The Ultimate in Scale-Out Storage for HPC and Big Data
Highest reliability, availability and serviceability
ClusterStor gets you productive fast with robust professional service offerings available as part of solution delivery, including quality controlled installation, comprehensive early-stage support, personalized training, as well as data migration, configuration and architecture services. Instead of spending weeks gathering separate hardware and software, resolving interoperability issues and testing to get your Lustre environment into production, you can be productive with ClusterStor in hours. ClusterStor includes pre-installation of all internal software components, configuration of the integrated system and intensive system reliability tests before it ships from the factory. Rather than fight complexity, let the highly efficient, factory tested and seamlessly integrated ClusterStor solution do the work for you.
ClusterStor maximizes your operation time and application availability. Keeping your storage and file system running through scheduled maintenance or production operation upgrades means that you can stay productive. A key aspect to keeping you up and running is ClusterStor’s built-in high availability design and comprehensive set of distributed management services.
ClusterStor has been designed from the ground up as a highly available enterprise class storage solution with resiliency engineered into all primary subsystems. Meta-data and management server operations are resident on a high availability Cluster Management Unit. Each Scalable Storage Unit includes active/active embedded server modules, redundant and independent system interconnects. ClusterStor Manager removes the management burden of administering tens of petabytes and their traditional complement of deployed Lustre Object Storage Servers. Consolidated and detailed health monitoring and error reporting enables administrators to quickly view and diagnose file system and hardware assets.
Software and firmware upgrades across an entire ClusterStor system are executed through ClusterStor Manager, removing the administrative burden and risks that come with large complex Lustre implementations. Xyratex removes all of the pre-upgrade work and testing effort normally associated with upgrades and gives you an ability to roll-back upgrades, if necessary.
ClusterStor Manager is a comprehensive system management application that is part of ClusterStor’s distributed management framework and is responsible for pulling everything together as a single managed system. ClusterStor Manager consolidates management of the storage infrastructure, RAID data protection layer, scale-out operating system and the Lustre file system into a single, easy-to-use, administrator interface. From initial installation, creation of file systems, ongoing monitoring and management, to expansion and software upgrades, ClusterStor Manager brings the entire storage cluster solution to a single pane. This brings unprecedented system visibility to the Lustre system administrator.
Conclusion
Our attention to architectural balance and keen eye to detail has resulted in the ClusterStor scale-out data storage solution, exactly matching the linear file system processing scalability needs for state of the art HPC and Big Data scale-out compute architectures. While alternative scale-out data storage designs have appeared on the market, none match the degree of linear scalability and performance-capacity density delivered by the ClusterStor family of integrated high performance scale-out storage solutions for HPC and Big Data.
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©2013-4 Xyratex (The trading name of Xyratex Technology Limited). Registered in England & Wales. Company no: 03134912. Registered Office: Langstone Road, Havant, Hampshire PO9 1SA, England. The information given in this brochure is for marketing purposes and is not intended to be a specification nor to provide the basis for a warranty. The products and their details are subject to change. For a detailed specification or if you need to meet a specific requirement please contact Xyratex: www.xyratex.com. Issue 4.0 | 04/14
The ClusterStor
™family of high
performance scale-out storage for
HPC and Big Data provides unmatched
file system performance, optimized
time to productivity and the HPC
industry’s highest levels in integrated
solution reliability, availability and
serviceability.
ClusterStor 1500 Departmental Storage Scale ClusterStor Manager ClusterStor 6000 Supercomputing Storage Scale
Langstone Road Havant
Hampshire PO9 1SA United Kingdom T: +44(0)23 9249 6000 F: +44(0)23 9249 2284 46831 Lakeview Blvd. Fremont CA 94538 USA T: +1 510 687 5200 F: +1 510 687 5399 ClusterStor Manager brings to life powerful, intuitive, context-aware real-time monitoring and proactive management.
ClusterStor Node
Status View
Taking a deeper look into the distributed scale-out data storage architecture, one of the unique characteristics users experience is ClusterStor’s performance density. This means the highest performance in the smallest amount of space.
