Enterprise File Services With Ctera And Scality

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Enterprise File Services with CTERA and Scality Private cloud storage with CTERA Enterprise File Service Platform and Scality object storage Contents Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Use of cloud storage in enterprise data modernization ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Solution overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 CTERA Portal features ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................3 Centralized management .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................3 Storage-as-a-Service provisioning.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................3 Multi-tenancy and multi-tier management ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Integrations for data governance and security ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Scality RING and CTERA solution description ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 CTERA reference architecture ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 HPE-Scality reference architecture for object storage..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Deployment steps .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Hardware components .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Deployment ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Solution features ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Solution advantages ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Summary ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 For more information .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Appendix A. Hardware bill of materials .............................................................................................................................................................................................................20 Reference guide Reference guide Page 2 Executive summary Cloud computing is changing how customers purchase, deploy, and use storage. Clouds offer lowered cost of ownership, “infinite” scalability, and the promise of easy deployment for great business agility. This is very attractive for quick fixes, but when done ad-hoc, it can create issues with security, privacy, and governance of data. One solution is to create internal IT services which can offer quick deployment and data access from anywhere, while maintaining data security and compliance. This paper illustrates how you can build your own enterprise-grade private cloud storage solution, using CTERA’s Enterprise File Services Platform, Scality object storage platform, and HPE ProLiant and Apollo server systems. Use of cloud storage in enterprise data modernization IT centers can deliver a range of user device and application server-centric services faster to customers by adopting a modern, cloud-centric approach. The tools IT needs to achieve these must provide multi-tenant access with security and governance, and centralized delivery of updates and support. IT needs to monetize this service while lowering their own costs. Further, the services provided must be so productive and easy to use that consumers will happily adopt them and not create their own unnecessary “shadow-IT.” This transformation creates IT-as-a-Service. Example use cases: • Private enterprise file sync and share Today’s enterprise users want simple file sharing that lets them access their files from any device and collaborate with colleagues, especially on very large files too big to send back and forth via email. Enterprise IT, on the other hand, needs to ensure security and compliance and must keep corporate data safe. A private cloud storage solution enables users to securely sync files and folders across all devices, with easy-to-use file sharing and workspaces for team collaboration. • Branch storage modernization Managing storage at the Remote Office or Branch Office (ROBO) presents a unique challenge to Enterprise IT. The lack of onsite IT staff at remote sites and their large number make it difficult to find solutions that are adequate, cost-effective, and easy to manage. Traditional approaches to ROBO storage that rely on file servers and dedicated remote backup solutions are expensive and difficult to manage on a large scale. With a private cloud-integrated solution, remote office and branch employees enjoy fast local storage, while IT staff can centrally manage every aspect of the solution with no need for onsite presence. • Private cloud storage With the easy access to public cloud storage, line-of-business operations may inadvertently create “shadow-IT” problems. This can be avoided, and data security can be maintained with private cloud storage and easy to use self-service applications, managed by Enterprise IT. • In-cloud server data protection Enterprise organizations are increasingly managing applications entirely within the cloud, driving a need for new, modern approaches to