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GS7K - Easy-to-deploy, High Performance Scale-Out Parallel File System Appliance

September 2014

Under Embargo till Oct 1, 12:30 a.m. ET

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DDN | Who We Are

► Markets: Enterprise Big Data, Cloud, HPC

► Solutions: Platforms, File Systems, Object Storage

► Customers: 1,000+ in 50 Countries

► Go-To-Market: Direct, Partner Assist

► Employees: 550 in 20 Countries

► Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA

► History: Founded in 1998 and Profitable

We Solve Big Data Lifecycle Management Challenges at Large Scale

• The World’s Largest Private Storage Company

• NDA Confidential

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Big Data & Cloud Infrastructure DDN’s Award-Winning Product Portfolio3

Analytics Reference Architectures

EXAScaler™

10Ks of Clients1TB/s+, HSM

Linux HPC ClientsNFS & CIFS [2014]

Petascale Lustre® Storage

Enterprise Scale-Out File Storage

GRIDScaler™

~10K Clients1TB/s+, HSM

Linux/Windows HPC ClientsNFS & CIFS

SFA™12KX48GB/s, 1.7M IOPS1,680 Drives in 2 RacksOptional Embedded Computing

SFA770012.5GB/s, 450K IOPS60 Drives in 4U228 Drives in 12U

Storage Fusion Architecture™ Core Storage Platforms

SATA SSD

Flexible Drive Configuration

SAS

SFX™ Automated Flash Caching

WOS® 3.032 Trillion Unique Objects

Geo-Replicated Cloud Storage256 Million Objects/Second

Self-Healing CloudParallel Boolean Search

Cloud Foundation

Big Data PlatformManagement

DirectMon™

CloudTiering

Infinite Memory Engine™ [Tech Preview]Distributed File System Buffer Cache

WOS700060 Drives in 4U

Self-Contained Servers

Adaptive Transparent Flash Cache SFX API Gives Users Control [pre-staging, alignment, by-pass]

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Scale Out | NAS vs Parallel File Storage

Scale-Out NAS Does Not Mean Parallel!

NAS - Point:Point TechnologyClients Can Only See One Server At A Time Locking Engines Not Designed For Massive Parallelism

Parallel File Systems – Removes NAS bottlenecksRead/Write From Many Servers in Parallel – ConcurrentOrder of Magnitude Higher Performance than NAS

Object-Based Locking; No Dedicated Storage Network; Scalable To 100+ PBsObject-Based Locking; No Dedicated Storage Network; Scalable To 100+ PBs

Support for RDMA Communication & Large PacketsMakes Best Use of High Performance Networks!

Big Data Cluster

Parallel Storage Cluster

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The News: Introducing GS7K

► DDN is leveraging it’s HPC expertise and 3 generations of Embedded technology to bring to market the GS7K – an All-in-one, Scale-out Parallel File System Appliance.

► Combines DDN’s Storage Fusion Architecture with the scalability of IBM’s GPFS file system to introduce the industry’s first scale-out parallel file system appliance complete with enterprise-class features, NAS access and Cloud tiering capabilities

► Customers no longer have to trade off between performance and enterprise features: they can have the best of both worlds including massive performance and scalability in a scale-out parallel file system that also offers the simplicity and rich feature set in an all-in-one appliance

► Designed to help customers in data intensive industries like oil and gas, FSI, and life sciences jumpstart their first Big Data projects with an optimally sized and priced enterprise appliance

► Engineered for performance, GS7K can deliver ~12 GB/s per scale-out building block, making the appliance the most powerful and scalable appliance of its size

► Offers a building block approach so customers can start small with 60 drives in 4U and expand capacity by adding up to 4 additional 4U 84 drive enclosures. Multiple GS7K systems can then be aggregated to hit 100s of GB/s of performance and PBs of capacity to minimize overall TCO.

► Provides rich feature set of enterprise-class capabilities; migration between SSD, SAS, SATA tiers, Cloud and tape under one global namespace; and federation of GS7K namespaces for multi-site ingest, distribution and collaboration across multiple GS7K Clusters

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Challenges

► Traditional NAS scale-out storage systems aren't scaling in performance to meet big data analysis needs• Scale-out NAS only goes to few GB/sec• Customers in Big Data markets need more

► Parallel file systems are hugely scalable, but...• Give up many critical enterprise data management capabilities; or,• Are complex to install/manage/optimize and difficult to use

► Customers with large, business valued data sets need:• Performance of a Parallel File System• Feature Rich• Simplicity of a scale-out appliance• Option of NAS Connectivity

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Introducing the GS7K7

Easy-to-deploy, High Performance Scale-Out Parallel File System Appliance

Performance Optimized

Feature Rich

Scalable

• Power of the SFA Architecture combined with the performance and scalability of IBM’s GPFS file system

• 12 GB/sec per scale-out building block

• Enterprise Class Features for Big Data

• Cloud Connectivity• Data Tiering• Integrated Backup using

Tivoli

• Start Small – 4U/60 Drives

• Scale out to 100s of GB/sec of performance and 100s of PBs Capacity

• Building block approach

Simple

• All-in-one appliance with processing and storage pre-loaded

• Power of a Parallel File System in a simple to use appliance

• Singe Vendor Support

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2PB2PB4PB4PB6PB6PB8PB

Scalable Building Block for Big Data(Animated – please see in full screen mode)

Big Data

Add additional Appliances to Linearly Scale

Performance and Capacity

12GB/s12GB/s24GB/s24GB/s36GB/s36GB/s48GB/s48GB/s

GS7K

Single Global Namespace

…….

