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DDN | EXAScaler™
Massively Scalable, High Performance, Open Source File Storage Appliance
Ease of Management and Deployment
Arrives at your door as a fully configured appliance that makes Lustre simple to deploy and manage
Consolidates storage hardware, RAID, operating system, data protection features and the Lustre file system into
a single, easy to use platform
No cables or external servers required
Delivers the flexibility to choose the right deployment model – from external servers and interconnect to
DDN | In-Storage Processing™ that lowers TCO
Reduces Lustre deployments from weeks to hours
Scalable Appliance Eliminates Complexity
Allows seamless & simple expansion on demand:
- Individually scale-out performance by adding: EXAScaler file serving nodes
- Individually scale-up capacity by adding DDN high density disk enclosures
Provides large scale building blocks to architect hyperscale file systems with the least number of components
Enables building a solution based on your budget for optimized & predictable TCO
Supercharged Blueprint
Combines DDN's award winning storage technology with the open-source Lustre File System
Blueprint that is known worldwide as the gold standard in HPC storage
Eliminates vendor lock in
Thriving open source community consisting of OpenSFS, European Open File System and Intel's Whamcloud™
Impressive track record and roadmap of enhancements to Lustre scalability, reliability and data
management features
Designed for Scale
Powers more of the world's fastest file systems than any other solution
Supports scalable volume and namespace – from a few TBs to greater that 10PB volumes
Supports scalable bandwidth – From a few MB/s to TB/s of performance
Supports scalable connectivity
- Seamlessly scale from a single client to 20,000 clients concurrently accessing storage
- Get over 3.5 GB/sec from a single client
- Stripe files and directories across multiple OSSs
Supports scalable resiliency – no single point of failure, add multiple paths to storage with additional
data servers
Intelligent Parallel File System Clients
Designed for highly concurrent access with massive parallelism
Accelerates application performance by striping data across multiple enclosures and accessing them
in parallel
Automatically load balances across all resources
Scales from 10s to 10,000s of Clients
Supports RDMA communication & large packets
Makes best use of high performance networks
Ideal for highly concurrent file/directory access
Centralized Configuration and Monitoring
DirectMon™
Manage large EXAScaler deployments from a single point
Drill-down support for the file system, DDN storage arrays as well as other DDN products
Discover new systems, collect information, setup, add & configure complete systems
Monitor alerts, get statistics & historical trends
Create roles, additional users & assign appropriate levels of authorizations to fit your
organizations' hierarchy
Chroma™
Manage smaller deployments using an intuitive browser-based interface for creating and
managing EXAScaler
Point-and-click simplicity to configure a cluster in minutes
Monitor & manage the entire storage cluster
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