protecting cloud-based server data. A cloud-agnostic backup solution enables organizations to protect data in their virtual private clouds (VPC) while also leveraging object storage to cost-effectively store backup data. • Endpoint backup Traditional data backups may have been done on tape, or sent to offsite storage, or put on an office NAS system. Maintenance, confidence, and ease of restore are all concerns to users. Instead, backing up to a private cloud makes backup and restore a self-service operation, with no help from local administration or the need to deal with physical media. Cloud storage offers an ideal solution for offsite data protection, but presents a challenge when it comes to recovery and access time when compared with local disk-based backup. A modern, hybrid approach combines the best of both worlds by performing dual backup: To a local appliance and to the cloud—in a single, efficient solution. Solution overview The Enterprise File Services Solution is a self-service storage portal application from CTERA combined with a private cloud object storage solution from Scality running on HPE ProLiant and Apollo server systems. This solution offers great customer ease and convenience like you would find in a public cloud solution, but without risking data security, compromising regulatory compliance, or creating uncontrolled costs from unmanaged growth. As compared to traditional data center storage solutions, the Enterprise File Services Solution provides more business agility, enabling line-of-business operations to quickly and simply deploy storage on their own instead of waiting for a storage administrator to create Reference guide Page 3 and provide the same services. But, like the traditional storage services, the Enterprise File Services Solution preserves data security and meets compliance and regulatory rules—requirements difficult to meet when using public cloud services. The three main components of the Enterprise File Services Solution are: Private cloud portal • Modern self-service user experience, easy to use with more business efficiency • Maintains IT control over data security, regulatory compliance, long-term costs, and SLA response • Easily scales from petabytes to exabytes of storage Software-defined object storage • Easy scalability to petabytes of storage and more, with support for multiple generations and form factors of servers in a single system • High performance and availability through a parallel, shared-nothing architecture • Built-in data reliability and protection against system or site-wide failures • Lowers costs by using general-purpose server hardware, easy to upgrade and migrate Purpose-built hardware platforms • Highest capacity of built-in storage without adding JBODs or other extensions • Lowest cost-per-GB solution for petabytes of long-term, archive storage • Built on low-cost standard server hardware—easy to maintain, upgrade, and adopt latest technology CTERA Portal features The CTERA Portal is a scalable file services delivery middleware that enables the IT-as-a-Service transformation through the creation, delivery, and management of storage-based services, including file sync and share, data protection, and remote office storage optimization. It utilizes object and file storage infrastructure to do so, and provides users a self-service portal to sync and share files, manage backup and recovery, and self-deploy storage for line-of-business needs, all while protected by IT-managed security and data governance. With a centralized management console for CTERA cloud storage gateways and endpoints, CTERA Portal makes it possible to extend data services to remote sites and mobile users, and manage anywhere from under a hundred to tens of thousands of connected appliances and endpoint devices. It allows enterprises and service providers to launch cloud storage services with ease, and with full white labeling. Centralized management CTERA Portal can remotely manage anywhere from under a hundred to tens of thousands of connected devices, including CTERA cloud storage gateways for remote sites and endpoint agents for individual users and mobile workforce. It allows you to launch and manage the following applications from your cloud storage infrastructure: • Continuous file sync and share between cloud folders, endpoints, and cloud gateways • Collaboration using shared project workspaces with user controlled permissions, and email invitations for ad-hoc access • Automated, bandwidth-optimized local and cloud backup with block-level deduplication • Selective file backup and “bare metal” disk-level backup • Application-aware backup for Microsoft® Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory, SharePoint, and Hyper-V • Remote access to files via standard browsers and CTERA Mobile App Storage-as-a-Service provisioning With CTERA Portal, users can create and manage service plans and group-based templates, determine storage quota, licensing, service expiration dates, and manage dunning procedures. CTERA easily integrates