ACTIVESCALE

OBJECT STORAGE
Easily Store, Manage, and Extract Value
from Exabytes of Unstructured Data

DATASHEET

FEATURES & BENEFITS The Industry’s Only Object Storage Platform

Simple to Manage, Unlimited Scale
Non-disruptive expansion of compute,
Architected for Active and Cold Data
network, and storage meets the growing ActiveScale® Object Storage provides an innovative approach on a proven and
needs for hundreds of billions of objects stable platform. It enables creating a simple, ‘always-on’ data repository that scales
and exabytes of capacity. Dynamic Data when and how you need it to—with the extreme data durability, accessibility, and
Placement does not require rebalance, security required of petabyte-scale growth. And with ActiveScale Cold Storage,
ensuring continued performance during ActiveScale reduces the cost of storing your cold data sets by up to 80%.
scale-up and scale-out.
S3-Enabled Apps and Workflows ActiveScale Object Storage
Always Available Data Access
With rolling system upgrades, an
S3-compatible RESTful protocol, and
a geo-spread design, ActiveScale
tolerates component and site failures to
maximize access and productivity.
WAN
Lowest Total Cost of Ownership LAN
Internet
Save up to 80% in storage costs with
Active and Cold Storage Classes. Plus,
without burdensome cloud egress
and restore fees, continually enrich
and extract value from your data sets
without compromise.
Extreme Data Durability and Security
Advanced erasure coding, versioning,
Durable, Secure, S3-Compatible Object Storage for Data
end-to-end encryption, object locking, Analytics, Active Archiving and Long-Term Retention
fine-grained identity and access Whether you are developing solutions for life and Earth sciences, media
management, multi-factor authentication, production, backup, AI/ML, or video surveillance, or an MSP looking to offer cloud
and ongoing monitoring and repair storage to your own customers, ActiveScale puts an affordable, scalable solution
ensure that data endures securely for within reach. Now, you can build your own private cloud storage environment—
years and decades with up to 19 9s of and seamlessly grow your data stores from terabytes to exabytes.
durability of both active and cold data.
Available as-a-Service
Deploy as a Quantum Object Storage

“
Service in your data center, colocation
facility, or Quantum-hosted cloud with
flexible pay-as-you-grow pricing, 7x24
We needed a simple, scalable storage infrastructure that could
last well into the future. The Quantum team showed us the
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support, and seamless expansion.
ActiveScale Object Storage solution, and it ticked all the boxes.

- Michael Whelan, Managing Director, Amidata Ltd.

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S3-Enabled
Apps and Workflows
WAN / LAN / Internet

With ActiveScale, performance, capacity, and scaling are ActiveScale Object Storage Software
seamless. As new nodes are added, network and computing Unified Management, Seamless Expansion and Built for Scale

resources come online immediately to load balance data GEO 1 GEO 2 GEO 3

requests and system tasks. New storage is added to the NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW

capacity pool and write activity is optimally distributed
across storage resources using our patented Dynamic CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU

Data Placement algorithm, which does not enforce a costly RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM

rebalance after each growth step. SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD

HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD

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Scale-Out Architecture

Key Features
No Rebalancing Required (Single site, 2 and 3GEO configurations available)

Two Layer Hybrid Storage Architecture

ActiveScale’s unique scale-out architecture employs high levels of parallelism Client Network Client Network
throughout to achieve high performance without high cost. Within the Access
Layer, system performance is optimized by load balancing across all cluster nodes.
Object metadata is stored in NVMe storage for high performance. The Data
Layer provides unlimited scalability of active and cold data at consistent levels of Meta (NVMe) Meta (NVMe) Meta (NVMe)

availability and performance at scale.

Active Active Active

Active and Cold Storage Classes

(NVMe or HDD) (NVMe or HDD) (NVMe or HDD)

As the industry’s only object storage platform with Active and Cold Storage
Classes, ActiveScale configurations and data layouts are easily optimized for both Cold (Tape) Cold (Tape) Cold (Tape)
performance and affordability, even at massive scale. Dedicate Active Storage to
those data sets that you are currently working on. Dedicate Cold Storage to data
that is not accessed frequently. Simply restore cold data sets to Active Storage
when it makes sense, typically in minutes, with no access or storage fees.
Cold Storage is a low-cost S3 Glacier-compatible storage class based on Quantum’s RAIL Architecture (Redundant Array of
Independent Libraries) and patented* two-dimensional erasure coding (2D EC). 2D EC distributesSingle object shards
Global within and across
Namespace
tapes, drives, libraries, and data centers, simultaneously maximizing performance, durability, and efficiency. ActiveScale Cold Storage
inherits tape’s outstanding economics, reliability, and security, while dramatically simplifying tape management.
*U.S. Patent #11,216,196

