British Institute of Cancer Research calls for Green Tiered Storage Solution - Peter Bright (Silicon Graphics International), Ing. Johann Schiessel (Schiessel EDV) - Vortrag in englischer Sprache

1. SGI Customers Using
Green Storage
Peter Bright
SGI Technical Services Manager

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MAID Customers
Government Federal Bureau of
Investigation
Federal Bureau of
Investigation
Education
Financial
Healthcare
Media and
Entertainment
Manufacturing

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Customer Challenges-1
• Financial Sector Legislative obligations
– Prove customer’s data is secure
– Demonstrate ability to recover
• Increasing storage growth
• Reducing backup window
• Control Power costs
– Dual site, one being Co-Lo
– Real floorspace costs
– Finite power available, cannot scale

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Customer Challenges-1
• Previous environment unsatisfactory
– Backup jobs failing
• media related problems
– Backup jobs taking too long
– Current disk and tape solution has limitations
• Disk has high reliability and cost but limited scale
• Tape has a lower cost but lower availability and performance
– High-Touch storage administrator efforts
– High risk of missing obligations
• Solution does not scale

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• Significant savings in power and cooling
– All disks can be powered off when not in use
– Cap 25% or 50% of the disks can be powered on
– All can be powered off
– Reduced heat generation allows high density
• Reduced floor space
– Up to 896 SATA / SAS disks in a single rack (2.6PB)
• Extends disk life
– DiskAerobics software
• Data integrity verification, Proactive sparing
– Disk power down reduces wear and tear
• MTBF 6x drive manufacturer specification
MAID - VTL

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Solution Benefits
• More reliable backups
– Near zero failure rate
– Reduced backup window
• Reduced Storage Administrator efforts
– Almost no problem-solving required
– Failures now unrelated to ‘backup system’ issues
– No media related failures
• Stage to tape
– Outside of backup window

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Solution Benefits
• Legislation
– Prove reliability of backups
– Quickly demonstrate restores and recalls
• Achieved with minimal floorspace
• Significant power & cooling savings

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Power consumption

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Power consumption

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Power consumption

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Power consumption

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Customer Challenges-2
• Research organisation with huge data ingest
• Rapid data growth / Big Data
• HPC processing
• Increasing reference data on Tier 1 disk
• Stale data with high € / GB overhead
• Backup duration limits amount of Tier 1 growth
• No D-R copies

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Solution Benefits
• Dedicated scratch space
– HPC ingest and processing
• Minimal Tier 1 deployment
– High performance, Tier 1 cost
• Intermediate Tier 2 ‘cache’
– Reduce recall delays from tape
• Archive Tier 3 Tape Library
– Low cost, highly scalable capacity
• Software Automation
– Users ‘see’ entire estate as single mount point

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SGI Tiered Storage example
By replacing a Tape Library with an SGI COPAN System, you can significantly decrease access times of
even the oldest data in your DMF environment while maintaining cost optimization

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CXFS Client
Tier 2 Storage
COPAN 400T
896TB Raw
Central London Greater London
Compute Environment
Tier 0 Storage
Tier 1
IS5000
50 TB Storage
Tier 3 Storage
330TB Raw
SpectraLogic
T950 Tape
Library
Tier 1
IS5000
50 TB Storage
Compute Environment
Tier 0 Storage
CXFS Client
NFS Server
12km WAN
CXFS Client
NFS Server
CXFS Client
NFS Server
CXFS Client
NFS Server
Tier 3 Storage
330TB Raw
SpectraLogic
T950 Tape
Library
CXFS Client
LiveArc
Server
LiveArc
Server
CXFS Client
Parallel
Data Mover
FC FC
CXFS Server
DMF
CXFS Server
DMF
CXFS Client
Parallel
Data Mover
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High Level Tiered Storage Design: Dual Site Integrated Compute & Storage

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Example: NBA Digital Archives
 Up to 38 TB per day
ingested from new and legacy
content.
 Half-way through digitizing
450k tapes with content
going back to 1946.
 Restore 3TB per day, ~2000
clips from archive each day
for production use.

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SGI MAID is Simple, Cost Effective and Eco-Friendly
• Solves challenges associated with data
protection
• Information integrity
– Automated disk management and monitoring
• Eco-friendly solution
– Up to 100% power and cooling reduction*
– Extends disk MTBF and disk life 6x
– Save 12,000 pounds of CO2 per year per kilowatt hour
saved**
• High disk density per square metre
*At the disk level
**US DOE statistics for emissions per KwH

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