NEC HYDRAstor

HYDRAstor is an award-winning product developed by NEC Corporation. It is a disk-based grid storage platform designed to provide long-term data retention by combining the high capacity of legacy storage solutions with scalable performance. A HYDRAstor storage system can consist of a single node or scale to more than 100 nodes. Each node is built on standard hardware components, including disk drives, memory, CPUs, and network interfaces.

All nodes are integrated through HYDRAstor software to form a single, unified storage pool. The software incorporates multiple distributed storage system features, including content-addressable storage, variable block sizes, inline global data deduplication, erasure coding, data encryption, Rabin fingerprinting, and load balancing.

HYDRAstor can be scaled from one node to 165 in a multi-rack grid appliance. Its bandwidth and capacity can be scaled separately by using different types of nodes:

• Hybrid nodes: add both performance and capacity.

• Storage nodes: add capacity.

HYDRAstor supports online expansion with automatic data migration and zero downtime. With a standard configuration, the product provides resiliency up to 3 concurrent disk/node failures. Failures are detected automatically, and data reconstruction is also performed automatically. This means that if the time between failures is sufficient for reconstructing data, the system will withstand any number of them. For more information about NEC HYDRAstor, refer to the NEC official website. 

To know more about the integration of NAKIVO Backup & Replication with NEC HYDRAstor, refer to the following articles: 

• Storage Integration Requirements

• Integrating with NEC HYDRAstor

• Backup Repository on Deduplication Appliance