Panasas® ActiveStor® Performance at Scale HYBRID SCALE-OUT NAS

PANASAS 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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PERFORMANCE = BUSINESS BENEFITS

§  Higher performance yields faster time-to-results, faster discovery and analysis, more innovation, and deeper insights

§  Storage is the weak link in the overall performance chain •  Exceptional storage performance is necessary to accelerate workflows •  Achieving exceptional storage performance at the scale required in

technical research and enterprise environments can be a challenge

§  Legacy NAS systems can often scale capacity, but do not always deliver performance at scale •  When workflows take longer to complete, productivity lowers in lock-step

§  ActiveStor® hybrid scale-out NAS appliance: •  Eliminates scalability and performance bottlenecks •  Accelerates time-to-results and drives exceptional aggregate mixed-

workload performance at scale

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PANASAS ACTIVESTOR PLATFORM

§  Powered by PanFS storage operating system §  122.4TB per shelf à scales to 12PB §  1.5GB/s per shelf à 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 §  Fast RAID rebuilds

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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ACTIVESTOR HYBRID TECHNOLOGY FOR MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE

§  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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ACTIVESTOR HYBRID TECHNOLOGY FOR TECHNICAL WORKLOADS

§  Mixed Workloads Require High Bandwidth and IOPS Performance •  Even “large file, throughput workload” data sets consist predominantly of small files

§  Many Critical File System Tasks Mean Heavy Metadata Workloads •  File system directory listings, data replication / backup, object RAID rebuild

§  Intelligent Blend of SATA + Solid State Drive (SSD) Technology Ideal •  SSD is costly per terabyte but very little of it is needed

Source: Panasas analysis of file system data sets from customers and prospects (Jan-Oct 2012)

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ENTERPRISE-GRADE WINDOWS SUPPORT

§  First Scale-out NAS Solution for Technical Computing Workflows with Fully Compliant Microsoft® Windows® Support •  Commercially licensed SMB protocol •  Comprehensive Windows client support •  High-fidelity Access Control List (ACL) support (including inheritance) •  Capable Active Directory Integration (including trusted domain support) •  Simplified manageability (single domain join)

§  Windows Plays a Significant Role in Many Workflows •  Data uploaded from Windows workstation •  Data analyzed/simulated on Linux compute cluster •  Results inspected/visualized on Windows workstation

§  Quality Windows Support a Minimum Requirement for True Heterogeneous IT Support •  Open source Samba project insufficient •  Panasas made the investment to improve its Windows support, starting

with PanFS 5.5 (April 2014)

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NEW: ACTIVESTOR 16 WITH PANFS 6.0

§  ActiveStor 16: Platform for PanFS 6.0 •  50% higher density, leveraging HGST UltraStar®

He6 6TB drives •  Faster director blade speeds RAID rebuilds •  Flash sized for RAID 6+

§  PanFS 6.0: RAID 6+ Triple Parity Protection •  Per-file, distributed RAID 6+ overcomes limitations

of traditional RAID •  Reliability increases with scale, not decreases •  Extended File System Availability ensures business

continuity when other systems would be down •  Quickly restore specific files for disaster recovery,

not whole file system

ActiveStor 16

HGST UltraStar® He6

6TB Drive

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ACTIVESTOR 16 PLATFORM

§  50% Increase in Density •  Hitachi HGST He6 Helium-filled 6TB drive

technology •  240GB SSD optimized for RAID 6+ •  122.4TB per 4U shelf

§  Linear Scalability •  Field proven to 12PB and 150GB/s in a single,

global namespace −  100 shelves, 2000 HDDs, 1000 SSDs

§  Improved Director Blade Performance •  19% faster CPU (2.53GHz quad-core) •  4x more cache: 48GB memory •  Improves metadata, small file and RAID rebuild

performance §  Strong at Both Throughput and IOPS

•  Ideal for large file, small file, and mixed workloads •  >13,000 random 4KB file read IOPS per shelf •  1.5 GB/sec per shelf

ActiveStor 16 Storage Blade

240GB SSD

8GB Cache

6TB HDD x2

CPU

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SUMMARY

§  IT staff in technical research and enterprise environments need high-performance storage that is scalable, reliable, and easily managed

§  Selecting scale-out storage usually requires compromises •  High performance computing file systems deliver performance but

compromise on reliability, availability, and ease of management •  Enterprise NAS systems deliver high reliability and availability but

compromise performance

§  Panasas ActiveStor delivers a no-compromise solution

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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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