Integrate multiple appliances to scale to over 100s of GB/s & 10’s of PBs

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DirectMon™ | Simple, Scalable Appliance UI

Storage Management Made Simple► A powerful, intuitive single

pane of glass to monitor &manage the GS7K Appliances

► Web interface delivers 100% of monitoring capabilities anywhere, any time

► Performance and Capacity Metric Monitoring: Monitor over 350 metrics to model, problem solve and predict

► Provision and configuration tool sets► User Defined Alerts and Thresholds

Get Up and Running in a matter of Hours

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10 GS7K - Target Markets

Life Science

Financial

Oil and Gas

Manufacturing

Web 2.0

Social Networks

Cloud Computing

Intelligence

Government

Surveillance

Broadcast

Video on Demand

Special Effects

But NOT Designed for Data Center Applications like Oracle, Exchange, SAP, CRM, ERP

applications Not for Virtualization, VDI etc

Government & Academia

Professional

MediaCloud, Web, &

Telco InfrastructureHPC & Enterprise Big Data Analysis

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GS7K Features - At-a-glance

Data Protection/Mgmt Intelligence

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Snapshots and Rollback

Integrated Backup

Mirroring & Aync (TSM) ReplicationI*

Cloud Connectivity and Tiering*

Non Disruptive Scaling, Restriping, Rebalancing

Multi-Tiered File System w/ HSM*

DirectMon Single Pane of Glass

Data Delivery Intelligence

ReACT Cache Management

SFX Storage Cache

Read Quality-Of-Service Engine

Storage Infrastructure Intelligence

World’s Densest – 84 drives in 4U

DirectProtect™ Self-Healing Drive Protection

Data Access Options

Parallel File System (WINDOWS & LINUX), NFS, CIFS

InfiniBand – FDR 56 Gb/s

*Optional, Additional Licenses Required

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Manage Data Intelligently

Information Lifecycle Management*► Built in ILM

Policy based Data Migration

Seamless integration with Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) to migrate data to and from Tape

► All data is instantly accessible and managed from a single point.

Automate migration between SSD, SAS, SATA and Tape

Single Global Namespace

Automatically

HSM To Tape

Cloud Tiering

Active Tier

SAS Tier

SSD TierPolicy driven

SATATier

Policy driven

Cloud Tiering*► Tier, Archive and Migrate to a WOS cloud

o ILM-based Rules, executed periodically or can be scheduled

► Offload GS7K files to WOS to free up space & improve performance

► View archived files from GS7K as a WOS (NFS) mount point

*Optional, Additional Licenses Required

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Collaborate, Distribute and Federate

Site 1

Site 2

Compute

Grid

Overview► Federation of GS7K namespaces,

using WOS as the wide area distribution mechanism

► Multi-site ingest, distribution & collaboration capacity for up to 8 GS7K Clusters

Access Mechanisms► Data is ingested and written into

GS7K & copied to WOS, or written directly to WOS – and then exposed as a NAS mount point

► Data is ingested into WOS via NFS or CIFS and accessible to GS7K as a NAS mount point

Compute

Grid

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GS7K | Building Blocks15

  Base Enclosure

   

Base + 1 

Base + 2 

Base + 3 

Base + 4 

Number of Drives

60 144 228 312 396

Performance 6 GB/s 11 GB/s 12 GB/s 12 GB/s 12 GB/s

Rack Space 4U 8U 12U 16U 20U

Scale Out to Any Performance and Capacity Requirements using these Building Blocks

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Peace of Mind

Snapshots

Replicated Data and Metadata

Flexible RAID

Tape Backup*

DirectProtect

Cloud Connect & Archive

Data Protection at Multiple Levels► Policy-driven snapshots protect against accidental

deletion, corruption or viruses

► Synchronously replicated data and metadata adds reliability

► Cloud Tiering and Archival

► Flexible RAID configurations provide parity protection against disk failures

► Integrated backup (with Tivoli Storage Manager*) uses an optimized journal to efficiently backup changed data

► DirectProtect to automatically detect and correct silent data corruption

*Optional, Additional Licenses Required

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GS7K SpecificationsSpecificationsProtocols NFS v3, CIFS SMB 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1

Linux and Windows Parallel FS Clients

Performance 12GB/sec per scale-out building block

Metadata Distributed

Storage Host Ports: 4 x 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand Ports

Drive Support SSD, Performance SAS and Capacity SAS/SATA drives, 3.5” 60 in base unit, 396 with expansion enclosures

File Servers per base enclosure

4 NSDs 

Data Protection • RAID 1/5/6• Up to 256 Snapshots per Volume – policy driven• Snapshot Rollback• DirectProtect & DirectProtect+• Online & Automatic Storage Rebalancing• High Speed Defragmentation

Replication • Synchronous Data and Metadata• Asynchronous using WOS

Data and System Management

• Quotas (users, groups, file sets)• DirectMon Centralized configuration and

monitoring solution• Optional HSM Interface for ILM (IBM HPSS)• Optimized Backup (IBM TSM)

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DirectMon™ | Monitoring

Selection Tree

Shows NSDs and Storage

Select a Component to Drill Down

Aggregated Performance and Capacity Metrics

System Health for All NSDs and Storage in the GS7K Cluster

High-Level GS7K Monitoring

NSD Specific Monitoring

Selection of Monitoring Views Available for GS7K NSDs

Capacity Monitoring

Health Status

Time-Based View Options

Graphic Monitoring Report

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DirectMon™ | Simple, Scalable Appliance UI

Storage Management Made Simple► A powerful, intuitive single

pane of glass to monitor &manage the GS7K Appliances

► Web interface delivers 100% of monitoring capabilities anywhere, any time

► Performance and Capacity Metric Monitoring: Monitor over 350 metrics to model, problem solve and predict

► Provision and configuration tool sets► User Defined Alerts and Thresholds