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The first time a domain user logs on to a client, Likewise Open uses PAM (pam_lwidentity.so) to set up local user directories. Alternatively, the pam_mount module can mount central user directories on a remote server with SMB/CIFS [5]. This guarantees all users access to their own files independent of the client they use to log in. The share is defined by a line in /etc/security/pam_mount.conf that uses the volume keyword:
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01 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 02 <pam_mount> 03 <volume user = "*" 04 server = "SAMBASERVER" 05 mountpoint = "/home/EXAMPLE/%(USER)/Document" 06 path = "%(USER)" 07 fstype = "smbfs" /> 08 </pam_mount>
Before the sufficient entries in the auth section of /etc/pam.d, you can insert an entry for the module. Listing 5 shows a configuration in the common-auth and common-session files on Ubuntu. To avoid the need for users to repeatedly enter their passwords, the try_first_pass = yes entry in the /etc/security/pam_lwidentity.conf file enables the option for retrying a password entered previously.
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Setting up pam_mount
01 # /etc/pam.d/common-auth 02 auth required pam_mount.so 03 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_lwidentity.so 04 auth requisite pam_unix.so nullok_secure try_first_pass 05 auth optional pam_smbpass.so migrate missingok 06 07 # /etc/pam.d/common-session 08 session optional pam_mount.so 09 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_lwidentity.so 10 session required pam_unix.so
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Besides the open source version of Likewise, the US-based Likewise Software corporation offers a commercial version of its software, Likewise Enterprise [6]. The commercial version has support for AD group policies on top of the functionality offered by the free version; the product defines around 500 default policies. The Likewise Administrative Console can use a Linux or Unix machine to manage AD records.
On top of this, Likewise Enterprise supports Linux desktops, referring to AD to retrieve settings and restrictions. This enables the implementation of strict security policies. The Enterprise variant is available free of charge for evaluation purposes, or for US$ 250 as a server version. The company offers two levels of commercial support.
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Once configured, Likewise Open offers the same functional scope as a combination of Samba, Kerberos, PAM, and NSS. It takes many pesky setup tasks off the administrator's hands and supports centralized and platform-independent user management. The ticket-based Kerberos authentication service and single sign-on is a bonus.
If you enjoy working with Likewise Open, you might appreciate the extra features offered by the commercial version or the benefits of professional support. The only manual work left to the administrator is that of managing centralized user directories.
- Likewise Open: http://www.likewisesoftware.com/products/likewise_open/
- "Linux with Active Directory" by Walter Neu, Linux Magazine, November 2008, pg. 28
- MIT Kerberos: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
- File Hierarchy Standard: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
- Mounting home directories with PAM: http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/
- Likewise Enterprise: http://www.likewisesoftware.com/products/likewise_enterprise
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Read my original post on this thread - FlashRay today is not meant for those deployments that need multiple controllers. We have OTHER all-flash appliances for sale that DO offer this TODAY though.
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Read my original post on this thread - FlashRay today is not meant for those deployments that need multiple controllers. We have OTHER all-flash appliances for sale that DO offer this TODAY though.
You say:
"but they've lagged badly in the area of performance, and the performance options now are brutally expensive, certainly enough that the discerning customer is obliged to at least contemplate other options"
Lagged badly vs what? Based on what metrics? Brutally expensive vs what?
Vs something at least as functional AND reliable as NetApp high-performance options?
One of the world's largest companies chose our all-flash gear for one of the most high profile applications on the planet. There was some other gear (many vendors were tested) that was faster but that other gear also miserably failed the reliability tests. And this application is used to generate huge revenue every second.
So it all depends on what you want to achieve in the end.
Ultra high performance with questionable reliability is child's play to achieve, and can be done cost-effectively.
There are a lot of misconceptions in the industry and a lot of FUD flying around.
Hi folks, Dimitris from NetApp here (http://recoverymonkey.org).
First: Mostly anonymous comments - your feedback is like tears in the rain. Use your real name and disclose affiliation. It's the professional thing to do.
Second: Do read the whole article.
"The end is nigh" my left foot, Mr. Man Mountain... (who works for HP - I had to dig up that little tidbit from one of his past posts). Go take care of your own house instead of spreading sensationalistic FUD.
So here's the deal:
1. All-Flash FAS (AFF) is here TODAY and offers far more maturity, robustness, flexibility and functionality than any other AFA. Nobody can offer this particular combination in the AFA space today.
2. EF is here TODAY, offering great reliability, very short I/O pathlengths leading to low latency, and super high speeds, while remaining extremely cost-effective.
3. FlashRay (and more importantly MarsOS) is not a replacement for either - the vision for the final product far surpasses what the other AFAs are doing. The initial release is still appropriate for several deployments but people needing the extra features today should go with AFF or EF.
MarsOS has a ton of innovation - as time passes more will be revealed. But we looked at all the various architectures out there - and instead of developing from scratch, we could have bought another player if we thought they had something significant to add to the table.
The capability to inter-operate with ONTAP for instance is a big deal. We are trying to make having separate silos not be too painful, yet recognize that one product cannot possibly do it all (ONTAP tries and succeeds for 90% of the workloads out there).
We are building a serious, future-proof tech to carry us for the long haul in the solid space arena. Not the same value prop as small vendors whose only goal is to get acquired.
