Cohesity C2500 Data Platform
Increase flexibility, visibility, and efficiency with the industry's only scalable, intelligent data platform

Overview:

Purpose-built to enable complete scalability, extensibility, and intelligence for organizations, the C2000 Series brings the value of Cohesity OASIS Operating Environment to the data center with robust, fault-tolerant hardware appliances. With the C2000 Series, organizations can start with the right-size data platform that is ideal for their environment, and scale out as needed, on their own terms, one node at time.

The Cohesity CS2000 series is a standards based hardware platform, built on high-end commodity components. Coupled with the Cohesity software, it offers a highly available and infinitely & incrementally scalable appliance that grows with the organization.

Core Platform Features:

Software Architecture:

The Hidden Cost of Trying to Make Legacy Solutions Work

Traditional storage architectures haven’t kept pace with the demands of explosive data growth and the need to support new workflows such as big data analytics. They have created silos of management, systems and workflows, leading to massive data sprawl and countless copies of data. Over the years, organizations have tried to address new business imperatives by adding, swapping, and integrating new solutions into legacy architectures. All these stopgap measures and purpose built solutions have created complex, isolated and disjointed processes for managing Data Protection, Test/Dev, File Services and Analytics workflows.

Cohesity was founded with the core principle of building the next generation, truly distributed general purpose storage system that eliminates the fragmentation in data storage and puts an end to the decades-long “Band-Aid effect” that has plagued data storage solutions.

Multi-layered Architecture

Cohesity has built a web-scale, distributed, multi-layered architecture that comprises of physical and software layers working together to support the application layer that ultimately manifests the many different storage workflows.

Physical Layer

It is physically a shared-nothing distributed architecture. It allows us to take advantage of low-cost, high performance commodity hardware. Each node has compute and storage resources connected by a dual 10GbE network. Intelligent software coordinates these nodes to operate as a single, coherent system. There is no single source of bottleneck allowing for infinite and complete linear scalability.

Base Layer: Cohesity Open Architecture for Scalable Intelligent Storage (OASIS) Filesystem

The Cohesity Data Platform is built on the Open Architecture for Scalable Intelligent Storage (OASIS), the only file system that combines infinite scalability with an open architecture flexibility that consolidates multiple data storage workloads onto a single platform.

OASIS was built from the ground up to be a fully distributed, strongly consistent and versatile storage system. A key part of the file system is our unique snapshotting technology called SnapTree. SnapTree allows for frequent and near instant snapshots, while keeping the data fully hydrated. This supports the most stringent RPO/RTO goals imaginable. Another key part is a true global deduplication capability that ensures that the same dedup block is not written twice across the cluster.

OASIS is itself comprised of several components, each one handling a key function to provide a completely fault tolerant, infinitely scalable architecture. These components enable seamless scaling of the system as new nodes are added. This also ensures high availability of all hardware and software components. They also abstract hardware resources including compute and different tiers of storage (SSDs, HDDs, Cloud) to manage Quality of Service levels for different workloads that co-exist on the system.

Service Layer

The full power of the OASIS file system is unleashed through a set of interfaces that together constitute the service layer. This layer is key to unleashing the power of the filesystem in numerous different storage workflows. The services layer supports storage protocols such as NFS and SMB. It enables replication between different clusters to support disaster recovery and data availability. It has built-in search and a MapReduce framework to support instant search and ad-hoc file content analytics.

Application Layer

The application layer supports all the storage workflows which currently include comprehensive data protection, Test/Dev, File Shares, Analytics and Cloud integration. The application layer provides cloning, scheduling, policy management, backup software, application adapters, integration with LDAP/AD, data archival, pre-built analytics apps, as well as a powerful framework for creating custom analytic applications. The storage workflows are controlled through a single pane of glass built on top of RESTful APIs.

Why Cohesity?

Legacy Secondary Storage

Fragmented, Inefficient, Dark Data

Hyperconverged Secondary Storage

Consolidated, Simple, Insightful

Specifications:

	C2300		C2500
	Per Node	Per Block (4 Nodes)	Per Node	Per Block (4 Nodes)
Hard Disk Capacity*	12 TB	48 TB	24 TB	96 TB
PCI-e-Based Flash Storage*	800 GB	3.2 TB	1.6 TB	6.4 TB
Memory	64 GB	256 GB	64 GB	256 GB
Compute	2x Intel Xeon E5-2600 2.4 GHz 8-Core CPUs	8x Intel Xeon E5-2600 2.4 GHz 8-Core CPUs	2x Intel Xeon E5-2600 2.4 GHz 8-Core CPUs	8x Intel Xeon E5-2600 2.4 GHz 8-Core CPUs
On-Board Network Connectivity	2x 10 GbE 2x 1 GbE 1x IPMI	8x 10 GbE 8x 1 GbE 4x IPMI	2x 10 GbE 2x 1 GbE 1x IPMI	8x 10 GbE 8x 1 GbE 4x IPMI
Operating Environment	Cohesity OASIS
Storage Protocol Support	NFSv3, SMB 3.0, REST
Data Protection API Support	VMware vSphere APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
High Availability	Native Site-to-Site Replication
Cloud Archive	Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3 & Glacier
Encryption	AES256
Dimensions	-	2U EIA Rack Units (19” x 22” x 3.5”)	-	2U EIA Rack Units (19” x 22” x 3.5”)
Weight	12.5 lbs.	100 lbs.	12.5 lbs.	100 lbs.
Power Supply	1,600 Watts (Maximum per block)
Voltage	2x 110/220V AC Auto-Sensing Fully Redundant Power Supplies (per block)
Frequency Required	47 Hz to 63 Hz
Thermal Rating	5,459 BTU/Hour (Maximum)
Operating Temperature	10°C to 35°C (50°F to 95°F)
Non-Operating Temperature	-40°C to -70°C (-40°F to -158°F)
Emissions and Immunity	FCC Part 15 Class A, ICES-003, CE, KCC, VCCI, BSMI, 80 PLUS Platinum
Safety	CE, GS, GOST-R, IRAM, BSMI

*All storage capacities listed are raw.

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Videos:

Cohesity Limitless Data Platform for Secondary Storage

This animated video will guide you through the Cohesity vision and highlight our goals of bringing the benefits of hyperconvergence to secondary storage by consolidating data protection, file shares, and other workflows onto a distributed, scale-out platform.

Cohesity UI & Dashboard Overview

The Cohesity user interface by doing a detailed overview of the dashboard.

Documentation:

Download the Cohesity C2000 Series Datasheet (.PDF)