Timeline of FlexSDS

FlexSDS has been dedicated to the research and design of distributed storage for nearly 10 years in the market. We will continue to invest all our efforts into the research and design of distributed all-flash block storage and file storage.

  • 2016: Introduced All-Flash-Storage Hardware with Polling mode, OS bypass for Scale-up, and NVMe-oF Target.
  • 2017: Added Hybrid Support for SATA/SAS HDD/SSD, Log Structured Volume, Zero-copy snapshot, and WEB Management.
  • 2018: Implemented Auto-recovery for disk/node faults with replacement, Scale-out, iSCSI, and iSER target.
  • 2019: Introduced 2 Nodes HA with Witness Services, Auto, and incremental Recovery.
  • 2020: Added External Backend support for iSCSI, iSER, NVMe-oF, JBOD, FBOD, and EBOD.
  • 2021: Introduced Enterprise Features including Storage Journal, Remote Mirror Target, and Authorization.
  • 2022: Implemented Erasure Code with Large-scale EC supporting up to 256 members.
  • 2023-2024: Introduced Distributed File System with Parallel and User mode DFS for AI, along with Native API and NFSv3 support.‌
Time line of FlexSDS distribute storage and file system