Building enterprise storage is not easy - making something go fast is easy, making it cheap is easy. Add reliability, flexibility, future-proofing etc. and it gets harder and harder.
MarsOS is designed to work with any CPU architecture and is extensible to any solid state type - not merely optimized for NAND flash. Very important to not paint oneself into a corner.
Look at it from a big picture standpoint. I agree it's hard for some vendors since they cannot address the big picture.
Hello all, Dimitris from NetApp here (recoverymonkey.org). I posted some of the stuff below on Nate's site but it's also germane here.
FYI: The SPC-1 benchmark "IOPS" are at 60% writes and are NOT a uniform I/O size, nor are they all random. So, for whoever is comparing SPC-1 ops to generic IOPS listed by other vendors - please don't. It's not correct.
Some background on performance: http://recoverymonkey.org/2012/07/26/an-explanation-of-iops-and-latency/
I have plenty of SPC-1 analyses on my site. I'll post something soon on the new ones…
BTW: The "Application Utilization" is the far more interesting metric. RAID10 systems will always have this under 50% since, by definition, RAID10 loses half the capacity.
The Application Utilization in the recent NetApp 8040 benchmark was 37.11%, similar and even better than many other systems (for example, the HDS VSP had an Application Utilization of 29.25%. The 3Par F400 result had a very good Application Utilization of 47.97%, the 3Par V800 was 40.22% and the 3Par 7400 had an Application Utilization of 35.23%.)
The fact that we can perform so fast on a benchmark that's 60% writes, where every other vendor needs RAID10 to play, says something about NetApp technology.
Hello all, Dimitris from NetApp here (recoverymonkey.org).
NVRAM is not a write cache. It's more analogous to a DB redo log.
The actual cache is a RAM + SSD combo and is measured in the TB.
Plus we have the free to download Flash Accel server-based cache that further augments array cache.
And no, we do write coalescing very differently than most arrays.
There are 2 forms of Flash Caching possible within a NetApp FAS system.
1. Flash Cache. Custom boards that slot into the controller. Upon normal failover, the cache contents are preserved and there's no need for re-warming upon fail-back. But since it's within a node, if you lose that node you lose part of your usable cache.
2. Flash Pool. SSD-based (lives in the disk shelves). This is per disk pool and follows disk pools around if a node goes down. Never needs re-warming no matter the type of outage.
Nate, I think #2 is what you're after. Yes we have it.
Hi Chris, Dimitris from NetApp here.
To clarify: the size of a SINGLE cache board can be up to 2TB.
You can have several of those in a system.
Max Flash Cache is 16TB usable (before dedupe) on a 6280 HA pair.
Then that times 4 for an 8-controller cluster... :)
Howdy, Dimitris from NetApp here (www.recoverymonkey.org).
Max LUN size: 16TB.
Max exported share: 20PB.
Mr. Draco - I did check all your previous posts here on the register. Highly critical of everyone but one vendor. It's good etiquette to disclose affiliation.
Oh - maybe the analysts should read this:
Hello all,
Dimitris from NetApp here (www.recoverymonkey.org)
I did find it interesting that such a "doom and gloom" article is posted during NetApp's fiscal year end.
Sure - we are an incumbent now, having the #1 storage OS in the world: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/NetApp-Data-ONTAP-Is-Now-the-Industrys-No-1-Storage-OS (this is by revenue - the same holds by sheer capacity, too).
It's similar to the attacks Apple receives. Another company that innovated and was "different" and now is bigger than most. And they're not going anywhere despite all the attacks. And they're not stopping to innovate.
Innovation needs to be followed by a maturity period to encourage broad adoption of said innovation.
The various flash arrays out there for example offer innovation but not maturity yet - and these waves of innovation and maturity can take years.
Check out the "Hype Cycle": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
Hi all, Dimitris from NetApp here (www.recoverymonkey.org).
No flogging of wares (in either form of the word's meaning).
Just wanted to mention that storage is just one aspect of overall VDI cost. You have OS licenses, connection broker licenses, hypervisor licenses, servers to be purchased, thin devices, really solid networking, and all manner of other stuff that's usually not free.
Focusing so much on the storage is like saying:
I want to build a blender, and I'm just focusing on the motor.
A blender as a solution is more than the motor. Yes, a reliable motor is really important, but you need a solid housing, the bowl, blades, motor control, and a reliable way to transmit the motor movement to the blades.
Hi all, Dimitris from NetApp here.
It would be nice if the various anonymouns posters that seem to speak with such authority divulged who they are and where they work (and even nicer if it were true).
NetApp systems run the largest DBs on the planet, including a bunch of write-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads.
ONTAP/WAFL holds its own just fine: http://bit.ly/Mp4uu1
In addition, it's all about maintaining performance without giving up advanced data management features and tight application integration.
Like dragster cars are made to race in a straight line for a short period of time, there exist arrays that are super-fast but are not reliable and/or do not have rich data management features.
Flash is just another way to get more speed for some scenarios.
Depending on where it's located can help, too.
I don't care what array you have at the back end, at some point it runs out of controller steam.
What if you could have 2000 application hosts each with their own augmented cache that is aware of what's happening in the back-end storage?
Would those 2000 hosts not have more aggregate performance potential than any array can handle?