with Active Directory and LDAP for user authentication, as well as third-party billing and monitoring systems. Reference guide Page 4 Multi-tenancy and multi-tier management CTERA Portal supports multi-tier management, making it possible to delegate aspects of service delivery to channel partners or departments using virtual instances of the CTERA Portal that act as software blades sharing the same underlying infrastructure settings, but with complete isolation. Two types of “virtual portals” can be set up under a CTERA Portal Datacenter Edition installation: • Reseller Portal: Allows resellers to create their own service plans, and manage their customers independently of the hosting cloud service provider that owns and manages the storage infrastructure. Also includes the option of private branding per reseller. • Team Portal: Allows enterprise departments or individual businesses to manage their own storage services and provisioning. Includes the option to connect each team portal to a customer-defined authentication system (AD/LDAP) and collaborate in team workspaces. Integrations for data governance and security CTERA Portal integrates with anti-malware, enterprise mobility management (EMM), and data loss prevention (DLP) solutions to allow enterprises greater data visibility, control, and compliance. Scality RING and CTERA solution description CTERA reference architecture CTERA recognized the need for an integrated Enterprise File Services platform to enable the delivery and management of multiple cloud storage-based applications. Figure 1 outlines the key elements of the CTERA platform: • Storage infrastructure: The CTERA platform provides native support for Scality RING via an optimized S3-compatible connector. • Storage clients: The CTERA family of storage clients includes its cloud storage gateways, which are deployed in physical locations; desktop and server software agents; mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows® Phone smartphones and tablets; third-party Web browsers. The cloud storage gateways are all-in-one branch office “network-attached storage” (NAS), sync collaboration, and backup appliances. As part of their NAS functionality, they also offer “protocol conversion” of local network storage protocols such as CIFS, NFS, AFP, and FTP, thus enabling seamless deployment of cloud storage into existing IT infrastructure. The wide range of storage clients enables the CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform to support virtually any deployment scenario, including small businesses, enterprise ROBOs, individual users, mobile users, and anyone with a Web browser. • Device connectors: Handle the interface between the CTERA storage platform and its diverse set of storage clients. The device connectors communicate with cloud storage gateways over a Web-optimized protocol named CTTP. The gateways handle or convert any legacy protocol to CTTP, while the storage connectors convert CTTP to any proprietary cloud storage protocol. This makes the integration between cloud storage and existing IT systems seamless. • Security and acceleration: The CTERA platform has built-in functionality for security and acceleration. Data is encrypted as soon as it leaves the storage client, ensuring full protection in transit and at rest. Users have full control over encryption keys, ensuring that their sensitive data is not accessible to others. On mobile devices, access is verified with two-factor authentication, and data is encrypted, “sandboxed” (sequestered) from other applications with a remote wipe feature for lost or de-authorized devices. On the acceleration front, CTERA employs client-side source-based deduplication, compression, and bandwidth throttling. Any data redundancy is removed before transfer over the WAN, reducing network load and cloud storage space. These techniques also enhance performance for end users. • Multi-tenant, multi-tier management: Designed to support large deployments by service providers or large enterprises, the CTERA platform offers highly scalable provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance capabilities. Built-in templates and automation features help administrators control 100,000s of users and devices. There are several management tiers within the system to allow delegation of administration rights to customers, divisions, or agencies, and multi-tenancy keeps data and service plans separate between them. CTERA also tightly integrates with HPE Cloud Service Automation to manage all services centrally from a single console and accelerate deployment through a self-service portal for end users. Reference guide Page 5 • Enterprise integrations and APIs: Designed for integration with existing IT infrastructure, the APIs enable a seamless interface with important functions such as: existing directory services (e.g., Active Directory, LDAP) for user authentication and rights management; antivirus (AV) scanning to prevent, detect, and remove malicious software; enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions