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Standalone Tier (SAT) 2-Minute Quickstart

Deploy Aarkam Standalone Tier (Rokka + Abodi) in under 2 minutes as a direct drop-in replacement for MinIO and Ceph on a single server or private cluster with zero external database dependencies.

Last updated: Nov 03, 2026 Classification: Sovereign Tier-4 Enterprise

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title: "Standalone Tier (SAT) 2-Minute Quickstart"
description: "Deploy Aarkam Standalone Tier (Rokka + Abodi) in under 2 minutes as a direct drop-in replacement for MinIO and Ceph on a single server or private cluster with zero external database dependencies."
category: "Installation"
order: 0
badge: "MinIO & Ceph Alternative"
icon: "zap"
documentId: "ARK-INST-0200"
status: "Production Quickstart"
classification: "Sovereign Tier-4 Enterprise"
tier: "Aarkam - SAT (Standalone Tier)"
version: "V-1.0.0-GA (Production Stable)"
readingTime: "2 min read"
audience: "DevOps, SREs, Storage Engineers & Cloud Architects"
scope: "Aarkam Standalone Tier (SAT)"
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      <span class="wiki-spec-label">Document Identifier</span>
      <span class="wiki-spec-value text-[#10B981]">ARK-INST-0200</span>
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      <span class="wiki-spec-value text-cyan-300">V-1.0.0-GA (Production Stable)</span>
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<p>The <strong>Aarkam Standalone Tier (SAT)</strong> is engineered for immediate deployment on single bare-metal servers, NVMe storage appliances, and edge AI clusters. It requires <strong class="text-emerald-400">zero external database dependencies</strong> (no PostgreSQL, no SQL Server, no Redis), running entirely on self-contained native binaries with embedded <strong>Kdouja Direct I/O (66,048-byte sector alignment)</strong> and <strong>Ahmodi AVX-512 Cauchy Reed-Solomon erasure coding</strong>.</p>

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  <strong class="text-emerald-400 block mb-1">Direct MinIO Enterprise &amp; Ceph Replacement:</strong>
  SAT provides full drop-in compatibility with the standard AWS S3 REST API (AWS SigV4) while cutting storage hardware footprint by up to <strong>58.3%</strong> compared to legacy 3x replication.
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<h2 id="quickstart-architecture">1. Quickstart Architecture &amp; Binary Roles</h2>
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        • Port :7774 (HTTP/2 gRPC) / :57774 (mTLS)<br />
        • Embedded Kdouja LSM Metadata Store<br />
        • Rendezvous (HRW) Placement Engine
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        • Port :7772 (HTTP S3) / :57772 (HTTPS S3)<br />
        • Ahmodi AVX-512 Cauchy RS (12.5 GB/s/core)<br />
        • Speculative Hedged Reads (sub-5ms P99.9)
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        • Port :7775 (gRPC Data) / :57776 (Diagnostics)<br />
        • O_DIRECT 66KB NVMe Sector Alignment<br />
        • Out-of-band SMART &amp; Thermal ML Telemetry
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<h2 id="two-minute-deployment">2. Two-Minute Deployment Walkthrough (Linux &amp; Windows)</h2>

<h3 id="step-1-extract">Step 1: Extract Release Binaries</h3>
<p>Download the official self-contained <code>V-1.0.0-GA</code> packages from your air-gapped distribution repository:</p>

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  <pre class="p-3.5 overflow-x-auto text-xs font-mono text-slate-200 leading-relaxed m-0"><code class="language-bash"># 1. Unpack Rokka Engine (Coordinator &amp; Gateway)
sudo mkdir -p /opt/aarkam/rokka
sudo unzip rokka-v1.0.0-linux-x64.zip -d /opt/aarkam/rokka
cd /opt/aarkam/rokka
sudo chmod +x rokka-coordinator rokka-gateway install-rokka.sh

# 2. Unpack Abodi Storage Daemon
sudo mkdir -p /opt/rokka/abodi
sudo unzip abodi-v1.0.0-linux-x64.zip -d /opt/rokka/abodi
cd /opt/rokka/abodi
sudo chmod +x Abodi install-abodi.sh

