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GridScaler File Storage System

Scalable, Intelligent File Storage

DataDirect Networks (DDN) GridScaler File Storage System combines simple, scalable data management tools with DDNs innovative storage platforms to eliminate performance bottlenecks, enhance data integrity and availability, and simplify your environment. The GridScaler system can scale diagonally to any performance or capacity limit by leveraging both scale-out and scale-up concepts. This allows you to build a solution based on your budget without getting shoehorned into a rigid configuration. Simply and easily scale your environment with optimized GridScaler configurations sized for the S2A9900, SFA10000 and S2A6620 storage systems. The GridScaler system supports a wide variety of network protocols to serve LAN, SAN and NAS clients, including native Linux and Windows clients for maximum performance and NFS for standards-based access. The system easily scales to connect thousands of clients to one scalable file system. Advanced data protection and replication features are built in, with DDN SATAssure data integrity protection and DirectRAID 6 to ensure data integrity and high availability. With GridScaler, both high performance and high capacity applications share a common set of files and storage, enabling you to deploy fewer systems and reduce costs. You can achieve further cost reductions and greater ROI by saving valuable floor space with industry-leading storage density, lowering power consumption with D-MAID energy savings technology, and by optimizing storage budgets using GridScalers intelligent Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM). GridScaler File Storage System is well suited for content intensive applications ranging from Supercomputing, Oil and Gas, Financial Market Modeling, Life Sciences to Content Depots and Web Services. With scalable data and metadata technology, the GridScaler platform eliminates all bottlenecks to achieve true parallelism and maximum application performance.

S2A6620
Modular scalable storage with the highest density 120 Drives up to 360TB up to 2GB/s

S2A9900
Optimized for Throughput with Real-time guarantees 1200 Drives up to 3.6PB up to 6GB/s

SFA10000
Balanced Throughput and IOPS 1200 Drives up to 3.6PB up to 12GB/s

High Performance Linux & Windows Clients (IB & Ethernet Connected)

NFS Clients (TCP/IP Connected)

The GridScaler File Storage System is a turn-key solution combining the benefits of the award-winning DDN storage products-- S2A6620, S2A9900 and SFA10000-with a scalable shared file system and optional HSM module.

Application Readiness
Supports high-speed Linux and Windows clients for seamless integration Shared namespace across all clients optimizes workflows Designed for a mix of workloads & applications to right-size performance & capacity Simple online capacity growth and data management

Petabyte-Scalable, Parallel File System Namespace High Performance Storage Tier Capacity-Optimized Storage Tier

True Scalability & Performance

Allows Diagonal Scalability by independently scaling capacity and performance Supports up to 2000 concurrent client access, PBs of capacity and over 200 GB/s of throughput Delivers single-stream I/O of over 1.5GB/s

Automated HSM to Disk & Tape Pools

Integrated Snapshot & Scheduled Backup

Data Protection and Archive High Performance Parallel File System with Advanced Data Management features
Replication for Disaster Recovery and Performance Policy-based data movement into archival and nearline storage for reduced TCO Supports D-MAID energy saving technology SATAssure Data Integrity without any performance penalty Integrated HSM and Backup support

Features
Client Connectivity Network Protocols Linux, Windows 2008, HA NFS v3 1/10Gb ethernet InfiniBand Fibre Channel RDMA I/O Gateway load-balancing Client-Side Load Balancing Client Side Failover Concurrent Access File & Metadata Mirroring Block Size Sub-Block Size Additional Features Yes (GridScaler Linux only) Yes I/O requested granularity Yes Yes Yes, Fine-Grained File Locking Yes, Synchronous 16K - 4MB Optional, 1/32nd of Block Size Up 256 Snapshots per Volume Storage Tiering Automatic Storage Rebalancing High Speed Defragmentation Data Management Optional HSM Interface (IBM HPSS) Optimized Backup (IBM TSM)

Scalability
GridScaler Client Scalability NAS Client Scalability File Servers SAN Mode Scalability Volume Capacity File Capacity Clustering Aggregate Throughput Linux Client Throughput NFS Client Throughput File Operations per Second Over 2,000 Linux Clients Over 10,000 Clients 2-200 Servers/Cluster 2000 SAN Clients 2 PBs 2 Billion Files/Volume 256 Volumes/Cluster Over 200GB/s 1.5GB/s (InfiniBand) 700MB/s (10Gbe) 600MB/s (10Gbe) Over 50,000 per Volume

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