NAS Cluster Solution Designed for EDA -
Overview & Features

Overview

Under tremendous pressure to bring their products to market quickly and at a lower cost, electronics design and manufacturing organizations need assurance that engineers have fast and reliable access to engineering data to ensure efficiency in their product development. The raw performance demands and need for large shared data storage surpasses the capability of current file serving approaches, like traditional appliance-based Network Attached Storage (NAS). In addition, current trends in the performance of industry standard hardware challenge the price-performance results of the industry stalwarts. Many EDA users are recognizing the advantages and reaping the benefits of scalable shared data NAS clusters.

Features and Benefits

• The HP Difference: This file serving solution is based on HP PolyServe's Matrix Server™ software. Matrix Server is "shared data clustering" software, which enables IT to rid themselves of the traditional link between files and a given server. This is what makes load balancing possible and high availability simple, affordable and guaranteed.
• Shared Data Clustering: Make all files accessible by all servers so that users and applications can be moved easily between servers. Avoid SCSI reserve and release protocols that complicate server failovers and instance moves and eliminate the need to replicate data to assist in load balancing or for redundancy.
• Industry Standard: HP PolyServe Matrix Server runs on Linux from RedHat, Novell SuSE, and Windows operating systems. It is compatible with virtually all storage and networking equipment that use industry standard protocols.
• Customer Results:
  • Achieve over 2GB/s of I/O throughput
  • Eliminate hotspots and I/O bottlenecks
  • Add server nodes without disrupting applications
  • Manage and backup the storage as a single resource
  • Enjoy favorable price/performance and an 8:1 pure performance advantage over popular NAS filers
• Reliability: HP PolyServe’s unique shared data architecture allows multiple end users to safely read and write to shared files, streamlining engineering production environments while eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming data replication. Scalable, highly available IT systems for electronics designers.