Advanced Erasure Coding

ActiveScale software enables high data resiliency withActiveScale
configurable
Cold Storage
erasure Data Center 1 Data Center 2 Data Center 3
coding policies for both Active and Cold Storage Classes, so you can
Unlimited scalability, industry’s lowest TCO and highest durability.

confidently optimize deployments according to capacity, performance,

availability, and durability needs. Objects written to the Cold Storage Class
achieve up to 40% better storage efficiency than replication or two-copy
approaches, and orders of magnitude greater data durability than any other
cold data solution.

Dynamic Data Placement (DDP)

ActiveScale DDP intelligently erasure codes your data, equally balanced across all
available storage resources according to policies that you set. DDP prevents hot
spots over time and simply overcomes hardware failures. Best of all, DDP easily
allows for resource expansion without requiring a performance-draining rebalance
typical of static, deterministic policies that prevent scaling in other systems.

Dynamic Data Repair (DDR)

DDR provides out-of-band continuous system monitoring, data integrity
verification, predictive failure detection, and self-healing of object data to
ensure industry-leading durability of all data objects. The DDR self-healing
process does not wait for a drive replacement to repair data, making drive
replacements routine and not urgent.
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Data Services
S3 Standard, S3 Glacier, and NFS Compatibility Object Versioning For rapid recovery of data due to
ActiveScale supports an S3-compatible API for easy ransomware, inadvertent deletion, or just to maintain
integration of S3 and S3 Glacier-enabled applications data history, Versioning systematically saves versions
and workflows. ActiveScale supports file system of objects. Users can easily set bucket policies to
volumes, accessible via NFS to simply access and retrieve and restore prior object versions.
manage file-based data.
Object Notifications Object Notifications enable
Account Quotas Account quotas allow you to easily
you to trigger workflow processing via Kafka clusters.
set and limit capacity usage with hard or soft limits
Deploy end-to-end data pipelines and streaming
on a per account basis, applicable to both object
applications for real-time analytics, IoT, mobile apps,
buckets and NFS volumes.
and media workflows.

Lifecycle Policies Define Object Lifecycle policies Large/Small Object Optimization ActiveScale is
on a per bucket basis to easily expire or archive data optimized for both large and small objects. Large
automatically. Transitioning objects between Active objects performance policies are built for durability
and Cold Data Classes incurs no storage, access, or and economics. Small object policies are designed
restoration charges that inhibit your access to your to minimize latency when storing and retrieving large
archived data.
numbers of small objects.
Strong Consistency ActiveScale leads the industry
in strong, immediate data consistency across all
nodes to ensure that accurate data is presented with
no performance impact, whether in a single site or
3GEO deployment.

Availability Services
Inflight & Keyless At Rest Encryption For maximum Continuous Data Availability With 3GEO
security, encrypt your data in-flight with SSL/TLS Deployment 3GEO configurations deliver the
and at-rest with ActiveScale. ActiveScale encrypts highest availability and protection against disaster,
both object data and metadata, including custom automatically erasure coding objects across all
metadata, in both Active and Cold Storage Classes. three locations. Even with a data center outage, the
two remaining locations host all the data and parity
Immutable Object Locking Object Lock prevents required to continue servicing all data requests
objects from being deleted to help you protect
against ransomware and meet regulatory 2GEO Deployments and Cloud Replication
requirements for write-once-read-many (WORM) ActiveScale also provides uni- and bi-directional
storage and retention policies. asynchronous per-bucket replication between
ActiveScale clusters or to public cloud services for data
Single Site Deployment A single-site ActiveScale protection, backups, and disaster recovery. Features
deployment simply protects against all component include the abilities to replicate between storage
failures with metadata, data, and parity intelligently classes, and to replicate immutable objects with the
spread across all computing and storage resources same retention policy in place. Plus, ActiveScale
within the cluster. Resources are actively load provides the industry’s one and only Glacier-to-Glacier
balanced for maximum performance. replication capability, providing a low-cost, multi-copy
tape-based data protection solution.

