High-Performance, Scale-Out NAS

HPC Advisory Council30th May 2010

Derek BurkeChannel Sales Director, EMEAPanasas, Inc.

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Agenda

Introduction to Panasas, Inc.

Panasas Parallel Storage Technology

Panasas Product Family

The Panasas Difference

Promotion

Q&A

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Introduction to

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Introduction to Panasas, Inc.

Storage that accelerates the world’s highest performance

and most data-intensive applications

• Tightly integrated parallel file-system & storage hardware solution

• Global shared file-system that accelerates applications performance

Founded 1999, shipping solutions since 2003

• Highly experienced, technically-renowned team

• Software innovation, packaged with industry-standard hardware

Brand name customers, >75% are “repeat buyers”

• Solid track record of revenue growth: up >25% in 2009

• Increased customer base by 45% in 2009

• Strong balance sheet

World wide support with over 25 global resellers

• 55% of sales through partners

• Deployed in thirty-five countries

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Customer Success Highlights

Half the Formula One teams use Panasas

Five of the top six O&G companies in the world use Panasas

Every Intel chip since 2006 has been designed using Panasas

The world’s first Petascale system, RoadRunner, uses Panasas

The world’s three largest genomic data centres use Panasas

The largest aircraft manufacturer in the world uses Panasas

Leading Universities including Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford & Yale use

Panasas

The world’s largest Hedge Fund uses Panasas

Energy Automotive Aerospace Bio Science

Pharma

Finance University

Research

Government

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Leaders in HPC choose Panasas

SWIFT ENERGY

COMPANY

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Panasas Parallel

Storage Technology

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Evolution of Network Attached Storage

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Panasas Parallel Storage Technology: Object Storage Architecture

Object Map

and

Capability

Metadata

ManagersObject Storage Devices

Client Nodes

Switched

Network

Unix and Windows

Client

File Request

Parallel

data paths

DirectFlow

600 MB/sec

per Shelf

NFS and

CIFS

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Panasas Parallel Storage Technology: Simple Installation and Online Scaling

o Simple Installation

Assign IP address, netmask and default

route to primary DirectorBlade

o Automatic Online Provisioning

Configuration is read from primary blades

Automatic Software version matching

Immediately serving data

DHCP on Private port

Automatic Capacity Balancing

Target New Writes

Migrate Component Objects in the

background

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Panasas Blade Technology

PAS 7 & 8 StorageBlade™

Large DRAM

Cache

Multi-core Intel

Processor

SATA Drive

Large DRAM

Cache

Enterprise Class

2TB SATA Drives

Multi-core Intel

Processor

PAS DirectorBlade™

Multi-core Intel

Processor

Intel SSD

Enterprise Class

2TB SATA Drive

Large DRAM

Cache

PAS 9 StorageBlade™

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Panasas Parallel Storage Technology:Built on Industry-Standard Hardware Components

DirectorBladeStorageBlade

Integrated 10GE Switch

Shelf Front

1 DB, 10 SB

Shelf Rear

Midplane routes GE, power

Battery Module

(2 Power units)

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Panasas Parallel Storage Technology: Extreme Scalability

We build highly scalable storage systems

From a single Panasas Shelf

To Tens of Petabytes

To Multiple Petabytes

10TB

or 15TB

or 20TB

or 40TB

up to 40GB of cache

Per Chassis

Multiple chassis combine to

create a single pool of storage

with a large coherent cache

Virtually unlimited scaling capability

And everything in between

600MB/s per shelf

(1GB/sec coming soon!)

Performance Scales Linearly

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Panasas Parallel Storage Technology: Single Global Namespace for Easy Management

Panasas removes artificial, physical and logical boundaries

o Eliminates need to maintain mount scripts or move data

Single Global Namespace

Traditional Storage Networks Panasas Storage Cluster

Cluster 1 Cluster 3

Cluster 2

Archived

Files

Cluster 1 Cluster 3

Cluster 2

Cluster 2

Results

Cluster 3

Results

Cluster 1

Results

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Performance

o 10GE standard delivering ~600+ MB/s

per shelf

(~1GB/sec Coming Soon)

o Performance scales linearly as more

shelves are added

o 1.2GB/sec single client performance

o Up to 21,000 IOPS per shelf

Scalability Within a Single Instance

of PanFS File-System

o Up to 12,000 clients

o Hundreds GB/sec aggregate bandwidth

o Tens of Petabytes single system

o Hundreds of thousands of IOPS

Panasas Parallel Storage Technology:ActiveScale Version 3.5

Manageability

o Single Management Console

o MyPanasas for updates and patches

o Single Global Namespace

o User Quotas (v4.0, August 2010)

o Automatic Provisioning of New Storage

Capacity

o Automatic RAID Configuration

o Dynamic Load Balancing

o NDMP for backup, Snapshots

o 1 Touch Reports for Capacity Trends, Asset ID

o Disk Migration Utility

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Automatic Tiered Storage

o 2TB Drives (3TBs in Q4’10)

o SSDs

o DRAM

Interoperability

o DirectFLOW, pNFS, NFS & CIFS

Connectivity

o 4 x 1GbE, 10GbE and Infiniband

Reliability

o RAID 1, 5, 6* & 10

o Panasas Tiered Parity

o NFS Failover

o Full Storage Network Failover

o DirectorBlade Metadata Failover

o Asyncronous Mirroring for disaster

recovery

Panasas Parallel Storage Technology:ActiveScale Version 3.5 continued…

Interoperability

o LDAP & Samba Update for

improved Windows interoperability

o Access Control List - Export

PanFS ACL for more flexible

security policies

Linux Power 6 DirectFLOW Client

Support

Designed to be managed

by non-storage

professionals

* PAS HC Only

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Panasas

Product Family

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Panasas Product Family

PAS HC(Per 42U Rack)

- 960TBs Raw Capacity

- 5GB/sec Aggregate B/W

- RAID 6

- Unlimited Scalability

- Entry Level $/GB 500TBs+

PAS 7(Per 4U Shelf)

- 40TBs Raw Capacity

- 350MB/sec Aggregate B/W

- RAID 1, 5 & 10

- Unlimited Scalability

- Entry Level $/GB Sub 500TB

PAS 8(Per 4U Shelf)

- 40TBs Raw Capacity

- 600MB/sec Aggregate B/W

- RAID 1, 5 & 10

- HA & Snapshots

- Unlimited Scalability

PAS 9(Per 4U Shelf)

- 600MB/sec Aggregate B/W

- Unlimited Scalability

- RAID 1, 5 & 10

- HA & Snapshots

- 21,000 IOPS

Same Panasas software, management interface, single name space

SSD

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The Panasas Difference

Patented file system

Global namespace

Infinite scale

Multi-protocol support

Parallel and direct access

pNFS open source standard

High reliability

Tiered parity data protection

Multiple RAID levels

Ease-of-Use

Single Management Interface

Scale with zero downtime

PanFS Storage Operating System

Workstations/PCs Workstations/PCs

HPC

Cluster

NFS DirectFLOW CIFS

/pNFS

PanFS

PAS 7/8 PAS 9PAS HC

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Higher-Education & Research Special Promotion

PAS 7 & 8 Series Bundled with 3-Years Silver Service

PAS 7

40TB, 20GB Cache,

1 + 10, 1GBe

Switch, 3 yr Silver

Service

PAS 8

40TB, 40GB Cache,

1 + 10, 10GBe

Switch, SNAP, HA,

3 yr Silver Service

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Thank you