SGI InfiniteStorage Solutions Solving The Data Access Bottleneck Gabriel Broner Senior Vice President and General Manager Storage and Software Group Silicon Graphics November 2003
The Need For A New Solution Explosive data growth across industries Energy: 38 TB of seismic data in a single file system, multiterabyte mirrors over a wide area network Media: 200+ TB of data, 20 million files Weather: 2TB of data ingested every day Customers with Petabytes of data that need to be managed Multi-terabyte NAS farms are increasingly common Data is growing beyond the limits of conventional storage solutions Energy Media Science Defense Manufacturing
The Workflow Problem File A File A File A File A Process 1 Process 2 Process 3 Process 4 Media Mfg. Digitization Color Correcting Effects Compositing Design Visualization Structural Crash Analysis Analysis No file sharing means large files have to be moved over the network taking time, slowing workflow. Some media customers estimate 50% of their time is spent moving data
SGI InfiniteStorage CXFS Shared File System LAN SGI Windows Sun Linux AIX MetaData Server Switch With SGI InfiniteStorage Shared File System (CXFS) File A File D File G All files are shared File B File E File H No copying No wasted space File C File F File I Saves time Saves money
SGI SAN Server Simplified File Sharing Multiple hosts share files as if they were local Avoids data copying CXFS shared file system technology SGI SAN Server
Workflow with File Sharing Near-instantaneous access for data-intensive workflows File A Process 1 Process 2 Process 3 Process 4 Media Mfg. Digitization Color Correcting Effects Compositing Design Visualization Structural Crash Analysis Analysis File sharing means large files don t have to be moved over the network saving time, speeding workflow.
SGI SAN Server Heterogeneous support SGI Sun Windows Linux IBM Future: Mac OS X SGI San Server offers heterogeneous support Third generation CXFS shared file system SGI SAN Server
SGI SAN Server Near-line Capabilities SGI Sun Window s Linux Other Near-line capabilities provide for unlimited data growth Near-line capabilities SGI SAN Server
SGI InfiniteStorage DMF Data Life Cycle Management Primary Storage Online - high-performance disk Promote used last 24 hrs Nearline Disk High Capacity, Low cost, Lower performance DMF manages data based on: age of file size of file type of file Tape Libraries Higher capacity, lower cost Promote used last 7 days Demote > 7 days < 365 Demote > 1 Yr < 2 Yr Archive > 2 Yr
SGI SAN Server Networked Attached Storage (NAS) access Window SG Sun s NT I Linux Other Network Attached Storage access Near-line Capabilities SGI SAN Server SGI Network Attached Storage access offers: Lower cost access Large number of clients Virtually any kind of client
SGI Cross-Country File Sharing SGI System SunTM System Brocade Switch LightSandTM S-600 FC/SONET Gateway Adtech AX/4000 WAN Simulator LightSand S-600 FC/SONET Gateway 100Mb per second Ethernet (Metadata) 1Gb per second Fibre Channel (Data) 622Mb per second OC-12 SONET (Data and Metadata) SGI SAN Server 1000 with CXFS Windows System
SGI NAS and SAN Solutions True NAS SAN Convergence NAS IP network SAN FC network SGI SAN 3000 Upgrade SGI SAN 2000 Upgrade SGI NAS 2000
SGI InfiniteStorage Product Status XFS Introduced 10 years ago Made open Source, in Linux 2.5/2.6 CXFS Introduced 4 years ago, 400+ customers Version 3.0 supports Irix, Solaris, Windows, Linux, AIX DMF Introduced 10 years ago, hundreds of customers Version 2.9 Customers today manage more than 1 petabyte of data www.sgi.com/storage
Customer Feedback For Medtronic, the transition from NFS over a LAN to CXFS over a SAN has been like going from a gravel road to a six-lane freeway. Tim Abraham, Surgical Simulator Development Coordinator, Medtronic With our new data storage system, we get the best of both worlds. CXFS has allowed us to tremendously increase our productivity while reducing nonproductive waiting time. Rico Magsipoc, LONI System Administrator SGI DMF has greatly simplified our management of the thousands of tapes needed to store the bulk of the data. Jon Labrie, WETA Digital The implementation of CXFS has enabled Contraves Space to be in a position to avoid bottlenecks in its LAN. It enables us to save an enormous amount of time during interactive processing on our workstations. Andreas Herren,Dynamics and CAE R&D Manager, Contraves Space DMF is fantastic. It s the seamless way the whole thing works and the performance you get out of it. It s like disk space is infinite. It just works. It s one of the jewels in SGI s crown. Dr. Ian Atkinson, Manager, HPC, James Cook University
SGI InfiniteStorage Solutions Designed for the world s most data-intensive environments, SGI InfiniteStorage Solutions uniquely enable enterprise customers to: Transparently share data everywhere Scale data as the business and application grows Manage the data lifecycle without limiting access Accelerate workflows Energy Media Science Defense Manufacturing
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