Lenovo Distributed Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, Pte Ltd announced, at its annual Accelerate Partner Forum, the Distributed Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale (DSS-G) – a scalable software-defined storage (SDS) solution.

Designed to support dense scalable file and object storage suitable for high-performance and data-intensive environments, the DSS-G enables customers to manage the exponential rate of data growth and the subsequent need to store large amounts of both structured and unstructured data.

Today, deploying storage solutions for HPC, Artificial Intelligence (AI), analytics and cloud environments, key technology trends that are reshaping the data center, places a significant burden on IT resources ⁽¹⁾. DSS-G is the company’s latest offering intended to accelerate adoption of software-defined data center technology, which provides customers with benefits such as greater infrastructure simplicity, enhanced performance and lower TCO.

This announcement is a first step in executing firm’s HPC and AI commitment of bringing the benefits of SDS to HPC clusters, and will follow with additional offerings for customers deploying Ceph or Luster.

Built on company’s system x3650 M5 server with Xeon processors, renowned for its reliability and performance, the DSS-G is available as a pre-integrated, easy-to-deploy rack-level offering. Featuring the firm’s D1224 and D3284 12Gb SAS storage enclosures and drives as well as software and networking components – including Red Hat Enterprise Linux support – this offering allows for a choice of technology within an integrated solution.

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As a follow-on to the GPFS Storage Server (GSS), the DSS-G delivers on the needs of today’s agile and digital businesses.

Features include:

• Scalability: Start small and grow performance/capacity via a modular approach

• Innovative RAID: With IBM Corp.‘ Spectrum Scale Declustered RAID, reduce rebuild overhead by up to 8X

• Choice of high-speed network: Including IB or Ethernet up to 100Gb/s

The DSS-G offering is fulfilled by Lenovo Scalable Infrastructure (LeSI) that leverages decades of engineering experience to reduce the complexity of deployment and delivers an integrated and supported solution that components with optimized solution design. This enables maximum system availability and rapid root-cause problem detection throughout the life of the system.

Collectively, these features empower customers running data intensive HPC, big data or cloud workloads to focus their efforts on maximizing business value and reclaim valuable resources previously spent on designing, optimizing, and installing and supporting the infrastructure required to meet business demands.

In addition, the company offers a portfolio of services that supports the lifecycle of the DSS-G and all Lenovo IT assets. Experts can assist with complex deployments as well as provide 24×7 monitoring and technical systems management with managed services. Available benefits also include a single point-of-contact for solution-level support.

Madhu Matta, VP and GM, HPC and A.I., Lenovo, said: “The Lenovo HPC solutions are part of research projects focused on solving humanity’s most complex challenges. One in every five supercomputers in the world is built on Lenovo HPC offerings and we are proud to count major research universities among our partners. The Lenovo DSS-G offering enhances that capability. Clients can now deploy a software defined storage solution that enhances performance, scalability and capability of the HPC environment.“

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⁽¹⁾ IDC: Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Storage Systems, 2016 – Growing Demand for Software-Defined, Flash-Accelerated Persistence – September 29, 2016.