Open vStorage is an open-source, scale-out, reliable, high performance, software based storage platform which offers a block & file interface on top of a pool of drives.
The key features of Open vStorage are:
- Performance, Performance, Performance: 50,000,000 IOPS per rack
- Low Latency: sub 0.5 mSec Latency
- Efficiency: unique NC-ECC technology uses only 1.3x storage and yet is 10x more reliable than 3x replication
- Ultra Reliable & Clustered: tunable from 99.9 to 99.999+% availability
- True Scale Out: up to 1,024 hosts and 30 PB per cluster
- The Lowest TCO in the Market: scale-out object storage economics for ALL your applications
Open vStorage is licensed under the AGPLv3 License.
In order to fully understand the open vStorage documentation, it is essential that some items are explained in detail so everyone is on the same page.
- Concepts: Important Open vStorage concepts.
- Architecture: The architecture of Open vStorage.
- Cluster Topology: The topology of an Open vStorage cluster across datacenters.