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,
multi-terabyte 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
Media Science
The Workflow Problem
File A File A File A File A
Process 1 Process 2 Process 3 Process 4
•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
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SGI InfiniteStorage
CXFS Shared File System
File B File D File E File F File G File H File I
With SGI InfiniteStorage Shared File System (CXFS)
• All files are shared • No copying • No wasted space • Saves time • Saves money File A File C Switch MetaData Server SGI® Windows ®
Sun™ Linux® AIX®
SGI SAN Server
Simplified File Sharing
•Multiple hosts
share files as if they were local
•Avoids data
copying
•CXFS shared
file system technology
Workflow with File Sharing
Near-instantaneous access for data-intensive workflows
File A
File sharing means large files don’t have to be moved
over the network—saving time, speeding workflow.
Process 1 Process 2 Process 3 Process 4
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SGI SAN Server
Heterogeneous support
SGI Sun™Windows Linux
®
IBM
SGI SAN Server
• SGI San Server offers
heterogeneous support
• Third generation
CXFS shared file system
SGI SAN Server
Near-line Capabilities
SGI
®
Other
SGI SAN Server
• Near-line capabilities
provide for unlimited data growth
Near-line capabilities
Window
s Linux
SGI InfiniteStorage DMF
Data Life Cycle Management
Primary Storage
Online - high-performance disk
Demote > 7 days < 365 Demote > 1 Yr < 2 Yr Promote used last 24 hrs Promote
used last 7 days
Nearline Disk
High Capacity, Low cost, Lower performance
Tape Libraries
Higher capacity, lower cost
Archive
> 2 Yr
DMF manages data based on:
• age of file • size of file • type of file
SGI SAN Server
Networked Attached Storage (NAS) access
SG
I ®
Other
SGI SAN Server
SGI Network Attached Storage access offers:
•Lower cost access
•Large number of clients •Virtually any kind of
client
Network Attached Storage access
Window
s NT® Linux
Sun™
SGI
®Cross-Country File Sharing
SGI SAN Server™ 1000 with CXFS Windows® System SunTMSystem LightSand S-600 FC/SONET Gateway Brocade® Switch SGI® System
100Mb per second Ethernet (Metadata) 1Gb per second Fibre Channel (Data)
622Mb per second OC-12 SONET (Data and Metadata) LightSandTM S-600
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 2000SGI 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
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
Media Science
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