Memblaze FlashRAID
FlashRAID Intro
FlashRAID is an enterprise data protection and management system which is special designed for high speed NVMe SSD. It is an integrated NVMe solution which provided following features:
- Improve data protection in term of resiliency and high-availability by multiple RAID protection level
- Linearly scalable performance with addition/reduction of disk drive
- Capacity scalable with no downtime and less data-migration
- Fast reconstruction to reduce failure risk underling degraded state
- Consistent performance to reduce the influence on running application
- Unified Storage Resource Management
- Easy system management with CLI and Graphic tool
- Thin provisioning reduces one-off investment and feeds foreseeable business growth
The user guide describes the supported operation system and how to install/ uninstall FlashRAID. This document also provides detail operation steps with FlashRAID command line tool FlashCLI, include following functions:
- User privilege management
- Disk drive management
- Storage pool management
- Virtual disk management
- Error monitoring and reporting
Supported Operation System The standard operation systems FlashRAID supported are listed as below table.
Distribution Version Note CentOS 6.5, 6.6, 7.0 and 7.1 7.1 in-box driver has better support for hot-plug. Memblaze NVMe driver is recommended for PblazeIV. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, 6.6, 7.0 and 7.1 For non-standard Linux operation systems, please contact Memblaze FlashRAID team flashraid@memblaze.com to get the customized installation files.
Supported Disk Drives FlashRAID is specially designed for high speed NVMe SSD, but it can also support other disk drives. The disk drives that FlashRAID supports are:
- NVMe SSD
- PCIe SSD
- SATA SSD
- SAS SSD
- SATA HDD
- SAS HDD
1.3 Supported RAID Level Currently the RAID level that FlashRAID supported are:
- RAID 0
- RAID 1
- RAID 5
- RAID 6