to manage and maintain the use of mobile devices; data loss prevention (DLP) to detect and prevent potential data breaches; Single Sign-On (SSO); billing systems; and a variety of other existing IT services. • Core file services: The CTERA platform includes several key application workflows. Among those are file sync and share (FSS) for secure sharing of files amongst devices and users whether roaming or at branch offices; hybrid backup that combines local backup with cloud backup of user workstations and servers, team collaboration tools that support ad-hoc and project-based sharing; remotely managed “network-attached storage” (NAS) for enterprise remote offices. The platform can be extended to support future applications, developed by CTERA or its partners (through APIs). Figure 1. CTERA platform logical architecture Key values in the CTERA solution PLATFORM REQUIREMENTS CTERA CAPABILITIES Flexible deployment The broad offering of Cloud Storage Gateway appliances, endpoint software agents, and mobile apps addresses multiple deployment scenarios. IT infrastructure integration CTERA Portal, the management system, includes enterprise integrations and APIs for billing, monitoring, and Web shop front. Scalability The CTERA platform scales to 100,000s of users and endpoint devices. Load balancing and high availability are supported for scale-out deployments. Security Data is encrypted in transit and at rest; User authentication is based on existing directory services (AD, LDAP); Mobile device data is “sandboxed” and can be wiped remotely; Single Sign-On (SSO) is supported. Performance Source-based deduplication, compression, and bandwidth throttling ensure that users enjoy maximum performance with minimum load on network and storage resources. Disaster recovery CTERA Portal, the management system, includes point-in-time recovery and built-in replication of the portal database. Service management CTERA Portal offers centralized provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance of large-scale deployments, with multiple tiers of management. Templates are employed to manage and configure a large number of remote appliances. Customization CTERA Portal look and feel can easily be “white labeled” to meet corporate or service provider branding needs. Storage applications CTERA has multiple built-in, full-featured storage applications such as: hybrid-backup of workstations and servers, truly private file sync and share (FSS), team collaboration services, mobile data access with BYOD support, and centrally-managed NAS appliances. Reference guide Page 6 HPE-Scality reference architecture for object storage HPE and Scality provide an integrated software solution using Apollo 4000 systems and the Scality RING for object storage. • Flexible computer/storage ratio—With one-, two-, and three-compute node chassis available, a customer can choose the HPE Apollo 4000 Series Server model that delivers the optimal compute-to-storage ratio for their object storage access workloads. • Power management—The HPE Advanced Power Manager provides dynamic power capping and asset management features that are standard across the HPE Apollo line. The Apollo 4000 family also yields power savings via shared cooling and power resources. • HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)—HPE iLO is an industry-leading embedded monitoring solution. The agentless management, diagnostic tools, and remote support of iLO allows for entire data centers to be managed with ease. • Density—Using 8 TB drives, a single Apollo 4510 Chassis can support up to 544 TB raw capacity at a size of just 4.3U. Within a 42U rack, nine chassis can achieve capacities up to 4.896 PB of raw capacity. • Availability—Scality RING software is designed from the ground up to support a 24x7 environment. Using a shared-nothing architecture, it is easy to deploy more performance and storage capacity, either independent of each other or simultaneously, while running I/O to the system. Software upgrades and hardware refreshes are elegantly handled via the manager UI without the need to schedule downtime or design migration strategies. In addition, disk failures, node outages, and site outages will not render the system unavailable. • Durability—Data durability is the measure of resiliency of the data itself in the face of environmental failures, such as disk corruption. This is commonly measured in “nines” in terms of mean time to data loss, as opposed to percentage of downtime as is done with availability. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Scality RING solution can provide varying degrees of nines in terms of data durability, with eight or nine nines as a typical starting point. The Scality RING is a software storage solution that enables enterprises to run multiple applications on a single, high-performance, enterprise-quality storage infrastructure. The RING runs on all HPE ProLiant and Apollo servers, providing simpler support, deployment, and hardware flexibility, and multi-generation Hewlett Packard Enterprise server support. The RING has native interfaces for file, object, and OpenStack® applications. The combination of software flexibility, multi-workload consolidation, and high scale and availability reduces total costs by 50–70 percent. Hosting the CTERA solution on top of a Hewlett Packard Enterprise-Scality storage foundation provides the following benefits: • Consolidate application silos by supporting the centralized CTERA storage in a single pool capable of also addressing other unstructured data workloads, via multiple native application interfaces. • Future-proof the storage environment by concurrently running multiple generations and configurations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers in the same cluster of storage—without hardware certification required and without painful data migration between different generations of proprietary storage appliances as the cluster scales. • Simplify the overall IT infrastructure by providing predictable, linear performance increases to support new application demands without complex capacity planning. The RING is designed and proven to handle millions of simultaneous user and application requests. • Completely independent scaling of performance and capacity with the RING’s software-based connector and storage server design and shared-nothing architecture. • Automatically and dynamically protect data using both erasure coding and full replicas, based on what works best for the application, increasing data durability at a significantly lower overhead than the convention “RAID, backup, and replication” model. • Increase availability and end user service quality over traditional dual-controller storage appliances with the RING’s shared-nothing storage architecture and native multi-site capabilities. Reference guide Figure 2. HPE-Scality RING hardware/software reference diagram Deployment steps Solution architecture Figure 3. Architecture Page 7 Reference guide Page 8 Solution components 1. Scality RING storage servers The core storage infrastructure is shown hosted on the HPE Apollo 4200 servers—starting with a minimum of six and growing as needed to increase capacity. These servers run the Scality RING to create a peer-to-peer network over 10 Gbps-Ethernet and guarantee fast and reliable access to data at all times. 2. Scality RING connector servers These are HPE DL360 Gen9 servers that run the Scality RING RS2 Connector software as a scalable access layer into the storage infrastructure. They provide S3 connectivity to the CTERA Portal servers. Additional connectors can be added for more throughput or connectivity options for additional applications. 3. CTERA Portal The CTERA Portal is hosted on a DL360 Gen9 server with VMware® ESXi 5.5. CTERA Portal connects to Scality RING through the load balancer and uses S3 APIs to access the Scality RING backend storage. The portal can scale out with additional ESXi VMs and hypervisors based on the number of connected devices. 4. CTERA virtual cloud storage gateway Used in remote site configurations, the virtual cloud storage gateway is hosted on a DL360 Gen9 server with ESXi 5.5. The virtual gateway maintains a smaller amount of local storage used to store data for local users from that site. The gateway can act as a file server and can selectively store backup and sync and share data to the portal for cloud backup and enterprise file sync and share respectively. 5. CTERA Agents CTERA Agents are installed on each of the endpoint devices to connect to the portal or the gateway based on their association. The Agents provide remote backup and file sync and share functionality to end users, whether those are workstations or servers. Hardware components The HPE Hardware platforms for this solution components are the DL360 Gen9 and Apollo 4200 servers. The solution architecture diagram in figure 3 shows their respective roles in the solution, and the Bill of materials (BOM) in Appendix A provides a more detailed breakout of platform components to help guide duplicating this solution. Deployment Deploy individual CTERA Team Portal for each of the collaborative groups. Following are the steps involved in deploying a Team Portal: 1. Planning/Provisioning/Procurement a. Gather requirements—collect the overall requirement in terms of: I. Number of people in the team. II. What is the overall backup requirement (schedule, capacity, etc.)? III. What is the overall file sync and share requirement (capacity, how many endpoint devices—servers, workstations, mobile devices, etc.)? b. Licenses—estimate and procure CTERA licenses required. Following are the license categories: I. Number of cloud storage gateways II. Number of Server Agents III. Number of workstation backup instances IV. Number of cloud drive instances (sync and share licenses) Reference guide Page 9 c. Storage: Ensure enough storage is available and configured on a Scality RING cluster. Figure 4. Storage volume dedicated for CTERA file sync and share and exported via NFS d. Provision the connectors on Scality to export the volumes via NFS or S3 based on the required mode of communication. 