The PAS HC is a multi-petabyte scale-out NAS solution designed for enterprise customers to manage extensive data, offering high throughput performance from 2 GB/sec to over 160 GB/sec while ensuring scalability and cost efficiency. Its architecture supports modular capacity without disruption, enabling a single pool of storage to streamline management and lower total cost of ownership. With robust data protection and self-healing capabilities, PAS HC is ideal for demanding applications in various industries including energy, research, and manufacturing.

1. PAS HC
High Capacity Scale-Out NAS
The Panasas family of scale-out NAS solutions enable enterprise customers
to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new
KEY FEATURES
products to market faster. The PAS HC is a multi-petabyte scale-out NAS solution
• Outstanding Performance:
designed for managing massive amounts of data and delivering the highest levels
throughput performance ranging
from 2 GB/sec to over 160 GB/ of performance, scalability and manageability. The PAS HC is an ideal solution for
sec. organizations requiring scalability, cost efficiency, and performance to capture and
• Massive Scalability: high store huge amounts of data for technical applications. PAS HC’s efficient design
density, small footprint with almost provides nearly one PB of raw capacity in a single floor tile-sized footprint, and
1 PB of storage per rack. Modular capacity can be added without disruption to create vast, multi-petabyte storage
architecture ensures capacity can
be added without disruption. pools.
• Superior Manageability:
fast setup and configuration.
Utilizing the patented PanFS™ storage operating system, PAS HC complements the
Dramatically reduces entire PAS family of scale-out NAS solutions to create a single pool of storage under
administration overhead, and a global namespace. This provides customers with the flexibility to support multiple
lowers TCO.
applications and workflows in a single storage system, blazing performance for
complex technical applications and massive capacity to store the results for future
USE CASES analysis. Eliminating multiple islands of storage dramatically reduces system cost
and complexity.
• Research: High density data
repository to manage massive
amounts of data for research labs Leaders worldwide rely on Panasas storage systems to:
associated with the Department
of Energy to manage the nation’s • Improve time-to-market • Protect critical data
nuclear weapons stockpile and
simulating their effectiveness. In • Extend research, science, and knowledge • Minimize risk for better returns
this particular use case, PAS HC • Deliver unprecedented ROI • Improve predictability
delivers over 10 petabytes of user • Solve critical and complex problems at lower cost
available storage and 160 GB/s
of sustained parallel file system
bandwidth.
• Energy: Seismic Processing, Performance
Migration and Interpretation, The PAS HC features the latest generation Intel® Nehalem microarchitecture
Reservoir Simulation technology, delivering industry leading bandwidth and processing capability. The
• Bio/Pharmaceutical: recently updated 64 bit PanFS operating environment provides enhanced throughput
BioInformatics, Computational and processing speed of internal PAS HC operations. These and other improvements
Chemistry, Molecular Modeling
including faster memory, multi-core tuning, and 64 Gb/s Fibre Channel backend
• Industrial Manufacturing: EDA capacity result in ground-breaking throughput performance ranging anywhere from 2
Simulation, Optical Correction,
Thermal Mechanics
GB/s to over 160 GB/s.
Scalability
The PAS HC provides ultra-high scalability through one of the highest density,
space-saving packages available, providing almost one Petabyte of storage per rack.
The PanFS operating system provides a global namespace and a single pool of
storage that scales throughput and capacity symmetrically. The PAS HC also
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provides RAID 6 dual parity protection, guarding against dual disk failures that could affect data availability. PAS HC’s
modular architecture allows for simple removal or replacement of components, and capacity can be added without disruption.
Manageability
PAS HC’s ultra-high density design saves valuable data center space, and system management is comprehensive and easy
to use. PAS HC provides fast set up and configuration utilities that allow storage capacity to be added and available in
less than 15 minutes. In addition, PAS HC provides redundant load-sharing controls, power and cooling that automatically
and transparently transition to redundant resources in the event of a malfunction. A single mount point and administrative
interface avoids the incremental system administration that burdens competitive storage alternatives, dramatically reducing
administration overhead and provides a low total cost of ownership (TCO).
PAS HC Product Specifications
P r O du Ct At t r i b ute S
Architecture Clustered Parallel ObjectStor that dynamically Data Protection Available with Panasas Snapshots and Panasas
distributes and load balances data transfer Asynchronous Replication.
operations across the entire system.
Protocol Support Panasas DirectFlow Client (pNFS), NFS v3
File System PanFS™ distributed file system creates a cluster (UDP or TCP), CIFS, NDMP, SNMP, LDAP, ADS
with a single file system and single global
namespace. Fully journaled, distributed, globally Client Support Linux, UNIX, Microsoft® Windows®, IBM®
coherent write/read cache. Power PC
Scalability Up to 12,000 clients, 100’s of GB/sec of
N O d e At t r i b u t e S: PA S H C
bandwidth, and 100,000’s of I/Os aggregate
performance. Multi-petabyte system capacity. Capacity 240TB to tens of Petabytes per System. Up to
960 TB per rack.
High Availability No single point of failure. PAS HC’s Network
self-healing redundant design protects and Connectivity 10Gbe standard, InfiniBand DDR optional
automatically recovers from disk or
subsystem failures. All modular components are
hot-swappable.
P OW e r S P eCi F iCAtiON S
HC DIRECTOR SHELF HC I/O SERVER HC RAID CONTROLLER PAIR HC 60-DRIVE SHELF
Power Rating Typical 800W 700W 580W 1632W
AC Power 180-264VAC 180-264VAC 180-264VAC 180-264VAC
Current (Max.) 7A @ 220VAC 3.5A @ 220VAC 220VAC 2.8A
Thermal Rating 4000 BTU/hr 2900 BTU/hr 2000 BTU/hr 5570 BTU/hr
Operating Temperature +10C to +35C +10C to +35C +10C to +35C +10C to +35C
P HYS iCAL S P eCi F iCAtiON S
HC DIRECTOR SHELF HC I/O SERVER HC RAID CONTROLLER PAIR HC 60-DRIVE SHELF
Height 17.78 cm/7 in/4U 4.3 cm/1.75 in/1U 17.78 cm/7 in/4U 17.78 cm/7 in/4U
Width 48.26 cm/19 in 48.26 cm/19 in 48.26 cm/19 in 48.26 cm/19 in
Depth 66.04 cm/26 in 66.04 cm/26 in 62.5 cm/24 in 81.3 cm/32 in
Weight 150 lbs 40 lbs 90 lbs 125 lbs with no drives
225 lbs with drives
About Panasas
Panasas, Inc., the leader in high-performance scale-out NAS storage solutions, enables enterprise customers to rapidly solve
complex computing problems, speed innovation and bring new products to market faster. All Panasas solutions leverage
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the patented PanFS™ storage operating system to deliver exceptional performance, scalability and manageability. Panasas
systems are optimized for demanding storage environments in the energy, government, finance, manufacturing, bioscience and
higher education industries.
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