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Our Open Source Solutions
Open-source software inspires trust because of the possibility to examine the code in complete detail. When the software is carefully selected and combined with solid industrial-grade hardware, you end up with powerful and stable solutions.
In their search for ingenious and cost-effective solutions, our engineers often come across particularly successful variants of open source software, that are quite distinguishable from the established server and storage paths. Our in-house technicians then use this software to build professional, stable and fast solutions for our customers. After all, open source does not receive any advance credit from us either, but must provide reliable service at all times.
We are happy to presentan overview of open-source solutions here.
Starline promotes open source because it is:
- Reliable
- Scalable
- Cost-effective
- Performant
- Flexible
Automated Storage Server: TrueNAS Core
Refined open source solution with commercial enhancement
Our solution designers have created an affordable network storage solution for different load scenarios based on TrueNAS Core® (formerly called FreeNAS). These sophisticated TrueNAS servers lack nothing in professional terms. The powerful OpenZFS file system already includes RAIDZ protection for the drives. Replication, scrubs, and snapshots provide extra layers of protection for your data. Moreover, this platform-independent design allows access across all common protocols. For example, TrueNAS Core® handles SMB/CIFS, NFS, AFP, iSCSI and WebDAV. On request, we also deliver the storage servers with an excellent backup option via Archiware P5 for backup to disk, tape, and the cloud.
Ceph on enterprise x86 hardware: PetaSAN
Open source multi-protocol cluster with multi-site redundancy
With PetaSAN, our specialists have found an open-source software that can be used to build infinitely-scalable Software Defined Storage clusters. This scale-out SAN solution makes storage available at the object, block, and file levels – across a distributed and highly robust cluster. PetaSAN provides an easy-to-manage scalable storage and operates with high fault-tolerance through multi-site replication, while being self-healing and near self-managing. PetaSAN shines at iSCSI performance, but it does not shy away from the competition either when it comes to CIFS, NFS, and S3.
Freely virtualized and open for everything: Proxmox VE
Best open source components united under one interface
As an open-source solution for enterprise virtualisation, Proxmox VE handles both KVM hypervisors and LXC containers. It also provides software-defined storage and networking functionality integrated into a single platform. Proxmox allows you to manage your virtual machines, containers, storages, virtual networks and high-availability clusters from within a central management interface.
Ceph Cluster with Ambedded Mars 400 Appliance
Modular open source cluster
Ambedded has been known as a leading provider of ARM-based Ceph storage solutions since 2016. Their engineers have designed the award-winning microserver-based Mars Series specifically for Ceph focusing on breaking the chain of failures that can occur due to the failure of a single server node or component. Such a failure can ultimately lead to a mass data recovery situation on a production cluster with its attendant performance issues. The architecture of the Mars 400 series effectively protects against such a situation. As another bonus, the Ambedded is quite frugal when it comes to power consumption, making it a perfect solution for S3, cold storage, and backup clusters.
Ceph cluster tested in NTT data center
Case study: Open source in continuous use
The experts at NTT’s data center (Global Data Centers EMEA, a division of NTT Ltd.) were able to convince themselves of the performance of a PetaSAN cluster: In their Technology Experience Labs, a Starline installation consisting of Areca RAID cards in pass-thru mode coupled with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) 10 GbE adapters from Cavium is running. This PetaSAN implementation provides 220 TB of highly available clustered iSCSI disks there thanks to Toshiba’s large 10 TB enterprise disks. The resulting multipath disks are addressed via virtual IP addresses on the one hand and provide fast I/O with link redundancy on the other.