Hello all, Dimitris from NetApp here.
Indeed we invented unified storage and it has been thus for 11 years now. There's no extra box needed to do various protocols and replication - the same OS does it all. Putting a gateway in front of a storage system doesn't necessarily create a coherent solution (invariably the block and file bits end up having way too different capabilities).
There are actual customer benefits to true unified storage:
http://bit.ly/MTCktG and
Reliability and performance are great.
By default there's protection against lost writes, torn pages and misplaced writes, in addition to standard dual-parity write-accelerated RAID.
No, it's more about a difference in philosophy. NetApp does few acquisitions and prefers to do stuff in-house, the rest either OEM NetApp gear and/or rely heavily on acquisition.
Hello all, Dimitris from NetApp here (the person that wrote the article Chris referenced).
It's here: http://bit.ly/Mp4uu0
Anyway, to clarify since there seems to be some confusion:
The 100% load point is a bit of a misnomer since it doesn't really
mean the arrays tested were maxed out. Indeed, most of the arrays
mentioned could sustain a bigger workload given higher latencies. 3Par
just decided to show what the IOPS at that much higher latency level would be.
The SPC-1 load generators are told to run at a specific target IOPS and
that is chosen to be the load level, the goal being to balance cost, IOPS
and latency.
So yes, it absolutely makes sense to look at the gear necessary to achieve the requisite IOPS vs latency, and the cost to do so.
Databases like their low latency.
And yes, all-SSD arrays will of course provide overall lower latency - usually though one can't afford a reliable, enterprise all-SSD array for a significant amount of storage. You think the prices listed are high? Think again.
What NetApp does with the combination of megacaching and WAFL write acceleration is provide a lot of the benefit of an all-flash architecture at a far more palatable cost (especially given all the other features NetApp has).
D from NetApp here...
The IDC numbers don't count the tons of OEM NetApp boxes sold by many companies.
The numbers shown count only the NetApp-branded boxes sold by NetApp.
Once you add all the OEM business the percentage grows quite a bit.
Hello all, D from NetApp here.
Check analysis here: http://bit.ly/K2FBz1
Unfortunately most people don't understand how to read the SPEC submissions, I hope my article clarifies it a bit.
No, the highest Isilon result published is 1112705 SPEC SFS NFS 2008 ops.
Not 1.6 million.
J.T. - I don't think you quite understand how ONTAP works. It doesn't write randomly - it actually takes great care in meticulously selecting where writes will go. When writing to flash, we don't need to be quite as meticulous. But for HDD it helps a lot.
In addition, there are important technologies like read reallocate, that will sequentialize upon a read data that was written randomly.
At a block level.
Amazing for databases - where frequently people will write stuff randomly in the DB then there will be a job that needs to read the data sequentially (sequential read after random write).
I'm not aware of any other disk array that will do this optiization for the end user, and leave the blocks optimized for the future (this has nothing to do with caching and readahead).
Not to mention insane new stuff coming in the next few months.
Unfortunately, way too many people think ONTAP is still where it was 20 years ago. Or maybe fortunately, in the case of competitors, since it's so easy to discredit them... :)
The write allocator has been rewritten multiple times in the last 20 years :)
Not to mention everything else, including the entire kernel.
Very relevant with respect to competitor documentation - I often see stuff from them that was maybe a little valid 10 years ago, especially from the smaller vendors that can't afford the resources necessary to understand other people's gear.
This is IT, folks. I'd argue that if you stop intimately understanding a technology for more than 2 years, your knowledge of it is completely obsolete, to the point of being dangerously so.
Here's some fun reading:
Hi all, Dimitris from NetApp here.
Indeed, ONTAP running in Cluster-Mode and Isilon aren't really designed in similar ways, as I'm explaining towards the end of the article here: http://bit.ly/uuK8tG
Isilon will be strong for high throughput, yet there are other ways to get much higher throughput: http://bit.ly/zqqJ3G
Ultimately, there is no single system that "does it all". Meaning, that you get all the protocols, and dedupe, and fancy app integration, and fancy snaps, and fancy replication, and be able to stripe a volume across umpteen controllers at low latency for random I/O.
If you want to run DBs or VMs at low latency and take advantage of all the cool features mentioned above and be able to get some flexibility with the cluster for migrations and upgrades at zero downtime, you'd be better off using ONTAP Cluster-Mode than Isilon, SONAS, etc.
If you have a workload that needs to be in a single gigantic container bigger than 100TB, with extremely high throughput requirements (not IOPS),and can't break up that workload into smaller than 100TB chunks, then, for now, there are alternative solutions.
Remember that ONTAP Cluster-Mode is designed to be used in general-purpose scenarios.
Hi All, Dimitris from NetApp here.
According to IDC figures, if one looks at the Open Systems Networked Storage marketshare (where NetApp plays, please let's discount storage sold inside servers), NetApp remains #2 after EMC, even though EMC has a plethora of products that are counted yet are not general-purpose storage appliances.
The NetApp share was 14.5% according to IDC, up from 13.3% a year ago.
That's not called "losing market share".
Ant Evans got it right. What the figures don't show is that IDC doesn't count the ton of NetApp OEM product resold by the likes of IBM, Oracle, Dell, and more. Instead, those sales show up as IBM, Oracle and Dell sales.