Take one look at ClusterStor; you will see up to 14 embedded storage servers per rack.
ClusterStor has not only been designed with a massively parallel degree of embedded storage servers per rack volume of storage capacity, but looking deeper into individual SSU building blocks, users see the latest generation of server-class processors and the same design approach as contained in the latest HPC and Big Data scale-out compute nodes.
In a ClusterStor system, Scalable Storage Units (SSUs) act as independent I/O processing engines that work in parallel. Each SSU has its own set of resources that includes densely packed disk storage and dual embedded server modules, which also carry their own set of processing, memory and I/O network resources. This provides the most efficient use of each resource in a compact design that reduces the space required to deliver each gigabyte of file system performance.
Overcoming Bottlenecks - ClusterStor 6000 has up to
fourteen embedded storage servers per rack
Looking back, traditional storage designs offer two storage servers per rack of storage, and frequently offer the same two storage servers for two racks of storage. Unfortunately, this has been widely noted as one of the principle pain-points within the industry: storage IO performance bottleneck. Clearly, traditional storage design with too few storage servers per rack volume are out of balance with the file system performance and capacity needs of modern HPC and Big Data scale-out compute architectures.
Introducing the Scalable Storage Unit
The Scalable Storage Unit (SSU) is at the heart of ClusterStor’s scale-out storage architecture. The ClusterStor SSU consolidates and integrates traditional block storage, network and file system components into a single building block that delivers a linear scaling unit in file system performance and data storage capacity. There is no need to guess at how to scale your Lustre file system: each unit is a balanced performance building block delivering a predictable level of performance and/or data storage capacity that scales linearly without storage or network degradation.
Scalable Storage Unit building blocks provide a purpose-built, appliance like method to plan, build and deploy small, medium,
or extensively large HPC data storage systems. End users simply add SSUs to satisfy their performance and/or data capacity needs, all while using built-in optimization, resilient ClusterStor operating environment, end-to-end solution quality and ease of management.
There is a feeling you get when you experience fine engineering. The feeling starts when you first lay eyes on the product and becomes more evident every time you use it. There are so many facets of your experience that tell you someone knows exactly what you need; innovative thought is evident behind every detail.
Xyratex has taken its 25 years experience in designing and delivering enterprise class storage, along with the Lustre® high performance file system, to create ClusterStor, an integrated family of high performance
scale-out storage solutions for HPC and Big Data. Designed to provide unmatched file system performance and optimized time to productivity, ClusterStor provides the HPC industry’s highest levels of integration solution reliability, availability and serviceability.
This achievement is the direct result of a fresh ground-breaking design approach that meets the specific needs of high performance computing and its ever expanding scale. The ClusterStor architecture is not merely an exercise of repackaging separate legacy storage hardware and file system software components.
ClusterStor is the result of state of the art optimization of the Lustre file system embedded within a modular scale-out hardware architecture to address a wide spectrum of HPC and Big Data application needs. ClusterStor offers solutions to best match your most challenging linear performance and capacity scalability requirements.
When you get up close, you can see that ClusterStor is not only innovative in its approach but also delivers a level of quality that translates into higher availability to meet your productivity requirements today and into the future.
Problem:
Legacy storage metrics are not meaningful at the HPC and Big Data user level. Traditional Lustre file system solutions have typically used a mix of off-the-shelf components from different vendors leveraging legacy storage. Difficulties and roadblocks have been widely reported within the industry due to variances in vendor components interacting with separate file system servers and software packages, as well as the
constant need to tune and retune file system parameters when attempting to add or even adjust file system processing capacity.
This traditional approach burdens HPC and Big Data environments with unacceptable program risk due to the excessive time, expense and non-productive work that constantly disrupts system productivity. What has previously been considered ‘maintenance’ is actually waste. Increasing HPC and Big Data productivity requirements demand that waste be eliminated.
The future of HPC and Big Data data storage requires a paradigm shift from legacy storage systems that focus on attributes like raw block storage capacity, controller cache size, or raw block data transfers.