Unified Management
Web UI, CLI, API The System Management (SM)
web-based interface lets you: manage accounts, Prometheus Monitoring & Alerts ActiveScale
users, and access keys, monitor system health, maintains local and global metrics that can be
capacity and performance, retrieve reports and logs, downloaded to your local Prometheus database
configure notifications, and perform upgrades and for long-term retention and viewed using Grafana
expansions. To automate tasks, RESTful APIs and a visualization tools.
command line interface are also available.
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ActiveScale Software
Operating system software ActiveScale OS 7.x

Storage classes Active (S3 Standard-compatible), Cold (S3 Glacier-compatible)

Access protocols RESTful S3, S3a, NFS v3

Management interfaces ActiveScale SM Real-time System Management Console, CLI, RESTful API, ActiveScale View

System analytics Quantum Cloud-Based Analytics (CBA) storage analytics service, Prometheus Monitoring, Alerting, Exporting to Grafana

Security Data encryption in flight SSL/TLS using AES-256, Data encryption at rest using AES-256, FIPS 140-3 certified (optional)1

Management services User accounts, Authentication, IAM, Quotas, Notification Services, Active and Cold Storage Class Management, Lifecycle Policies

Strong/Immediate Consistency, Advanced Active and Cold Erasure Coding, Dynamic Data Placement, Versioning, Object Locking,
Data protection
3GEO Geospreading, Replication

Data durability Up to 19 nines for both Active and Cold Storage Classes

HW/SW/FW upgrades Non-disruptive rolling upgrades and seamless system expansion

Scale-Out Expansion P200 X200 Z200

Min/max number of nodes 3 nodes (3U) / Unlimited 4 nodes (twin servers, 8U) / Unlimited 3 nodes (3U) / Unlimited

Min/max raw disk capacity2 576 TB (36 x 16 TB HDD) / Unlimited 960 TB (60 x 16 TB HDD) / Unlimited 460.8 TB (30 x 15.36 TB SSD) / Unlimited

Min/max licensed Active usable capacity 3

100 TB / Unlimited
(S3 Standard)

Min/max ActiveScale Cold Storage

1 PB (optional) / Unlimited
(S3 Glacier)

Min/max client connectivity4 6 x 10/25 Gb / Unlimited 8 x 10/25 Gb / Unlimited 6 x 10/25 Gb / Unlimited

Max object counts for min/max configs 1.25B (3 nodes) / Unlimited 5B (4 nodes) / Unlimited 50 Billion5 (3 nodes) / Unlimited

Maximum multi-part object size 50 TB

ActiveScale Server Nodes P200 X200 Z200

Form factor 1U12 4U90 twin server 1U10

Drives 16, 24 TB HDD 16, 24 TB HDD 15.36, 30.72, 61.44 TB NVMe SSD

Client connectivity 2 x 10/25 Gb 4 x 10/25 Gb 2 x 10/25 Gb

Width 17.6 in (44.7 cm) 17.68 in (44.9 cm) 17.2 in. (43.7 cm)

Height 1.7 in (4.3 cm) 6.97 in (17.7 cm) 1.7 in. (4.3 cm)

Depth 37 in (94 cm) 42.9 in (109.1 cm) 23.5 in. (59.7 cm)

Configuration weight (kg/lbs) 27.2 kg/60 lbs. 130 kg/290 lbs. 13.02 kg/28.7 lbs.

Power consumption – typical/max (W) 0.35/0.43 KW 1.93/2.5 KW 0.46/0.54 KW

Power supplies 100-240 VAC 200-240 VAC 100-240 VAC

1
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2
One MB is equal to one million bytes, one GB is equal to one billion bytes, one TB equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes), and one PB equals 1,000 TB when referring to storage capacity.
3
Usable capacity will vary from the raw capacity due to configured erasure coding policies.
4
1GEO: Minimum of 1 configured port to client network required, 2 configured ports for high availability. Depending on performance requirements, not all available ports need to be configured.
3GEO: Minimum of 1 configured port per geo required, 2 configured ports per geo for local highly available access. Depending on performance requirements, not all available ports need to be configured.
5
Massive object counts for Z200 most relevant to ActiveScale Cold Storage configurations; assumes 100 TBs NVMe storage for storing objects.

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