ENGINEERING

Kaminario announced the availability of video demonstrations on the key capabilities of DataProtect, the Kaminario K2’s recently announced enterprise-class high availability and data protection for high performance solid-state storage. The videos demonstrate how the Kaminario K2 provides end-to-end, self-healing high availability and fast, high-volume data protection while delivering extreme performance.

The four videos highlight the following Kaminario K2 DataProtect features:

-- High Availability -- This video shows how DataProtect provides enterprise-class high availability and data protection while maintaining high performance. DataProtect’s N+1 hardware redundancy ensures no single point of failure and fast, automatic failover to provide quick, reliable, self-healing high availability. Kaminario DataProtect offers hot-swappable components enabling fast and easy non-disruptive operations and maintenance, and its unique RAID 10HD for fast mirroring and striping across hybrid, Flash and DRAM SSD media, delivering enterprise-class data protection within a single system.

-- High Performance Snapshots -- In this video, Kaminario demonstrates how the K2 delivers fast, high-volume snapshots for backup and recovery and for development and testing without impacting IOPS performance. The video first shows performance figures for running storage I/O on a set of production volumes. The demonstration then creates a snapshot, maps it to the host and runs the same I/O performance on that snapshot, showing that the performance figures between the production and snapshot volumes are equal. The video then shows the I/O performance in parallel on the production and snapshot volumes and demonstrates that the aggregate performance on both is double.

-- Data Recovery -- This video demonstrates how to use Kaminario’s DataProtect to create snapshots and use them to restore a production database that has been corrupted. Data is easily and safely restored to its original state using DataProtect’s capabilities to provide high-speed snapshots and restores for mission-critical backup and recovery operations.

-- Performance Analysis Graphical User Interface (GUI) -- This video illustrates how system administrators can easily monitor and track the K2’s storage performance (IOPS, throughput and latency) in real time. The GUI management console provides a single view for tracking performance from the last week, the last day or the last minute. The GUI also provides an analysis of performance trends over time.