VX-OS Architecture
The Vexata Operating System (VX-OS) is the core of the Active Data Architecture, a scalable, enterprise grade data fabric optimized for high performance, database, analytical and machine learning workloads.
VEXATA OPERATING SYSTEM (VX-OS)
Vexata has re-architected the storage controller architecture for active data by completely separating the control and data paths through the Vexata Operating System (VX-OS). This distributed architecture provides scalable, lightning fast I/O processing through a cut-through data path that adds negligible latency, allowing the system to fully utilize high performance NVMe Flash and Memory-Class (3D XPoint) SSD media via standard interfaces such as Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet (NVMe over Fabric). The result is simplified deployments, amazing performance and disruptive economics for enterprise transactional, analytical and machine learning/deep learning ecosystems.
- Scalable, distributed processing
- Lockless, user-space-software
- Cut-through datapath
- In-memory metadata
- Parallel SSD I/O algorithms
VX-OS Benefits
Massive System
Throughput
Distributed platform with highly parallelized access for large sequential data sets
Cut-through
Data Access
Direct, low latency access to NVMe and 3D XPoint SSD media for unmatched performance
Low System
Latency
Consistent latency delivered at scale and under load for predictable performance
Enterprise
Resiliency
High-availability storage platform with redundant modules and NDU
Full Data
Services
Thin provisioning, data at rest encryption, space efficient snaps and clones
DATA AT
REST ENCRYPTION
Comprehensive, always-on 256 bit encryption with zero performance hit
THE VEXATA ACTIVE DATA ARCHITECTURE ELIMINATES I/O LATENCY
Vexata uniquely addresses performance of enterprise database and analytics systems by offering an software stack that delivers cut-through data path processing using dedicated acceleration hardware in a scalable, distributed data path architecture. Separation of the data and control traffics completely offloads all of the control path processing to minimize internal system latency and fully utilize the NVMe and 3D XPoint solid state media. This provides the assurance that as the media evolves, delivering lower I/O latencies, the VX-OS architecture will maintain the lowest possible system latency to the applications.