Solution:
HPC and Big Data user productivity is the only meaningful metric. File system storage productivity is best measured in sustained end to end file system throughput delivery, as well as reduced datacenter floor space utilization, cooling, power and administrative time. Unfortunately, traditional storage systems on their own are not able to address these user level attributes. A comprehensive solution paradigm is needed.
ClusterStor introduces a new standard in end-to-end file system performance and efficiency, at the user level. Truly scaling file system performance efficiently means aggressively reducing the space, power, cooling and time consumed to achieve the HPC and Big Data performance and results users seek. Xyratex has proven that performance, efficiency and end-to-end solution management gains can be realized by consolidating system components closely together within an efficient, reliable and highly integrated scale-out data storage solution.
ClusterStor
™integrated high performance scale-out storage for HPC and Big Data
ClusterStor Architecture
ClusterStor makes the solution paradigm clear. ClusterStor utilizes high performance, distributed computing data storage elements that have been designed and built from the enclosure and application platform all the way up to the operating system, file system and advanced User Interface (UI) management functions. Four high level solution components (storage hardware, operating system, file system and management application) have been synergistically bonded together to create the most reliable and best performing integrated high performance scale-out storage in the industry today.
Lustre is the front running file system for the top HPC systems in the world and is continuing to gain momentum in emerging Big Data deployments as organizations such as OpenSFS invest heavily in its future. ClusterStor’s software architecture tightly integrates Lustre into a performance and capacity optimized solution that removes headaches that have historically been associated with deploying, managing and maintaining traditional Lustre environments using off the shelf components from different vendors.
Lustre’s future is directly tied to its quality and end user productivity success. This is why Xyratex makes significant contributions into Lustre testing, support and community involvement, and why we have honed the best attributes into our tightly optimized environment, eliminating variations and complexity.
The resilient ClusterStor operating environment introduces a scale-out storage and management architecture specifically designed to take full advantage of the performance and capacity scaling capabilities of the Lustre file system. ClusterStor doesn’t have to utilize special block-storage algorithms to predict how to provide optimal performance, the ClusterStor operating environment knows. In ClusterStor, the operating environment is integrated into distributed data storage elements called the Scalable Storage Unit.
ClusterStor – A family of integrated high performance scale-out storage solutions
How does the ClusterStor architecture deliver unmatched yet predictable file system performance?
Broad Applications - Flexible Planning - Easy Deployment
No matter how small or large your high performance application plan, the ClusterStor family provides a wide range of solutions and design methods to best match the file system performance and/or data storage capacity growth projected throughout the lifetime of your installation.ClusterStor 1500 - Delivers best in class ROI acceleration for entry and midrange environments
To best address commercial scientific high resolution simulation and engineering modeling applications, ClusterStor 1500 enables parallel data access to attain significantly enhanced data processing throughput efficiency, far exceeding limitations associated to legacy midrange solutions relying solely upon serial data access Network File System (NFS). ClusterStor 1500 specifically enables commercial and industrial technical computing users to attain faster job completion, higher job iteration rates and more precise application insights with higher resolution accuracy.
As an easy to use complete turnkey engineered Lustre solution for entry and midrange technical computing users, ClusterStor 1500 is designed to deliver no compromise performance and data capacity scalability in an affordable and remarkably compact integrated scale-out solution.
Best in Class ROI Acceleration Maximum
Supercomputing Scale Affordable Entry & Midrange Solution Highest Concentrated
Performance Density
Compact and Easy to Use Turnkey Lustre Solution Proven Efficiency, Reliability
and Ease of Management
ClusterStor 6000 ClusterStor 1500
ClusterStor 6000 - Delivers maximum performance scale for supercomputing environments
To best address maximum file system through-put, ClusterStor 6000 delivers highest performance and data capacity density per SSU, achieving more concentrated performance per unit data storage capacity, while delivering excellent efficiency, reliability and ease of management.
