Hedvig: Introduction to Hedvig

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Hedvig : Features

Hedvig Distributed Storage

The Hedvig provides a single unified storage that lets network storage, file storage(Swift), Block storage system built with low-cost commodity hardware to support any application, hypervisor, container, or cloud.

Scale-able storage with feature like duplication , flexible block size , replication for all three types of storage (network storage, file storage , Block storage).

Provide Hybrid Multisite Replication with datacenter aware or rack aware replication polices.

Use cases

  • Server virtualization (block level , lun access)
  • Cold backup (NFS without dedup)
  • Traditional VDI storage (nfs based storage/ file based)
  • Openstack storage (nfs,block based by cinder, file based via swift)