Lenovo Object Storage to deploy and manage storage for both public and private clouds, while enterprises rely on it to store their backups, media and entertainment data, medical images and for 24-hour video surveillance data both in their private and hybrid clouds.

To learn more about Lenovo Object Storage Powered by Cloudian solutions, please visit our Data Management solutions web page. More details on the Cloudian Object Storage can be found at cloudian.com. You can also contact your Lenovo sales representative or authorized channel partner starting with an email to lenovo@cloudian.com