| 3100 | 3200 | |
|---|---|---|
| IOPS | 95,000 | 195,000 |
| Throughput | Up to 10Gbps | Up to 20Gbps |
| Scalability | 2PB | 4PB |
| 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 PB of data in a single storage pool. In addition, Titan supports a Cluster Name Space (CNS) option that creates a unified directory structure that provide global accessibility to data resources. The CNS option supports both CIFS and NFS connectivity with seamless extensibility from 2 to 8 nodes in a cluster and architected to go well beyond.
Titan is built using a unique hardware accelerated architecture and offers enterprise-class management tools ö including data migration, replication and anti-virus support. This customerproven, 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 1000's 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 new 3100 model supports up to 10 Gbps of aggregate throughput for enterprise environments and the new 3200 model support 20 Gbps of aggregate throughput for high performance configurations. The new 3000 series is designed to provide maximum IOPS performance and comes standard with 10 Gigabit Ethernet 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 out to 8 nodes in a single cluster to meet demanding changes with enhanced access, capacity and performance.
Customers can add storage at any time to meet new application or business needs or to consolidate a company's disparate storage into a single point of management, without incurring downtime. The Titan's object based file system scales to 256 TB and the Titan can support multiple file systems for a total capacity of 4 PB. When a larger single file system name space is required, the Cluster Name Space option scales up to 4 PB and supports the mixing of multiple storage tiers. 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 Cluster Read Caching functionality allows read intensive workloads to be accessible concurrently across up to 8 nodes to dramatically increase read intensive aggregate workload performance.
Titan solutions can be designed for the heart of the enterprise, 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 100 km. Should performance requirements grow beyond a single system, Titan's native N-Way clustering capability supports eight Titans nodes connected into a single shared file system using global name space 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 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 cost while maintaining access times consistent with application requirements. Investment Protection 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 ö a “forklift” upgrade. Titan eliminates these painful hardware replacement costs, delivering a modular solution with maximum flexibility to upgrade via firmware feature enhancements orserver modules without replacing the entire system.
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 ö a “forklift” upgrade. Titan eliminates these painful hardware replacement costs, delivering a modular solution with maximum flexibility to upgrade via firmware feature enhancements or server modules without replacing the entire system.
Titan's NIM module provides the networking and management interfaces and carries out TCP, UDP and IP processing, in hardware. This module has six copper or fiber Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with support for IEEE802.3ad link aggregation, or two 10 Gigabit Ethernet 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 Silicon File System modules combine to carry out protocol processing (including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and NDMP) and all aspects of file system operation in 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, and increasing productivity. The file system modules also implements battery-backed NVRAM, ensuring 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.
