DataCore SWARM

Model number: DataCore SWARM
Storage Category: Software Defined Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 24 x 2TB 10k RPM 12Gbit/s SAS drives, 4 storage nodes x 6 HDDs per node
Storage configuration: JBOD; software-based Erasure Coding 4:2
Firmware version: v14
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE, MPIO
Additional support: All models and configurations of DataCore SWARM for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.

General product family overview:

Swarm is object storage software that installs on any mix of x86 server hardware. Swarm virtualizes the underlying infrastructure creating a scalable pool of resources. Swarm includes two web-based UI's: one for administrators to manage the system, data protection policies and tenants (authorization and authentication), and the other for end-users to access, upload, search and share their content.

Vendor Settings:

Networking

•   MTU=9000
•   MPIO - yes (Balance-alb over single 10 GbE nic per storage node)

Storage

•  DataCore recommends the use of 8MB block size to improve performance; achieved at the cost of deduplication/compression ratios being reduced
•  Improve "Delete" operation performance by using the following 2 parameters in /etc/caringo/cloudgateway/gateway.cfg: 
  • RecursiveDeleteMaxThreads - 200 ( default - 75 ) 
  • MaxConnections - 500 ( default - 200 )