A knowledge base article about Enterprise Storage Comparison Sheet provided by the UC Berkeley IT Service Hub - Knowledge Portal
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Performance |
Utility |
Active Archive Object Storage (AAOS) |
Cloud Storage (Wasabi) |
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Best Use |
Best for high I/O enterprise systems, such as large database servers and VM clusters. Enterprise applications, Relational databases, NoSQL databases, Big data analytics engines |
Ideal for frequently accessed, throughput-intensive workloads with large datasets and large I/O sizes. Department and user shares as an example |
Scale-out S3 compatible onsite object storage system designed to manage massive amounts of unstructured data and is suited for large sequential workloads Store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. |
Wasabi is a popular cloud object storage service. It's value-oriented, high-performance, low-latency, and highly-available cloud object storage offering. It's designed to be 100% compatible and interoperable with the Simple Storage Service (S3) available from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Delivering web application assets and content Target for backup software Hold data for analysis Integration with service pipelines |
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Vendor Type |
Pure/NetApp |
Hitachi/NetApp |
Cloudian |
Public Cloud Wasabi |
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Monthly Rate & Billing Model |
$0.11/GB/Month No Egress or API feeBilled as recharge |
$0.04/GB/MonthBilled as recharge |
5 year (Hardware/software support purchase model) Not a recharge service, cost recovery. |
$.0059 per GB/month ($5.99 per TB/month), pay for amount used (cost pass-through) |
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Access Fees |
No Egress or API fee |
No Egress or API fee |
No Egress or API fee |
No Egress or API fee |
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Minimum Purchase |
100 GB |
1 TB |
112 TB |
1 TB Start out size |
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Purchase Commitment |
None |
None |
5 year (Hardware/software support purchase model) - not a recharge service |
None |
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Data Copies included |
1 copy of data |
1 copy of data |
1 copy of data (versioning can be implemented) |
1 copy of data (versioning can be implemented) |
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Data Durability |
99.9999% for both Block and NAS Storage (NAS storage include snapshots for quick data recovery at no charge) |
99.9999% for both Block and NAS Storage (NAS storage includes snapshots for quick data recovery at no charge) |
99.999999% |
Eleven 9's durability |
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Onsite Vendor Support |
Included (24x7) |
Included (24x7) |
Included (24x7) |
N/A |
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Onsite SBG Support |
Included (24x7) |
Included (24x7) |
Included (24x7) |
N/A |
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Flexible Storage Capacity |
100GB buy-in with flexible growth/reduction moving forward in increments as small as 1GB |
1 TB buy-in with flexible growth/reduction moving forward in increments as small as 1GB |
112 TB increments |
1 TB buy-in with flexible growth/reduction moving forward in increments as small as 1GB |
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Performance Array Monitoring |
Included |
Included |
Included |
N/A |
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Connection Methods |
Attached Block Storage, Mountable POSIX File-based storage, NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Object Storage |
Attached Block Storage, Mountable POSIX File-based storage, NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Object Storage |
Any application that speaks S3. API, Syncing App, Web Browser, POSIX File-based storage (NFS and CIFS), rclone, Globus, Cyberduck, Filezilla, WinSCP, s3 browser, etc... |
Any application that speaks S3. Wasabi Explorer for Windows and MAC (free app), Cloudberry, Cyberduck, rclone, Globus, etc... |
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Ability to Scale to Public Cloud |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Public Cloud |
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Backups |
Local snapshots and replication to private/public cloud |
Local snapshots and disaster recovery and backup options to SDSC in place and available for public cloud |
Replication to secondary data center available and option to tier into public cloud |
Can replicate to another availability zone |
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Request Service |
For all storage options you can request service by sending a message to: storage-ticket@berkeley.edu. |
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Ask Questions/ Get Help |
Send general questions or get help: storageteam@lists.berkeley.edu. |
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