Reutilization of Existing Resources
With its wide compatibility, HBlock can manage idle storage spaces in various servers, integrate these spaces into a storage pool, and provide high-availability and high-performance virtual disks for other servers through the iSCSI protocol. Today, the demand for storage capacity grows with rapid business development, while various servers are idled, causing a waste of resources. In response, HBlock is here to provide solutions for quick deployment and expansion to help you improve storage resource utilization without additional costs and investment. It also supports rolling updates of businesses to meet the changing needs for capacity and performance in the future.
A Small Distributed System with High-availability Storage
HBlock can manage the physical disks of application nodes and convert the physical disks into virtual disks that can be mounted to each application node, so that the disk each application accesses is a high-availability virtual disk. This not only makes it easier for applications to achieve high availability, but also reutilizes the storage resources of application nodes without the purchase of additional storage hardware. reducing TCO for users.
Autonomous and Controllable
By managing a newly created storage resource pool with HBlock, the user can maintain autonomy over their storage servers, which means that they can not only use HBlock for storage management but also deploy other applications on their hardware to make full use of it. Traditional storage products based on the integration of software and hardware, or distributed storage solutions, require exclusive access to the equipment. Users can only perform limited operations through the user interface, reducing their autonomy over their equipment. By using HBlock to manage their storage clusters, users have full autonomy over their resource pools and can perform operations more freely. For later upgrades or expansion of the resource pools, servers of any specification and model can be used without causing any vendor lock-in issues, so that clients can flexibly choose appropriate hardware based on their own business requirements and budgets, thus saving costs.