iTernity iCAS FS (Object Immutability)

Model number: iCAS FS
Storage Category: Software Defined Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 48x 7TB HDD (2 nodes with 24 HDD each).
Storage configuration: Direct disk access, JBOD / HBA. Erasure Coding for disk failure tolerance
Firmware version: 1.13.1 (iCAS FS version)
Connection protocol and speed: 10 GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of iCAS FS version 1.13.1 for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.

General product family overview:
iCAS FS is a managed storage platform for archiving and protecting all types of backup and business critical data. It is a software-defined highly available, clustered storage for unstructured data serving both file and object use cases.

Vendor Settings:

• Array deduplication used in testing: No
• Array compression used in testing: No

Additional considerations:

• Storage configuration: the composition of the drives can vary from system to system due to the software-defined approach.
• Multipathing / link aggregation used: During testing no link aggregation was used.
  In production it is possible to aggregate e.g. two 10GbE links.
• Networking: Jumbo Frames possible, but not used during testing