Philippe BRUIANT Business Development Manager EMEA Infini Band
Philippe BRUIANT Business Development Manager EMEA Infini. Band based storage target CERN Workshop Geneva June 26, 2006 09 November 2020
At-A-Glance Founded in Feb. 2000 by Veterans of Cheyenne Software which was acquired by CA for $1. 2 B in 1996 Headquartered in Melville, New York 4 300 (US/Asia/Europe) professionals and growing 4 Global Sales and Support Infrastructure (15 in-country offices) Providing Network Storage Software to Optimize the Availability (Data Protection) of Business-Critical Data Targeting Enterprise and SMB market 4 Proven Solution Deployed by over 2, 000 Active Customers 4 Innovative Technology OEMed by Major Industry Players 4 EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Mc. Data, Sun/Storage. Tek, Huawei-3 Com, HIT Public Company (NASDAQ: FALC) with $37 M cash, no debt 4 Continuing Profitability & Positive Cash Flow since Q 4 -2004 2
Falcon. Stor’s Unified Storage Architecture SQLserver Snapshot Agent Oracle Snapshot Agent IB CIFS Exchange SAP Snapshot Agent NFS i. SCSI Notes Snapshot Agent IBM i. Series (AS 400) FC “Protocol-Independent” Host Connectivity Layer Comprehensive Storage Services Snapshot Mirroring WORM NAS Time. Mark Disk Replication Zero-Impact-Backup i. SCSI Disk SAN FC Disk 100% modular DLT LTO “Hardware-Agnostic” Storage (Disk, Tape) Abstraction Layer I/O Load Balancing, Controller/Path Fail-Over/Fail-Back 100% modular 3
Introduction to IPStor Topology APPLICATION SERVERS (Email, Web, Database, etc. ) Windows, Unix, Linux, Net. Ware, Macintosh, etc. Fibre Channel 10/100 Ethernet Switch i. SCSI Fibre Channel Switch LAN-based users mapping to NAS resources Gb. E or Infini. Band Switch 4 4 Business Advantages Multi-protocol connectivity 4 4 4 Tape Library JBOD RAID Storage 4 4 FC, IP, i. SCSI, Infini. Band, CFS, NFS Nonstop data & application availability Rapid recovery Simplified, centralized storage management Consolidation of heterogeneous storage & servers via virtualization Backup acceleration & consolidation Remote Replication DATA CENTER 4
Introduction to IPStor Topology APPLICATION SERVERS 10/100 Ethernet (Email, Web, Database, etc. ) Windows, Unix, Linux, Net. Ware, Macintosh, etc. Fibre Channel i. SCSI LAN-based Users Mapping To NAS Resources WAN Switch Fibre Channel Switch Gb. E or Infini. Band Switch IP WAN Off-Site Storage Disaster Recovery, Data Vaulting, Site Consolidation, etc. Tape Library JBOD RAID Storage Java Management Console for Remote or Local Administration (Can be located anywhere) DATA CENTER 5
Partnership Highlights 6
Proven and Certified Agents 7
Falcon. Stor Customers 8
i. SCSI over Infini. Band 9
Objectives 4 Add Infini. Band support to existing i. SCSI based product lines 4 Leverage Infini. Band’s high Performance 4 Leverage i. SCSI management tools 10
The Solution: i. SER – i. SCSI RDMA 4 Data Path – Over Infini. Band Verbs/CMA 4 High Bandwidth, Low Latency, RDMA 4 Control Path – Using i. SCSI headers 4 Discovery, naming, security, error-recovery, booting, etc. 4 Leverages on the wide adoption of i. SCSI 4 OS code and storage products 4 Management tools and standard interfaces 4 Standardization, Testing and protocol maturity 4 End-user training 11
Benefits Infini. Band solutions leverage the i. SER (i. SCSI RDMA) protocol, and Falcon. Stor’s IPStor software has been optimized for i. SER to harness its advanced capabilities. i. SER brings significantly greater performance to i. SCSI and leverages the protocol’s existing comprehensive management capabilities, allowing heterogeneous storage environments to utilize a single protocol and management infrastructure. i. SER over 10 Gbps (SDR) and 20 Gbps (DDR) Infini. Band delivers markedly better performance than Fibre Channel at significantly lower costs. 12
Storage management is critical Tivoli “ 95% of the Global 3, 500 firms surveyed complained that their main problem with storage was that it was hard to manage. A further illustration of the management problem came from the 45% which said it was their biggest storage expense. " Forrester Research Microsoft Transparent integration examples Use i. SER with existing storage management tools 4 Coexists with FC tools through transparency and standard mappings 4 Leverage on OS built in i. SCSI Management support for Initiators 4 Interoperable with i. SCSI and i. SNS management and provisioning tools 13
i. SER for Windows Stack Management Utilities and Agents i. SER miniport driver only deals with transport Management Interface Libraries i. SCSI Initiator Service WMI Leveraging on MS i. SCSI 4 Management with common CLI and GUI, storage explorer 4 i. SNS services for discovery, Miniport Interface security, and notifications 4 Active Directory 4 Session management 4 MPIO i. SNS Client DSM MPIO Disk Class Driver Port Driver (iscsiprt. sys) i. SCSI Miniport (i. SER) Microsoft MS i. SCSI Driver Initiator software TCP/IP NDIS Miniport Driver HCA NIC 14
Commodity i. SER Target Performance Voltaire Infini. Band Switch 900 MB/s Target Initiator 400 MB/s Initiator FC i. SER Delivering unprecedented cost/performance, leveraging on industry standard components 15
Target Customers Enterprise Customers 4 Database configurations — — Double storage performance Reduce Storage costs by using off-the-shelf building blocks 4 Backups and DRP systems HPC Customers 4 Leverage your Infini. Band infrastructure for clustering and storage access 4 Large scale grids and clusters will now have direct access to an Infini. Band SAN 4 No need for expensive FC HBAs 16
IHM Institute for Health Metrics: “FC Free” Data Center Data from Hospitals Voltaire Grid Director ISR 9096 Native Infini. Band Storage with Falcon. Stor IPStor WAN Router Local Users Infini. Band VTL Application Servers Oracle 10 g RAC Cluster 17
Typical Storage Configurations NAS Clients NFS, NFS/RDMA or Lustre NAS Gateway or Lustre i. SER FC or IB SAN Clients Enterprise SAN (IB/FC) i. SER FS, Boot Network FS Cluster FS i. SER (i. SCSI RDMA) NFS, CIFS, NFS/RDMA e. g. Luster, GPFS, CXFS i. SCSI One or more Virtual SANs Remote Storage (via i. SCSI) Boot images, temporary or cache data, low cost alternative, Virtual tape library, etc’ Boot images and temporary/cached data served from a storage appliance, can be backed up in enterprise storage, improve storage access and reduce costs Heterogeneous storage can be mapped to VSANs via i. SCSI (i. SNS) 18
Falcon. Stor and Voltaire Solutions Advanced Data Management Solutions High Performance Grid Backbone™ Solutions i. SCSI Infini. Band 19
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