Unified Storage Server (USS)

Chelsio’s Unified Storage Server (USS) is a powerful turnkey solution for creating high-performance storage systems. It is an integrated solution that is best-of-breed in the market, and provides an easy integration path for VARs and OEMs, and offers state-of-the-art performance and ease-of-use for end users. It includes a wide array of features that simplify file serving, backup and replication of valuable data that makes it the choice for dependable, reliable, and scalable storage.

Why USS?

Performance

Leveraging the amazing I/O performance of Chelsio Unified Wire technology, Chelsio’s Unified Storage Server (USS) software solution delivers 2.9M IOPs and 94 Gbps throughput at 4K IO using a single Chelsio T6 100G port and certified commodity hardware.

Applications

  • High Performance NVMe-oF (iWARP), NVMe/TCP Offload Target
  • iSCSI Target with offload
  • NAS/SAN Integration
  • Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
  • Remote Mirroring
  • Virtualization Applications
  • Data Warehousing
  • Video Storage
  • High performance computing
  • Databases
  • Edge Computing
  • AI/ML workloads

Ease of Use

Dramatically streamline and automate your storage snapshot/cloning and replication for high availability and disaster recovery. Complete storage software stack, proven over years in high-performance computing environments, deploys in minutes while capacity and performance can scale linearly and non-disruptively.

Return on Investment

Slash your storage budget while leveraging certified industry-standard hardware for your enterprise storage needs. With optimized support for enterprise NVMe and flash solutions, integrated storage management and superior cost effectiveness, Chelsio’s USS delivers the industry’s most efficient enterprise storage.

Key Features and Benefits

Deploy storage systems in minutes! The first-time setup wizard makes it simple to connect to the network, define local workgroups, add users, create shares and select file sharing protocols, and create iSCSI LUNs or NVMe namespace for high performance block storage.

Plug-and-play – Integrates easily into VAR/OEM’s hardware platform, ensuring smooth storage system integration. Comes as a bootable flash memory or loadable software. Fully compatible with most x86-64 multi-processor systems.

Ease-of-use – in deploying and re-configuring of the storage array – USS has an intuitive web-based management interface, which is accessible in any compatible web browser, over an encrypted secure connection, providing ease-of-use and requiring minimum training. It is also localized to 6 languages.

Lower ownership cost – Consolidating multiple file servers and iSCSI/NVMe servers onto a single device reduces server management overhead and associated IT staff costs. Network storage can be remotely managed using a Web-based user interface, simplifying maintenance and providing centralized control of processes like backups, restores, and upgrades.

Feature rich – Deliver storage needs at wire speed and supports NFS, SMB, SFTP, iSCSI Offload, NVMe/TCP Offload, and NVMe-oF (iWARP). Also supports Remote Mirroring, Backup, iSNS, iSCSI Scaling, Nested RAID, Easy Management features, bandwidth management, extensive self-test, stress test, and remote test capabilities.

New features – USS 4.0 implements various Offloads for iSCSI and NVMe targets. It is optimized for supporting 10/25/40/50/100GbE clients with high throughput, high IOPs, and low-latency requirements. It integrates with the USS storage stack which provides dynamic storage provisioning with thin provisioned volumes, snapshots, and volume cloning.

Flexible branding capability feature for OEMs.

Specifications

NAS Features

  • SMB
  • NFSv3
  • SFTP

iSCSI Features

  • MPIO
  • ACLs
  • iSNS
  • CHAP authentication
  • Greater than 2TB LUN support
  • Support for Microsoft Cluster Nodes with iSCSI shared storage
  • iSCSI boot initiator DHCP management
  • iSCSI boot LUN cloning

NVMe-oF Fabrics Features

  • NVMe-oF (iWARP)
  • NVMe/TCP Offload
  • Hardware Header and Data Digest

Storage Management

  • Performance monitoring
  • Asynchronous replication
  • Snapshots of iSCSI LUNs/Shared filesystems
  • Backup and restore to disk and tape drives
  • Thin provisioning and Volume cloning
  • Software RAID and Hardware RAID
  • Hardware management
    • RAID controller management support
    • Fibre Channel initiator HBA management support
    • SSD storage support

Redundancy Features

  • Remote Mirroring
  • Nested RAID

Additional Features

  • Bandwidth Management

System Requirements

  • Compatible x86-64 64-bit processor
  • 8 GB RAM
  • Storage Pool with (SSD, SAS, SATA, SCSI)
  • Chelsio Adapter T6/T5