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| 3100 | 3200 | |
|---|---|---|
| IOPS | 100,000 | 200,000 |
| Throughput | Up to 10Gbps | Up to 20Gbps |
| Scalability | Up to 2 PB in a single namespace | Up to 4PB in a single namespace |
| Ethernet Ports | 2 10GbE or Six GbE | 2 10GbE or Six GbE |
| Fibre Channel Ports | Four 4Gb | Eight 4Gb |
| Clustering Ports | Two 10GbE | Two 10GbE |
BlueArc's Titan 3000 Series is the next generation of intelligent platforms for file services designed to meet the requirements of today's sophisticated enterprise data centers and high performance applications with new levels of storage performance, scalability and reliability. Titan is the first storage solution that consolidates and manages up to 4 petabyte (PB) of data in a single namespace. In addition, Titan supports a Cluster Namespace (CNS) option that creates a unified directory structure that provides global accessibility to data resources. The CNS option supports both CIFS and NFS connectivity with seamless extensibility from two (2) to eight (8) nodes in a cluster and architected to extend well beyond to meet the needs of growing enterprises.
Titan is built using a unique hardware accelerated architecture and offers enterprise-class management tools Ð including data migration, replication, and anti-virus support. This customer-proven, hardware-implemented architecture maximizes data access and user loads with extremely low latency, resulting in increased productivity and significantly reduced cost of ownership.
Titan enables over 60,000 user sessions and thousands of compute nodes to be served concurrently, while maintaining data access at dramatically higher rates than those found in traditional network attached storage systems. Users working on even the largest data sets will see performance improvements in information storage and retrieval, increasing productivity and delivering a solid return on investment.
With Titan's dedicated non-intrusive backup and replication technology, users experience uninterrupted high-speed access to their data. Productivity never suffers to accommodate a backup or replication window.
The Titan 3100 model supports up to 10 Gbps of non-blocking, aggregate throughput for enterprise environments, while the Titan 3200 model supports 20 Gbps of non-blocking, aggregate throughput for high performance configurations. The 3000 series is designed to provide maximum IOPS performance and comes standard with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connections for high throughput NAS and iSCSI networking connectivity. As data and user population grows, or as workstation and application server performance accelerates, Titan can easily scale to eight (8) nodes in a single cluster to meet demanding changes with enhanced access, capacity, and performance.
Enterprises can add storage at any time to meet new application or business needs or to consolidate disparate storage into a single point of management without incurring downtime. Each of Titan's object-based File Systems scales to 256TB individually and can support multiple file systems for up to a total capacity of 4PB under a single namespace using a single server or clustered servers. Virtual Volumes are logical containers build upon the file systems that manage data capacity and can dynamically expand and contract to meet changing allocation requirements. The specialized Dynamic Read Caching functionality allows read intensive workloads to be accessible concurrently across up to eight (8) nodes to dramatically increase read intensive aggregate workload performance.
Titan solutions can be designed to support core automated enterprise functions, with no single point of failure. All aspects of the system's modular architecture deliver maximum availability even during upgrades or maintenance. Additionally, BlueArc provides a choice of asynchronous or synchronous replication and mirroring options at both the file and block level for remote distances of up to 100km. Should performance requirements grow beyond a single system, Titan's native N-Way clustering capability supports eight (8) Titans nodes connected into a single shared file system using global namespace technology. The data managed by each Titan is accessible on a common SAN to each of the cluster nodes, allowing for seamless fail-over and continuous data access regardless of an enterprise's maintenance or disaster recovery requirements.
BlueArc's Intelligent Tiered Storage allows an enterprise to match appropriate storage media to differing application requirements, achieving optimal levels of performance, capacity, and cost without being required to manage and maintain multiple storage systems. Titan inherently supports the ability to build and seamlessly add tiered storage infrastructures with a mix of Fibre Channel, SATA, and WORM protected storage on a single system. This flexibility allows administrators to easily store data on the most appropriate online or nearline archive to dramatically reduce costs, while maintaining access times consistent with application requirements.
In today's environments as new server and networking technology is deployed within the enterprise, storage systems must be upgraded to meet the needs of the IT infrastructure. The vast majority of storage system upgrades require an entirely new product installation - a 'forklift' upgrade. Titan eliminates these painful hardware replacement costs by delivering a modular solution with maximum flexibility that supports upgrades via firmware feature enhancements or server modules without replacing the entire system.
BlueArc Titan employs four (4) physical modules, including the Network Interface Module (NIM), two Files Systems Modules (FSA or FSX & FSB), and the Storage Interface Module (SIM).
Titan's NIM module provides the networking and management interfaces and carries out TCP, UDP and IP processing in the hardware. This module has six (6) copper or fiber Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) interfaces with support for IEEE802.3ad link aggregation, or two (2) fiber 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) interfaces. These ports transmit and receive both standard and jumbo Ethernet frames. The NIM Module also supports dedicated Ethernet and RS-232 interfaces for management.
Titan's File System modules combine to carry out protocol processing (including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and NDMP) and all aspects of file system operation in the hardware. The hardware execution of file system operations is key to delivering the throughput and low latency offered by Titan. Directory searches and file lookups are far more efficient and less time consuming, allowing data to be returned to the client quicker, enabling enhancements in productivity levels.. The File System modules also implement battery-backed NVRAM, ensuring that no data will be lost in the event of unplanned downtime. In addition, the File System is protected by mirrored NVRAM in a clustered configuration.
Titan's SIM module controls BlueArc's Parallel RAID Striping technology and is responsible for disk storage management. The hardware execution of Parallel RAID Striping across LUNs allows performance to increase even as more storage is added to the system. A massive data cache provides rapid access to commonly used data.
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