StoneFly SCVM™ - Software Defined Storage
- Patented Storage Virtualization Software
- Provision Virtual NAS & Virtual SAN on Unused Storage Space
- Integrate Cloud Object Storage with Your Existing Storage Servers
- Hardware Agnostic Software Compatible with All StoneFly Appliances & Most Mainstream Servers (EMC, HPE, and others)
- Software Defined Storage Compatible with Hyper-V, VMware, KVM, & Citrix (formerly XenServer) Hypervisors
- Manage All Virtual Storage Appliances with a Single Centralized Management Interface
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SCVM™ Overview: Software Defined Storage Virtualization Software
StoneFly SCVM™ (Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine) enables data center owners to make the most of their data storage infrastructure.
With the SCVM software defined storage, enterprise users can configure virtual Network Attached Storage (NAS) and virtual Storage Area Network (SAN) on available and unused storage space. This ability enables enterprises to reduce the overall footprint of the data center and the cost of data storage by 60%.
SCVM is a Software Defined Storage (SDS) solution which means that there is no dependency on specific manufacturers. The SDS storage solution can be deployed as a Virtual Machine (VM) on most mainstream hypervisors including VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix (formerly XenServer).
Breathe Life into Your Data Storage Architecture with Our Software-Defined Storage
Virtual NAS Volumes for Highly Scalable File-level Storage
- Create highly scalable virtual NAS volumes with support for NFS & CIFS/SMB storage protocols
- Configure virtual NAS volumes on bare-metal, on enterprise servers, and in the cloud
- Supported clouds include Azure, Amazon S3, StoneFly private cloud & other S3 compatible clouds
- Supported servers include all StoneFly appliances, Dell EMC, HPE Nimble, Nutanix, among several others
Virtual SAN Appliance for High Performance Block-Level Storage
- Configure high performance software defined SAN with support for iSCSI & Fibre Channel
- Virtual SAN appliances can be configured on bare-metal servers, enterprises servers, and in the cloud
- Supported clouds include Azure, Amazon S3, StoneFly private cloud & other S3 compatible clouds
- Supported servers include all StoneFly appliances, Dell EMC, HPE Nimble, Nutanix among several others
Software Defined Object Storage in Azure, Amazon S3 & StoneFly Cloud
- Configure cost-effective and easy-to-manage virtual NAS and virtual SAN appliances in the cloud of your choice
- Supported clouds include Azure, Amazon S3, StoneFly private cloud and other S3 compatible clouds
- Supported cloud tiers include Azure hot blob, cool blob, AWS S3, and AWS S3-IA
- Manage all workloads with a single centralized management GUI
Enterprise Features that Make Our Virtual Storage Appliance Truly Unique
Hardware Agnostic
StoneFly SCVM™ is compatible with a number of servers and hardware – making it a truly flexible and hardware independent software defined storage solution.
Data Deduplication
With data deduplication, SCVM™ SDS storage users can leverage their existing storage resources to their fullest potential by removing copies of data and reducing the overall footprint of storage infrastructure.
Data Encryption - before, during & after transit
StoneFly SCVM™ virtual storage appliance enables users to protect enterprise-grade mission critical workloads with AES 256-bit encryption at rest and SSL/TLS tunneling for data during transit.
Write-Once Read-Many (WORM)
Provision compliant, secure and uneditable storage repositories on your hypervisor. As WORM repositories do not allow any changes, they’re also great at ransomware protection of critical workloads.
Automated Data Tiering
SCVM™ SDS storage enables users to setup policies for automated data tiering. Automation ensures error free processing and delivers optimized utilization rates and reduced costs.
Thin Provisioning
Thin Provision storage space and dedicate LUNs for applications, databases and programs with SCVM™ virtual storage appliance to effectively use existing resources and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of enterprise data storage.
Snapshot Technology
Create snapshots of mission-critical workload volumes with StoneFly SCVM™ SDS storage and ensure fast and reliable recoverability, reduced downtime and ransomware protection.
Anti-virus & Anti-ransomware
Leverage built-in smart technology that automatically detects & removes virus, malware, and ransomware threats
Erasure Coding
SCVM™ SDS storage offers optional Erasure Coding within storage nodes and across appliance nodes for increased high availability, data redundancy and fault-tolerance.