Once that's taken into account, the NetApp share grows to over 21%, or a very very big bump up indeed.
"Lies, damn lies and statistics"..
EMC is still higher at 31.9%, but the gap is narrowing…
Oh, and according to IDC figures, NetApp is #1 in the replication software marketshare, ahead of EMC. 32.7% vs 31.4%. Close, but if one considers the relative size of the 2 companies, and how many EMC products are counted in that percentage, the NetApp figure is even more impressive.
I understand how flash works...
However, 1 billion IOPS at 64 bytes will not translate to 1 billion IOPS at 8K, so something like SQL won't run at 1 billion IOPS on that config.
It has nothing to do with whether it's disks or not.
Hello all, D from NetApp here.
Bear in mind they were doing 64-byte I/O transfers?
Typical apps, especially DBs, operate at 4K + (mostly 8K + lately).
Probably not a billion IOPS in that case then... :)
I was a Blackberry user for years, then moved to the iPhone.
Plenty of things annoy me about the iPhone but overall I like it far more than the 'berry.
I tried other stuff, including Android, and it was missing something FOR ME.
Either the build was not good, or the screen not nice, or too big, phone not clear enough - overall, I couldn't find an Android device I enjoyed using OVERALL.
Not about being a conformist, on the contrary, I love supporting the underdog, as long as the underdog has something special that can enhance my day by day life.
I think Microsoft may have a chance against the iPhone with their new paradigm UI in Windows 7.5 Mango, it's a fresh approach.
I'll let fanbois be fanbois and go back to my 4S.
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The graphics speed way better than any other phone out there (for the Android fanbois, why don't you check out some benchmarks and some actual games).
The upgrade process was as seamless as possible, all automated.
It's not just the device - it's everything supporting the device.
The only thing I'd change?
I still don't like the fact that it's essentially 2 pieces of glass with a metal spacer in between.
Unless you have a case it will break with a high degree of certainty if it falls on something hard.
D from NetApp here...
Please everyone - you can go ahead to the spec.org site and read both submissions. Tons of detail without he-said-she-said theatricals.
Isilon: http://bit.ly/s1IFH6
Isilon used about 1/7th of all available space (counting over 800TB of space).
NetApp used about 1/3rd of all available space (counting over 500TB of space).
All clearly stated in the official submissions.
Do the math.
Anyway, the point of the NetApp architecture is primarily that it's a general-purpose unified storage system, with the ability to have up to 24 nodes clustered together.
it's not a niche architecture like the scale-out NAS vendors'.
As a result, there are a couple of things the niche scale-out NAS architectures can do that NetApp can't, and about 100 things NetApp can do that the niche scale-out NAS vendors can't.
Deciding on what you need for your business depends on what features you need.
Read here for detailed analysis: http://bit.ly/uuK8tG
The 6080 in the submissions is a 2-controller system.
The 24 nodes come in 12 pairs.
So 12 systems to get 10x the performance is pretty darn good scalability for a scale-out architecture that has the systems connected over a back-end cluster network which itself imposes some drop in performance.
Is this more clear?
Looking at the Isilon submission:
"Uniform Access Rule Compliance
Each load-generating client hosted 64 processes. The assignment of processes to network interfaces was done such that they were evenly divided across all network paths to the storage controllers. The filesystem data was striped evenly across all disks and storage nodes."
How are the 64 processes per client being generated in your opinion? Single mount point per client?
Just not the exact same way Isilon does it. Doesn't necessarily tackle the same problems, either.
What do you mean we can't do "real quotas, replication or snapshots"? Those are things more deeply ingrained into the NetApp DNA than on any other platform :)
Hi Nate,
Short-stroking?? Isilon only used about 128TB of the 864TB available! Go to my post for more details. In general, exported vs usable means nothing performance-wise for NetApp due to the way WAFL works.
Isilon doesn't do typical RAID either, it's per file, so your observations are not quite correct. More education is needed to understand both architectures - and they are as different from each other as they could possibly be... and don't solve all the same problems.
Anyway - not sure what your affiliation is but if you're on the customer side of things you should be happy we are all trying to make faster, more reliable and more functional boxes for y'all! :)
Hi all, D from NetApp.
It's crucial to realize that the NetApp submission is one legit cluster with data access and movement capability all ove the cluster and a single management interface, and NOT NAS gateways on top of several unrelated block arrays.
See here for a full explanation, towards the end: http://bit.ly/uuK8tG
We agree in general. The more "stuff" an array does, the more overhead there can be for some operations.
The simpler an array is, the easier it is to do some operations.
It's all a matter of tradeoffs, as the vendors that hitherto had "simple" arrays now realize how difficult it is to maintain high performance and add all the "stuff". Notice all the performance caveats from a certain large storage vendor when someone wants to implement autotiered storage pools with thin provisioning.
My statement remains, let me clarify:
You can get high sequential speeds out of FAS but it will cost a lot more to get them than doing it with Engenio.
And indeed that's one of the reasons we bought Engenio. A lot of environments don't need the extra "stuff" FAS has to offer, and just need a simpler box that is less expensive and can read/write sequentially very very quickly.
And, as a counterpoint, I still maintain that, given the amount of "stuff" FAS can do, the performance is unmatched.
It all depends on what you're trying to do.
Hey Chris, D from NetApp here...
