Ngenea Hub¶
Ngenea Hub is a centralized control system designed to manage the movement of data across diverse storage environments. It simplifies the synchronization of files, migration to more efficient storage, and ensures data is moved according to business needs.
Features¶
Web-Based Interface: A user-friendly dashboard that allows easy management of data across different storage systems, monitors synchronization, and sets migration policies without requiring technical expertise.
CLI and API: Command-line tools and APIs provide advanced users the flexibility to automate tasks and integrate them into larger systems, offering greater control and customization of workflows.
Pixstor Integration: Enables users to create Spaces for datasets across multiple Pixstor environments, managing synchronization, data manipulation through workflows, and system settings from a unified interface.
Uses¶
Data Synchronization: Effortlessly synchronize files across multiple storage environments, ensuring data consistency and accessibility.
Data Migration: Migrate data to more cost-effective storage resources, including cloud, object storage, NAS, and tape resources, based on usage and value.
Business-Driven Data Movement: Automatically move data into the most suitable storage resource, ensuring efficient allocation and reducing operational costs based on business needs.
Centralized Control: Streamline system settings and manage all Pixstor environments from one administrative interface, enhancing operational efficiency and control.
Ngenea Hub 2¶
Ngenea Hub 2 expands on the original Hub by giving you even more control, especially if you’re managing multiple Pixstor systems. It helps you create “Spaces”—logical groupings of datasets—so you can organize your data more effectively. With Ngenea Hub 2, you can synchronize data across different locations and automatically migrate it to the most cost-efficient storage, ensuring that your storage solution always aligns with your business goals.
What is the Role of the Ngenea Worker?¶
The Ngenea Worker is the engine that orchestrates the actual movement and synchronization of data behind the scenes. It carries out tasks like migrating data between storage tiers and ensuring that files are synchronized between Pixstor and other storage systems, including cloud platforms. By automating these tasks, Ngenea Worker saves time and ensures that your data is always in the right place, ready for when you need it.
How can I Interact with Ngenea Hub and Manage Data Easily?¶
You can use the Web UI or ngclient, a command-line tool designed to make managing data migrations simple and efficient. With either, you can:
Migrate: Move data between storage locations, such as from your local system to cloud storage.
Recall: Retrieve data from a lower-cost storage tier back to high-speed storage when needed.
Send: Transfer data to other endpoints like cloud platforms or long-term archives.
Send: Transfer data to other Hub sites.
To keep everything secure, token-based authentication is used, ensuring that only authorized users can execute data management tasks.
What does Ngenea Hub Orchestrate?¶
Ngenea HSM
Ngenea HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) is an important feature that helps you manage where your data is stored. Not all data is the same—some is accessed frequently, and some is rarely used. Ngenea HSM moves less critical data to more cost-effective storage options, like cloud storage or archives, freeing up your high-performance storage for the data you need most.
It integrates with popular cloud storage platforms like Amazon S3, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, as well as on-premises systems, so you can easily manage your data across different environments.
Pixstor
Pixstor is a powerful and flexible storage platform designed to manage large amounts of data in high-demand environments. It offers fast, reliable, and scalable storage that adapts to your needs, whether you’re working on-premises, in the cloud, or both. With Pixstor, you get a comprehensive solution to organize and control your data effectively.
How does Pixstor work?
Pixstor is built on two key components:
Infrastructure Management with Saltstack: Saltstack is an advanced tool that automates and simplifies complex tasks like setting up servers, updating software, and scaling resources. It helps keep your storage environment running smoothly and efficiently, without requiring much manual effort.
Configuration CLI (Command Line Interface): The Pixstor CLI is a tool that allows administrators to manage everything from setting up storage pools to controlling access and monitoring the health of the system. It also supports automation, so routine tasks can be integrated into your workflows easily. This means you can manage your storage with minimal hassle and greater precision.
Ngenea Hub Architecture Configurations¶
Ngenea Hub can be configured in different architectural setups, depending on the infrastructure and deployment environment. Each setup influences how Ngenea Hub and Workers interact with Pixstor nodes and other system components.
Pixstor-Centric Architecture: In this setup, the Ngenea Hub is hosted on a Pixstor Management Node. However, for most environments, the Worker is typically run on separate Ngenea nodes, rather than on the management node itself. This ensures better scalability and performance.
This configuration is ideal for environments where Pixstor serves as the primary storage infrastructure, and high-performance data access is required directly from the storage nodes.
Independent Hub Architecture: In this architecture, the Ngenea Hub is installed on a separate node running Enterprise Linux 8/9 (EL8/EL9), independent of the Pixstor storage system. Workers are deployed exclusively on the Pixstor nodes to handle the actual data processing tasks, allowing for separation between control and execution layers.
This configuration is suitable for organizations preferring to decouple the management layer from the processing layer, especially in cloud or hybrid environments.
Pick your area of interest:
Please refer to the provided links below, which will direct you to both the Administration and User Guides for Pixstor-Centric Architecture.
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