HEAnet Centralised NAS Storage Justin Hourigan, Senior Network Engineer, HEAnet Limited.
Agenda Why Centralised NAS Storage What We Have Built What We Are Offering Questions
Why Centralised NAS Storage? Storage Everywhere Website Hosting (2TB) Software Mirroring (16TB) Video Content Hosting (1.5TB) Disk-to-Disk Backup (4TB) Large File Upload (1TB)
Why Centralised NAS Storage? Storage for Everything High sustained data rates High storage capacity Start small and grow Highly resilient Compatibility (NFS, CIFS, HTTP, FTP)
What We Have Built
Isilon Clustered Storage System Scalable to 2.3 Petabytes in a single file system Aggregate throughput up to 20 GB/s Single stream at 400MB/s, concurrent at 700MB/s Up to N+4 file system protection Auto load balancing
What We Have Built 7 x IQ9000x nodes 9 Terabyte raw disk capacity Dual 1 Gbit/s Ethernet Interfaces Dual 10 Gbit/s Infiniband Interfaces Currently 62 Terabytes of usable space Aggregate throughput up to 14 Gbit/s Each node is linked to resilient Infiniband and Ethernet switches
What We Have Built
What We Are Offering Centralised NAS storage space Available to co-location clients Available over NFS or CIFS €1345 per year per Terabyte with a three year contract N+1 protection Snapshot functionality is available, but does consume space
HEAnet Centralised NAS Storage Questions? Justin Hourigan, Senior Network Engineer, HEAnet Limited