Regarding your comment: "El Reg's understanding is that FAS ONTAP arrays do not have the sheer data access speed needed by such heavy and scale-out filer workloads."
Far from it - the ONTAP arrays have plenty of speed, but the Engenio-based E5460, for the money, pretty much smokes anything out there for sequential I/O. Note the "for the money".
I think there are faster boxes for sequential I/O than the E5460 but not at that density and cost, which is what makes it compelling.
Management is not the same as architecture.
Let me illustrate a point:
With gateway-based NAS boxes (of which VNX is one), the gateway is effectively a server that is given LUNs by the block controllers, and keeps those LUNs in perpetuity (since striped filesystems are laid on said LUNs you can't reduce the size, and you can't thin the LUNs themselves).
So, let's say you get a VNX and allocate out of the storage pool 50TB to NAS and 50TB to block.
You can't reduce the 50TB you gave the NAS unless you are willing to destroy all of it and re-provision.
I've had customers in exactly that scenario, they'd purchased a ton of disk, allocated it to the NAS heads, realized they didn't need all that capacity, but weren't able to recover the disk.
In a TRULY unified system, the box (a single box) does it all, and doesn't care whether it's NAS or block, so you can very fluidly allocate stuff.
Dimitris from NetApp here...
At NetApp, "unified" means that the exact same controller, UNDER A SINGLE STORAGE OS, does ALL the following:
- iSCSI
- Replication
- Compression
- Deduplication
- Mega-caching
...and more.
Clearly we've had tremendous success with this architecture, to the point that all the other vendors that plonk a NAS gateway on top of a separate block storage device plus add replication appliances are now calling this approach also "unified".
So "unified" seems to mean "in the same rack" for some folks.
D from NetApp here.
3Par's $6.5/IOP are after the 50% discount. Other vendors state list prices. So please look at the full disclosure in the SPC page in order to understand the pricing, and calculate $/IOP based on list to keep it apples to apples.
Even though list pricing means less than nothing these days...
Good result overall even if almost 2,000 disks were needed, would be interesting to see it with RAID6 to provide a similar level of protection and efficiency to NetApp :)
Hi all, Dimitris from NetApp here (www.recoverymonkey.org).
A few facts:
1. Like most other manufacturers, Oracle used RAID10 for the submission, and 2.5 times the number of drives NetApp used (and tons more cache and SSD etc etc but I digress).
2. The Oracle prices included a discount
3. NetApp always uses RAID-DP (protection equivalent to RAID6, meaning better than RAID10). Good space efficiency and best protection.
4. Apples-to-apples would be if Oracle used RAIDZ2 (similar protection to RAID6 and RAID-DP).
5. In the write-heavy SPC-1 benchmark (over 60% writes for the person that asked before), RAID6 behaves a LOT slower than RAID10. Which explains why most vendors don't choose to show those results.
6. The NetApp submission is a midrange controller - we have 3 (three) boxes progressively faster than the one in the SPC-1 submission... :)
But I admit, the headline is attention-grabbing.
Hi all, D from NetApp here (recoverymonkey,org).
Thanks for the article.
And to mr. Anonymous that thinks it's a tough act to follow:
Competitors have been saying that about our earnings for years, "They'll never do that again next year!" is a phrase oft-repeated.
However, NetApp keeps growing a lot year over year.
We must be doing something right...
When comparing NetApp numbers to any other vendor, you need to be aware of the fact that nearly all other vendors benchmark with RAID10, yet NetApp sticks to RAID-DP (mathematically the same protection as RAID6).
RAID-DP/RAID6 have better protection than RAID10.
So, when comparing, kindly ask the other vendors to show numbers with RAID6, otherwise you are comparing RAID10 (extreme space inefficiency, good performance, good protection) to RAID-DP (good space efficiency, good performance, best protection).
Mr. IO-IO...
I encourage you to read the full disclosure from each vendor, so you better understand how things are tested for SPC-1.
NetApp tries to get the most IOPS with the LEAST number of disks.
So, the FAS3270 got 68K IOPS with effectively RAID6 and only 120 disks.
Pillar got about the same IOPS with over 300 disks and RAID10.
The old NetApp 3170 got 60K IOPS with 224 disks and more latency.
So, the 3270 got more IOPS with about half the disks.
I kinda call that improvement :)
Hi all, D from NetApp here (www.recoverymonkey.org).
The NetApp result for SPC-1E is the same as SPC-1 just has extra calculations for energy efficiency. Otherwise it's the same exact benchmark.
So here's the link:
or a bit.ly shortened one:
So NetApp got 68K IOPS with only 120 disks and the disks were 84% full, and using RAID-DP.
Far better space efficiency than any other vendor in the benchmark (do the math).
Mr. Anonymous Coward...
Dimitris from NetApp here.
NetApp hosts the biggest workloads around (NAS or SAN), and scales just fine. StorNext is NOT scale-out NAS... instead, it's a block-based cluster FS for very specific applications. Not a general-purpose solution.
FYI, Isilon and other scale-out solutions are not for all workloads - scale-out storage doesn't necessarily mean scale-out random write small-block I/O, for example. But it is usually good for reads, especially large files, and allows easy to achieve single large namespaces.
