1. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. An Optimized Entry-Level Lustre* Solution in a Small Form Factor Chakravarthy Nagarajan Solutions Architect, APJ

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3. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. 2*OSS/2*MDS – Cost Overheads Harder to Absorb 3 IML Server Ethernet Switch (Grey) InfiniBand* Switch (Black) Object Storage Servers Metadata Servers IML Server Lustre Clients Metadata Servers Object Storage Servers Metadata servers add to perceived overheads when designing an entry-level Lustre solution Minimum server count for an HA Lustre file system is 4 servers, 2 storage arrays Cost of entry is high compared to NFS Performance is good, however, and framework is scalable Management Network High Performance Data Network

4. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. What if … ? Ethernet Switch (Grey) InfiniBand* Switch (Black) Lustre Clients MDS/ MGS OSS MGT MDT OST(s) MDS/MGS OSS IML Server Management Network High Performance Data Network

5. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. 2 Node Intel EE ® For Lustre* with shared storage array 5 Server-1 Net HBA Server-2 Net HBA Management Lustre / Data OST0 OST1 OST2 OST3 OSTn Heartbeat MDT0/MGT

6. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Scalability & Performance – Small Form Factor Lustre Clients … Building block for Scalability. Add storage servers to increase capacity and performance Basic Block MDS/ MGS OSS1 Additional Block – 1U JBOD(NVMe) OSS2 OSS3 … OSS4 OSS5 … Additional Block – Legacy JBOD(SAS/NL-SAS) MDS2 MDS3 … Additional Block – Flash MDTs - DNE

7. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Small Form Factor Lustre* Solution – An Overview 7 Provide an Entry Level Lustre storage solution in a high density form factor  Low cost, small footprint integrated Intel ® EE for Lustre* software storage platform  No single point of failure  Failover - HA resource agents to handle SAS link failure, Infiniband* link failure and ZFS* export/import  Scale out with performance within the same namespace  Monitoring - Intel ® Manager for Lustre*

8. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Test Bed - Lustre* 8  MDS and OSS Servers –2x E5-2660 v2 CPU, 128 GB Memory, 4x 500GB SATA HDD, 1x FDR,4x 6Gb SAS –Centos* 7.2 –pcs-0.9.143-15.el7.x86_64 –Intel ® EE for Lustre* software – v3.0 –zfs*-0.6.5.3-1 and spl*-0.6.5.3-1  4 x Intel ® Storage System JBOD2224S2DP with 20x 146GB 15k rpm SAS drives each –8x OST(s) – RAIDZ2(10x 146GB HDDs) each –1x MGT/MDT – Mirror(4x 400GB SSDs)

9. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Test Bed – NFS* 9  NFS* Servers – 2x E5-2660 v2 CPU, 128 GB Memory, 4x 500GB SATA HDD, 1x FDR,4x 6Gb SAS – Centos* 7.2 – pcs-0.9.143-15.el7.x86_64 –zfs*-0.6.5.3-1 and spl*-0.6.5.3-1 –NFS*V4  4x Intel ® Storage System JBOD2224S2DP with 20x 146GB 15k rpm SAS drives each –1x ZFS* pool – RAIDZ2 with 80x 146GB HDDs

10. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Obdfilter-Survey 10 Test Environment: Please refer to slide-8 and slide-9. Command Used: thrhi=1 thrlo=1 nobjhi=1 nobjlo=128 size=$size case="disk" targets=$TARGETS rslt_loc=$OUTPUT /usr/bin/obdfilter-survey

11. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. IOR 11 Test Environment: Please refer to slide-8 and slide-9. Command Used: mpirun -np -f $IOR -F -e -w -r -b -t 1m -o

12. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. MDTEST(with sync) – 1/2 12 Test Environment: Please refer to slide-8 and slide-9. Command Used – File Ops: mpirun -np -f hostfile -rr $mdtest -d -i 3 -b 1 -z 1 -L -I -y -u -t –F Command Used – Dir Ops: mpirun -np -f hostfile -rr $mdtest -d -i 3 -b 1 -z 1 -L -I -y -u -t –D

13. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. MDTEST(with sync) - 2/2 13 NFS Stats operations are better than Lustre due to the following facts  Lustre to block waiting on a TXG to sync.  4x SSDs for MDT zpool on mirror and stripe Vs 80x SAS drives on NFS Zpool Test Environment: Please refer to slide-8 and slide-9. Command Used – File Ops: mpirun -np -f hostfile -rr $mdtest -d -i 3 -b 1 -z 1 -L -I -y -u -t –F Command Used – Dir Ops: mpirun -np -f hostfile -rr $mdtest -d -i 3 -b 1 -z 1 -L -I -y -u -t –D

14. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Key Benefits over NFS* 14  57 percent better performance for write operations and 25 percent better performance for read operations  94-percent storage efficiency for read and write operations  Up to 2.5x and 8.8x faster file creation and file removal, respectively  Up to 8.45x and 3.68x faster directory creation and removal, respectively  Support for high availability and manageability **The above results are the summary of IOR and mdtest observations as described in the slides 10,11,12 and 13. Test Environment: Please refer to slide-8 and slide-9.

15. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Design Considerations 15  Use SSDs for MDTs to achieve the best metadata performance on file and directory creation.  Use RAID-Z2 for OSTs and striped mirror for MDTs.  Sufficient memory on MDSs and OSSs.  Disable auto-failback to avoid conflicts on failures in pcs configuration—this configuration is designed to optimize the recovery time in case of failover.

16. Copyright ® Intel Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Future Work 16  Stats performance improvements  Optimize single thread write performance  Optimize small files performance