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W h i t e P a p e r F AS Hardwar e: Optimized for I /O, Expandability , and Reliability Steven Miller, Philip T rautman, NetApp September 2014 | WP - 7193 Executive Summary NetApp designs all t he models in its FAS hard ware line to deliver tr emendous perform ance, scalability, and a vailability with superior m anageability, ease of service, a nd [...]
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2 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . T A BLE OF CONT ENTS 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 W hy NetA pp? ................................................................................[...]
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3 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . 1 Introduction Because modern ser vers have becom e so capable, it’s not u ncomm on for even very industry -savv y people to conclude that a server platform can perform the same f unctions — at the s ame level of performance — as a dedicated storage s ystem. However, da[...]
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4 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . 2.1 Maximizing Reliability and Av ailability Compute and networ k gear are essent ially stateless; this equipm ent is relatively easy to shut down, replace, and bring back up . Because you can’t replace storage without f irst moving the data e lsewhere, the burden of avai l[...]
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5 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . hundreds of ph y sical or virtual servers, a storage system needs to be architected to have both sufficient mem ory and mem ory bandwidth to accomm odate the volume of requests. All FAS controllers are designed to deliver the m aximum avail able m emory bandwidth f rom each p[...]
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6 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . Table 1) Comparison of published FAS versus Isilon SPECsfs benchmark results. FAS Cluster* Isilon S200** FAS8020 *** Isilon S210*** * Year Published 2011 2011 2014 2014 # Nodes 24 140 2 14 CPUs/Cores 48/192 280/1 , 192 2/12 28/168 Total Memory 1248GB 6790GB 56GB 3612GB Flash [...]
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7 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . NetApp provides a complete select ion of built-in p orts, including Ethernet (G igabit Ethernet and 10 - Gigabit Ethernet), F ibre Channel, and S AS. This provides a b ase conf iguration that is a lready highly capable in terms of connectivity. 4.1 PCIe Slots The PCIe slots t[...]
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8 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . your data center infr astructure. W hatever network connectivity you need can b e supported from the same device without hard ware changes. If you need more of one net work technology and less of another, FAS storage can adapt to your needs. 4.3 Dr ive Subsystems and Flash In[...]
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9 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . 5 Reliability , Availability , and Service ability Delivering the best pos sible user experience with th e highest level of r eliability and availabilit y isn’t about any single thing. It’s a bout ever ything that goes into a storage system , from the initial desig n thro[...]
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10 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . Media Reliability At NetA pp, we have perfected o ur hardware designs and hardened Data ONT AP over the last 2 0 years to provide a high level of resilience to all m odes of driv e failure — both alone and in com binations. For instance, our dual- parity RAID im plementati[...]
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11 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . 5.3 What It Means to You As a result of all the m easures that NetApp tak es to protect reliabilit y and availability, you ca n expect NetApp storage to d eliver an except ionally high level of resilience and uptime. But don’t jus t take our word for it. A white paper f ro[...]
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12 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . indirect block. Data ONT AP m erely has to log th e 8KB of data alo ng with about 120 b ytes of header inform ation, so it uses half or a third as m uch space for the sam e operation. It’s comm on for other vendors to point out that NetApp s torage systems often have far l[...]
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13 NetApp FAS Hard ware Design © 2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserve d . Refer to the Interop erability Matrix Tool (IMT) on the Ne tApp Suppo rt site to valida te that the exact product and featur e versions de scribed in this documen t are support ed for your spe cific environ ment. The NetApp IMT define s the produ ct component s and version s[...]