You can't even begin to compare how many customers NetApp and Isilon have respectively. NetApp is one of the top storage manufacturers and makes general-purpose storage, Isilon has a few niche customers and makes scale-out NAS.
D from NetApp...
NetApp has had thin replication relying on only sending actual changed blocks - since it was first launched many years ago.
It is indeed a very useful feature and good for Bluearc that they finally have it.
In EMC documentation it is CLEARLY STATED that the new pools (mandatory to use the new features) rely on a filesystem on top of RAID groups.
Which is exactly how NetApp also works.
There's no "native block" - all modern arrays virtualize most things to the extent that the statement makes zero sense. See here: http://blogs.netapp.com/efficiency/2010/10/more-questions-than-answers-emulated-luns.html
Dedupe is not the only gap.
Zero-impact snapshots and clones, ultra-granular snaps and caching and low-impact RAID6 are other hugely important technologies that differentiate NetApp from the rest.
Oh - and truly unified hardware.
Hi, Dimitris from NetApp here.
The 3270 wasn't using Flash Cache at all, we just wanted to have a result without it.
The 3210 and 6240 both were, and it helps with latency a lot as you can see.
What is also important: All the NetApp configs were a fraction of the price of the EMC ones and provided many times the amount of space.
More details here http://bit.ly/awIYXz and here http://bit.ly/bJZpRD


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LIVERMORE, Calif. — Gil Herrera and Steve Rottler, two key members of Sandia National Laboratories' senior leadership team, have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The honor is bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
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Sandia radiation effects researcher Jim Schwank has won the 2014 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award, which recognizes outstanding technical contributions to the fields of nuclear and plasma sciences.
"I feel highly honored," said Schwank, who is the second active Sandia employee to win the award and the sixth person in the radiation effects community to win since the award's inception in 1972. The winner was announced earlier this month during the IEEE's Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects conference..........more
Patients trying to navigate today's complex medical system with its costly laboratory analyses might prefer a pain-free home diagnostic device, worn on the wrist, that can analyze, continuously record and immediately remedy low electrolyte levels.
Runners, athletes in other strenuous sports and soldiers on long missions also might prefer immediate knowledge of their electrolytic states as an aid to improved performance...........more
Computing experts at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to help discover what computers of the future might look like, from next-generation supercomputers to systems that learn on their own — new machines that do more while using less energy.
"We think that by combining capabilities in microelectronics and computer architecture, Sandia can help initiate the jump to the next technology curve sooner and with less risk," said Rob Leland, head of Sandia's Computing Research Center. Leland recently outlined a major effort into next-generation computing called Beyond Moore Computing that's part of Sandia's overall work on future computing..........more
When most people in the US think about anthrax, they think about the 2001 terrorist incidents in Washington, D.C., and New York. Melissa Finley (6825) thinks about farmers in developing nations like Afghanistan.
As a researcher in the International Biological Threat Reduction program, Melissa works with veterinary labs in low-resource environments, helping them become safer, more secure, and also more efficient at diagnosing infectious diseases..........more
Your brain is incredibly well-suited to handling whatever comes along, plus it's tough and operates on little energy. Those attributes — dealing with real-world situations, resiliency and energy efficiency — are precisely what might be possible with neuro-inspired computing..........more
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Mike Cuneo and Igal Brener have been selected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Brener, who joined Sandia in 2004, was selected for "contributions to terahertz science and technology." Projects on which he has worked include chem-bio sensing, terahertz science and devices, plasmonics, metamaterials and solid state lighting.........more
In 1982, then-Sandia National Laboratories researcher Gordon Osbourn published a theoretical paper that asserted the previously unthinkable: that ultra-thin layers of mismatched atomic lattices could overcome the strain of their union and successfully form a defect-free bond. Going against the grain of the times, Osbourn's calculations stimulated creation of the new field of strained-layer superlattices. Just one of the myriad results of that insight — strained-layer lasers — today dominate the entire semiconductor laser market.........more
They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet, there is still a lot we don't know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. When things go awry and nerve cells don't communicate as they should, the consequences can be devastating. Speech can be slurred, muscles stop working on command, and memories can be lost forever........more
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A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories and recently licensed to a small business makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper.
Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax, is commonly found in soils all over the world and can cause serious, and often fatal, illness in both humans and animals. The bacteria can survive in harsh conditions for decades.........more
Former Sandia National Laboratories physicist Willis Whitfield will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May for his cleanroom invention. In 2008, Whitfield posed outside a cleanroom at Sandia's Microsystems Engineering Sciences & Applications (MESA) complex.
The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized manufacturing in electronics and pharmaceuticals, made hospital operating rooms safer and advanced space exploration.......more
Sandia researchers, left to right, Adrian Chavez, Matthew Brake, Seth Root and Daniel Stick will be recognized in a ceremony later this year as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering. The award is the highest honor the US government gives to outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their careers.
