Data ONTAP GX Systems Reduce Time to Market with Increased Storage Performance and Scalability

Infrastructure Systems Data ONTAP GX Systems Reduce Time to Market with Increased Storage Performance and Scalability

The Challenge technologies and the Data ONTAP GX Key Benefits Scaling performance while operating system with our FAS storage systems. Get to Market Faster controlling costs High-performance, technical computing Accelerate product development and Data ONTAP GX operating system and digital media content applications place discovery with the ability to scale technologies include: linearly to gigabytes per second of extreme demands on your storage systems. performance. Compute clusters running these applications • Multinode scaling using a global can require multiple gigabytes per second namespace Achieve extreme throughput by of performance and many terabytes—or • NetApp FlexVol® storage virtualization striping data across controllers. even petabytes—of capacity. To maintain • Clustered file system peak application performance, you need • Snapshot™ replication and mirroring Simplify Management to be able to add storage and move data • RAID-DP® technology Manage petabytes of storage without between systems and tiers of storage special client software. without disrupting ongoing operations. At Data ONTAP GX systems are based on FAS systems (FAS3040, FAS3070, FAS6070, Automatically optimize workloads and the same time, to control costs, you need to or FAS6080) configured in pairs for high eliminate hot spots. be able to effectively manage your storage environment. availability. You can add up to dozens of Meet High-Availability Requirements FAS controllers and storage as needed Expand storage and move data with The Solution to scale to multiple gigabytes per second zero downtime. Deploy high-performance and high- of throughput and petabytes of capacity. capacity Data ONTAP GX systems To help you achieve the right balance of Protect against double disk failures. NetApp® Data ONTAP® GX systems help performance and cost of ownership, our Data ONTAP GX systems support any Reduce Time to Deployment you achieve results and get to market combination of fast Fibre Channel and Let our service and support experts faster by providing the massive throughput economical serial ATA (SATA) disk drives. provide you with the support and and scalability you need to meet the demanding requirements of your high- services you need for speedy ACCELERATE PERFORMANCE deployment and continuous system performance computing and digital media operation. content applications. Our Data ONTAP GX To support the throughput needs of compute systems provide high levels of performance, clusters with hundreds or thousands manageability, and reliability for your large of CPUs and extreme NFS and CIFS Linux®, UNIX®, or Microsoft® Windows® performance demands, you can increase clusters by combining our innovative throughput to multiple gigabytes per second Windows Linux Cluster UNIX

Scalable FlexCache Acceleration Layer

Global Namespace, File/Directory Striping

FC FC SATA SATA SATA FC Figure 1) Data ONTAP GX systems provide scale-out storage that supports petabytes of capacity and gigabytes per second of throughput.

by adding storage controllers to your servers to their data, even if that data is Simplify installation and maintenance Data ONTAP GX systems. Your aggregate moved. By offering a single system image You can use standard NFS and CIFS bandwidth available from the single global across multiple storage nodes, the global protocols to access Data ONTAP GX namespace scales linearly with the number namespace eliminates the need for complex systems and do not need to install any of nodes in the system. automounter maps and symbolic link scripts. special clients or code on each server in the compute cluster. The Data ONTAP GX Data ONTAP GX systems use clustered Improve data access architecture also reduces or eliminates file-system technology to provide maximum We virtualize storage at the file-system level routine capacity allocation and storage I/O throughput and remove the bottlenecks to enable all compute nodes to mount a management tasks, letting you spend less that impact production. The FlexVol single file system, access all stored data, time managing storage and more time high-performance option stripes volumes and automatically accommodate physical achieving results. across any or all of the storage controllers storage changes that are fully transparent and disks in the system, enabling extreme to the compute cluster. Each client or server MEET HIGH-AVAILABILITY levels of throughput for even a single file or can access a huge pool of data residing REQUIREMENTS volume and allowing your technical teams anywhere in the Data ONTAP GX system Along with stringent performance to run multiple compute jobs without any through a single mountpoint. requirements, high reliability is important for noticeable performance degradation. When technical applications and cluster computing. Keep resources in balance without many compute nodes simultaneously require Data ONTAP GX systems leverage core disrupting operations data, you can use load-balancing mirrors NetApp software such as WAFL® As you add storage nodes to the system, , RAID-DP, within the Data ONTAP GX system or add and Snapshot, which have been proven in our FlexCache™ storage accelerators in you can easily keep all physical resources in balance—CPUs, cache memory, network over 94,000 system installations. RAID-DP front of the system to deliver much higher (a high-performance version of RAID 6) read throughput. I/O bandwidth, and disk I/O bandwidth. Data ONTAP GX systems enable you to add protects against double disk failure, and transparent controller clustering and failover SIMPLIFY STORAGE AND DATA storage and move data between storage automatically bypass any failed components, MANAGEMENT controllers and tiers of storage without with no interruption in data availability. In Our fully integrated, high-performance disrupting users and applications. This lets you increase capacity, balance workloads, addition to having no single point of failure, computing (HPC) storage solutions are Data ONTAP GX systems let you expand or easy to install, manage, and maintain. With and eliminate storage I/O hot spots, all without the need to remount shares, modify reconfigure storage while online, allowing our global namespace capability, you can your applications to run without interruption simplify client-side management by mapping client settings, or stop compute jobs, as is typically required to rebalance workloads on even while you add more storage capacity or all data volumes into a file-system tree throughput. structure that automatically maps or remaps other HPC storage systems. ENABLE CONTINUOUS OPERATIONS training, and full support of your Data • Designing semiconductors that enable Data ONTAP GX systems are configured ONTAP GX systems. Our Rapid Deployment faster and better video, audio, gaming, for continuous operation with the use of Service option can help you speed time and location-based services for wireless high-performance, modular NetApp storage to deployment for your HPC storage. Our devices components. Each system consists of one Global Services give you the assurance of • Rendering state-of-the-art animations and or more FAS (FAS3040, FAS3070, FAS6070, best practices, complete knowledge transfer, special effects for film and television or FAS6080) building blocks, and each and expert support. • Simulating complex systems to accelerate FAS building block is a high-availability research in areas such as climate Implementation services for Data ONTAP GX modeling, high-energy physics, and pair of controllers (storage nodes). Multiple systems include: controller pairs form a single, integrated biotechnology Data ONTAP GX system. Data ONTAP GX • Storage layout design • Analyzing financial market data to uses Ethernet technology—Gigabit and • Global namespace configuration increase investment returns and decrease 10-Gigabit—for server connections and for • HA configuration and best practices market risk interconnecting FAS controllers. You can • Volume striping configuration Custom support services also connect servers via InfiniBand through • “How-to” help customized for your NetApp SupportEdge Premium offers a a gateway. environment and workflow hybrid approach to support, combining Each controller can support any mix of PARTNER FOR SUCCESS expert on-site resources with innovative remote capabilities. SupportEdge Premium Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives, Experience you can trust and you can move data nondisruptively includes hardware and software installation, NetApp is a Fortune 1,000 company system monitoring, proactive notification, between nodes or between different tiers with over 94,000 successful customer of disks as performance requirements immediate reactive support, remote installations worldwide. With a proven, diagnostics, and a blend of remote and change. This capability enables you to world-class global service and support maximize performance where needed on-site problem resolution. SupportEdge organization, we provide the foundation you Premium also includes quarterly storage while simultaneously improving capacity need for future success as you enhance utilization. availability audits and a Software and grow your IT and storage environment. Subscription Plan. 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