Managed Storage

Managed Storage product offers customers a storage solution that is logical, secure, and readily available. It follows an "as a service" model, allowing customers to enjoy storage services with ease and convenience.

The Managed Storage service utilizes a monthly recurring charge (MRC) for net capacity utilization and performance* and a non-recurring charge (NRC) for the initial installation.

The products offer several benefits, including:

  • Efficient utilization of available storage capacity

  • Easy maintenance of the environment

  • Storage capacity offered as a service, making it easier to scale the environment

  • Availability and performance* guaranteed in contract

Main Advantages of Managed Storage

The main advantages of Managed Storage for Equinix Brazil shows the table below.

Cost Optimization Performance* Availability Compliance

Managed Storage helps Equinix Brazil:

  • Eliminate capital costs

  • Reduce operating costs

  • Ensure cost predictability

Equinix Brazil benefits from:

  • Performance Guarantee

  • Fiber network Channel with two-speed options

  • Three levels of performance

Equinix Brazil provides:

  • Reliability and 24x7 support

  • Availability SLA (varies from one protocol to another) providing a fully redundant environment

Equinix Brazil maintains:

  • Supports for business continuity and disaster recovery (optional feature)

  • Settings applied to isolate access between clients

Note:

(*)The performance guarantee is only available for the Block protocol, according to the contracted Tier.

 

Modalities

The different implementation modalities are described below.

 

Equinix Brazil’s block storage service provides exclusive access to distributed and configured block storage with different performance tiers. The storage is hosted in their datacenter and is specifically designed for customer use.

The system automatically distributes logical volumes across different disk layers based on the usage and access patterns of the client's systems and equipment.

The Block modality is contracted for the level of performance with the delivery of the product defined in the guarantee of IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second), which establishes the processing performance of requests made to the volume of data by a single server.

The modality offers three levels of performance:

  • Tier 1: High performance level, with a guaranteed 4.6 IOPS per contracted Gigabyte

  • Tier 2: Medium performance level, with a guaranteed 1.2 IOPS per contracted Gigabyte

  • Tier 3: Low performance level, with a guaranteed 0.1 IOPS per contracted Gigabyte

Customers have an option to choose the Block Inter IBX storage, providing them with the highest level of data availability and redundancy across Equinix Brazil's IBXs.

The guaranteed redundancy is based on the following principles:

  • During the product's contract period, customers can choose their primary (SP2) and secondary (SP3) sites (the Sao Paulo IBX Data Centers).

  • Data replication between these sites happens asynchronously. This means that any changes made on the primary node are initially stored in the replicator’s storage. Once these updates are complete, they are then asynchronously transferred to the secondary storage through several replication lanes. This process leads to achieving various replication point objectives (RPOs), ensuring data consistency and reliability.

 

Protected Volume PRO Incremental Copies
1 to 20 TB 2 hours Up to 1 TB
21 to 40 TB 4 hours Up to 2 TB
41 to 60 TB 6 hours Up to 3 TB

 

Files, folders, and directories are stored based on File storage. File storage is offered based on an SMB or NFS file share. In contrast to Block storage, the file system of File storage is provided by Equinix.

Equinix Brazil's File storage service provides exclusive file storage for customers hosted at their data center.

By utilizing low-performance disks, customers can use volumes as mapped network drives or directly connect them as logical disks for client-server applications.

You can access storage volumes using the following protocols:

  • SMB (Server Message Block) 2.0 or higher: This protocol is suitable for Windows and Linux servers, allowing multiple servers to access the storage. The featured volumes support NTFS and EXT3 or higher file systems.

  • NFS (Network File System) v3 or higher: Designed for Linux and Windows servers, this protocol enables multiple servers to access the storage. The featured volumes also support NTFS and EXT3 or higher file systems.

 

Object storage is a method that is particularly suitable for storing large quantities of unstructured data.

The Object storage modality provides unstructured data storage using REST objects. The infrastructure ensures highly scalable storage with 99.999999999% durability of the stored data.

In the Object storage modality, there are two performance levels available: Tier 1 or Tier 2. Access to the storage can be contracted through HTTP or HTTPS protocols.

It's important to note that sales contracts for capacities up to 100 TB are limited, but there is an alternative option to contract the Service Infrastructure product Port.

This allows unlimited access through URLs and provides REST API support for all storage classes, including operations such as PUT, COPY, POST, GET, LIST, and DELETE.