"I want to congratulate Matt Brake, Adrian Chavez, Seth Root, and Dan Stick for their achievements that led to this prestigious award. The Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories are home to an impressive number of innovative and talented researchers....more
Ed Cole (1000), appointed a Sandia Fellow in June, has been elected by the board of trustees of ASM International as a Fellow of that society. The ASM International website describes itself as a society of 36,000 members worldwide "dedicated to supporting the materials and engineering professions." According to the notification letter, "The honor of Fellow represents recognition of our distinguished contributions in the field of materials science and engineering, and develops a broadly based forum for technical and professional leaders to serve as advisors to the society." Ed's citation reads, "For revolutionizing microelectronics failure analysis by the development of Charge Induced Voltage Alteration, Light Induced Voltage Alteration and Soft Defect Localization techniques for analyzing integrated circuits." The honor officially will be conferred during the ASM awards dinner on Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Montreal, Canada. — Neal Singer
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Sandia scientists are thinking small, building on decades of sensor work to invent tiny detectors that can sniff out everything from explosives and biotoxins to smuggled humans.
The military needs to find low concentrations of chemicals, such as those used in roadside bombs or chemical warfare agents, before they hurt anyone, says Ron Manginell (1716). Soldiers often use detectors in less-than-ideal situations, looking for dangerous substances from among a rich miasma of diesel fumes, smoke, and dust.....more
Membrane Projection Lithography, submitted by Bruce Burckel. This fabrication technique enables the creation of a diverse array of microscopic 3D structures with macroscopic impact. For instance, the technique can be used to create 3-dimensional integrated circuits, the next step in the evolution of 2-dimensional microprocessors. It is also capable of creating structured electromagnetic materials. Currently, the technique is being used to make thermal antennas which can control the direction of heat emitted from an object, potentially easing cooling and heating needs for satellites or perhaps even buildings and cars....more
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Jerry Simmons, Ed Cole and John Rowe have been named Sandia Fellows.
That status — stellar at Sandia and nearly as rare as hen's teeth — is reserved for those who are nationally or internationally recognized pioneers in their fields. It is considered a promotion to the highest level of Research and Development staff, equivalent to the level of management immediately below Sandia's vice presidents....more
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Not everyone can play music. You need timing and rhythm, an ear for pitch and notes and an ability to interpret sheet music and symbols. You need physical coordination to apply those talents plus control of lungs, lips, arms and fingers to match the mechanics of a musical instrument. And you need strength and stamina to sustain the sounds you create...more
Sandia National Laboratories' research and collaborations will be highlighted in 26 presentations and two posters at the upcoming SPIE Photonics West 2013 Conference. The presentations include seven invited papers showcasing Sandia's microsystems research, five of which involve collaborations with MIT, the University of Konstanz, the University of New Mexico, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia and Yale University. Visit our booth, number 201, to learn more about Sandia's Microsystems Program.
Sandia developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic (PV) cells that could revolutionize solar energy collection. The crystalline silicon micro-PV cells will be cheaper and have greater efficiencies than current PV collectors. Micro-PV cells require relatively little material to form well-controlled, highly efficient devices. Cell fabrication uses common microelectronic and micro-electromechanical systems techniques. They are 10 times thinner than conventional cells, yet perform at about the same efficiency.
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Sandia National Laboratories' research and collaborations will be highlighted in three presentations at the upcoming IEEE Photonics Society Optical Interconnects Conference.
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Sandia National Laboratories' research and collaborations will be highlighted in 11 presentations and three posters at the upcoming CLEO: 2012 Conference. The presentations include an invited paper showcasing Sandia's microsystems research in collaboration with MIT. Visit our booth, number 2409, to learn more about Sandia's Microsystems Program.
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Sandia National Laboratories' research and collaborations to be highlighted in 18 presentations and four posters at the upcoming SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing Conference. The presentations include five invited papers showcasing Sandia's microsystems research, three of which involve collaborations with MIT, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Composite Mirror Applications, Inc. and the University of Arizona. Visit our booth, number 1003, to learn more about Sandia's Microsystems Program.
February 27, 2012 - Smart outlet on display at summit
Sandia National Laboratories has developed an experimental "smart outlet" that autonomously measures, monitors and controls electrical loads with no connection to a centralized computer or system. The goal of the smart outlet and similar innovations is to make the power grid more distributed and intelligent, capable of reconfiguring itself as conditions change........more
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will begin researching how to use glitter-sized photovoltaic cells in utility-scale solar power systems, which eventually could cut the costs of solar panels in half and nearly double their efficiency.
Sandia's work with industry, other labs and universities to improve the design, materials and manufacturing processes of the Microsystems-Enabled Photovoltaic (MEPV) cells won the national security laboratory a Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Mid-Continent Regional Excellence in Technology Transfer Award.......more
Our miniature acoustic resonators perform RF filtering and frequency synthesis in next-generation wireless devices—offering higher performance in a smaller package with a lower price.
Our microresonators are miniature acoustic resonators fabricated using complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible microfabrication techniques. When grouped together, our microresonators operate as filters; they provide frequency selection in radios and other electronic equipment. When connected with transistor electronics, microresonators can provide frequency reference functions (such as clocking) to radios, microprocessors, and other electronic devices.
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World's smallest atomic clock hits marketplace
You could have bought a Rolex, but now you learn about a new, matchbook-sized atomic clock. It's portable, only about 1.5 inches on a side and less than a half-inch in depth and heck, it costs less, only about $1,500.
February 3, 2011
Tiny microelectronic mechanical systems to improve Mexican economy, aid US defense
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will help Mexican engineering students learn to design tiny microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), according to a memorandum of understanding between Sandia and the University of Guadalajara.
