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Federated Tiering Capability for DDN Lustre and GPFS Environments

With WOS-Bridge

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) builds on the company’s strength in managing parallel file system data for some of the world’s largest deployments with the availability of the WOS-Bridge platform now for both DDN Lustre and GPFS environments.

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WOS-Bridge deployed in conjunction with DDN’s parallel file system appliances, EXAScaler and GRIDScaler, enables users to manage, distribute and retain all of their data across local and multiple data centers and the cloud within a single namespace. DDN’s new capability offers organizations a single view and access to both DDN Lustre and GPFS data, while delivering cloud benefits, including lower overall infrastructure cost, reduced management complexity, increased service levels and the ability to scale file systems to hundreds of petabytes of capacity.

As data growth continues unabated putting significant strain on IT infrastructures and budgets, HPC organizations are striving for ways to extend the value of existing resources, collaborate and share data across campuses, and drive higher levels of performance. Adding to the challenge is the desire to ensure that data is kept on an appropriate storage tier so that it is readily available when needed, but stored cost-effectively for long-term use.

Unlike competitive solutions that are unable to integrate high performance clusters with remote data centers or the cloud, WOS-Bridge addresses these concerns by unifying the cluster, collaboration sites and the cloud in a federated storage solution. By expanding the capability to DDN Lustre and GPFS environments, WOS-Bridge provides an automated platform for leveraging the cost, collaboration and archive benefits of the cloud without sacrificing the productivity of performance local storage.

Built to enable integration between DDN’s scalable parallel file system appliances, GRIDScaler and EXAScaler, and DDN’s object storage solution, WOS, WOS-Bridge consolidates array views of local and remote data to allow users to:

  • Tier workloads to appropriate resources, such as migrating less time sensitive data to lower cost live archive or cloud storage;
  • Replicate critical data between high performance storage platforms and the cloud for data protection and DR;
  • Access, distribute and share content across remote and geographically distributed sites for simplified collaboration without any tradeoffs in performance – all in a single solution with no extra third-party data migration software.

With a single view of all local and cloud data, as well as automated data movement, WOS-Bridge removes the limitations created by storage silos, file counts or storage tier. The resulting high performance object storage pool can scale uniformly to trillions of objects, shrink administrative overhead, and slash TCO, all while meeting capacity and IO performance requirements.

WOS-Bridge Delivers Scalability, Performance and Efficiency
with Built-In Data Migration Software

  • The core of WOS-Bridge is a data migration engine that automates and manages data from a variety of storage platforms to a WOS storage cloud. WOS polices distribute data through a choice of replication or erasure coding to remote locations. Users accessing data in cloud storage or at remote collaboration sites can view, modify and update locally through WOS Access file gateways.
  • WOS Access is a natively integrated file system gateway to the WOS cloud that provides a POSIX compliant NFS and CIFS access to the data. The file system gateway enables data access to users that do not have access to the EXAScaler or GRIDScaler cluster.
  • WOS Access enables multi-site collaboration, data protection, DR and low latency access by applications in multiple geographically distributed locations to support global workflows.

Molly Rector, CMO, DDN, said: “Organizations are looking for solutions to enable faster time to business results. DDN solutions bring together the benefits of high performance, content collaboration and cloud storage into a single solution. Providing quick access to data for business analysts, researchers and scientists around the globe is critical to a competitive business or research organization. Recognizing the value of tying our object storage capabilities with our high performance storage platforms, WOS-Bridge allows customers to achieve the performance benefits of a parallel file system for their HPC storage needs while also gaining the benefits of low cost archive storage, the ability to share data across geographies and the flexibility of cloud access – all in a single solution.”

For organizations like Sunshine State Education & Research Computing Alliance where the cost and complexity pressures of managing multiple infrastructures across multiple remote sites can be overwhelming, WOS-Bridge provides a solution that addresses some of these concerns.

According to Dr. Erik Deumens, director of research computing, University of Florida: “In supporting the alliance’s mission to break down barriers to insight and foster educational research and collaboration, SSERCA is deploying DDN’s leadership-class WOS object storage system to provide thousands of researchers across all disciplines seamless access to cloud-based scientific computing, communication and educational resources. DDN’s WOS-Bridge solution will provide that essential last mile as we expand WOS into our high performance storage environment, by federating our computational data sets from across our research community to also achieve our collaboration, retention and data protection requirements.”

WOS-Bridge is available and can be configured with DDN GRIDScaler based on the newly released GPFS 4.1. Configurations with DDN EXAScaler are expected in the next quarter.

Read also:
Sunshine State Education & Research Computing Alliance Customer of DDN
For multiple petabyte data sharing across Florida research universities

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