PanasasActiveStor

Panasas® ActiveStor® Ease of Management

PANASAS MARKETING

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PANASAS OVERVIEW

§  Scale-out NAS Solutions for Enterprise and Research •  ActiveStor appliances in 5th generation •  Shipping Since 2004, with 19 patents issued (more pending)

§  Panasas Management •  Storage-focused executive management team •  Highly experienced technical team −  Dr. Garth Gibson, Founder & Chief Scientist, Author of “Berkeley RAID Paper”

§  VC Funded •  Mohr Davidow, Samsung Ventures, Intel Capital, Focus Ventures,

Centennial Ventures

Industry Recognition

Faye Pairman, Panasas CEO

Cloud Project of the Year

Public Sector Storage Project

of the Year

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MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES AT SCALE

§  IT Requirements: •  Speed of deployment •  Ease of use •  Ease of management

§  Scaling Traditional NAS Systems: •  Increased scalability means increased complexity •  Greater management effort required •  Additional costs incurred

§  True Scale-out NAS Solutions: •  Providing a single, global namespace to eliminate the need for multiple

storage islands •  Require the same level of effort to manage hundreds of storage nodes as

is required to manage a single node

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PANASAS ACTIVESTOR PLATFORM

§  Powered by PanFS storage operating system §  122.4TB per shelf à scales to 12PB §  1.5GB/s per shelf à scales to 150GB/s

ActiveStor Appliance

§  Metadata access §  System management

Director Blade

§  Parallel data access §  Advanced caching

Storage Blade

§  Single global namespace §  Single system to manage §  Seamless scaling with no downtime §  Pay as you grow §  Linear performance scaling

Panasas Architecture

CPUs = RAID ENGINES

COMPUTE CLIENTS

PANASAS DIRECTFLOW PARALLEL + SCALABLE

PANASAS ACTIVESTOR

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EFFICIENT LINEAR SCALABILITY

§  Performance does not drop off as performance modules are added •  Seamless linear scaling by adding

storage and director blades •  No performance “brick wall” or need

for islands of storage

§  Effective scaling for multiple protocols (DirectFlow, NFS, and CIFS)

§  Network resources and bandwidth scale with the system

Efficient Scaling = Outstanding TCO at Scale

Performance scaling independently verified by ESG: http://performance.panasas.com/wp-esg-web.html

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EASY TO DEPLOY, USE AND MANAGE

§  Easy to Deploy •  <10 min. to set up (ESG Lab Test) •  Automatic recognition of new

storage makes scaling a breeze

§  Easy to Use •  Compute nodes see a single,

unified name space •  Files are automatically load

balanced for maximum performance

§  Easy to Manage •  Single management view via

PanActive Manager GUI (or CLI) •  Snapshots and user quotas

reduce administrator time •  SNMP for integration into third

party management tools

§  Single Point of Management

§  Simple out-of-box experience

§  Seamlessly deploy new blades

§  Capacity & load balancing

§  Snapshots

§  1-touch reporting capabilities

§  Scriptable CLI

PanActive Manager •  Single Point of

Management •  Capacity & load

balancing

•  Simple out-of-box experience

•  Snapshots

•  Seamlessly deploy new blades

•  1-touch reporting capabilities

•  Scriptable CLI

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NEW: ACTIVESTOR 16 WITH PANFS 6.0

§  ActiveStor 16: Platform for PanFS 6.0 •  50% higher density, leveraging HGST UltraStar®

He6 6TB drives •  Faster director blade speeds RAID rebuilds •  Flash sized for RAID 6+

§  PanFS 6.0: RAID 6+ Triple Parity Protection •  Per-file, distributed RAID 6+ overcomes limitations

of traditional RAID •  Reliability increases with scale, not decreases •  Extended File System Availability ensures business

continuity when other systems would be down •  Quickly restore specific files for disaster recovery,

not whole file system

ActiveStor 16

HGST UltraStar® He6

6TB Drive

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ACTIVESTOR 16 PLATFORM

§  50% Increase in Density •  Hitachi HGST He6 Helium-filled 6TB drive

technology •  240GB SSD optimized for RAID 6+ •  122.4TB per 4U shelf

§  Linear Scalability •  Field proven to 12PB and 150GB/s in a single,

global namespace −  100 shelves, 2000 HDDs, 1000 SSDs

§  Improved Director Blade Performance •  19% faster CPU (2.53GHz quad-core) •  4x more cache: 48GB memory •  Improves metadata, small file and RAID rebuild

performance §  Strong at Both Throughput and IOPS

•  Ideal for large file, small file, and mixed workloads •  >13,000 random 4KB file read IOPS per shelf •  1.5 GB/sec per shelf

ActiveStor 16 Storage Blade

240GB SSD

8GB Cache

6TB HDD x2

CPU

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SUMMARY

§  IT staff in technical research and enterprise environments need easily-managed high-performance storage that is scalable and reliable

§  Selecting scale-out storage usually requires compromises •  High performance computing file systems deliver performance but

compromise on reliability, availability, and ease of management •  Enterprise NAS systems deliver high reliability and availability but

compromise performance

§  Panasas ActiveStor delivers a no-compromise solution

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PANASAS ACTIVESTOR

§  Easy Management •  Minimal management effort at scale •  Set up or grow capacity in under 10 minutes •  Single, global namespace

§  High Parallel Performance •  Direct data access eliminates

traditional NAS bottlenecks •  Capacity and performance scale

linearly to 12PB and 150GB/s •  Flash accelerated hybrid architecture

§  Enterprise-Grade Reliability •  Triple parity protection with RAID 6+ •  Reliability increases with scale •  Extended File System Availability

“No Compromise” Hybrid Scale-Out NAS

ActiveStor 16

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