Sangfor aStor - High-Performance, Low-TCO Unified Storage Solution
Sangfor aStor leverages software-defined technology to unify multiple storage types—block, file, and object storage—into a single resource pool for seamless expansion and efficient allocation. Its fully symmetrical distributed architecture enables flexible resource management, allowing businesses to optimize storage based on performance, cost, and capacity requirements.
Available as a fully integrated hardware-software solution or a standalone software deployment, Sangfor aStor adapts to diverse IT environments. It scales from just three x86 server nodes, providing an efficient and cost-effective approach to managing storage while ensuring future scalability.
Software Defined Storage System Architecture
Sangfor aStor Value Proposition
Distributed Architecture for Flexible Expansion
Sangfor aStor utilizes a software-defined distributed architecture, enabling seamless scalability and dynamic expansion. When storage capacity or performance needs increase, additional resources can be provisioned on demand without requiring upfront full-capacity planning. This ensures efficient resource utilization and future-proof scalability for evolving business needs.
Distributed Architecture with Parallel Processing for High Performance
Sangfor aStor leverages a software-defined distributed architecture to deliver exceptional throughput bandwidth and IOPS performance. By utilizing multi-node parallel processing for data I/O, it efficiently handles both structured and unstructured data workloads. This distributed resource allocation ensures high-speed performance, meeting diverse business demands simultaneously.
Open Platform to Manage the Entire Cluster
Sangfor aStor provides a unified management platform for block, file, and object storage, ensuring seamless integration across different storage types. It also supports third-party cloud management platforms, enabling comprehensive, all-in-one management of cloud infrastructure for enhanced efficiency and control.
Advantages of aStor Unified Storage
High Reliability
Sangfor aStor ensures comprehensive data protection with advanced monitoring and fault recovery mechanisms, achieving 99.9999% data reliability even on lower-spec hardware.
Prevention: Proactively detects and repairs potential risks through hard disk sub-health monitoring, data verification, and inspection.
During Faults: Implements data redundancy with multiple copies, erasure coding, and snapshot replication to prevent data loss.
Post-Recovery: Optimized repair processes, including metadata merging and global distributed repair, significantly accelerate recovery—restoring data within 10 to 30 minutes, far surpassing traditional recovery speeds.
High Performance
Sangfor aStor maximizes hardware potential with RDMA, intelligent caching, and other cutting-edge technologies, delivering high performance at a lower cost. These optimizations enhance data processing speed, reduce latency, and ensure seamless storage operations for various workloads.
High IOPS Workload Handling
Sangfor aStor delivers exceptional IOPS performance with an advanced heat map algorithm and multi-dimensional integration mechanism, achieving a 90% hot data cache hit rate. By intelligently capturing and directing hotspot data to high-performance resource pools, aStor ensures faster data retrieval and optimized system efficiency.
Enhanced Small IO Performance
With high-speed SSD caching, aStor automatically detects and prioritizes small IO operations, significantly boosting read and write performance. By writing small IOs to the cache first and retrieving hot data from the SSD resource pool, read and write speeds increase by up to 65%, ensuring seamless performance for intensive workloads.
Features & Capabilities
Merge small files to improve small IO processing performance
Sangfor aStor leverages an SSD cache layer to intelligently merge random small IOs into large, sequential IOs, significantly enhancing HDD processing efficiency. This optimization boosts random IO performance by 80%, ensuring faster data access and improved overall storage system performance.
No jitter for processing 10 billion small files with 3 nodes
Sangfor aStor addresses large-scale metadata management challenges with its innovative use of the distributed database PhxKV. Leveraging its distributed architecture and proprietary algorithms, aStor delivers high-performance processing for hundreds of billions of metadata entries while maintaining performance stability, ensuring that processing jitter remains below 5%.
AI-assisted software-defined storage platform realizes autonomous intelligent management
Sangfor aStor features an AI-driven intelligent storage management system, enabling autonomous storage management. This automated operation and maintenance system significantly reduces operational complexity and maintenance costs, ensuring efficient and hassle-free storage management.
No jitter for processing 10 billion small files with 3 nodes AI-assisted software-defined storage platform realizes autonomous intelligent management Failure Predictio
Hard disks degrade over time and enter a sub-health state before failure, showing signs like frequent jitter, high latency, and temperature rise. Sangfor’s AI-powered system can detect these early warning signs 15 days in advance with a prediction accuracy of over 98.5%, allowing timely replacements and preventing unexpected failures.
Trend Analysis
Sangfor aStor leverages advanced data analysis to provide performance and capacity planning recommendations. By dynamically allocating resources based on real-time usage patterns, it ensures optimal efficiency while avoiding errors or resource wastage caused by manual calculations.
Smart QoS
Sangfor aStor intelligently analyzes workload characteristics and dynamically adjusts I/O paths and resource allocation through advanced algorithm optimization. Whether handling video processing or database operations, aStor ensures optimal performance without human intervention, enhancing user experience and resource efficiency.
Sangfor aStor Value Proposition
Unstructured Data Preservation & Archiving
Cost-Effective: Uses standard servers for efficient storage pooling and simplified management.
High Scalability: Supports up to 5000-node clusters and EB-level storage expansion for growing data needs.
Seamless Migration: Automatic data migration at 1TB/30min, minimizing security risks and manual effort.
Ideal for: Medical PACS, libraries, archives, court records, satellite images, and more.
Network Disk & Data Backup
Cost-Effective: Integrates network disk, backup, and archive applications within the aStor platform.
Versatile Storage: Supports various storage services beyond application storage.
Scalable & High-Performance: Fully symmetric distributed architecture ensures seamless capacity and performance expansion.
Intelligent Video Surveillance
High Scalability: Supports thousands of nodes, storing video data from hundreds of thousands of HD cameras for 90 days.
Stable Performance: Handles tens of billions of small files without performance jitter, ideal for face recognition and intelligent security.
Effortless Management: AI-driven monitoring detects sub-healthy disks, quickly migrates or recovers data, minimizing failures.
Applications: Smart communities, smart cities.