2. Login to the CTERA Portal server via SSH and edit the /etc/fs tab to include the Scality NFS mount point and issue a mount command as shown in figure 5. Figure 5. Administration screen 3. Log in to the CTERA Portal as a global administrator. 4. Create an admin user for the CTERA Portal. The admin user will then create accounts for the rest of the team. 5. Create a new storage node for the Scality NFS using Scality RING type and the mount point created in Step 2 as backing store. Reference guide Figure 6. Configure Scality node as a data store node 6. Configuring a new Team Portal (=tenant): Under the CTERA Portal, do the following: a. Create a new Team Portal under it (=tenant) b. Create a new Subscription Plan if storage or licenses restriction applies for this portal c. Attach the subscription plan as shown in figure 7 to the new Team Portal Figure 7. New portal creation Page 10 Reference guide Page 11 d. Define new users under the new Team Portal to be used by the CTERA Agents and the CTERA Cloud Storage Gateway when connecting to the portal e. Install CTERA Agent on an endpoint device (for example, Windows 7 workstation). Input the user name created in the previous section and log in to the portal f. Configure Remote Backup and file sync and share Figure 8. CTERA Agent installation g. Install Virtual Cloud Storage Gateway (optional, skip if Virtual Cloud Storage Gateway is already installed) h. Configure Virtual Cloud Storage Gateway by logging into the portal (input the gateway user name created in the section 6d for that) Reference guide Figure 9. Virtual gateway connection to portal 7. Branding the portal Create a Skin file to customize the look and feel of the portal to suit the company’s standards Figure 10. Branding the portal Page 12 Reference guide Page 13 Solution features These days, job requirements for business users include accessing data with a variety of devices—from mobile phones and tablets, to more traditional platforms like laptops and workstations. In a collaborative environment with multiple users and multiple devices, it becomes important to have instantaneous and consistent access to critical corporate data. There must never be a loss of data integrity due to modifications made by multiple users simultaneously. CTERA enterprise file sync and share functionality enables this level of enterprise file sharing, giving multiple users and devices the synchronization and data integrity required. The CTERA solution allows enterprises and service providers to set up file share and sync services for their users on public or “virtual private” environments. CTERA enables organizations to control critical corporate data that previously had been siloed on personal devices across geographies, allowing central management for compliance and security. CTERA provides an enterprise-grade alternative to third-party consumer cloud services, utilizing cloud infrastructure that is completely under IT’s control with end-to-end security based on client-side encryption, data-at-rest encryption, true multi-tenancy with physical separation of data, and user-controlled encryption keys. Sharing data among multiple devices with CTERA cloud drive The cloud drive function allows a user to create a private space on the cloud and access it from any device with CTERA Agent installed. Data on all such devices is synchronized, so any further modification made on one device is visible on all devices that share access to a given cloud drive. Figure 11. Sharing data among multiple devices In figure 11, John has two devices, a workstation and a laptop. He has CTERA Agent running on both of these devices. A cloud drive is configured on these devices using his Active Directory account. Both these devices see a consistent view of the shared cloud drive and any modification on one of the devices is synchronized with the cloud and the other device. Similarly, Jane has a workstation and a mobile device, one running a CTERA Agent and one running a CTERA Mobile App. Both these devices will see a consistent view of Jane’s cloud drive. Reference guide Page 14 Sharing files among multiple users Users can create and share files or share existing files with specific users on the portal and assign granular access permissions on shared files to individual users. Any create, modify, or delete operations on the shared files will be propagated to all the devices thereby keeping them synchronized. Figure 12. Sharing files among multiple users As shown in figure 12, John shared one of his folders—shown as the folder on the left center of figure 12—and assigns Jane read-write permission on it. Jane and John get a consistent view of this shared folder and can both make edits to the shared files. Figure 13 shows the screenshots of cloud drive as a folder on an endpoint-device and also the agent console showing the status of the connectivity. The cloud drive is synchronized with the portal. The cloud drive is also accessible