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

ActiveStor 16

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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

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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!

http://twitter.com/#!/panasas

http://www.youtube.com/PanasasHPC

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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