Pivot3 vSTAC Watch
Purpose-Built Hyper-Converged Appliance for Surveillance
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Overview:
vSTAC Watch nodes deliver globally hyper-converged (GHCI) compute and storage resources that scale as nodes are “stacked” in a Pivot3 virtual storage and compute array. Each vSTAC Watch node includes a high-performance VMware ESXi virtual server environment which allocates cross-cluster compute resources to surveillance applications. Pivot3 vSTAC OS pools storage resources across the entire hyper-converged system and presents them to the application as a virtual HyperSAN. Each Pivot3 hyperconverged systemcontains up to twelve vSTAC Watch nodes and can be expanded on the fly withoutsystem downtime.
- Purpose-built for surveillanceworkloads
- Petabyte scalable capacity andperformance
- Simple to configure, easy to manage and deploy
- Failover protected hardware,storage and applications
Product Benefits
- Open systems platform with scale-out storage
- Pre-configured and tuned for video surveillance needs
- High availability for both servers and storage
- Eliminates power and cost of a separate physical SAN
Features:
Reduce Power and Cost by 40%
vSTAC Watch nodes integrate a virtual server and scale-out storage resources in a common appliance that saves up to 40% in power, cost and rack space over physical servers and physical SAN storage.
Improve Uptime for Applications and Storage
Storage and servers have traditionally been managed and protected as separate entities. The vSTAC is self-healing for storage failures and supports self-healing single-vm restarts using the Pivot3 VM Failover™ feature. Support for optional real-time failover solutions from VMS Partners and from VMware is also provided.
Scale IP SAN Storage Seamlessly
Storage can be logically and physically expanded while nodes are running to meet the needs of the most demanding environments. Nodes contribute new capacity, bandwidth and RAID resources to the expanded vSTAC.
Data-on in Thirty Minutes
Pivot3 uses virtualization technology to rejoin servers and storage in a single node that can be managed by server and network administrators. There is no need to master complex SAN concepts since the vSTAC is based on familiar Ethernet and server standards.
Architecture:
Pivot3 Watch nodes are centrally managed
Specifications:
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| Dynamic Storage Management |
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| Management Software | vSTAC Manager configuresGHCI nodes and runs on any PC |
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| Alarms and Alerts |
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Usable Capacity Chart:
Purpose-built surveillance hyper-converged appliance capacity chart for 12 appliances with 12 drives each.
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| vSTAC Node Count | 12 TB Node | 24 TB Node | 48 TB Node | 72 TB Node | 96 TB Node | 128 TB Node | 12 TB Node | 24 TB Node | 48 TB Node | 72 TB Node | 96 TB Node | 128 TB Node | 12 TB Node | 24 TB Node | 48 TB Node | 72 TB Node | 96 TB Node |
| 1 of Appliance | 9.8 | 19.8 | 38.5 | 59.2 | 77.0 | 102.7 | 8.9 | 18.0 | 35.9 | 53.8 | 71.8 | 95.7 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3 of Appliances | 22.5 | 45.3 | 90.6 | 135.8 | 181.2 | 241.6 | 20.2 | 40.6 | 81.3 | 121.8 | 162.6 | 216.8 | 18.3 | 36.8 | 73.7 | 110.4 | 147.4 |
| 4 of Appliances | 34.2 | 68.8 | 137.8 | 206.6 | 275.6 | 367.5 | 30.6 | 61.7 | 123.5 | 185.0 | 247.0 | 329.3 | 27.8 | 55.9 | 111.8 | 167.6 | 223.6 |
| 5 of Appliances | 46.0 | 92.5 | 185.3 | 277.8 | 370.6 | 494.1 | 41.2 | 82.8 | 165.9 | 248.6 | 331.8 | 442.4 | 37.3 | 75.0 | 150.1 | 225.0 | 300.2 |
| 6 of Appliances | 57.8 | 116.3 | 232.9 | 349.2 | 465.8 | 621.1 | 51.7 | 104.1 | 208.4 | 312.4 | 416.8 | 555.7 | 46.8 | 94.1 | 188.5 | 282.6 | 377.0 |
| 7 of Appliances | 69.6 | 140.2 | 280.6 | 420.8 | 561.2 | 748.3 | 62.3 | 125.3 | 250.9 | 376.2 | 501.8 | 669.1 | 56.3 | 113.3 | 226.9 | 340.2 | 453.8 |
| 8 of Appliances | 81.5 | 164.0 | 328.4 | 492.4 | 656.8 | 875.7 | 72.8 | 146.6 | 293.5 | 440.2 | 587.0 | 782.7 | 65.9 | 132.6 | 265.4 | 398.0 | 530.8 |
| 9 of Appliances | 93.4 | 187.9 | 376.2 | 564.0 | 752.4 | 1003.2 | 83.4 | 167.9 | 336.2 | 504.0 | 672.4 | 896.5 | 75.4 | 151.8 | 303.9 | 455.6 | 607.8 |
| 10 of Appliances | 105.2 | 211.8 | 424.0 | 635.8 | 848.0 | 1130.7 | 94.0 | 189.2 | 378.8 | 568.0 | 757.6 | 1010.1 | 85.0 | 171.0 | 342.4 | 513.4 | 684.8 |
| 11 of Appliances | 117.1 | 235.7 | 471.9 | 707.6 | 943.8 | 1258.4 | 104.6 | 210.5 | 421.5 | 632.0 | 843.0 | 1124.0 | 94.5 | 190.3 | 381.0 | 571.2 | 762.0 |
| 12 of Appliances | 129.0 | 259.6 | 519.7 | 779.2 | 1039.4 | 1385.9 | 115.2 | 231.9 | 464.2 | 696.2 | 928.4 | 1237.9 | 104.1 | 209.5 | 419.5 | 629.0 | 839.0 |
vSTAC Surveillance Configurations:
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| vSTAC Watch | vSTAC Data | vSTAC Edge | vSTAC Trend | |
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| Use Case | Centralized Compute + Storage | Storage Only | Distributed Compute + Storage | Heavy Compute + Storage |
| Platform | 2U | 2U | 1U | 2U |
| CPU | E5-2630 v3 | E5-2630 v3 | E5-2420 v3 | Dual E5-2680 v3 |
| RAM | 16 - 384 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB | 64 - 384 GB |
| SATA HDD | 12 x 1/2/4/6/8 TB 12 - 128 TB |
12 x 1/2/4/6/8 TB 12 - 128 TB |
4 x 1/2/ TB 4 - 8 TB |
12 x 1/2/4/6/8 TB 12 - 128 TB |
| SSD | 400 GB MLC | 400 GB MLC | N/A | 400 GB MLC |
| NIC | 2 x 1 GbE 4 x 10 GbE iSCSI |
2 x 1 GbE 4 x 10 GbE iSCSI |
4 x 1 GbE | 2 x 1 GbE 4 x 10 GbE iSCSI |
| Max Array | 12 Appliances | 12 Appliances | 4 Appliances | 12 Appliances |
| OS | vSTAC | vSTAC | vSTAC | vSTAC |
| Hypervisor | VMware ESXi | N/A | VMware ESXi | VMware ESXi |
| Other | - | - | - | - |
Documentation:
Download the Pivot3 vSTAC Watch Datasheet (.PDF)