Are scalability and availability opposing forces? Bjorn Andersson of Hitachi answers the question at the Intel Theater

1. 1
HIGH THROUGHPUT
STORAGE FOR
PRODUCTION
ENVIRONMENTS
BJORN ANDERSSON, HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS
INTERNATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING
CONFERENCE 2013, LEIPZIG

2. SCALABILITY AND AVAILABILITY
- THE CHALLENGES
 Scale-up and Scale-out
‒ Different applications require different approaches
 Going beyond physics of single system or small cluster…
‒ More complexity (hundreds to many thousands of parts)
‒ More vulnerability (things break, bad things happen)
 Bottom Line: You need to architect for it from the start
‒ Higher quality sub systems for higher reliability
‒ Design for resiliency and high availability
‒ Use the right technology in the right place
‒ How does a technology refresh impact availability?
SCALABILITY AND AVAILABILITY – OPPOSING FORCES?
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3. ELEVEN INDUSTRY SEGMENTS
GROUP REVENUE BY INDUSTRY SEGMENT
11％
9％
7%
$112B 8%
13%
7%
8%
9%
4％
7%
Power
Systems
Social Infrastructure
and Industrial
Systems
Electronic Systems
and Equipment
Construction
Machinery
High-Functional
Materials and
Components
Component
and Devices
Automotive
Systems
Digital Media and
Consumer
Products
Financial
Services
Others
17％
Information and
Telecommunication
Systems
WHO IS HITACHI?
HITACHI, LTD. – ORGANIZATION
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4. HITACHI ENTERPRISE CLASS HERITAGE
 R&D innovation and
leadership
‒ A big user of HPC
‒ Key HPC vendor in Japan,
expanding globally
 Quality and Reliability
 Service and Support
A 50+ YEAR HERITAGE
OF LEADERSHIP IN THE
ENTERPRISE CLASS
COMPUTE MARKET.
(*1957: HIPAC-MK1 – Hitachi’s first digital computer)
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5. INTEGRATED SCALABLE STORAGE
PORTFOLIO
SPECIALIZED
APPLIANCES
HDI SINGLE
HDI
SOFTWARE
HDI DUAL
CONTENT
PLATFORM HCP 300 HCP 500
COMMANDSUITE
BLOCK-ONLY
PLATFORMS
VSP
FILE-ONLY
PLATFORMS
HNAS 3080 HNAS 3090 HNAS 3200
UNIFIED
PLATFORMS
HUS 110 HUS 130 HUS 150
HUS 110
HUS 130
HUS 150 HUS VM
HUS VM
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6. UNIFIED MANAGEMENT ACROSS ALL STORAGE SYSTEMS
INTEGRATED SCALABLE PORTFOLIO
Hitachi Unified
Storage VM
Hitachi Unified
Storage 100
Hitachi Virtual
Storage Platform
Midrange Entry-Level Enterprise Enterprise
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7. HITACHI COMPUTE PORTFOLIO
HIGH-END
BLADE
MIDRANGE
BLADES
RACK-
OPTIMIZED
 High availability, performance and
scalability for the enterprise
 Optimized for virtualization, maximizing
utilization in the data center
 Highly dense chassis design optimized
for virtualization and consolidation
 Compact and flexible with a variety of
blade and connectivity options
 Compact and flexible application
server platform
 Available in Hitachi file and content
solutions
CB 2000
CB 500
CR 220
CB 320
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CR 210

8. FOUNDATION
|DATA CENTER
DELIVERY
CLOUD
INTELLIGENT
ACCESS
FILE | CONTENT | SEARCH
 File and content storage
 Indexing and search
 Intelligent object management
CONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURE
STORAGE | COMPUTE | NETWORK
 Integrated components
include Hitachi servers
 Fast time to value
 Predictable, reliable results
ENTERPRISE | MIDRANGE
STORAGE
INFRASTRUCTURE
 Reliability and performance
 Sustainability
 Superior economics
MANAGEMENTSOFTWARE
OUR PORTFOLIO IS YOUR FOUNDATION -
SOLUTIONS WHEN AVAILABILITY MATTERS
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9. HDS HIGH-THROUGHPUT SOLUTION WITH LUSTRE
 Combines HDS high availability with Lustre scalability
 Easy design and deployment with pre-architected building blocks
 Simplified management with included management tools
 Streamlined vendor management with single infrastructure vendor
 Global presence and support
COMPLEMENTS HNAS FOR THE MOST CAPABLE FILE STORAGE OFFERING
Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS)
High-Performance NAS
HDS High-Throughput
Solution with Lustre
Scalability
Functionality
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10. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS HIGH-THROUGHPUT
STORAGE SOLUTION WITH LUSTRE
SINGLE-RACK CONFIGURATION
Second High-Availability Object
Storage Server (OSS) Pair
First High-Availability Object
Storage Server (OSS) Pair
High-Availability Metadata
Server (MDS) Cluster
Management and Network
2RU x86
Rack Server
2RU x86
Rack Server
HUS 150
5RU
84-Disk Tray
5RU
84-Disk Tray
OSS BUILDING BLOCK
1RU x86
Rack Server
1RU x86
Rack Server
HUS 110
(Internal Disk)
MDS BUILDING BLOCK
1RU x86 Rack Server
(Running Intel Chroma and
Hitachi Command Suite)
Network Switch
SOLUTION FRAMEWORK
12GB/sec target performance, 760TB usable capacity (1PB raw)
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11. THANK YOU!
bjorn.andersson@hds.com
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