Storage
Snapshots
KorGrid provides comprehensive, built-in data protection and business continuity capabilities that safeguard your critical operations from cyberattacks, ransomware, hardware failures, accidental deletions, natural disasters, and extended outages. Unlike traditional solutions that require separate backup software and complex integrations, KorGrid delivers enterprise-grade BC/DR functionality natively within the platform.
Core Capabilities
Snapshots - Point-in-Time Protection
Capture comprehensive point-in-time copies of your entire infrastructure or individual components for rapid recovery with minimal data loss.
What you can protect:
- Complete systems (System Snapshots) - Everything in your environment
- Individual virtual machines - Specific workloads with customizable schedules
- NAS volumes - File-level data with granular recovery options
- Tenant environments - Isolated customer or departmental systems
Recovery scenarios:
- Roll back entire system after failed updates or security incidents
- Restore individual VMs without affecting other workloads
- Recover accidentally deleted files from NAS snapshots
- Quickly spin up development environments from production snapshots
Key features:
- Automated scheduling with flexible retention policies
- Space-efficient storage through deduplication
- Application-consistent snapshots with guest agent integration
- Instant snapshot creation with minimal performance impact
Replication
Site Sync
Replicate VergeOS and VMware systems and data to KorGrid for comprehensive backup and disaster recovery protection.
Replication capabilities:
- Automated synchronization with customizable schedules and retention
- Bandwidth optimization with compression and throttling controls
- Encrypted transmission ensuring data security in transit
- Multi-site support for complex replication topologies
Common deployment scenarios:
- Offsite backup - Replicate to secondary data center for data protection
- Disaster recovery - Maintain hot standby site for business continuity
- Multi-location distribution - Keep data synchronized across branch offices
- Cloud archival - Long-term data retention
Advanced features:
- Incremental sync technology minimizes bandwidth usage
- Automatic failover and failback capabilities
- Cross-site workload mobility
- Centralized monitoring and management
Repair Servers
Intelligent data recovery system that automatically attempts to repair corrupted or missing data blocks by retrieving them from synchronized remote systems.
How it works:
- Monitors data integrity across the KorGrid infrastructure
- Automatically detects and attempts to repair data inconsistencies
- Leverages site sync destinations as repair sources
- Operates transparently without administrator intervention
Benefits:
- Reduces recovery time from hardware failures
- Minimizes the need for full system restores
- Maintains data availability during repair operations
- Provides additional layer of protection beyond traditional redundancy
vSAN
KorGrid's Virtual Storage Area Network (vSAN) is a fundamental component that tightly integrates storage into the Virtual Data Center (VDC) product. It provides a distributed, multi-tiered storage foundation for all workloads.
Key Features
- Direct management of storage hardware: Eliminates storage abstraction layers for improved performance
- Comprehensive monitoring and reporting: Real-time visibility into storage performance, capacity, and health
- Intelligent load balancing: Automatically distributes I/O across available storage devices
- Data efficiency: Built-in deduplication reduces storage consumption
- Data integrity: Continuous bit-rot detection protects against silent data corruption
- Self-healing: Automatic recovery from hardware failures
- Horizontal scalability: Add storage capacity and performance by adding nodes
- Effortless virtual disk management: storage abstraction provides simplified and flexible virtual disk provisioning and management
More information can be found here: vSAN Architecture
Integrated Data Protection
- Snapshots - Point-in-time copies for quick recovery
- Replication - Copy complete systems along with data to another location for archival and disaster recovery
- Backup integration - Compatibility with external enterprise backup software
File-Level Storage
- File Management - easily upload and manage individual ISO images, VM disk images, and other files to use in your system and share among sites and tenants.
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) - embedded NAS services allow you to create volumes for file-level access within your tenant, in order to: share across workloads, easily import/export data for backups or migration, mount external file systems, and more.