¶ WELCOME TO THE STEELDOME WIKI
Welcome to the official SteelDome Wiki — your central resource for technical documentation, deployment guides, and best practices for StratiSTOR, StratiSERV, and HyperSERV. Learn how to deploy, manage, and optimize SteelDome’s software-defined platform for virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure, and enterprise storage.
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🌍 Who We Are SteelDome creates foundational software for the modern data world. We build intelligent, scalable software that powers all data-related functions within an organization — from storage and virtualization to security and orchestration. While good software provides features and flexibility, great software delivers them at any scale — across any workload, environment, or industry. That’s what we do at SteelDome. |
🎯 Our Mission Our mission is clear: To provide innovative, enterprise-class software that empowers organizations to store, operate, and protect their data — efficiently, securely, and without compromise. We believe this level of capability should not be reserved for just the largest enterprises. It should be accessible to all organizations, across every industry, everywhere. |
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⏱️ Why Now We’re living in the middle of a global data explosion. From edge computing and AI pipelines to virtual desktops and massive storage footprints, the scale and complexity of modern infrastructure have grown faster than legacy tools can handle. For many organizations, yesterday’s models — built around rigid architectures, expensive appliances, and tightly coupled systems — are no longer sustainable. A new approach is needed. |
🔑 What Can Be Done The answer lies in software. Specifically, software that is free from the constraints of legacy infrastructure — built to scale, built to adapt, and built to empower. A software-defined foundation can break free from the rigid patterns that have governed IT for over 40 years. It provides the flexibility, efficiency, and intelligence needed to meet modern challenges head-on. |
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— Freedom Through Software — In today’s commoditized hardware landscape, true differentiation comes from the software that drives it. SteelDome accelerates time-to-value by transforming cutting-edge hardware into intelligent, ultra high-performance infrastructure. Our platform delivers rapid deployment, seamless scalability, and reduced operational overhead — enabling organizations to get to work faster, adapt with ease, and realize greater returns on their infrastructure investments. |
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¶ THE STRATISYSTEM FOUNDATION
At the heart of SteelDome technologies lies StratiSYSTEM — a modular, data-centric operating system purpose-built to power the modern infrastructure stack. StratiSYSTEM serves as the foundation for the entire platform, enabling StratiSTOR, StratiSERV, and HyperSERV to operate independently or together as a fully integrated system. It provides the core services, orchestration logic, and system intelligence that make scalable, resilient, and high-performance infrastructure not only possible — but effortless.
¶ WHY IT MATTERS
Every application or service — no matter what is performs — depends on a strong, reliable foundation. Just as a house cannot stand without a solid base, IT environments require core capabilities like storage, compute, availability, performance, and flexibility to support anything built above. Without these essentials, the application layer cannot function. StratiSYSTEM delivers that foundation — a unified, software-defined platform that ensures your infrastructure is not only capable today, but prepared for whatever comes next.
¶ COMMON USE CASES
| VMWARE REPLACEMENT | Migrate VMware environments to StratiSERV to reduce licensing overhead while retaining vCenter-like VM management. |
| COST-OPTIMIZE PRIVATE CLOUD | Replace expensive hypervisor platforms with StratiSERV for self-hosted private clouds with enterprise-grade performance. |
| TURNKEY HCI DEPLOYMENT | Deploy HyperSERV as a hyperconverged system combining compute, storage, and networking in a single cluster. |
| EDGE AND ROBO | Compact, scalable HCI setup for edge locations or remote offices without sacrificing manageability. |
| MIXED WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION | Run virtual desktops, databases, and general-purpose workloads on a single, optimized HCI platform. |
| AI/ML TRAINING AND INFERENCE | Deploy GPU-accelerated nodes within StratiSERV for fast AI training and inference pipelines. |
| DR AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY | Deploy a multi-site StratiSTOR + StratiSERV setup for active-active or active-passive failover with snapshot and replication. |
| VDI MODERNIZATION | Use StratiSERV to deploy virtual desktops with low latency and dynamic resource scaling. |
| SECURE MULTI-TENANT HOSTING | Leverage built-in tenant isolation and access control for MSPs or internal teams serving multiple departments. |
| STORAGE FOR AI DATA LAKES | Use StratiSTOR to manage massive data sets with tiered storage for hot/cold AI datasets. |
| SEAMLESS STORAGE EXPANSION | Scale out capacity using StratiSTOR without downtime—ideal for growing datasets or new applications. |
| MIGRATION FROM LEGACY STORAGE | Replace costly, aging SAN or NAS devices with modern software-defined storage supporting block, file, and object access. |
¶ BUILT FOR THE DATA REVOLUTION
We’re in the midst of a radical shift — where traditional boundaries between storage and compute are being erased by software-defined intelligence. SteelDome is purpose-built for this new era.
Whether you’re deploying a single node, scaling out across data centers, or extending services to the edge, SteelDome moves with you — delivering next-generation scale and performance without the need for forklift upgrades, complex data migrations, or disruptive transitions. No silos. No barriers. No lock-in. Just a powerful, unified platform designed to adapt, evolve, and lead in a world where data and compute are inseparable.
This isn’t evolution — it’s a revolution. And SteelDome is at the center of it.