Consolidate Windows File Servers

Easily deploy scale-out clustered NAS gateway Using Windows Server 2008 R2 and industry standard SAN storage

Shared Storage Solutions for HPC Server 2008

Microsoft now has a version of the Windows server platform that is designed specifically for cluster compute applications—Windows HPC Server 2008. Windows HPC Server 2008 aims to expand the market for using compute clusters for computationally intensive workloads. Many cluster compute workloads require shared access to storage, and will see substantial performance increases from moving from NAS to SAN storage. Shared storage solutions are quite common in Linux deployments.  Sanbolic now provides users deploying cluster compute solutions on Windows the option of using a scalable CIFS solutions, or shared block storage access over either iSCSI or Fibre Channel. These solutions are all easy to deploy and manage using standard Windows management tools and industry standard hardware.

Advantages of shared storage solutions for Windows HPC Server 2008:

• Flexible, scalable storage using either CIFS access or direct block access.
• Scalable Clusters of Windows file servers can provide very high performance while utilizing a pure Windows management environment, and can be managed from one interface using Sanbolic’s FilerScaler.
• Direct shared block storage access is available for very storage intensive operations.

Management of storage access is a key element of the administration of a compute cluster. Sanbolic provides several flexible shared storage options for Windows compute clusters that use native Windows management and the ability to match the cost and performance needs of a given workload. 

CIFS access to scalable Windows Server–based file serving clusters is a cost effective solution for cluster compute workloads that are compute intensive rather than storage intensive. Sanbolic’s software allows multiple Windows File Servers to present a single file system on a shared SAN LUN with I/O performance that scales linearly as additional Windows File Servers are added - providing a flexible storage infrastructure that can quickly be expanded to accommodate larger compute clusters or more storage intensive work loads. Each of the Windows file shares can be configured and managed from a single interface using Sanbolic’s FilerScaler
Direct access to shared block storage using Sanbolic’s Melio product suite can significantly shorten processing time for storage intensive jobs such as media encoding, computational fluid dynamics, or mechanical modelling. The storage can be connected either using an iSCSI fabric using low cost gigE networking components, or with a Fibre Channel Fabric for applications that are very sensitive to storage performance.

Consolidate Windows File Servers

Easily deploy scale-out clustered NAS gateway Using Windows Server 2008 R2 and industry standard SAN storage

Shared Storage Solutions for HPC Server 2008

Microsoft now has a version of the Windows server platform that is designed specifically for cluster compute applications—Windows HPC Server 2008. Windows HPC Server 2008 aims to expand the market for using compute clusters for computationally intensive workloads. Many cluster compute workloads require shared access to storage, and will see substantial performance increases from moving from NAS to SAN storage. Shared storage solutions are quite common in Linux deployments.  Sanbolic now provides users deploying cluster compute solutions on Windows the option of using a scalable CIFS solutions, or shared block storage access over either iSCSI or Fibre Channel. These solutions are all east to deploy and manage using standard Windows management tools and industry standard hardware.

Advantages of shared storage solutions for Windows HPC Server 2008:

• Flexible, scalable storage using either CIFS access or direct block access.
• Scalable Clusters of Windows file servers can provide very high performance while utilizing a pure Windows management environment, and can be managed from one interface using Sanbolic’s FilerScaler.
• Direct shared block storage access is available for very storage intensive operations.

Management of storage access is a key element of the administration of a compute cluster. Sanbolic provides several flexible shared storage options for Windows compute clusters that use native Windows management and the ability to match the cost and performance needs of a given workload. 

CIFS access to scalable Windows Server–based file serving clusters is a cost effective solution for cluster compute workloads that are compute intensive rather than storage intensive. Sanbolic’s software allows multiple Windows File Servers to present a single file system on a shared SAN LUN with I/O performance that scales linearly as additional Windows File Servers are added - providing a flexible storage infrastructure that can quickly be expanded to accommodate larger compute clusters or more storage intensive work loads. Each of the Windows file shares can be configured and managed from a single interface using Sanbolic’s FilerScaler
Direct access to shared block storage using Sanbolic’s Melio product suite can significantly shorten processing time for storage intensive jobs such as media encoding, computational fluid dynamics, or mechanical modelling. The storage can be connected either using an iSCSI fabric using low cost gigE networking components, or with a Fibre Channel Fabric for applications that are very sensitive to storage performance.

high performance computing(pdf)

Scalable clustered file serving using Windows Server(pdf)