Seven IBM GPFS Elastic Storage Server Models From 40TB to Hundreds of Petabytes

Power Systems offers a range of solutions for big data, from entry level for dedicated Hadoop infrastructures with the IBM Solution for Hadoop Power Systems Edition to enterprise solutions with the IBM GPFS Storage Server (Elastic Storage Server – ESS), which is capable of hosting multiple Hadoop tenants along with traditional analytics workloads.

ESS is included in the IBM Data Engine for Analytics or can be purchased independently.

It is a big storage system that combines Power servers, storage enclosures, and disks along with GPFS and its native RAID technology, providing analytic and technical computing storage and data services for elastic storage workloads.

ESS, built on POWER8 server technology, offers:

Scalability from 40TB to hundreds of petabytes, supporting 10GbE, 40GbE and FDR IB.
Support for GPFS V4.1 capabilities in complete, ready-to-deploy models with server-based RAID technologies supporting GPFS NSD and NFS protocol access.
Provides a common repository, infrastructure, and name space for workflow such as analytic, cloud, and technical computing.
Big data requires easy storage growth. ESS scales in a building block approach, where adding additional storage servers adds to the overall capacity, bandwidth, and performance all with a single name space.
Big data requires price/performance. By leveraging JBODs and Power Servers, ESS provides low-cost storage for the analytics, technical computing, and cloud computing environments.
Big data requires performance. ESS provides streaming data performance for workflows, up to 15Gb/s from a single system, with near linear performance improvement as systems scale.
Big data requires predictable performance and data protection. The ESS modern declustered RAID technology is designed to recover from multiple disk failures in minutes, versus hours and days in older technology. 8+2 and 8+3 RAID protection and platter-to-client data protection are included with ESS.