Taking a deeper look into the distributed scale-out data storage architecture, one of the unique characteristics users experience is ClusterStor’s performance density. This means the highest performance in the smallest amount of space.
Take one look at ClusterStor; you will see up to 14 embedded storage servers per rack.
ClusterStor has not only been designed with a massively parallel degree of embedded storage servers per rack volume of storage capacity, but looking deeper into individual SSU building blocks, users see the latest generation of server-class processors and the same design approach as contained in the latest HPC and Big Data scale-out compute nodes.
In a ClusterStor system, Scalable Storage Units (SSUs) act as independent I/O processing engines that work in parallel. Each SSU has its own set of resources that includes densely packed disk storage and dual embedded server modules, which also carry their own set of processing, memory and I/O network resources. This provides the most efficient use of each resource in a compact design that reduces the space required to deliver each gigabyte of file system performance.
Overcoming Bottlenecks - ClusterStor 6000 has up to
fourteen embedded storage servers per rack
Looking back, traditional storage designs offer two storage servers per rack of storage, and frequently offer the same two storage servers for two racks of storage. Unfortunately, this has been widely noted as one of the principle pain-points within the industry: storage IO performance bottleneck. Clearly, traditional storage design with too few storage servers per rack volume are out of balance with the file system performance and capacity needs of modern HPC and Big Data scale-out compute architectures.
Introducing the Scalable Storage Unit
The Scalable Storage Unit (SSU) is at the heart of ClusterStor’s scale-out storage architecture. The ClusterStor SSU consolidates and integrates traditional block storage, network and file system components into a single building block that delivers a linear scaling unit in file system performance and data storage capacity. There is no need to guess at how to scale your Lustre file system: each unit is a balanced performance building block delivering a predictable level of performance and/or data storage capacity that scales linearly without storage or network degradation.
Scalable Storage Unit building blocks provide a purpose-built, appliance like method to plan, build and deploy small, medium,
or extensively large HPC data storage systems. End users simply add SSUs to satisfy their performance and/or data capacity needs, all while using built-in optimization, resilient ClusterStor operating environment, end-to-end solution quality and ease of management.
There is a feeling you get when you experience fine engineering. The feeling starts when you first lay eyes on the product and becomes more evident every time you use it. There are so many facets of your experience that tell you someone knows exactly what you need; innovative thought is evident behind every detail.
Xyratex has taken its 25 years experience in designing and delivering enterprise class storage, along with the Lustre® high performance file system, to create ClusterStor, an integrated family of high performance
scale-out storage solutions for HPC and Big Data. Designed to provide unmatched file system performance and optimized time to productivity, ClusterStor provides the HPC industry’s highest levels of integration solution reliability, availability and serviceability.
This achievement is the direct result of a fresh ground-breaking design approach that meets the specific needs of high performance computing and its ever expanding scale. The ClusterStor architecture is not merely an exercise of repackaging separate legacy storage hardware and file system software components.
ClusterStor is the result of state of the art optimization of the Lustre file system embedded within a modular scale-out hardware architecture to address a wide spectrum of HPC and Big Data application needs. ClusterStor offers solutions to best match your most challenging linear performance and capacity scalability requirements.
When you get up close, you can see that ClusterStor is not only innovative in its approach but also delivers a level of quality that translates into higher availability to meet your productivity requirements today and into the future.
Problem:
Legacy storage metrics are not meaningful at the HPC and Big Data user level. Traditional Lustre file system solutions have typically used a mix of off-the-shelf components from different vendors leveraging legacy storage. Difficulties and roadblocks have been widely reported within the industry due to variances in vendor components interacting with separate file system servers and software packages, as well as the
constant need to tune and retune file system parameters when attempting to add or even adjust file system processing capacity.
This traditional approach burdens HPC and Big Data environments with unacceptable program risk due to the excessive time, expense and non-productive work that constantly disrupts system productivity. What has previously been considered ‘maintenance’ is actually waste. Increasing HPC and Big Data productivity requirements demand that waste be eliminated.
