1. HEAnet Centralised NAS Storage Justin Hourigan, Senior Network Engineer, HEAnet Limited. justin.hourigan@heanet.ie

2. Agenda Why Centralised NAS Storage What We Have Built What We Are Offering Questions

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. What We Have Built

6. 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

7. 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

8. What We Have Built

9. 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

10. HEAnet Centralised NAS Storage Questions? Justin Hourigan, Senior Network Engineer, HEAnet Limited justin.hourigan@heanet.ie