Panasas Corporate & Product Overview
JULY, 2014
PANASAS PRODUCT 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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PANASAS GROWTH
Strong Financial Position
• Fueled by growing base of
customers in both commercial
and public sectors
Global Presence
• >450 active customers
• >50 countries
Loyal, Brand Name Customers
• High repeat-buy rate
Worldwide Support with Over 50 Resellers
Active Customer Count
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ENERGY EXPLORATION
Top Workloads:
• Seismic Processing
• Reservoir Simulation &
Modeling
• Visualization & Interpretation Customer: Geofizyka Kraków (Poland)
• Seismic data acquisition, processing and
interpretation, well logging, and Vertical Seismic
Processing (VSP) services
Challenge: • Performance demands exceeding the throughput
capability of legacy NAS systems, causing lost
productivity and maintenance nightmares
Solution: Panasas ActiveStor • “[With Panasas,] I’ve found our overall IT workflow to
be much more manageable. Furthermore, our
geophysicists are much more productive as they are
experiencing a much quicker turnaround on their
seismic processing jobs and we are able to deliver
faster and more accurate results to our customers,”
said Leszek Boryczko, computer systems manager.
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ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Top Workloads:
• Private Clouds
• Life Sciences
• High Energy Physics
• Computational Chemistry
Customer: UCLA
• Institute for Digital Research & Education (IDRE)
• Private cloud storage for virtually every department
Challenge:
• Performance demands exceeding the throughput
capability of its legacy NAS systems, causing lost
productivity and maintenance nightmares
Solution: ActiveStor 11 & 12
• “In addition to stellar performance, Panasas had a
very simple, clean model that worked well for us. One
of the other key decision factors was that we just
liked the Panasas people the most. We were looking
for a partnership, not just products,” said Dr. Scott
Friedman, Chief Technologist, IDRE
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GOVERNMENT
Top Workloads:
• Weather Forecasting
• Weapons Simulation
• Imaging & Search
Customer: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• Global climate research, funded by STFC (UK gov’t)
Challenges: • Replace legacy direct attach storage with HPC
storage and a parallel file system to support rapidly
expanding climate modeling workloads
• Deploy a low cost-per-terabyte solution offering
extreme scalability, easy integration, and simple
management
Solution: ActiveStor 11 (8.5 PB) • “Much of our problem with Network Attached Storage
was it was chewing up sysadmin and data scientists
moving data around. Now we’re in a situation where
much of that is being reduced to a portion of one
person. For a petascale archive that’s brilliant,” said
Dr. Bryan Lawrence, Director of the Centre for
Environmental Archival.
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MANUFACTURING
Top Workloads:
• Computer Aided
Engineering (CAE)
• Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD)
• Finite Element Analysis
(FEA)
• Optical Correction
• Thermal Mechanics
Customer: ATK Aerospace • Solid rocket propulsion systems, missile defense,
solar arrays and satellite management systems
Challenge: • Deploy stable, reliable, high performance storage
system for design engineering that would not require
a great amount of maintenance effort
Solution: ActiveStor 12 (60TB) • “Panasas ActiveStor speeds up our design and
simulation processes and saves us an incredible
amount of time and money,” said Ramesh Krishnan,
Sr. Staff Engineer
• “Panasas has one of the nicest file systems I’ve ever
used. It’s what storage should be—it’s something that
you don’t have to think about. It just does its thing,”
said Nate Fuhriman, System Administrator
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Top Workloads:
• Genomics
(Next-gen Sequencing)
• Proteomics
• Mass Spectrometry
• Molecular Modeling &
Simulation
LIFE SCIENCES
Customer: National Institutes of Health
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Challenges:
• Meet demands of genomics researchers from around
the globe accessing the NCBI public database
• Eliminate I/O bottlenecks to public databases,
including an estimated 1.5 PB of genetic information
for the 1000 Genomes Project
• Find an easy to manage solution
Solution: ActiveStor (Multiple Generations)
• “Technology advances that have brought down the
cost of sequencing have contributed to an explosion
of data. Panasas helps NCBI keep pace with the
volume and complexity of incoming information in a
cost-effective manner.”