Centralized Data Storage
Share files from anywhere, at anytime with StoneFly SCVM™ software defined storage. SCVM™ enables users to easily organize and move files between servers and configured NAS volumes; both on-premises and in the cloud.
Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication
Replicate data between remote facilities and private or public clouds with StoneFly SCVM™ SDS storage. Setup instant disaster recovery for mission-critical workload volumes with reduced RTPOs.
Threat scan for dormant malware
Schedule threat scans and check your production environment and backup copies for dormant malware & ransomware with a light-weight process that does not consume compute resources from the production environment
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Air-Gapped and Immutable Storage Options
StoneFusion Demo
How to Enable File-Level WORM (Immutable Storage)
Protect critical backups and files by preventing any changes, deletion, or overwriting within a defined retention period. In this video, we showcase how backup administrators can leverage StoneFusion to establish file-level immutable storage, ensuring data integrity and protection.
StoneFusion Demo
Stop Rogue Admins with Volume Deletion Protection
StoneFusion Demo
How to Map Cloud S3 Object Storage to Your On-Premises Appliance
StoneFusion Demo
How to Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Enhance the security of administrative tasks, including OS login and deletion of snapshots/volumes, by implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA). In this video, we provide a step-by-step demonstration of how backup administrators can easily configure MFA for heightened protection during critical administrative operations.
StoneFusion Demo
Manage Multiple NAS Clients with One Anti-Virus Agent
StoneFusion Demo
How to Set Up Immutable Snapshots for NAS Repositories
StoneFusion Demo
Ransomware Protection Suite in StoneFly Solutions
Why Setup StoneFly SCVM™ Virtual Storage Appliance for Your Data Storage Needs?
Cost Reduction by 60%
With our software defined storage solution, enterprise users can leverage available storage space and reduce data storage infrastructure space also reducing the cost by 60%.
Simplified Data Management
Manage your software defined data center with a single centralized data management web GUI and simplify data management for your enterprise IT environment.
Feature-Rich Hybrid Solution
Integrate preferred cloud storage tiers with your legacy infrastructure using our SDS storage solution and optimize your data storage experience with a number of enterprise features.
Make the Most of Your Available Storage Space with StoneFly SCVM
Virtual Storage Appliance
With StoneFly SCVM, users can provision virtual NAS volumes or virtual SAN appliances on the available storage space thus efficiently using available resources instead of purchasing and setting up new ones.
Besides reducing the cost of data storage, our software defined storage also makes data management easier by delivering a single centralized management interface to manage all provisioned NAS, SAN and object storage resources.
Easy-to-Scale Software Defined Storage
Effortlessly manage and control provisioned virtual NAS and virtual SAN appliances with our software defined storage solution that makes scalability a simple process.
System administrators can add more storage capacity or repurpose unused dedicated storage space with a few clicks. Provisioned storage volumes can be scaled up or scaled down effortlessly and quickly when needed.
StoneFly SCVM: Your Software Defined Storage Gateway to Success
StoneFly SCVM delivers true data mobility to data center owners by integrating public and private cloud storage tiers with existing storage servers.
This ability to create a hybrid storage solution facilitates a variety of use-cases, including:
- Creating Veeam backups in Azure, Amazon S3, other S3 compatible clouds or StoneFly private cloud
- Archiving high volumes of data for economy-friendly, durable and compliant storage
- And more!
Thinking Cloud First? We’ve Got You Covered
If you’re looking to go completely serverless? SCVM can help you setup the necessary virtual storage appliances in the cloud of your choice.
Or may be you’re looking to run some of your operations in the cloud? Our software defined storage gateway solution can help with that too.
The SCVM facilitates a variety of cloud integration deployments for businesses including multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
For more information, watch this video.
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Common Use-Cases of StoneFly SCVM Virtual Storage Appliance:
Primary SAN Storage
- Configure software-based virtual Storage Area Network (SAN) targets – on-premises, offsite / remote, and in the cloud (public and / or private)
- Setup complete cloud-based block-level storage – let service providers manage the infrastructure.
- Support StoneFly’s storage infrastructure and mainstream storage systems like Dell EMC, HPE Nimble, etc.
