Feature Specifications
Enterprise
Cluster specification and services
Maximum number of hosts
255
Maximum bare capacity of cluster
6 PiB
Maximum available capacity of cluster
2 PiB
Commercial support
✓
Block storage services
Heterogeneous cluster
✓
Cluster online extend/shrink
✓
Generic block storage services
✓
Storage auto-tiering
✓
Volume pinning
✓
All-flash storage
✓
Storage policy (per datastore/volume)
✓
Topology-aware data allocation
✓
VM-location-aware data migration
✓
Silent data corruption detection (block checksum)
✓
Thin provisioning
✓
Space reclamation of thin provisioned volumes
✓
Concurrent access of shared volume
✓
Storage volume QoS settings
✓
Tunable replication factor
2, 3
Increase number of replicas
✓
SCVM I/O redirection1
✓
Adjustable rate of data recovery and migration2
✓
Use RDMA protocol for inter-node data transmission
✓
Virtualization platforms
ELF (Built-in virtualization platform)
✓
VMware ESXi™
✓
Citrix® XenServer®
✓
Built-in VM services
Boost mode
✓
VM lifecycle management
✓
VM autostart with host
✓
VM online setting
✓
VNC console
✓
VM HA
✓
VM hot migration
✓
VM cold migration
✓
VM staged migration
✓
VM import and export
✓
VM CPU compatibility
✓
VM CPU exclusive
✓
VM Guest OS disk usage
✓
VM uptime
✓
VM group
✓
VM template
✓
VM template import and export
✓
VM instant snapshot
✓
VM instant/full clone
✓
Resource-aware VM auto migration
✓
Rule of placement group3
✓
Dynamic Resource Scheduler
✓
User-defined VM placement
✓
Data storage policy
✓
ISO management
✓
Virtual volume import and export
✓
VM/Virtual volume I/O QoS settings
✓
VM/volume I/O throttling
✓
Virtual NIC QoS settings
✓
VM Tools
✓
VM list export
✓
USB device passthrough
✓
USB passthrough
✓
PCI passthrough
✓
SR-IOV
✓
GPU passthrough
✓
vGPU
✓
Networking
Virtual distributed switch
✓
VLAN-based VM network
✓
Create multiple types of networks on one VDS
✓
VLAN with access or trunk port
✓
Network traffic QoS
✓
System network MTU modification
✓
NIC MTU modification
✓
NIC LLDP information
✓
NIC physical link status
✓
Operations and maintenance
Single cluster/site management
✓
Multiple cluster/site management
✓
Visualized cluster topology and management
✓
Visualized networks and management
✓
Visualized server components and management
✓
Server components status monitoring
✓
Multi-language support
✓
GUI-based installation and configuration
✓
Monitoring & analysis of physical server/component performance/capacity/status
✓
Monitoring & analysis of virtual resources performance/capacity/status
✓
Monitoring & analysis of networks performance/status
✓
Monitoring & analysis of cluster health status
✓
Monitoring & analysis of software stack resources/health status
✓
Host maintenance mode
✓
Host power operations
✓
Host uptime
✓
One click to shut down cluster
✓
Physical disk locator light
✓
Hard disk anomaly detection & isolation
✓
Network fail-slow detection & isolation
✓
Customized alerts
✓
SNMP support
✓
Email notification
✓
User-defined monitoring and analysis dashboard
✓
Monitoring data export
✓
Log collection
✓
Log search
✓
Log transmission
✓
SMTX OS one-click software upgrade
✓
Node role conversion
✓
Non Active-Active Cluster to Active-Active Cluster conversion
✓
Enable/disable cluster Boost mode
✓
Event auditing
✓
VM resource optimization
✓
Role-Based Access Control
✓
API & CLI
RESTful API
✓
API documentation
✓
CLI
✓
Snapshot Plan
Optional protected virtual machines
✓
Optional execution policy and retention policy
✓
MetroX (Active-Active Clustering)
Separate license required
Availability zone
✓
Automated disaster recovery for VM/application services
VM HA across availability zones
Free tools (independently released)
SMTX Cluster Installer for SmartX Halo Appliance
SMTX Migration Tool: Supports VM migration from VMware to SMTX ELF (SMTX VM service
platform)