The future of HPC and Big Data data storage requires a paradigm shift from legacy storage systems that focus on attributes like raw block storage capacity, controller cache size, or raw block data transfers.
Solution:
HPC and Big Data user productivity is the only meaningful metric. File system storage productivity is best measured in sustained end to end file system throughput delivery, as well as reduced datacenter floor space utilization, cooling, power and administrative time. Unfortunately, traditional storage systems on their own are not able to address these user level attributes. A comprehensive solution paradigm is needed.
ClusterStor introduces a new standard in end-to-end file system performance and efficiency, at the user level. Truly scaling file system performance efficiently means aggressively reducing the space, power, cooling and time consumed to achieve the HPC and Big Data performance and results users seek. Xyratex has proven that performance, efficiency and end-to-end solution management gains can be realized by consolidating system components closely together within an efficient, reliable and highly integrated scale-out data storage solution.
ClusterStor
™integrated high performance scale-out storage for HPC and Big Data
ClusterStor Architecture
ClusterStor makes the solution paradigm clear. ClusterStor utilizes high performance, distributed computing data storage elements that have been designed and built from the enclosure and application platform all the way up to the operating system, file system and advanced User Interface (UI) management functions. Four high level solution components (storage hardware, operating system, file system and management application) have been synergistically bonded together to create the most reliable and best performing integrated high performance scale-out storage in the industry today.
Lustre is the front running file system for the top HPC systems in the world and is continuing to gain momentum in emerging Big Data deployments as organizations such as OpenSFS invest heavily in its future. ClusterStor’s software architecture tightly integrates Lustre into a performance and capacity optimized solution that removes headaches that have historically been associated with deploying, managing and maintaining traditional Lustre environments using off the shelf components from different vendors.
Lustre’s future is directly tied to its quality and end user productivity success. This is why Xyratex makes significant contributions into Lustre testing, support and community involvement, and why we have honed the best attributes into our tightly optimized environment, eliminating variations and complexity.
The resilient ClusterStor operating environment introduces a scale-out storage and management architecture specifically designed to take full advantage of the performance and capacity scaling capabilities of the Lustre file system. ClusterStor doesn’t have to utilize special block-storage algorithms to predict how to provide optimal performance, the ClusterStor operating environment knows. In ClusterStor, the operating environment is integrated into distributed data storage elements called the Scalable Storage Unit.
ClusterStor – A family of integrated high performance scale-out storage solutions
How does the ClusterStor architecture deliver unmatched yet predictable file system performance?
Broad Applications - Flexible Planning - Easy Deployment
No matter how small or large your high performance application plan, the ClusterStor family provides a wide range of solutions and design methods to best match the file system performance and/or data storage capacity growth projected throughout the lifetime of your installation.ClusterStor 1500 - Delivers best in class ROI acceleration for entry and midrange environments
To best address commercial scientific high resolution simulation and engineering modeling applications, ClusterStor 1500 enables parallel data access to attain significantly enhanced data processing throughput efficiency, far exceeding limitations associated to legacy midrange solutions relying solely upon serial data access Network File System (NFS). ClusterStor 1500 specifically enables commercial and industrial technical computing users to attain faster job completion, higher job iteration rates and more precise application insights with higher resolution accuracy.
As an easy to use complete turnkey engineered Lustre solution for entry and midrange technical computing users, ClusterStor 1500 is designed to deliver no compromise performance and data capacity scalability in an affordable and remarkably compact integrated scale-out solution.
Best in Class ROI Acceleration Maximum
Supercomputing Scale Affordable Entry & Midrange Solution Highest Concentrated
Performance Density
Compact and Easy to Use Turnkey Lustre Solution Proven Efficiency, Reliability
and Ease of Management
ClusterStor 6000 ClusterStor 1500
ClusterStor 6000 - Delivers maximum performance scale for supercomputing environments
To best address maximum file system through-put, ClusterStor 6000 delivers highest performance and data capacity density per SSU, achieving more concentrated performance per unit data storage capacity, while delivering excellent efficiency, reliability and ease of management.