# 3. Unpack AM CLI Operator Tool
sudo unzip am-v1.0.0-linux-x64.zip -d /opt/aarkam/am
sudo ln -sf /opt/aarkam/am/am /usr/local/bin/am
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/am</code></pre>
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  <pre class="p-3.5 overflow-x-auto text-xs font-mono text-slate-200 leading-relaxed m-0"><code class="language-powershell"># Expand packages to standard locations
Expand-Archive -Path .\rokka-v1.0.0-win-x64.zip -DestinationPath "C:\Program Files\Aarkam\Rokka" -Force
Expand-Archive -Path .\abodi-v1.0.0-win-x64.zip -DestinationPath "C:\Rokka\Abodi" -Force
Expand-Archive -Path .\am-v1.0.0-win-x64.zip -DestinationPath "C:\Program Files\Aarkam\AM" -Force
$env:Path += ";C:\Program Files\Aarkam\AM"</code></pre>
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<h3 id="step-2-start-services">Step 2: Start Rokka &amp; Abodi Daemons</h3>

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  <pre class="p-3.5 overflow-x-auto text-xs font-mono text-slate-200 leading-relaxed m-0"><code class="language-bash"># Start Rokka Coordinator and S3 Gateway
cd /opt/aarkam/rokka
sudo ./install-rokka.sh --start-services

# Start Abodi Storage Daemon on designated NVMe JBOD partition
cd /opt/rokka/abodi
sudo ./install-abodi.sh \
  --node-code "NODE-01" \
  --rokka-url "http://127.0.0.1:7774" \
  --storage-dir "/var/lib/rokka/storage"</code></pre>
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  <pre class="p-3.5 overflow-x-auto text-xs font-mono text-slate-200 leading-relaxed m-0"><code class="language-powershell">Set-Location "C:\Program Files\Aarkam\Rokka"
.\install-rokka.ps1 -StartServices

Set-Location "C:\Rokka\Abodi"
.\install-abodi.ps1 -NodeCode "NODE-WIN-01" -RokkaUrl "http://127.0.0.1:7774" -StorageDir "D:\rokka_storage"</code></pre>
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<h2 id="verify-storage">3. Verification &amp; S3 Operations</h2>

<h3 id="step-3-cluster-status">Step 3: Check Cluster Topology with AM CLI</h3>
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am disk list</code></pre>
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<h3 id="step-4-s3-test">Step 4: AWS CLI S3 Verification</h3>
<p>SAT exposes the high-speed S3 REST endpoint on port <code>7772</code> (HTTP) and <code>57772</code> (HTTPS):</p>

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  <pre class="p-3.5 overflow-x-auto text-xs font-mono text-slate-200 leading-relaxed m-0"><code class="language-bash"># Create bucket and upload sample data
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="ARK_ADMIN_ACCESS_KEY"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="ARK_ADMIN_SECRET_KEY"

aws --endpoint-url http://127.0.0.1:7772 s3 mb s3://sovereign-vault
echo "Aarkam Standalone Storage Verification Payload" &gt; smoke-test.txt
aws --endpoint-url http://127.0.0.1:7772 s3 cp smoke-test.txt s3://sovereign-vault/smoke-test.txt
aws --endpoint-url http://127.0.0.1:7772 s3 ls s3://sovereign-vault/</code></pre>
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Document Identifier ARK-INST-0200

Standard Status

Production Quickstart

Architecture Tier Standalone Tier (SAT)

Release Version V-1.0.0-GA (Production Stable)

The Aarkam Standalone Tier (SAT) is engineered for immediate deployment on single bare-metal servers, NVMe storage appliances, and edge AI clusters. It requires zero external database dependencies (no PostgreSQL, no SQL Server, no Redis), running entirely on self-contained native binaries with embedded Kdouja Direct I/O (66,048-byte sector alignment) and Ahmodi AVX-512 Cauchy Reed-Solomon erasure coding.

Direct MinIO Enterprise & Ceph Replacement: SAT provides full drop-in compatibility with the standard AWS S3 REST API (AWS SigV4) while cutting storage hardware footprint by up to 58.3% compared to legacy 3x replication.

