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VAST DBox DF-3015V2 (Ceres)
High-end · all-flash · scale-out - 1U Ceres flash enclosure (BlueField-3 DPUs) that adds QLC capacity and SCM write buffer to a VAST cluster.
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| OEM | VAST Data |
| Family | VAST Data Platform (DBox) |
| Class | High-end |
| Architecture | Scale-out cluster |
| Status | Current |
| Released | n/a |
| Operating system | VAST AI Operating System (VAST DataStore) |
| Controllers | n/a |
| Nodes | n/a |
| Cache / memory | n/a |
| Availability | n/a |
| Capacity and media | |
| Media | All-flash |
| Drive types | QLC NVMe, Storage-class memory |
| Drive note | Per DBox: 22 x E1.L hyperscale NAND flash SSDs (QLC per VAST) + 8 x U.2 SCM SSDs, PCIe Gen4; 338TB HyperScale Flash + 6.4TB persistent memory. |
| Flash drive sizes | n/a |
| HDD sizes | n/a |
| Maximum drives | n/a |
| Controller enclosure | 1U, 30 drive bays |
| Expansion | n/a |
| Raw capacity | n/a |
| Cluster maximum | n/a |
| Effective maximum | n/a |
| Data reduction | Global similarity-based data reduction plus deduplication and compression; no ratio published on the hardware datasheets |
| Protection | Erasure coding (locally decodable, up to 146D+4P) |
| Protection note | Wide locally decodable erasure-code stripes survive 4 SSD failures (146D+4P = ~2.7% overhead on large clusters); DBox-HA option uses narrower stripes so a whole DBox can fail; metadata triplication. Two active/active DTrays per DBox, each with an NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU. Indestructible (immutable) snapshots. Data services per the VAST AI OS white paper (vastdata.com/whitepaper.pdf). |
| Performance and connectivity | |
| Maximum IOPS | n/a |
| Maximum throughput | n/a |
| Latency | n/a |
| Conditions | Per-DBox capacity 338TB HyperScale Flash plus 6.4TB SCM; cluster maximum raw and performance not published. One 1U node = one DBox; clusters combine DBoxes with CNodes (disaggregated shared-everything). I/O 4 x 200GbE or 4 x HDR200 IB. Power per DBox: 368W idle, 400-728W active, 850W max. |
| Protocols | NFS, SMB / CIFS, S3 object, NVMe over TCP, InfiniBand / RDMA file |
| Fibre Channel | - |
| Ethernet | 200 GbE |
| Host ports | n/a |
| Limits | |
| Volumes / LUNs | n/a |
| File systems | n/a |
| Snapshots | n/a |
| Management and support | |
| Management | VAST Management Service (VMS); VAST Uplink |
| Power | 850 W |
| Positioned for | AI / ML, HPC, Analytics |
| Warranty | n/a |
| Design terms | Single namespace (DASE cluster) · Block volume · Host group · Native replication |
| Data services | |
✓ Deduplication
✓ Compression
? Thin provisioning
✓ Snapshots
✓ Clones
✓ Asynchronous replication
✓ Synchronous replication
✓ Active-active / metro
✓ Encryption at rest
✓ Immutable snapshots
? Ransomware detection
✓ Quality of service
? Automated tiering
? Cloud tiering
? VMware vVols
✓ Kubernetes CSI
✓ Native file services
✓ Native object (S3)
✓ Non-disruptive upgrades
✓ Scale-out
✓ stated by the OEM · ✕ not offered · ? not stated | |
| Source | |
| Product page | https://kb.vastdata.com/docs/dbox-df-3015v2df-3060v2-ceres-datasheet |
| Datasheet | https://kb.vastdata.com/docs/dbox-df-3015v2df-3060v2-ceres-datasheet |