1. Panasas® ActiveStor® Ease of Management
PANASAS MARKETING

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PANASAS OVERVIEW
§ Scale-out NAS Solutions for Enterprise and Research
• ActiveStor appliances in 5th generation
• Shipping Since 2004, with 19 patents issued (more pending)
§ Panasas Management
• Storage-focused executive management team
• Highly experienced technical team
− Dr. Garth Gibson, Founder & Chief Scientist, Author of “Berkeley RAID Paper”
§ VC Funded
• Mohr Davidow, Samsung Ventures, Intel Capital, Focus Ventures,
Centennial Ventures
Industry Recognition
Faye Pairman,
Panasas CEO
Cloud Project of
the Year
Public Sector
Storage Project
of the Year

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MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES AT SCALE
§ IT Requirements:
• Speed of deployment
• Ease of use
• Ease of management
§ Scaling Traditional NAS Systems:
• Increased scalability means increased complexity
• Greater management effort required
• Additional costs incurred
§ True Scale-out NAS Solutions:
• Providing a single, global namespace to eliminate the need for multiple
storage islands
• Require the same level of effort to manage hundreds of storage nodes as
is required to manage a single node

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PANASAS ACTIVESTOR PLATFORM
§ Powered by PanFS storage operating system
§ 122.4TB per shelf à scales to 12PB
§ 1.5GB/s per shelf à scales to 150GB/s
ActiveStor Appliance
§ Metadata access
§ System management
Director
Blade
§ Parallel data access
§ Advanced caching
Storage
Blade
§ Single global namespace
§ Single system to manage
§ Seamless scaling with no downtime
§ Pay as you grow
§ Linear performance scaling
Panasas Architecture
CPUs = RAID ENGINES
COMPUTE CLIENTS
PANASAS DIRECTFLOW
PARALLEL + SCALABLE
PANASAS ACTIVESTOR

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EFFICIENT LINEAR SCALABILITY
§ Performance does not drop off as
performance modules are added
• Seamless linear scaling by adding
storage and director blades
• No performance “brick wall” or need
for islands of storage
§ Effective scaling for multiple protocols
(DirectFlow, NFS, and CIFS)
§ Network resources and bandwidth
scale with the system
Efficient Scaling = Outstanding TCO at Scale
Performance scaling independently verified by ESG:
http://performance.panasas.com/wp-esg-web.html

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EASY TO DEPLOY, USE AND MANAGE
§ Easy to Deploy
• <10 min. to set up (ESG Lab Test)
• Automatic recognition of new
storage makes scaling a breeze
§ Easy to Use
• Compute nodes see a single,
unified name space
• Files are automatically load
balanced for maximum
performance
§ Easy to Manage
• Single management view via
PanActive Manager GUI (or CLI)
• Snapshots and user quotas
reduce administrator time
• SNMP for integration into third
party management tools
§ Single Point of
Management
§ Simple out-of-box
experience
§ Seamlessly deploy
new blades
§ Capacity & load
balancing
§ Snapshots
§ 1-touch reporting
capabilities
§ Scriptable CLI
PanActive Manager
• Single Point of
Management
• Capacity & load
balancing
• Simple out-of-box
experience
• Snapshots
• Seamlessly deploy
new blades
• 1-touch reporting
capabilities
• Scriptable CLI

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NEW: ACTIVESTOR 16 WITH PANFS 6.0
§ ActiveStor 16: Platform for PanFS 6.0
• 50% higher density, leveraging HGST UltraStar®
He6 6TB drives
• Faster director blade speeds RAID rebuilds
• Flash sized for RAID 6+
§ PanFS 6.0: RAID 6+ Triple Parity Protection
• Per-file, distributed RAID 6+ overcomes limitations
of traditional RAID
• Reliability increases with scale, not decreases
• Extended File System Availability ensures business
continuity when other systems would be down
• Quickly restore specific files for disaster recovery,
not whole file system
ActiveStor 16
HGST UltraStar® He6
6TB Drive

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ACTIVESTOR 16 PLATFORM
§ 50% Increase in Density
• Hitachi HGST He6 Helium-filled 6TB drive
technology
• 240GB SSD optimized for RAID 6+
• 122.4TB per 4U shelf
§ Linear Scalability
• Field proven to 12PB and 150GB/s in a single,
global namespace
− 100 shelves, 2000 HDDs, 1000 SSDs
§ Improved Director Blade Performance
• 19% faster CPU (2.53GHz quad-core)
• 4x more cache: 48GB memory
• Improves metadata, small file and RAID rebuild
performance
§ Strong at Both Throughput and IOPS
• Ideal for large file, small file, and mixed workloads
• >13,000 random 4KB file read IOPS per shelf
• 1.5 GB/sec per shelf
ActiveStor 16
Storage Blade
240GB
SSD
8GB
Cache
6TB
HDD x2
CPU

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SUMMARY
§ IT staff in technical research and enterprise environments need
easily-managed high-performance storage that is scalable and
reliable
§ Selecting scale-out storage usually requires compromises
• High performance computing file systems deliver performance but
compromise on reliability, availability, and ease of management
• Enterprise NAS systems deliver high reliability and availability but
compromise performance
§ Panasas ActiveStor delivers a no-compromise solution

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PANASAS ACTIVESTOR
§ Easy Management
• Minimal management effort at scale
• Set up or grow capacity in under 10 minutes
• Single, global namespace
§ High Parallel Performance
• Direct data access eliminates
traditional NAS bottlenecks
• Capacity and performance scale
linearly to 12PB and 150GB/s
• Flash accelerated hybrid architecture
§ Enterprise-Grade Reliability
• Triple parity protection with RAID 6+
• Reliability increases with scale
• Extended File System Availability
“No Compromise” Hybrid Scale-Out NAS
ActiveStor 16

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