directly from the portal by logging into the portal with appropriate user credentials. The portal administrator can centrally manage the cloud drive for all the users from the portal and enforce security and compliance. Optionally, other services like antivirus scanning can be enabled on cloud drives to detect and take action in case on security threats. Reference guide Page 15 Figure 13. Cloud drive and agent status Figure 14 also shows a cloud drive perspective of file sharing with multiple users, where User2 has shared files with User1 and User3. The folder shared from User2’s “devices” section is visible in User3’s “shared with me” section. As in the previous example, any change to the files by a given user will be synchronized with all other users. Figure 14. User2 sharing files with user3 Reference guide Page 16 Centralized management With a centralized management console for the CTERA Cloud Storage Gateway and endpoints, the CTERA Portal extends data services to collections of remote sites and mobile users ranging from under a hundred to tens of thousands of connected appliances and endpoint devices. The CTERA Portal also allows enterprises and service providers to launch fully white-labeled cloud-based storage services with ease. Centralized management of critical data is very important. A Portal administrator can modify or delete user content, alter access rights of users, and suspend synchronization of cloud data and shared data to or from other users. Compliance requirements such as retention policy can be managed centrally. File sync and share in remote office setup In remote office environments, Portal users want access to cloud data on a workstation but would like to avoid the higher network latencies from accessing the CTERA Portal on another site. In this case, a gateway administrator can configure a gateway to synchronize cloud drive data from the portal to a local cloud gateway, allowing a local copy to be accessed much faster while still maintaining the integrity of the data across sites. The user will be able to access the cloud drive as CIFS or NFS share present on the cloud gateway. In figure 15, user Jane has a workstation in the remote site and two devices in the main site (where the portal resides) accessing her cloud drive. To provide faster access to her cloud drive data from her remote office workstation, an administrator on the cloud gateway has configured her cloud drive folder to be accessible through the remote office cloud gateway. Figure 15. Sync Gateway configuration Figure 16 shows user Jane’s view of her cloud drive from the device connecting to the portal (top section) and from the device connecting to the gateway (bottom section). All devices are synchronized, even though they’re on different sites. Reference guide Page 17 Figure 16. Cloud drive on portal and gateway File sharing with public users Sometimes it becomes necessary for an enterprise user to share a file with a user on the Internet in a time-bound manner. This feature is implemented by generating a publicly visible URL for existing files and sharing the URL with the intended user. In figure 17, the user generates a public link for one of his documents and copies it to clipboard. The link can then be shared with users on the Internet for download, and the expiration date will remove public access after 19 November 2015. Figure 17. File sharing with public URL Reference guide Page 18 Endpoint and server backup CTERA provides both direct-to-cloud and appliance-assisted hybrid cloud backup modes that optimize recovery times and data protection performance, with fully centralized remote management. The CTERA Agent for client devices provides secure cloud based backup using encrypted data transfers. Depending on customer policy, the backups can either be selective or for all data at each remote office. The administrative policies can invoke backup and restore from a central site using schedule templates. CTERA’s backup solution covers multiple platforms, use cases, and endpoint devices including: • Lightweight CTERA Agent supports laptops and servers • File-level backup on rule-based file sets and/or specific folders • “Bare metal” (disk image) backup • Both clientless and agent-based local backup • Support for Windows workstations and servers, Linux®, and Mac platforms • Support for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Active Directory • Thin-provisioned automated snapshots for versioning, with administrator-controlled retention policy, both locally and in the cloud • All backups are incremental (only changed blocks sent) after the initial backup with deduplication done at the source • Same agent also offers other use cases like enterprise file sync and share and also integrates with CTERA cloud storage gateways • Offline seeding capability for large initial cloud backups Figure 18 shows cloud backup configurations for Portal users and remote office users. Portal users connect directly to the Portal for backup and restore operations. Remote office users