Taking a deeper look into the distributed scale-out data storage architecture, one of the unique characteristics users experience is ClusterStor’s performance density. This means the highest performance in the smallest amount of space.
Take one look at ClusterStor; you will see up to 14 embedded storage servers per rack.
ClusterStor has not only been designed with a massively parallel degree of embedded storage servers per rack volume of storage capacity, but looking deeper into individual SSU building blocks, users see the latest generation of server-class processors and the same design approach as contained in the latest HPC and Big Data scale-out compute nodes.
In a ClusterStor system, Scalable Storage Units (SSUs) act as independent I/O processing engines that work in parallel. Each SSU has its own set of resources that includes densely packed disk storage and dual embedded server modules, which also carry their own set of processing, memory and I/O network resources. This provides the most efficient use of each resource in a compact design that reduces the space required to deliver each gigabyte of file system performance.
Overcoming Bottlenecks - ClusterStor 6000 has up to
fourteen embedded storage servers per rack
Looking back, traditional storage designs offer two storage servers per rack of storage, and frequently offer the same two storage servers for two racks of storage. Unfortunately, this has been widely noted as one of the principle pain-points within the industry: storage IO performance bottleneck. Clearly, traditional storage design with too few storage servers per rack volume are out of balance with the file system performance and capacity needs of modern HPC and Big Data scale-out compute architectures.
Introducing the Scalable Storage Unit
The Scalable Storage Unit (SSU) is at the heart of ClusterStor’s scale-out storage architecture. The ClusterStor SSU consolidates and integrates traditional block storage, network and file system components into a single building block that delivers a linear scaling unit in file system performance and data storage capacity. There is no need to guess at how to scale your Lustre file system: each unit is a balanced performance building block delivering a predictable level of performance and/or data storage capacity that scales linearly without storage or network degradation.
Scalable Storage Unit building blocks provide a purpose-built, appliance like method to plan, build and deploy small, medium,
or extensively large HPC data storage systems. End users simply add SSUs to satisfy their performance and/or data capacity needs, all while using built-in optimization, resilient ClusterStor operating environment, end-to-end solution quality and ease of management.
There is a feeling you get when you experience fine engineering. The feeling starts when you first lay eyes on the product and becomes more evident every time you use it. There are so many facets of your experience that tell you someone knows exactly what you need; innovative thought is evident behind every detail.
Xyratex has taken its 25 years experience in designing and delivering enterprise class storage, along with the Lustre® high performance file system, to create ClusterStor, an integrated family of high performance
scale-out storage solutions for HPC and Big Data. Designed to provide unmatched file system performance and optimized time to productivity, ClusterStor provides the HPC industry’s highest levels of integration solution reliability, availability and serviceability.
This achievement is the direct result of a fresh ground-breaking design approach that meets the specific needs of high performance computing and its ever expanding scale. The ClusterStor architecture is not merely an exercise of repackaging separate legacy storage hardware and file system software components.
ClusterStor is the result of state of the art optimization of the Lustre file system embedded within a modular scale-out hardware architecture to address a wide spectrum of HPC and Big Data application needs. ClusterStor offers solutions to best match your most challenging linear performance and capacity scalability requirements.
When you get up close, you can see that ClusterStor is not only innovative in its approach but also delivers a level of quality that translates into higher availability to meet your productivity requirements today and into the future.
Problem:
Legacy storage metrics are not meaningful at the HPC and Big Data user level. Traditional Lustre file system solutions have typically used a mix of off-the-shelf components from different vendors leveraging legacy storage. Difficulties and roadblocks have been widely reported within the industry due to variances in vendor components interacting with separate file system servers and software packages, as well as the
constant need to tune and retune file system parameters when attempting to add or even adjust file system processing capacity.
This traditional approach burdens HPC and Big Data environments with unacceptable program risk due to the excessive time, expense and non-productive work that constantly disrupts system productivity. What has previously been considered ‘maintenance’ is actually waste. Increasing HPC and Big Data productivity requirements demand that waste be eliminated.
