Free BonFire SOHO
for Small and Home Offices
A free version of BonFire
SAN is available for experimental, small business, and
personal use. Our SOHO verion supports all of the
functions available in the base BonFire product.
SOHO systems can be managed from BonFire's centralized web
console (though they must be run as a management cluster
separate from ful-service product). SOHO supports all
networking and hardware options available in the base
BonFire product. SOHO systems can be configured as
active/active or active/passive mirrored high availability
solutions. If a SOHO customer wants or needs some form
of support, support is available from WildFire at our
standard rates shown below.
The limitations to the
SOHO product are:
| 1. |
Encryption and high speed
RDMA HA are not available. |
| 2. |
Usable ZFS (hard disk)
space is limited to 4 decimal terabytes. |
| 3. |
Usable ESS high-speed
all-Flash space is limited to 1 decimal terabytes. |
| 4. |
Each customer is limited
to 4 SOHO systems |
| 5. |
SOHO systems are not
resaleable |
BonFire
SOHO SAN software
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices |
| Product Option |
Per
System |
| BonFire SOHO SAN incl HA |
free |
Optional annual support programs for
BonFire SOHO SAN
|
| Basic Support for BonFire
SOHO SAN software |
274 |
Sample system build cost and performance. The table
below shows the cost of building a one-terabyte all-Flash
BonFire SOHO storage system using typical commodity
hardware:
| Sample
Hardware for BonFire
SOHO SAN |
| Component |
Total Price |
| Supermicro 1U
sys-1018D-73MTF with 8 2.5" hot swap bays |
623 |
| Intel 3.5ghz E3-1275v3 |
52 |
| 8GB
(2x4GB) DDR3 RAM |
116 |
|
SolarFlair dual port 10gigE |
216 |
|
1 boot SSD or DOM |
30 |
| 5
Crucial MX500 256GB @ $65 |
325 |
|
Total Build Cost |
1,362 |
When configured RAID-5, the above system will write up to
2GB/second of net data (after allowance for RAID traffic).
With adequate qdepth, its internal 4KB random write IOPS rate
is
around 500,000. Performance levels with a single 10gigE
network port are around 75,000 per second, while a single
RDMA port increases IOPS rates to
approximately 500,000. All these are profoundly faster
than almost all solutions currently available.
Cost control for
OEMs. If you intend to market large quantities of
small SAN systems, we can offer you special reduced pricing
on these.
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