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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 15:49 to the question "Is MatrixStore a hosted service?" in Object Matrix:
Nope, though MatrixStore is ideal technology for ISP based storage services!
MatrixStore is generally for organisations who wish to keep control of their assets in-house and store 10s to 100s of terabytes annually.-
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, asked a question in Object Matrix on November 20, 2007 15:47:
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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 15:46 to the question "Can I have nodes in the same MatrixStore cluster located in remote locations?" in Object Matrix:
No. MatrixStore is not designed to make a geographically dispersed set of nodes/clusters look like a single storage pool.
You can have a MatrixStore cluster replicating to another in a remote location for DR purposes however. -
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, asked a question in Object Matrix on November 20, 2007 15:43:
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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 15:40 to the question "How many IP addresses do I need per node?" in Object Matrix:
With the recommended Xserve setup there are two Gigabit Ethernet ports that will be available for client connection. (We all these port the External NICs as they are external to the cluster .. not necessarily the company firewall).
You will need to prepare 2 IP addresses per node in your cluster. -
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, asked a question in Object Matrix on November 20, 2007 15:37:
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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 11:33 to the question "What is MatrixStore?" in Object Matrix:
Organisations have a need to keep the digital stuff they create. The stuff that has value - historical value or future value that they can reuse to make art or make money. And for the film and video industry, the "stuff" is getting bigger. HD, 2K/4K. This sheer volume makes it harder to protect and make available for reuse.
This is what we do. We make it very easy to protect all their digital films and make them easily accessible to reference or reuse.
We have built a piece of software, MatrixStore, that takes a bunch of Apple's low-cost disk and makes it a safe place to store your work for the long-term. It makes protecting your stuff less expensive. And importantly, makes managing this a lot less arduous, which is important when you want to keep a lot of stuff for a long time. -
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 11:15 to the question "What is MatrixStore replication?" in Object Matrix:
MatrixStore replication provides business continuance and disaster recovery through an Asynchronous cloning mechanism which ensures that any actions performed on a local vault are also carried out on the remote vault, actions include data and administration operations. All replication communications are performed over secure, encrypted channels. -
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, asked a question in Object Matrix on November 20, 2007 11:14:
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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 11:06 to the question "How do I administer a MatrixStore cluster?" in Object Matrix:
Using the MatrixStore Admin Tool!
After successfully installing the cluster (DIY or with the help of your friendly Object Matrix employee) the admin tool is used to:
- create and update vaults
- create users/roles on a vault
- monitor cluster and vault usage
- monitor cluster/node health
Its very easy to use. -
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, asked a question in Object Matrix on November 20, 2007 11:03:
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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 11:02 to the question "What is a vault?" in Object Matrix:
MatrixStore objects are stored in vaults. A Vault is a secure virtual storage space within that form an integral part of the MatrixStore security, compliance and multiple-tenancy functionality:-
When a vault is created it can be given a set of properties dependent on the nature of the data to be stored within it. Those properties are:
- Provisioned Capacity
How much storage capacity can this vault consume within the cluster. It is
possible to set this so that the vault grows organically into the capacity that is
physically available in the cluster with no manual intervention.
- Regulation Compliance Settings
There are lots of regulations out there for the protection, retention and
availability of certain types of data (SOX et al.). On a per vault basis the user
can set how long a piece of data should be protected from deletion.
- Audit Settings
MatrixStore provides audit reports at every level. The user can choose if a
vault should be audited for read operations. This can be useful to find out who
leaked the copy of your latest blockbuster. -
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, asked a question in Object Matrix on November 20, 2007 10:56:
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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 10:55 to the question "I have some some raw film data along with project files that need to be kept forever and some proxy files that can be thrown away after a couple of months. Can both types of data use the same MatrixStore cluster?" in Object Matrix:
It should always be the case that a storage device can be used to store different types of data, each with their own set of policies.
It should also always be the case that a storage device can be used by multiple applications and each application should be able to securely keep logically separated data on that device.
MatrixStore provides just that.
MatrixStore provides multi-tenancy functionality. MatrixStore provides each application or data with a set of policies with a virtual space or Vault which can be setup in seconds. It is possible to set default policies on each vault according to the storage requirements or the classification of data being stored by the application:
MediaVault
- Protect from deletion forever
- Keep local and remote copies
ProxyVault
- Protect from deletion for 1 month
- Keep local copy only -
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, asked a question in Object Matrix on November 20, 2007 10:47:
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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 10:43 to the question "How easy is it to add capacity compared to a SAN solution?" in Object Matrix:
Compared to a SAN it is easy.
MatrixStore has true 'plug and scale' technology; from 13.5 Terabytes to virtually any amount (Petabyte+). Traditional storage architectures require a large amount of planning, expertise and service outages in order to successfully grow the available capacity to the application or user.
Adding capacity with MatrixStore is relatively management free, simply plug in the node, connect it to the switches and it joins the cluster, ready for use automatically. The MatrixStore software includes the new capacity to the total pool available with no manual intervention. -
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, asked a question in Object Matrix on November 20, 2007 10:38:
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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 10:31 to the question "How safe is my data?" in Object Matrix:
Safe.
MatrixStore has 99.999% reliability for data availability.
In a standard configuration, data is mirrored across 2 nodes. The data is written to the first node the application communicates with then synchronously copies it to another node in the cluster. If the transaction fails at any point the data is not stored.
If a disk fails, then data is protected within each node, through the RAID configuration. The administrator then simply removes the bad disk and replaces it with a new disk. The RAID file system will automatically re-generate itself and return to the previous level of protection.
Nodes in a MatrixStore system can fail, MatrixStore accounts for this by monitoring each node and acting in the case of failure. When a node fails the data is automatically protected into another node in the cluster thus keeping the data both safe and available with no manual intervention.
The customer also has the choice of replicating the data to a remote location which is also handled by the MatrixStore software. -
FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, asked a question in Object Matrix on November 20, 2007 10:26:
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FAQ, an employee of Object Matrix, replied on November 20, 2007 10:14 to the question "Where is my data actually stored?" in Object Matrix:
Treating the data as objects allows MatrixStore to hide the management of the location of data within the cluster. MatrixStore automatically finds the most appropriate location in the cluster to store an object. This dramatically reduces the management overhead of storing data or adding capacity to a large archive.
Applications treat MatrixStore like a black box;
They send data to it with no knowledge of where the data eventually resides. Upon completion of a successful write operation the application receives a globally unique Identifier with which it can retrieve the data at any time.
MatrixStore does NOT address the data by its contents. (google for more information on CAS weakness)
The location of the object within the cluster may change due to internal load balancing or data protection management yet the globally unique key remains the same.
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