CASE STUDY TRUENAS PRESERVES SCALABLE ARCHIVES FOR THE JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Boston, Massachusetts www.jfklibrary.org Government & Public Service Requirements TrueNAS Benefits • Migrate and scale from 200 TB to over 4.5 PB of storage • Ultra-scalable, with zero downtime when expanding pools • Protect over millions of files: 4K video, photos, documents, • TrueNAS OpenZFS file system with checksums, data and over 20 thousand hours of audio/video scrubbing, compression, and unlimited snapshots • Allow public internet access to data while keeping library • Unmatched protocol support able to share to any medium systems secure required, including the cloud iXsystems.com | Case Study - J.F.K. Library and Museum | Industry - Government & Public Service Page 1 “ We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.” - President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961 INTRODUCTION THE STORAGE itself then needed to be incredibly secure, so that high resolution, What is a memory worth and how CHALLENGE uncompressed media can remain important is history? Knowledge and error-free from the time it is stored. The JFK Library Foundation has a advancement build upon events, long term plan to digitize and store discoveries, achievements, and millions of documents and large TRUENAS lessons from the past. The acts that amounts of videos, film, and audio have shaped the world continue to ADVANTAGES recordings. Not only is the material define who we are today through vast, but it is also diverse, with The TrueNAS M50-HA ticked all the these memories. We dare not forget files being copied to the storage boxes for the JFK Library Foundation. that these memories are priceless. system from a variety of sources in Fast, scalable, and secure, the numerous file types and sizes. The unified storage appliance supports The John F. Kennedy Library library required a high-end NAS NFS/ SMB/AFP/iSCSI/WebDAV/FTP/ Foundation, working with the John system capable of sharing with a SFTP protocols, and more. The F. Kennedy Presidential Library and variety of systems as the digitization system can also directly upload and Museum (JFK Library Foundation), process is completed. store data to major cloud providers, required a scalable storage solution such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft to ensure that the memories Performance aside, the platform Azure, and Google Cloud, as needed. entrusted to its care would be had to be accessible to various third- The robust protocol support ensures preserved and available to future party platforms, while maintaining that TrueNAS will work with the generations. The solution is part of data integrity. The storage had library’s workflows today and for a massive effort to digitize, store, to be capable of being managed years to come. and share millions of documents, independently from any digital asset recordings, films, videos, and management software, so that the Leveraging OpenZFS, TrueNAS photographs detailing the life and library’s independent services could systems have practically limitless times of President John F. Kennedy, easily access the data. Admins, storage capacities in a single pool or the life and literary career of Ernest users, and staff all require varying volume. While most storage systems Hemingway, and other priceless levels of access to the storage have capacity limits per share, the records of the National Archives in infrastructure to ensure against data JFK Library Foundation can continue the United States. The solution was loss from theft or human error. Data sharing TrueNAS® by iXsystems. iXsystems.com | Case Study - J.F.K. Library and Museum | Industry - Government & Public Service Page 2 “ The migration of massive amounts of terabytes wouldn’t have happened without the support of iXsystems.” - Steven M. Rothstein, JFK Library Foundation, Executive Director to a single volume even when and controlled by admin-defined RESULTS reaching capacities of 500, 1000, groups. Administrators and staff of 4000 TB or more. This enables them the library can be grouped to select Since deployment in Spring of 2019, to never have to change mount systems in their control, while alerts TrueNAS has migrated all data from points to their clients throughout and changes to the systems are the legacy storage system, and the the entirety of the project if they logged to keep a record for future ongoing digitization efforts. Workers wish. Additionally, capacity can be examination, if necessary. across multiple Windows terminals expanded at any time with zero are able to input document impact to daily operation; newly Keeping the digital assets available copies, sound recordings, and film installed drives can be added to 24x7 and intact for years to come archives to the storage system existing, online storage pools. is of the utmost importance simultaneously, while other users to the JFK Library Foundation. can then access and stream the TrueNAS offers outstanding Therefore, the high- availability records on demand. performance and manageability in provided by redundant TrueNAS addition to scale. Storage volumes storage controllers and the data As the organization continues to in TrueNAS utilize two-tier caching protection properties of TrueNAS digitize and update its millions of to intelligently store data in both were essential to the project. documents in a digital format, memory and ultra-fast SSDs. Content stored to the TrueNAS iXsystems will be supporting them ZFS filesystem is always secure the whole way. The TrueNAS Frequently accessed data, or data with inline checksums that prevent deployed includes five-year, shared online, can be cached for data corruption and bit-rot, while 24x7 Gold Support with a direct quick access, while archived data unlimited snapshots ensure that connection to iXsystems US-based can remain in hard drives, replicated recovery from error – human or engineering and support teams to to another TrueNAS or to cloud otherwise – is a worry-free process. ensure that any issue will not affect storage. With the TrueCommand™ The JFK Library’s priceless collection the priceless data and efforts of the unified management interface, is protected with room to grow on JFK library. storage systems in multiple locations TrueNAS. can be easily monitored, managed, iXsystems.com | Case Study - J.F.K. 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