connect to their local Gateway with backups being stored locally. The Gateway administrator can selectively backup user data to the central Portal as needed to provide additional data protection for high-value data. Figure 18. Backup using CTERA Agent Reference guide Page 19 Solution advantages All these features are part of a solution built with robust and reliable hardware and software focused around scalability and security. The HPE Apollo 4200 provides a very reliable hardware platform for Scality RING’s high-capacity and high-performance object storage cluster. Scality provides a reliable and scalable object storage back end for the CTERA Portal. Together, the CTERA Portal on DL360 Gen9 Systems and Scality RING storage on Apollo servers provides businesses with a reliable, secure, and feature rich enterprise file sync and share solution. Summary Companies can build their own enterprise-grade private cloud storage solution that enables quick deployment and data access from anywhere, while maintaining data security and compliance. This solution can be created in a cost-effective manner using CTERA’s Enterprise File Services Platform, Scality RING object storage platform, and HPE ProLiant and Apollo server systems. A private-cloud solution has security and compliance advantages over a public cloud. Using object storage systems and tools to build self-service portals, a private cloud can also have convenience and ease-of-use similar to features available in public clouds. For more information Email [email protected] for questions about HPE hardware in a CTERA solution. With increased density, efficiency, serviceability, and flexibility, the HPE ProLiant Apollo 4500 family server is the perfect solution for scale-out storage needs. To learn more visit: hpe.com/info/Apollo To support the management and access features of object storage, and seamlessly operate as part of HPE Converged Infrastructure, the HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Server brings the power, density, and performance required. HPE scale-out object storage solutions on industry-standard servers are at hpe.com/servers/bigdata HPE’s solutions for Scality at hpe.com/servers/objectstorage-scality HPE Secure Encryption at hpe.com/servers/secureencryption HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) at hpe.com/info/ilo Reference guide Page 20 Appendix A. Hardware bill of materials Supervisor server bill of materials (BOM) QUANTITY PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 1 755259-B21 HP DL360p Gen9 CTO Server 1 755384-L21 HP DL360 Gen9 Intel® Xeon® E5-2630v3 FIO Processor Kit 2 726719-B21 HP 16GB (1x16GB) Dual Rank x4 DDR4-2133 CAS-15-15-15 Kit 1 665243-B21 HP Ethernet 10Gb 2P 560FLR-SFP+ Adptr 1 749976-B21 HP H240ar 12Gb 2-ports Int FIO Smart Host Bus Adapter 1 766211-B21 HP DL360 Gen9 LFF P440ar/H240ar SAS Cbl 2 657750-B21 HP 1TB 6G SATA 7.2K rpm Gen9 (3.5-inch) SC Midline 1yr Warranty Hard Drive 2 720478-B21 HP 500W Flex Slot Platinum Hot Plug Power Supply Kit 1 789388-B21 HP 1U LFF Gen9 Easy Install Rail Kit Connector server bill of materials (BOM) QUANTITY PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 1 755259-B21 HP DL360p Gen9 CTO Server 1 755384-L21 HP DL360 Gen9 Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 FIO Processor Kit 1 755384-B21 HP DL360 Gen9 Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 Processor Kit 2 726719-B21 HP 16GB (1x16GB) Dual Rank x4 DDR4-2133 CAS-15-15-15 Kit 1 665243-B21 HP Ethernet 10Gb 2P 560FLR-SFP+ Adptr 1 749976-B21 HP H240ar 12Gb 2-ports Int FIO Smart Host Bus Adapter 1 766211-B21 HP DL360 Gen9 LFF P440ar/H240ar SAS Cbl 2 657750-B21 HP 1TB 6G SATA 7.2K rpm Gen9 (3.5-inch) SC Midline 1yr Warranty Hard Drive 2 720478-B21 HP 500W Flex Slot Platinum Hot Plug Power Supply Kit 1 789388-B21 HP 1U LFF Gen9 Easy Install Rail Kit Reference guide Storage node bill of materials (BOM) QUANTITY PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 1 808027-B21 HP Apollo 4200 Gen9 CTO Svr 1 806563-B21 HP Apollo 4200 Gen9 LFF Rear HDD Cage Kit 1 803306-L21 HP Apollo 4200 Gen9 Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 FIO Processor Kit 1 803306-B21 HP Apollo 4200 Gen9 Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 Processor Kit 8 726719-B21 HP 16GB 2Rx4 PC4-2133P-R Kit 1 665243-B21 HP Ethernet 10Gb 2P 560FLR-SFP+ Adptr 1 813546-B21 HP SAS Controller Mode for Rear Storage 2 797273-B21 HP 2TB 6G SATA 7.2K rpm LFF Low Profile Midline 1yr Warranty Hard Drive 1 797291-B21 HP 800GB 12G SAS ME Gen9 3.5-in LP Enterprise Midline 3yr Wty SSD 24 797269-B21 HP 6TB 6G SATA 7.2K rpm Gen9 Low Profile Midline 1yr Warranty HDD 1 806565-B21 HP Apollo 4200 Gen9 IM Card Kit 1 806562-B21 HP Apollo 4200 Gen9 Redundant Fan Kit 2 720479-B21 HP 800W FS Plat Ht Plg Pwr Supply Kit 1 822731-B21 HP Apollo 4200 Gen9 Hardware Rail Kit Learn more at hpe.com/servers/bigdata Sign up for updates Rate this document © Copyright 2016 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP. 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