Fujitsu is introducing the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS CD10000 storage system, designed to grow and last as long as the online data it hosts. The ETERNUS CD10000 system supports capacities up to 56 PB (56,000 TB) of online data through the aggregation of up to 224 storage nodes. Next year, Fujitsu will introduce updates allowing for far higher scalability.

The architecture of this new hyper-scale, distributed scale-out eco-system allows individual storage nodes to be added, exchanged and upgraded without downtime. Backwards compatibility means newer nodes can work alongside older.

Fujitsu has based the new enterprise-ready system on the open source-based storage software available from Red Hat, Inktank Ceph Enterprise and added functional enhancements to deliver management, with the system operated as a single pane of glass. When exchanging ETERNUS CD10000 hardware, just by swapping out old nodes for new nodes in sequence, data is transferred to the new nodes without downtime. When changing the configuration of nodes, the controller automatically restores data redundancy and automatically adjusts the load distributions.

The new ETERNUS CD10000 system is available now.