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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
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PANASAS® ACTIVESTOR®
High Parallel Performance
• Direct data access eliminates
traditional NAS bottlenecks
• Capacity and performance scale
linearly to 12PB and 150GB/s
• Flash accelerated hybrid architecture
Easy Management
• Minimal management effort at scale
• Set up or grow capacity in <10 minutes
• Single, global namespace
Enterprise-Grade Reliability
• Triple parity protection with RAID 6+
• Reliability increases with scale
• Extended File System Availability
“No Compromise” Hybrid Scale-Out NAS
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PANASAS ACTIVESTOR PLATFORM
Powered by PanFS storage operating system
122.4TB per shelf scales to 12PB
1.5GB/s per shelf 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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ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
Linux/Unix
Servers
Windows
Workstations
HPC Linux
Clusters
ActiveStor 11/12 ActiveStor 14
PanFS® Parallel File System
ActiveStor® Hardware Platform
NFS DirectFlow® SMB (CIFS)
High Speed 10Gb or InfiniBand Network
ActiveStor 16
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ACTIVESTOR PERFORMANCE
Performance architecture
• Direct data access
• Parallel data transfer
• Flash acceleration
• Linear scalability
• Active capacity balancing
No hardware RAID bottlenecks • Client nodes calculate per-file RAID parity
• RAID performance scales with the number
of clients accessing storage
Exceptional aggregate
performance • Small workloads
• Large workloads
• Mixed workloads
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MULTI-PROTOCOL ACCESS
DirectFlow Maximizes Linux
Client Performance
• Parallel, direct I/O architecture
• Framework for pNFS standard
• Director blades scale metadata
• Storage blades scale I/O
NFS and SMB (CIFS) Access
• Fully supported for
heterogeneous client access
• Clients automatically balanced
across director blades
• Enterprise-grade SMB (CIFS)
implementation
Networking Flexibility
• 10Gb Ethernet
• InfiniBand
Panasas DirectFlow Data Path
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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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LINEAR SCALABILITY – CUSTOMER SITE
Configuration:
90 ActiveStor 14
shelves
27 director
blades
180 compute
nodes (3200
processes)
Only 2 compute
nodes/shelf
Linear Scalability as Expected!
• 128.6 GB/s write, 128.4 GB/s read (1429MB/s per shelf )
• 1550-1600MB/s possible with more clients – predicts 155-160GB/s at 100 shelves
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ACTIVESTOR HYBRID TECHNOLOGY
Flash and Hybrid Leadership
Intelligent Hybrid Architecture • Integrated multi-tier design with cache,
SSD Flash, and SATA hard drives
• Intelligently managed for maximum
performance in relation to cost
Large File Workloads
• Cost effective placement of large files
on SATA with performance RAID
striping for high throughput
Small File Workloads • Small files reside on SSD for high
IOPS Flash performance
File Metadata • Resides on SSD for increased file
system responsiveness
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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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RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY AT SCALE
Hardware RAID Increasingly a Problem for Legacy Storage
• Reliability and availability get worse with scale
• Multi-day rebuild times becoming common
• Odds of encountering sector errors too high, even for RAID 6
PanFS Delivers Unmatched Data Protection in Software
• Erasure codes protect every file individually
− No hardware RAID, no block-level rebuilds
− Limits rebuilds to affected files, not entire drives
• RAID 6+ with triple parity protection: 150x improvement over dual parity
− Guards against two simultaneous drive failures and single sector errors on
multiple drives
− Only ~25% capacity overhead and minimal performance impact vs. RAID 5+
• RAID rebuild performance scales linearly
− Mitigates risk from additional components at scale
• Randomized distribution of data means increased reliability at scale
− Odds of “one-too-many” drive failures affecting data decrease with scale
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UNMATCHED DISASTER RECOVERY
Fast Time to Restore
• Restore specific files instead of entire file system
• Made possible by extra protection of namespace (directory data) in RAID 6+
Percentage of Files to Restore Approaches Zero with Scale
• With RAID 6+ (66% small files), a triple simultaneous disk failure means:
Scaling by 10x increases reliability by 1000x!
1 in ~200,000
files to restore
1 in ~200,000,000
files to restore
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REVOLUTIONARY AVAILABILITY MODEL
Extended File System Availability (EFSA) Ensures Business
Continuity
• File system remains available when other systems would be down
(even after one-too-many drive failures)
• Directory structure stays navigable and all unaffected files can be
accessed normally
• Only a small number of affected files will be unavailable until restored
from backup
Replaces “All Up/All Down” Model of the Past
• Targets an “always on” architecture
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SUMMARY
Normally Selecting Scale-out Storage Requires a Compromise
• Other HPC file systems deliver performance but compromise ease of
management and compromise reliability and availability
• Other Enterprise NAS systems deliver high reliability and availability but
compromise performance
Panasas ActiveStor Delivers a No-Compromise Solution
• Linearly scalable, multi-protocol performance
• Easy to deploy, manage, and use
• Unsurpassed data protection, availability, and disaster recovery
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MORE INFO – PANASAS.COM
Why Panasas
http://panasas.com/why-panasas
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http://panasas.com/products/activestor
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THANK YOU!
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http://www.linkedin.com/company/panasas
http://www.panasas.com
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ACTIVESTOR BLADE ARCHITECTURE
CPU, cache, network
Orchestrates system activity
Metadata services
Up to 122.4TB per 4U chassis
Scalable to over 12 petabytes
Up to 1.5GB/s per chassis
Easy to install, easy to manage
Low Total Cost of Ownership
CPU, cache, data storage
Enables parallel reads/writes
Advanced caching algorithms
10GbE networking
InfiniBand Router 2 option
for IB connectivity
1.2PB & 15GB/s per 40U rack
ActiveStor Appliance
Switch
Module
Full
Rack
Storage
Blade
Director
Blade
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