Aruba Block Storage

Reliability and performance for all your storage needs

  • Unlimited scalability for Cloud Servers or Kubernetes clusters
  • Maximum reliability in the Aruba Cloud digital ecosystem
  • Top performance, thanks to SDD NVMe disks
  • Simplifies data protection with Snapshots of volumes
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Create block storage volumes for your Aruba Cloud infrastructure

Block Storage lets you create storage volumes in highly scalable and flexible blocks, that can be resized and moved at any time and connected to Aruba Managed Kubernetes or Aruba Cloud Server services. Our block storage solution is based on SDD NVMe disks and Ceph storage technology, guaranteeing top performance and reliability. Our solution is available in two models: Availability Zone and Regional. The first allows you to store your volumes in triple replica within a single Availability Zone of your choice. The second allows you to build highly reliable infrastructure, with the option for synchronous replication copies of volumes in three different Availability Zones within a single Region. 

Aruba Block Storage Pricing

Description

Availability

Hourly price

Monthly price

BlockStorage Standard

Variant

Regional

€ 0.00009 + VAT / hour per GB

€ 0.0657 + VAT / month per GB

Variant

Availability Zone

€ 0.00005 + VAT / hour per GB

€ 0.0365 + VAT / month per GB

BlockStorage Performance

Variant

Regional

€ 0.00013 + VAT / hour per GB

€ 0.0949 + VAT / month per GB

Variant

Availability Zone

€ 0.00008 + VAT / hour per GB

€ 0.0584 + VAT / month per GB

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Snapshot cost: €0.00005 + VAT / hour. Monthly prediction: €0.,03600 + VAT.

Aruba Cloud Block Storage is ideal for:

Storing critical company data

Archive email servers, important documents and multimedia files securely, guaranteeing fast access and protection of sensitive data for business continuity.

Distributed web applications

Supports innovative technology, including blockchain and NFT, with scalable storage space and high performance, guaranteeing that modern web applications run smoothly and reliably.

Machine learning and Big Data

Manage large volumes of data required to train advanced AI models, enabling efficient analysis and state-of-the-art technical advances with optimized storage performance.

Data backup and restore

Protect your critical data with rapid snapshots and reliable data recovery, guaranteeing business continuity and security from accidental loss or cyber attacks.

Why choose Aruba Cloud Block Storage

Customizable volume dimensions

Create, resize and transfer all the volumes you need at any time. Dimensions are customizable, ranging from 1 GB to 16 TB and can be changed whenever you want.

Portable and interoperable

Import or export data from your volumes at any time, in full compliance with the latest policies.

Easy to use

Manage your volumes instantly with ease, using API and the command line, without having to instantiate them in advance from the management platform.

Instant Snapshots

Take all the volume Snapshots you want and archive them for as long as you need, only paying for the space you use.

Security and data redundancy

You can delete a Kubernetes cluster or a cloud server connected to Block Storage without losing any data. What's more, you can rely on the fact that volumes are saved on disks that are independent from the infrastructure they are connected to.

Transparent and predictable costs

With an hourly price plan for each GB instantiated, only pay for the size of your Block Storage volumes and the space used to archive your Snapshots.

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Regional

Availability Zone

Regional

Availability Zone
Availability

Regional

Regional

Availability Zone

Regional

Regional

Regional

Availability Zone

Availability Zone
Maximum volume size

Regional

16 TB

Availability Zone

16 TB

Regional

16 TB

Availability Zone

16 TB
Maximum bandwidth

Regional

150 Mb/s per volume

Availability Zone

150 Mb/s per volume

Regional

300 Mb/s per volume

Availability Zone

300 Mb/s per volume
IOPS/GB for write and read

Regional

15

Availability Zone

15

Regional

30

Availability Zone

30
Minimum IOPS per volume

Regional

100

Availability Zone

100

Regional

400

Availability Zone

400
Maximum IOPS per volume

Regional

20000

Availability Zone

20000

Regional

40000

Availability Zone

40000

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Virtual Data Center

Maximum scalability, unlimited traffic and contained costs in the Aruba Cloud digital ecosystem.

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All the storage space you need for archiving and protecting your data. Extensive availability of storage space for hosting large databases, archiving files or backup activities, is guaranteed by the use of hot swap disks and RAID hardware.

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Storage for VMware

With VPC Storage you get performance and archiving capacity for your VMware Cloud Foundation (VPC) infrastructure.  Unified Storage lets you archive and share files with VMWare Cloud Server and VMware Cloud Foundation.

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Aruba Cloud Object Storage

S3 compatible, allowing secure storage of large volumes of data, thanks to the immutability and maximum redundancy offered by triple replication on different disks.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Yes, volumes can be increased at any time and as often as you want. If the volume is formatted with the file system, it can simply be extended after the increase.

  • Block Storage is currently available at Data Center IT3. Volumes can be transferred from one location to another by exporting and subsequently importing the data.

  • Both cases involve making a copy of data to be able to recover it at a later date. Unlike a Snapshot, backup is usually archived on a different platform from the one housing the original data and in a separate location to offer greater security. Snapshot, on the other hand, uses the same storage platform and shares the same location.

  • The maximum size currently allowed per volume is 16 TB. We recommend, however, creating multiple smaller volumes, whenever possible.

  • The disks used by the Block Storage service are SSD disks with NVMe interface and are able to deliver up to 1,000,000 IOPS. Volume performance can obviously vary according to specific use cases and also based on the size of the blocks.

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