Features
Arcfra Block Storage
Below is a complete feature list of Arcfra Block Storage. Please refer to AECP Spec for detailed offerings of each product edition.
Block Storage Services
Heterogeneous cluster
✓
Cluster online extend/shrink
✓
Generic block storage services
✓
Storage auto-tiering
✓
Volume pinning
✓
All-flash storage
✓
Storage policy (per datastore/volume)
✓
Topology-aware data allocation
✓
VM-location-aware data migration
✓
Silent data corruption detection (block checksum)
✓
Thin provisioning
✓
Space reclamation of thin provisioned volumes
✓
Concurrent access of shared volume
✓
Storage volume QoS settings
✓
Redundancy policy
Replication, Erasure coding
Tunable replication factor
2,3
Replica number increase
✓
SCVM I/O redirection1
✓
Adjustable rate of data recovery and migration2
✓
Use RDMA protocol for inter-node data transmission
✓
Operations and Maintenance
Single cluster/site management
✓
Multiple cluster/site management
✓
Visualized cluster topology and management
✓
Visualized networks and management
✓
Visualized server components and management
✓
Server components status monitoring
✓
GUI-based installation and configuration
✓
Monitoring & analysis of physical server/component performance/capacity/status
✓
Monitoring & analysis of virtual resources performance/capacity/status
✓
Monitoring & analysis of networks performance/status
✓
Monitoring & analysis of cluster health status
✓
Monitoring & analysis of software stack resources/health status
✓
Host maintenance mode
✓
Host power operations
✓
Host uptime
✓
One click to shut down cluster
✓
Physical disk locator light
✓
Hard disk anomaly detection & isolation
✓
Network fail-slow detection & isolation
✓
Customized alerts
✓
SNMP support
✓
Email notification
✓
User-defined monitoring and analysis dashboard
✓
Monitoring data export
✓
Log collection
✓
One-click software upgrade
✓
Node role conversion
✓
Log search
✓
Log transmission
✓
Non Active-Active Cluster to Active-Active Cluster conversion
✓
Enable/disable cluster Boost mode
✓
Event auditing
✓
VM resource optimization
✓
Role-based access control
✓
API & CLI
RESTful API
✓
API documentation
✓
CLI
✓
Note:
1. SCVM I/O redirection: VMware / XenServer platform-specific function.
2. Adjustable rate of data recovery and migration: the intelligent dynamic adjustment by default, and can be set to a fixed value through command line.