File Storage

“Troubleshooting the Stack” as it Applies to Larger Computer Systems

HPC systems have both layered hardware and software.  A great visual troubleshooting tool is to make a layer diagram of your system, include a couple commands and logs to health check the individual layers. Starting at the end-user client, transverse down through… [...]

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Spectrum Scale Sample Deployment

Gov’t Agency 10PB+ Spectrum Scale Tiered File System Sample Configuration Tier1 & Metadata SSD Storage 8 NDS nodes 8 ARI-103 24-bay block storage Systems 200 TB usable GPFS tier1 storage Tier2 NLSAS Storage 6 NSD nodes 6 ARI-109 56-bay block storage systems… [...]

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Lustre on ZFS Sample Deployment

DoE18 PB Deployment Sample Configuration Metadata 16 MDS nodes 8 Ability® 24-bay EBODs 25 TB usable SSD capacity Object 36 OSS nodes 36 Ability® 84-bay EBODS 18 PB usable capacity 100+ GB/s Throughput Performance We create optimized Lustre solutions based on our… [...]

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Lustre on ZFS Sample Building Block

Scalable Lustre ZFS Building Blocks with RAID Inc Ability® JBODs Highly-Available clusters with no single point of failure Scale for capacity and performance of both data and metadata 24 bay enclosure SSD or HDD for metadata 84 bay enclosure for capacity object… [...]

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Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces Solution Features and Benefits

Windows Server 2012 enables users to have enterprise-class features that deliver the industry’s best performance that not only scales but provides the best availability of any storage solution in the market. All for a fraction of the cost of tier one vendors.… [...]

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