Features
Arcfra Cloud Operating System
Below is a complete feature list of Arcfra Cloud Operating System. Please refer to AECP Spec for detailed offerings of each product edition.
Cluster Size
Maximum number of hosts
255
Maximum total capacity of cluster
6 PiB
Maximum available capacity of cluster
2 PiB
Block Storage Services
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
✓
Virtualization Platforms
Arcfra Virtualization Engine (built-in virtualization platform)
✓
VMware ESXi™️
✓
Built-in VM Services
Boost mode
✓
VM lifecycle management
✓
VM autostart with host
✓
VM online setting
✓
VNC console
✓
VM HA
✓
VM hot migration
✓
VM cold migration
✓
VM staged migration
✓
VM import and export
✓
VM CPU compatibility
✓
VM CPU exclusive
✓
VM file system partition usage
✓
VM uptime
✓
VM group
✓
VM template
✓
VM template import and export
✓
VM instant snapshot
✓
VM instant/full clone
✓
Resource-aware VM auto migration
✓
Rule of placement group3
✓
Dynamic resource scheduler
✓
User-defined VM placement
✓
Data storage policy
✓
ISO management
✓
Virtual volume import and export
✓
VM/virtual volume I/O QoS settings
✓
Virtual NIC QoS settings
✓
VM Tools
✓
VM list export
✓
USB device passthrough
✓
PCI passthrough
✓
SR-IOV NIC passthrough
✓
SR-IOV encryption controller passthrough
✓
GPU passthrough
✓
vGPU
✓
Networking
Virtual distributed switch
✓
VLAN-based VM network
✓
VLAN with access or trunk port
✓
Create multiple types of networks on one VDS
✓
Network traffic QoS
✓
Virtual network MTU modification
✓
NIC MTU modification
✓
NIC LLDP information
✓
NIC physical link status
✓
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
✓
Snapshot Plan
Custom protected VMs
✓
Custom execution and retention policies
✓
Active-Active Clustering
Separate license required
Availability zone
✓
Automated disaster recovery for VM/application services
VM HA across availability zones
Free Independent Tools
Arcfra Migration Tool
Agentless migration from VMware to Arcfra virtualization
Arcfra CloudMove
Migration from other platforms
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.
3. Rule of placement group: Supports the association rules of "virtual machine-virtual machine" and "virtual machine-physical host".