- Configure virtual SAN appliances for MySQL, NoSQL, PostGreSQL databases and other structured data.
- Single, easy-to-use, and centralized management console to manage SAN storage resources.
- Enable high performance data services like erasure coding, data deduplication, thin provisioning, etc.
Secondary SAN Storage
- Enable data redundancy with snapshots and synchronous and asynchronous replication to on-premises, offsite / remote, and in the cloud (public and / or private).
- Secure mission-critical databases with data encryption, and redundant copies of data.
- Enable high performance data services like erasure coding, data deduplication, thin provisioning, etc.
- Manage all SAN storage resources with a single, easy-to-use, customizable and centralized management interface.
Remote Mirroring | Real-time Replication | Asynchronous Replication
- Setup mirroring between two storage infrastructures and ensure high availability for mission-critical workloads.
- Replicate synchronously or asynchronously to on-premises and/or offsite storage infrastructure.
- Replicate NAS and SAN volumes and Virtual Machines (VMs) to on-site or offsite storage infrastructure or to a virtual NAS / virtual SAN storage in the cloud of your choice.
- Configure synchronous or asynchronous replication from on-premises / offsite storage infrastructure to StoneFly private cloud.
- Replicate in real-time with synchronous replication for high availability or schedule replication jobs with asynchronous replication to optimize bandwidth consumption.
Cloud Storage for Backup Applications in Azure, AWS, or to StoneFly Private Cloud
- Create backup copies in public clouds like Azure, or Amazon S3.
- Create backup copies or replicate in StoneFly private cloud.
- Optimize data transfer between on-premises appliance and cloud with data services like data deduplication, compression, snapshot, replication (synchronous and asynchronous), and more.
- Secure data at rest and during transfer with advanced encryption technology.
- Automate data migration with services like automated storage tiering.
- Comply with compliance regulations like FedRAMP, CJIS, FISMA, etc. by setting up storage and backup in Azure Government cloud.
Backend Storage for Surveillance Video Storage Appliance
- Migrate large volumes of media data to offsite / remote, or cloud-based storage tiers with ease.
- Configure offsite storage systems as backend storage for primary surveillance video storage system.
- Integrate cloud archiving tiers with primary surveillance video storage system.
- Enable data services that optimize data storage, reduce cost of data storage and retention and enhance storage utilization.
- Reduce storage infrastructure footprint by moving the bulk of video data to the cloud.
- Setup backend storage or archiving in public clouds like Azure, AWS cloud, etc.
- Setup backend storage or archiving in StoneFly’s private cloud.
Backend Storage for an Archive Appliance
- Setup data redundancy with data services like replication and snapshots.
- Comply with industry regulations like HIPAA/HITRUST, FedRAMP, etc.
- Configure backend storage for archive data in on-premise / in-house infrastructure, on offsite / remote storage media or in public or private clouds.
- Leverage cloud archiving tiers and reduce cost of data storage and retention.
- Use data services like automated storage tiering to automate the process, increase efficiency and remove human error from the process.
Backend Storage for a Cloud Native Appliance
- Synchronously or asynchronously replicate data stored in the cloud to on-premises / in-house storage infrastructure, to offsite storage media or to the same or different cloud-based storage (multi-cloud).
- Secure data transfers with advanced encryption technology.
- Move data volumes without having to worry about file-size and bandwidth limitations.
- Ensure high availability and business continuity with additional copies of data.
- Setup the 3-2-1 data protection rule with ease by integrating different storage media and creating copies of data.
Cloud Storage Gateway for Veeam in Azure
- Configure an easy-to-use and enterprise-grade storage gateway between Veeam backup and replication and Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Secure data at rest and during transit with advanced encryption technology.
- Optimize data storage usage and bandwidth consumption with data deduplication.
- Move data from on-premises to cloud and back without having to worry about file-size and bandwidth limitations.
- Comply with industry regulations like FedRAMP, CJIS, FISMA, HIPAA/HITRUST, etc. by setting up Veeam backups in Azure Government Cloud.
Why choose StoneFly Software Defined Storage?
Established in 2000, StoneFly has been in the business of simplifying and optimizing the data storage and management experience of enterprise users. StoneFly’s innovative data management solutions has made it the trusted partner of federal government departments, local city departments, and industry leaders like Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, and several others.
