NEC GxFS Flex Storage Appliance

NEC GxFS Flex Storage Appliance
Intel
® Hardware
Enterprise Edition for Lustre
Powered by IBM SpectrumFeaturing
Software and
Dell
Executive Summary
I NEC GxFS Flex Storage Appliance: Based on the IBM Spectrum
Scale parallel file system product
and Dell hardware.
I To be used from HPC to BCC
(Business Critical Computing)
I GxFS scales in more than 3
Dimensions. Capacity, Speed,
Accessibility, Availability, Usability
and Time.
I Ability to integrate NFS filer
within the global name space.
I Enable sharing and accessing of
resources up to a global scale.
I Support for data compression,
encryption and secure deletion.
I High-density and flash storage
from certified storage vendors for
best performance and reliability.
I Fully redundant Dell hardware
and high-availability software suite
for 24x7 usage.
I GxFS is more than just a sto-
rage solution since its goes beyond
traditional usage.
I NEC support for both hardware
and software.
I Differentiated support options
are available.
NEC GxFS Flex Storage Appliance
Nowadays organizations create and process more
and more data. The current solutions of single
data silos are not able to cope with the requirement of providing faster and easier access to the
data, enhanced resilience and security of the environment in combination with a lower price and
easier administration.
GxFS is the solution by introducing a scale-out
cluster with a global name space for all your data.
NEC GxFS Flex Storage Appliance
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NEC GxFS Flex Storage Appliance using proven technology focused on
Data accessibility
GxFS enables you to access your data via
various protocols – NFS, SMB, GPFS, HADOOP, S3, Block & Object – world wide.
Via the integrated WAN cache feature you
can integrate remote sites that have only
a limited network bandwidth. You can also
connect multiple clusters within the same
data center or across long distances over a WAN to build a super
This is Information at your
cluster. So GxFS unifies block
fingertips.
devices, objects, and files within
a single name space.
Service availability
The certified GxFS Dell hardware will stay
online as long as more than 50% of its
quorum servers are available. It allows extension and removal of these servers even
in a running cluster where the addition or
removal of standard – none quorum – server has only impact on your performance.
The GxFS policy of rolling updates allow the
GxFS to stay in production for almost 24x7
since only a single cluster server is under
maintenance at a given time.
With the GxFS integrated generic
High Availability Subsystem you
All together this
can make your application HA
brings mainaware without having to buy addiframe availational HA Software. NFS and SMB
bility into the
data center at
services are high available out of
a much lower
the box.
cost.
Data management
GxFS lets you define on which storage type
your data is located. Place often used data
on Flash while less used data will be migrated automatically to near line storage.
Even offload data to external storage entities like
Have your data
tape or Amazon S3. From
on the best tier
a users perspective his
(performance
data is still in the same
& cost), at the
right time.
place within its directory
structure.
Performance
Performance for GxFS is not restricted to
speed only but the ability to scale in multiple dimensions.
You can scale-up and scale-out your storage meaning faster access – millions of
IOPS - and more storage – petabytes of
data.
It means the ability to integrate other protocols – like SQL - with ease and transferring your GxFS into a database cluster.
Furthermore GxFS scales in time. Because
of its unique features you can replace your
underlying hardware without any impact
to your applications and
using rolling updates for
Performance
your GxFS appliance runnew defined.
ning your cluster for years
without downtime.
NEC GxFS Flex Storage Appliance
Intel
® Hardware
Enterprise Edition for Lustre
Powered by IBM SpectrumFeaturing
Software and
Dell
NEC GxFS Flex Storage Appliance Building
Blocks
GxFS Building Blocks are the basic units
of a GxFS installation. A building block
consists of a storage block – that could be
from various certified vendors and a server
block based on Dell Hardware running the
GxFS appliance which is fully configured
and ready for use. GxFS Building Blocks
allow for easy sizing and scaling of any
I/O setup. It offers a simple way to grow
bandwidth or capacity according to your
demands. Due to its nature GxFS supports
storage blocks from different vendors to be
used within the same cluster—optimizing
available storage utilization, delivering high
performance where needed and preventing
single points of failure for your data.
If required you can integrate your current
storage hardware at block level or at the
file system level (BYOD). GxFS is more
than a storage solution - it lets you decide
what storage to use.
Simplify cluster management at scale
Simplify cluster management at scale
GxFS includes a graphical user interface
and other integrated management tools
to manage your GxFS environments with
ease.
NEC GxFS Flex as a single scale-out data plane for entire data center
NEC GxFS Flex Storage Appliance
Intel
® Hardware
Enterprise Edition for Lustre
Powered by IBM SpectrumFeaturing
Software and
Dell
The PowerVault MD3 storage series delivers high-performance, low latency,
scalable, proven 99.999% available storage at a very affordable price point.
Dynamic Disk Pools
Dell MD3 Series Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) is a data protection
technology designed to deliver consistent storage system performance, data protection, and efficiency throughout the lifecycle of the
system. DDP simplifies the setup process and reduces the ongoing
maintenance requirements of data protection. With DDP, customers do not have to define RAID array sizes, hot spares, and drive
maintenance schedules. DDP distributes data, parity information,
and spare capacity across a pool of drives. Its intelligent algorithm
defines which drives are used for segment placement, making sure
data is fully protected.
Customer benefits
I
Reduce performance degradation following a drive (or multiple-drive) failure
I Eliminate complex RAID management without sacrificing data protection
I
Eliminate deployment and management of idle hot spare drives
I
Expand or contract the disk pool without reconfiguring RAID
Customer benefits
I
Ease of configuration and management
I Sustained performance during drive failure
I
Maximum performance for small random workloads
I
Shortest drive reconstruction time
I
Ability to use thin-provisioning Vdisks
I
SSD support
I
Easy and quick expansion by adding from 1 to 12 drives at a time
I
Greater protection of data from multiple drive
failures that occur over time
I
Simplified administration of spare capacity
I
Flexible and efficient capacity utilization
The PV MD3460 SAS is expandable through up to two MD3060e
About NEC Deutschland GmbH
NEC Deutschland GmbH, formed in 1987 with its head office in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Europe Ltd. As a part of the globally operating NEC
Corporation in Tokyo, Japan, NEC Deutschland is marketing innovative High-Tech-products, which result from a solid global R&D-background. Its product portfolio encompasses
high-performance computing systems for scientific applications, complete solutions for data-management and -processing, telecommunication-systems and general IT-solutions,
as well as biometric security solutions for enterprises and public institutions.
NEC Deutschland is focusing on the realization of customized complete solutions which include superior services. Further information is available at www.nec.com/de
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