Peter Bright (Silicon Graphics), Ing. Johann Schiessel (Schiessel EDV)
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The document outlines the challenges faced by customers in various sectors, particularly related to data storage, backup reliability, and legislative obligations. It describes how SGI's solutions, including tiered storage and eco-friendly measures, effectively address these issues by increasing storage efficiency, reducing power consumption, and improving data integrity. Notably, SGI's technology allows for significant reductions in cooling costs, disk wear, and backup failures, ultimately supporting diverse data management needs.
Peter Bright (Silicon Graphics), Ing. Johann Schiessel (Schiessel EDV)
- 1. SGI Customers Using Green Storage Peter Bright SGI Technical Services Manager
- 2. ©2011 SGI 2 MAID Customers Government Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation Education Financial Healthcare Media and Entertainment Manufacturing
- 3. ©2011 SGI Customer Challenges-1 • Financial Sector Legislative obligations – Prove customer’s data is secure – Demonstrate ability to recover • Increasing storage growth • Reducing backup window • Control Power costs – Dual site, one being Co-Lo – Real floorspace costs – Finite power available, cannot scale
- 4. ©2011 SGI Customer Challenges-1 • Previous environment unsatisfactory – Backup jobs failing • media related problems – Backup jobs taking too long – Current disk and tape solution has limitations • Disk has high reliability and cost but limited scale • Tape has a lower cost but lower availability and performance – High-Touch storage administrator efforts – High risk of missing obligations • Solution does not scale
- 5. ©2011 SGI • Significant savings in power and cooling – All disks can be powered off when not in use – Cap 25% or 50% of the disks can be powered on – All can be powered off – Reduced heat generation allows high density • Reduced floor space – Up to 896 SATA / SAS disks in a single rack (2.6PB) • Extends disk life – DiskAerobics software • Data integrity verification, Proactive sparing – Disk power down reduces wear and tear • MTBF 6x drive manufacturer specification MAID - VTL
- 6. ©2011 SGI Solution Benefits • More reliable backups – Near zero failure rate – Reduced backup window • Reduced Storage Administrator efforts – Almost no problem-solving required – Failures now unrelated to ‘backup system’ issues – No media related failures • Stage to tape – Outside of backup window
- 7. ©2011 SGI Solution Benefits • Legislation – Prove reliability of backups – Quickly demonstrate restores and recalls • Achieved with minimal floorspace • Significant power & cooling savings
- 12. ©2011 SGI Customer Challenges-2 • Research organisation with huge data ingest • Rapid data growth / Big Data • HPC processing • Increasing reference data on Tier 1 disk • Stale data with high € / GB overhead • Backup duration limits amount of Tier 1 growth • No D-R copies
- 13. ©2011 SGI Solution Benefits • Dedicated scratch space – HPC ingest and processing • Minimal Tier 1 deployment – High performance, Tier 1 cost • Intermediate Tier 2 ‘cache’ – Reduce recall delays from tape • Archive Tier 3 Tape Library – Low cost, highly scalable capacity • Software Automation – Users ‘see’ entire estate as single mount point
- 14. ©2011 SGI SGI Tiered Storage example By replacing a Tape Library with an SGI COPAN System, you can significantly decrease access times of even the oldest data in your DMF environment while maintaining cost optimization
- 15. ©2011 SGI CXFS Client Tier 2 Storage COPAN 400T 896TB Raw Central London Greater London Compute Environment Tier 0 Storage Tier 1 IS5000 50 TB Storage Tier 3 Storage 330TB Raw SpectraLogic T950 Tape Library Tier 1 IS5000 50 TB Storage Compute Environment Tier 0 Storage CXFS Client NFS Server 12km WAN CXFS Client NFS Server CXFS Client NFS Server CXFS Client NFS Server Tier 3 Storage 330TB Raw SpectraLogic T950 Tape Library CXFS Client LiveArc Server LiveArc Server CXFS Client Parallel Data Mover FC FC CXFS Server DMF CXFS Server DMF CXFS Client Parallel Data Mover 15 High Level Tiered Storage Design: Dual Site Integrated Compute & Storage
- 16. ©2011 SGI 16 Example: NBA Digital Archives Up to 38 TB per day ingested from new and legacy content. Half-way through digitizing 450k tapes with content going back to 1946. Restore 3TB per day, ~2000 clips from archive each day for production use.
- 17. ©2011 SGI SGI MAID is Simple, Cost Effective and Eco-Friendly • Solves challenges associated with data protection • Information integrity – Automated disk management and monitoring • Eco-friendly solution – Up to 100% power and cooling reduction* – Extends disk MTBF and disk life 6x – Save 12,000 pounds of CO2 per year per kilowatt hour saved** • High disk density per square metre *At the disk level **US DOE statistics for emissions per KwH
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