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Q G Small Tree Started in 2003 Ex-SGI and Cray engineers Stuff we do Drivers for Networking and Storage Army Work Storage and Switch Profiling and Configuration Twin Cities Public Television Quality WorkshopTRANSCRIPT
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Making Storage Real-time
Steve Modica, CTO, Small Tree
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Topics to Cover Who is Small Tree What is real-time What is Future Proof?
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Small Tree Started in 2003 Ex-SGI and Cray engineers Stuff we do
Drivers for Networking and StorageArmy WorkStorage and Switch Profiling and Configuration
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Realtime
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Step by Step to Real-time Define the load
BandwidthTiming
Measure the loadSimulation ToolsMeasurement Tools
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RAID Controller Issues Firmware Driver revs Interleave Read ahead Other features
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System Issues Bus speed Memory Kernel Resources
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Network Issues Flow Control Switch performance Driver tuning IO Balancing
Disk vs. NetworkClient distribution
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Client Issues Which platform to choose? Workload requirements Tuning Built in Ports vs. Small Tree ports
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Future ProofWhat does that mean?
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Another Iron Triangle
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Benefits of Simple NAS set ups Very easy to understand Based on Heterogeneous Protocols Scale well with Ethernet Easily maximize connected clients
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