High Performance Storage System Futures Balancing Mission Critical Requirements and Commercial Respo

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High Performance Storage SystemFuturesBalancin
g Mission Critical Requirements andCommercial
Responsibilities

• HPSS Technical Committee
• June 2005

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We have a new and strong foundation on which to
build.

• HPSS 5.1
• Final DCE release
• Fully supported release for sites needing to
  retain DCE to end of service
• HPSS 6.1
• A limited-function HPSS to remove DCE
  dependencies
• Linux only
• Market-driven requirement
• HPSS 6.2
• Consolidates functions of 5.1 and 6.1 (no DCE)
• AIX and Linux Core Servers
• AIX, Solaris, Linux, Irix Movers
• Augment drive and library support
• The basis of future releases

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HPSS 6.2 will meet our needs.
6.2
IBM will commercialize HPSS 6.2 to meet customer,
marketing, and proposal needs.
DOE Development Partners will deploy HPSS 6.2 to
meet DCE replacement needs.
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HPSS 6.2
6.2

• HPSS 6.2 from IBM will include support for
• VFS in Linux
• NFS V4
• Samba share
• DB2 containers
• IBM and HP LTO-3 Tape Drives
• IBM 3592 Gen2 Tape Drive
• StorageTek (Sun) Titanium Tape Drive
• SCSI PVR
• IBM 3584 Library
• StorageTek (Sun) SL500 and SL8500 Libraries
• SpectraLogic T120 with Sony AIT and IBM LTO-3
  Drives
• SAN3P with new LVM
• LFM support for GPFS and SNFS
• GPFS / HPSS integration via DMAPI (to be
  scheduled)
• gridFTP (to be scheduled)
• HSI/HTAR for HPSS 6.2 from Gleicher Enterprises,
  LLC
• New features, bugfixes, and enhanced
  error recovery

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Release 6.2 Schedule
6.2

• Scheduled Completion 4Q05
• Status

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HPSS 7.1
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HPSS 7.1
7.1

• Consider scalability improvements required for
  tomorrow
• data and files capacity
• instantaneous throughput
• aggregate throughput
• file create/write bandwidth
• Consider small file handling improvements
• Tape management and performance improvement
• Review the top two or three mission critical
  development requirements from each site and look
  for schedule and resource matches
• Seek to expand development and test team

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HPSS 7.1
7.1

• Release Manager Annette Hamala
• Planning Kickoff 3Q05

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Future Requirements
7.1

• RAIT/Parity
• Ops/Admin Task-oriented GUI
• Simple monitoring screens
• Pdata/push protocol in FTP
• Alternative multi-node ftp solution (support for
  Q)
• Bulk Data (HPSS-to-HPSS) Transfers
• Integration with strategic enterprise-wide
  parallel and cluster file systems considering as
  candidates Lustre, CXFS, SNFS, GPFS, and Storage
  Tank
• Disk Allocation Algorithm
• Enhance change owner capability
• Client side purge indicator
• Access command on behalf of another user
• File Lifetimes
• Tape Management / Media Portability
• Quotas (non-realtime)
• Metadata Consistency Checker
• SDM/DRM
• Family based migration counts
• ADIC Scalar PVR

• Small File Enhancements
• PFTP Globus Authentication
• PFTP Multi-Node Changes
• Serverless disk-to-tape
• Full Command Line Interface
• GridFTP
• SAN - Dynamic device add / delete
• SAN Multiple Dynamic Movers
• SAN Client Affinity
• SAN Mover Load Leveling
• SAN Alternate Mover Control
• Undelete
• Quotas
• Import/Export
• Small File Tape Aggregation
• HPSS/XFS mirroring
• Unix stdio interface
• Unattended Monitoring
• Simpler install

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