The future of HPC and Big Data data storage requires a paradigm shift from legacy storage systems that focus on attributes like raw block storage capacity, controller cache size, or raw block data transfers.
Solution:
HPC and Big Data user productivity is the only meaningful metric. File system storage productivity is best measured in sustained end to end file system throughput delivery, as well as reduced datacenter floor space utilization, cooling, power and administrative time. Unfortunately, traditional storage systems on their own are not able to address these user level attributes. A comprehensive solution paradigm is needed.
ClusterStor introduces a new standard in end-to-end file system performance and efficiency, at the user level. Truly scaling file system performance efficiently means aggressively reducing the space, power, cooling and time consumed to achieve the HPC and Big Data performance and results users seek. Xyratex has proven that performance, efficiency and end-to-end solution management gains can be realized by consolidating system components closely together within an efficient, reliable and highly integrated scale-out data storage solution.
ClusterStor
™integrated high performance scale-out storage for HPC and Big Data
ClusterStor Architecture
ClusterStor makes the solution paradigm clear. ClusterStor utilizes high performance, distributed computing data storage elements that have been designed and built from the enclosure and application platform all the way up to the operating system, file system and advanced User Interface (UI) management functions. Four high level solution components (storage hardware, operating system, file system and management application) have been synergistically bonded together to create the most reliable and best performing integrated high performance scale-out storage in the industry today.
Lustre is the front running file system for the top HPC systems in the world and is continuing to gain momentum in emerging Big Data deployments as organizations such as OpenSFS invest heavily in its future. ClusterStor’s software architecture tightly integrates Lustre into a performance and capacity optimized solution that removes headaches that have historically been associated with deploying, managing and maintaining traditional Lustre environments using off the shelf components from different vendors.
Lustre’s future is directly tied to its quality and end user productivity success. This is why Xyratex makes significant contributions into Lustre testing, support and community involvement, and why we have honed the best attributes into our tightly optimized environment, eliminating variations and complexity.
The resilient ClusterStor operating environment introduces a scale-out storage and management architecture specifically designed to take full advantage of the performance and capacity scaling capabilities of the Lustre file system. ClusterStor doesn’t have to utilize special block-storage algorithms to predict how to provide optimal performance, the ClusterStor operating environment knows. In ClusterStor, the operating environment is integrated into distributed data storage elements called the Scalable Storage Unit.
ClusterStor – A family of integrated high performance scale-out storage solutions
How does the ClusterStor architecture deliver unmatched yet predictable file system performance?
Broad Applications - Flexible Planning - Easy Deployment
No matter how small or large your high performance application plan, the ClusterStor family provides a wide range of solutions and design methods to best match the file system performance and/or data storage capacity growth projected throughout the lifetime of your installation.ClusterStor 1500 - Delivers best in class ROI acceleration for entry and midrange environments
To best address commercial scientific high resolution simulation and engineering modeling applications, ClusterStor 1500 enables parallel data access to attain significantly enhanced data processing throughput efficiency, far exceeding limitations associated to legacy midrange solutions relying solely upon serial data access Network File System (NFS). ClusterStor 1500 specifically enables commercial and industrial technical computing users to attain faster job completion, higher job iteration rates and more precise application insights with higher resolution accuracy.
As an easy to use complete turnkey engineered Lustre solution for entry and midrange technical computing users, ClusterStor 1500 is designed to deliver no compromise performance and data capacity scalability in an affordable and remarkably compact integrated scale-out solution.
Best in Class ROI Acceleration Maximum
Supercomputing Scale Affordable Entry & Midrange Solution Highest Concentrated
Performance Density
Compact and Easy to Use Turnkey Lustre Solution Proven Efficiency, Reliability
and Ease of Management
ClusterStor 6000 ClusterStor 1500
ClusterStor 6000 - Delivers maximum performance scale for supercomputing environments
To best address maximum file system through-put, ClusterStor 6000 delivers highest performance and data capacity density per SSU, achieving more concentrated performance per unit data storage capacity, while delivering excellent efficiency, reliability and ease of management.
