HPE Scality ARTESCA is a powerful, integrated storage system designed for modern enterprises. Combining HPE's reliable hardware with Scality's advanced software-defined storage, it offers exceptional scalability, resilience, and performance for managing unstructured data. Ideal for cloud, data center, or hybrid environments, ARTESCA simplifies management and enhances cost-efficiency, helping organizations harness their data's full potential and stay competitive in a digital world. In September 2024 HPE has introduced a fully integrated hardware and software appliance built on Scality ARTESCA, greatly simplifying the purchase, maintenance and expansion of this solution.
HPE Solutions with Scality
Scality is a recognized leader in cyber-resilient storage, trusted by over 500 enterprises globally, and has been a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader eight times. HPE Solutions with Scality offers scalable, software-defined object storage solutions on HPE Alletra, Apollo, and ProLiant DL servers. These solutions provide customizable capacity and media options, ranging from hybrid to all-SSD and all-NVMe flash configurations. They feature a native S3 API and tools for multi-cloud data management, enabling cloud storage solutions with extensive scalability and deployment flexibility.
The HPE Solutions with Scality include two main products: Scality RING and Scality ARTESCA. Scality RING is designed for multi-application environments requiring petabyte-scale unstructured data storage, offering high data durability through replication and distributed erasure coding. It supports S3/REST and file protocols (NFS/SMB) and ensures continuous availability during hardware failures and upgrades.
Scality ARTESCA is a lightweight, cloud-native storage solution optimized for S3-compatible applications, supporting granular scaling and high data durability with dual-layer erasure coding. It is suitable for edge deployments and integrates tools for federated data management across multiple clouds.
HPE Hardware Options
The solutions are supported on various HPE platforms, including the HPE Alletra Storage Server 4000 family, HPE Apollo 4000, and HPE ProLiant DL servers. Recent updates include support for the high density HPE Alletra Storage Server 4140 and additional remote and onsite service options. HPE offers comprehensive service and support options, including installation, training, and professional services, ensuring optimal deployment and maintenance of these storage solutions.
HPE Packaged Solutions for Scality ARTESCA
It covers five models of object storage solutions with various capacities, from a single-node 55TB system to a three-node high availability 1PB system. Providing an S3-compatible object storage solution with features like immutable storage and S3 object lock to protect against ransomware.
Details on different models:
- 55TB 1 Node Solution: Uses HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen11 Server.
- 110TB 1 Node Solution: Similar setup with increased capacity.
- 220TB 1 Node Solution: Uses HPE Alletra Storage Server 4120.
- 503TB 3 Node High Availability Solution: Uses three HPE Alletra Storage Server 4120 nodes for a high-availability cluster.
- 1PB 3 Node High Availability Solution: Also uses three Alletra nodes but with higher storage capacity.
Hardware Components:
Each solution comes with a comprehensive list of hardware components, including servers, memory kits, storage controllers, NVMe and SAS drives, power supplies, and network adapters.
Key considerations:
- System Inclusions: Each system is fully populated with data drives and includes necessary cables and power cords.
- Installation: Can be done by the user or through purchased installation services.
- Management: HPE servers managed through HPE Integrated Lights-out (iLO), HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management, or HPE OneView. ARTESCA can be managed via REST API or web UI.
- Support: Available through HPE call centers or directly from Scality.
- Scaling: Single-node solutions can expand to a maximum of three nodes, while three-node high availability systems can be expanded to six nodes without additional fabric switches.
More technical details can be found in this technical documentation.
Use cases
Scality ARTESCA uniquely provides end-to-end cyber resilience with unbreakable data protection across its system architecture. Thanks to this it’s a perfect backup target supported by leading vendors like Veeam or Commvault. Its CORE5 capabilities enhance data protection through S3 Object Lock for immutable backups, IAM and data-at-rest encryption, MFA for admin security, a security-hardened OS, and an immutable storage architecture. In this article you can learn more about advantages of object storage as a backup repository.
Summary
The HPE Scality ARTESCA solution combines HPE's robust hardware with Scality's advanced storage software. HPE's packaged solutions for Scality ARTESCA simplify the purchase and deployment of object storage, aiding in IT modernization and digital transformation. Customer get the scalable, resilient, and high-performance storage for modern enterprises, ideal for cloud, data center, or hybrid environments, simplifying data management and enhancing efficiency.
PiotrDrag
HPE Storage for Unstructured Data and AI Category & Business Development Manager for Central Europe. Passionate about primary storage, data protecion, Cloud Computing, scale out storage systems and Internet of Things.