1. Quickstart Architecture & Binary Roles

⚡ Aarkam Standalone (SAT) Host Architecture

Zero External Database

rokka-coordinator

Raft MON & Hash Ring Consensus

• Port :7774 (HTTP/2 gRPC) / :57774 (mTLS)
• Embedded Kdouja LSM Metadata Store
• Rendezvous (HRW) Placement Engine

rokka-gateway

Line-Rate S3 REST Ingress

• Port :7772 (HTTP S3) / :57772 (HTTPS S3)
• Ahmodi AVX-512 Cauchy RS (12.5 GB/s/core)
• Speculative Hedged Reads (sub-5ms P99.9)

Abodi

Physical Storage Node Daemon

• Port :7775 (gRPC Data) / :57776 (Diagnostics)
• O_DIRECT 66KB NVMe Sector Alignment
• Out-of-band SMART & Thermal ML Telemetry

2. Two-Minute Deployment Walkthrough (Linux & Windows)

Step 1: Extract Release Binaries

Download the official self-contained V-1.0.0-GA packages from your air-gapped distribution repository:

bash (Linux)

# 1. Unpack Rokka Engine (Coordinator & Gateway)
sudo mkdir -p /opt/aarkam/rokka
sudo unzip rokka-v1.0.0-linux-x64.zip -d /opt/aarkam/rokka
cd /opt/aarkam/rokka
sudo chmod +x rokka-coordinator rokka-gateway install-rokka.sh

# 2. Unpack Abodi Storage Daemon
sudo mkdir -p /opt/rokka/abodi
sudo unzip abodi-v1.0.0-linux-x64.zip -d /opt/rokka/abodi
cd /opt/rokka/abodi
sudo chmod +x Abodi install-abodi.sh

# 3. Unpack AM CLI Operator Tool
sudo unzip am-v1.0.0-linux-x64.zip -d /opt/aarkam/am
sudo ln -sf /opt/aarkam/am/am /usr/local/bin/am
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/am

powershell (Windows Server)

# Expand packages to standard locations
Expand-Archive -Path .\rokka-v1.0.0-win-x64.zip -DestinationPath "C:\Program Files\Aarkam\Rokka" -Force
Expand-Archive -Path .\abodi-v1.0.0-win-x64.zip -DestinationPath "C:\Rokka\Abodi" -Force
Expand-Archive -Path .\am-v1.0.0-win-x64.zip -DestinationPath "C:\Program Files\Aarkam\AM" -Force
$env:Path += ";C:\Program Files\Aarkam\AM"

Step 2: Start Rokka & Abodi Daemons

bash (Linux)

# Start Rokka Coordinator and S3 Gateway
cd /opt/aarkam/rokka
sudo ./install-rokka.sh --start-services

# Start Abodi Storage Daemon on designated NVMe JBOD partition
cd /opt/rokka/abodi
sudo ./install-abodi.sh \
  --node-code "NODE-01" \
  --rokka-url "http://127.0.0.1:7774" \
  --storage-dir "/var/lib/rokka/storage"

powershell (Windows Server)

Set-Location "C:\Program Files\Aarkam\Rokka"
.\install-rokka.ps1 -StartServices

Set-Location "C:\Rokka\Abodi"
.\install-abodi.ps1 -NodeCode "NODE-WIN-01" -RokkaUrl "http://127.0.0.1:7774" -StorageDir "D:\rokka_storage"

3. Verification & S3 Operations

Step 3: Check Cluster Topology with AM CLI

bash

am cluster status
am disk list

Step 4: AWS CLI S3 Verification

SAT exposes the high-speed S3 REST endpoint on port 7772 (HTTP) and 57772 (HTTPS):

bash

# Create bucket and upload sample data
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="ARK_ADMIN_ACCESS_KEY"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="ARK_ADMIN_SECRET_KEY"

aws --endpoint-url http://127.0.0.1:7772 s3 mb s3://sovereign-vault
echo "Aarkam Standalone Storage Verification Payload" > smoke-test.txt
aws --endpoint-url http://127.0.0.1:7772 s3 cp smoke-test.txt s3://sovereign-vault/smoke-test.txt
aws --endpoint-url http://127.0.0.1:7772 s3 ls s3://sovereign-vault/

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