July 12, 2010
Diamond-like thin film offers hard data for solar modelsALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Tom Friedmann was awarded NASA's Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal (EEAM) at a ceremony June 15 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. He received the award for the quality of the diamond-like carbon thin films he contributed to the Genesis science mission. Five other winners were all members of JPL.
June 29, 2010
Improved control of "neglected middle-child" frequency range offers potential benefitsALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have taken the first steps toward reducing the size and enhancing the functionality of devices in the terahertz (THz) frequency spectrum....
June 15, 2010
World's smallest chess set and a microbarbershop win bigALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The world's smallest chess board — about the diameter of four human hairs — and a pea-sized microbarbershop were winners in this year's design contest for, respectively, novel and educational microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), held at Sandia National Laboratories in mid May....
February 24, 2010
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Paul Dodd, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to the understanding and simulation of single-event effects in microelectronic," according to a notification sent out by the organization....
December 21, 2009Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results
December 17, 2009Two Sandia researchers elected AAAS Fellows
September 24, 2009Sandia receives DoD 'trusted foundry' accreditation
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Sahas Katta, creator of the GlassTesla app for the Tesla Model S EV, says that by wearing Google Glass while driving, he no longer is distracted by reaching for his cellphone. And when it comes to navigation, Katta says that nothing beats the AR specs. "With navigation, it's the best technology I've used to date – there's no in-car, mounted or smartphone navigation system that can beat the experience of having Glass so far," says the developer. He notes that with navigation, Glass will remind you to make a turn that's a mile away and then shuts down before reminding you again a tenth of a mile from the turn. Distractions are minimal.
Katta also repeated a rumor he heard that the device has an eye-tracking sensor that has yet to be used. His theory is that in the future, Google Glass will determine if you've fallen asleep while behind the wheel and wake you up. And Google Glass could also monitor how long you stare at its screen and turn off the device to force your attention back on the road if it determines you're staring at the Glass screen for too long.
A couple of states in the U.S. are considering banning Google Glass for drivers although there are no plans right this second for any action to be taken by the federal government. Certainly the U.S. Department of Transportation has been monitoring the situation. With more widespread distribution of the device expected before the end of the year, any bans or other restrictions probably won't be put into place until next year when Google Glass use becomes more widespread.
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1. _Bone_ (Posts: 2140; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
Always thought navigation is the most notable thing on glass.
17. mafiaprinc3 (Posts: 357; Member since: 07 May 2012)
totally off topic but i love the features of the moto x,but the pricing is way off,what the hell was google and motorola thinking.it aint worth it
21. Os_Money (Posts: 19; Member since: 01 Jul 2013)
why don't you go comment on one of the other 50 moto x posts.
2. RogueRequest (Posts: 4; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
My brother claims that drinking makes him a better driver. He says that he's even more cautious because he doesn't want to get pulled over so he's less likely to kill someone.
4. draconic1991 (Posts: 176; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
10. Dr.Phil (Posts: 931; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
I don't see any harm in that, especially considering there is a difference between "drinking" and "getting drunk". I mean you can drive with a blood alcohol level up to a 0.08. If you're a man that is around 160 lbs, that means you can have 3 servings of alcohol and still be under the legal limit.
3. kabhijeet.16 (Posts: 665; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
"Google Glass could also monitor how long you stare at its screen and turn off the device to force your attention back on the road if it determines you're staring at the Glass screen for too long." Ha haha...Awesome
5. twens (Posts: 700; Member since: 25 Feb 2012)
wat an awesome ride...who knows the name of that car? i want to check it out
6. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Tesla S
7. nobelset (Posts: 270; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
We'll have to see. Maybe in driving schools they should monitor our performance with and without Google glass. Then they can write it down on our licenses. Case by case :-D
8. f1r3z0r (Posts: 87; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
let me buy the car first and then i root it hahaha
9. RaKithAPeiRiZ (Posts: 1385; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)
and suddenly - sorry Brakes.app is not responding .......
11. TheLolGuy (Posts: 483; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)
I get rooting things like phones, but how about not doing anything to a 4k lb metal boulder rolling around at 60mph.
How will these cases be handled if someone crashes into a huge crowd of people because he fiddled with his car's system and disabled something?
16. Shatter (Posts: 2031; Member since: 29 May 2013)
If the software crashed the car would still run fine... They aren't that stupid to make the breaks and gas rely on an app.
18. TheLolGuy (Posts: 483; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)
Of course. Engineers create layers and layers of failsafes that protect eachother when one thing goes down.
However, if you 'root' the system and start fiddling, the whole synergy can break down, and if just a few things start to malfunction, nothing will correct/readjust the system properly.
12. networkdood (Posts: 6326; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
In America, people do not need an excuse to be a terrible driver, as most already are.
13. mr.techdude (Posts: 555; Member since: 19 Nov 2012)
15. Jklaz (Posts: 124; Member since: 01 Jul 2013)
What about Tokyo Drift
14. kozza3 (Posts: 575; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
geez that looks huge on his head
19. Birds (Posts: 1028; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
These cute little nerds be doing some impressive stuff... I wonder will Samsung let me design the Galaxy S V and Galaxy note IV? LMAO...
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LMFAO... Distraction after distraction after distraction. I really hope they ban these from being used while in control of a motor vehicle


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