Oil country
information provider Drillinginfo has moved its petabyte of data to
Nexenta’s open source-driven software-defined storage (SDS).
Drillinginfo’s CTO Mike Couvillion explained, ‘Our data storage
requirements had grown to around 900 terabytes and were increasing at
over 20 TB/month.’ This was stretching the legacy NFS storage system to
the limit.
Drillinginfo
was looking for a ZFS storage system to improve scalability and
performance and turned to Nexenta whose flagship NexentaStor now serves
as its primary ZFS file system. The system runs on x86 industry
standard hardware from Supermicro with NexentaStor built into the
operating system. Drillinginfo also runs a VMware environment with
1,000 virtual machines to date.
Couvillion
concluded ‘Because the Nexenta system is so redundant, it can be put on
Supermicro, which costs us about $416/TB, well below the industry
average. Also there is no additional licensing for replication. The
system practically recovered its cost on delivery.’ Other components
include IBM SAN volume controller and V5000 Storwize system for its
fiber channel storage. More from Nexenta.
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