The Ultimate in Scale-Out Storage for HPC and Big Data
Highest reliability, availability and serviceability
ClusterStor gets you productive fast with robust professional service offerings available as part of solution delivery, including quality controlled installation, comprehensive early-stage support, personalized training, as well as data migration, configuration and architecture services. Instead of spending weeks gathering separate hardware and software, resolving interoperability issues and testing to get your Lustre environment into production, you can be productive with ClusterStor in hours. ClusterStor includes pre-installation of all internal software components, configuration of the integrated system and intensive system reliability tests before it ships from the factory. Rather than fight complexity, let the highly efficient, factory tested and seamlessly integrated ClusterStor solution do the work for you.
ClusterStor maximizes your operation time and application availability. Keeping your storage and file system running through scheduled maintenance or production operation upgrades means that you can stay productive. A key aspect to keeping you up and running is ClusterStor’s built-in high availability design and comprehensive set of distributed management services.
ClusterStor has been designed from the ground up as a highly available enterprise class storage solution with resiliency engineered into all primary subsystems. Meta-data and management server operations are resident on a high availability Cluster Management Unit. Each Scalable Storage Unit includes active/active embedded server modules, redundant and independent system interconnects. ClusterStor Manager removes the management burden of administering tens of petabytes and their traditional complement of deployed Lustre Object Storage Servers. Consolidated and detailed health monitoring and error reporting enables administrators to quickly view and diagnose file system and hardware assets.
Software and firmware upgrades across an entire ClusterStor system are executed through ClusterStor Manager, removing the administrative burden and risks that come with large complex Lustre implementations. Xyratex removes all of the pre-upgrade work and testing effort normally associated with upgrades and gives you an ability to roll-back upgrades, if necessary.
ClusterStor Manager is a comprehensive system management application that is part of ClusterStor’s distributed management framework and is responsible for pulling everything together as a single managed system. ClusterStor Manager consolidates management of the storage infrastructure, RAID data protection layer, scale-out operating system and the Lustre file system into a single, easy-to-use, administrator interface. From initial installation, creation of file systems, ongoing monitoring and management, to expansion and software upgrades, ClusterStor Manager brings the entire storage cluster solution to a single pane. This brings unprecedented system visibility to the Lustre system administrator.
Conclusion
Our attention to architectural balance and keen eye to detail has resulted in the ClusterStor scale-out data storage solution, exactly matching the linear file system processing scalability needs for state of the art HPC and Big Data scale-out compute architectures. While alternative scale-out data storage designs have appeared on the market, none match the degree of linear scalability and performance-capacity density delivered by the ClusterStor family of integrated high performance scale-out storage solutions for HPC and Big Data.
United Kingdom Headquarters www.xyratex.com
Principal US Office
Lustre is a registered trademark of Xyratex. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
©2013-4 Xyratex (The trading name of Xyratex Technology Limited). Registered in England & Wales. Company no: 03134912. Registered Office: Langstone Road, Havant, Hampshire PO9 1SA, England. The information given in this brochure is for marketing purposes and is not intended to be a specification nor to provide the basis for a warranty. The products and their details are subject to change. For a detailed specification or if you need to meet a specific requirement please contact Xyratex: www.xyratex.com. Issue 4.0 | 04/14
The ClusterStor
™family of high
performance scale-out storage for
HPC and Big Data provides unmatched
file system performance, optimized
time to productivity and the HPC
industry’s highest levels in integrated
solution reliability, availability and
serviceability.
ClusterStor 1500 Departmental Storage Scale ClusterStor Manager ClusterStor 6000 Supercomputing Storage Scale
Langstone Road Havant
Hampshire PO9 1SA United Kingdom T: +44(0)23 9249 6000 F: +44(0)23 9249 2284 46831 Lakeview Blvd. Fremont CA 94538 USA T: +1 510 687 5200 F: +1 510 687 5399 ClusterStor Manager brings to life powerful, intuitive, context-aware real-time monitoring and proactive management.
