DataDirect Announces Resource Management Suite

November 17, 2000

NEWS BRIEFS

Chatsworth, CALIF. — Responding to the need for more capable Storage Area Networking management and administration, DataDirect Networks announced the “SAN Appliance Resource Management Suite” for the company’s SAN appliance family of products. The SAN Appliance Resource Management Suite, available immediately on all SAN DataDirector and SAN directION SAN appliances, greatly reduces the challenge of managing complex, multi-vendor Storage Area Networks.

The SAN Appliance Resource Management Suite enables administrators to centrally manage storage and network resources, helping organizations reduce the overall costs of ownership and increase the efficiency of their Storage Area Networks. According to Ted Lingard, vice president of operations for Sonic Foundry a leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems, “DataDirect delivered the scalability and performance we were looking for as well as the comprehensive set of management tools we needed to make SAN technology work. They exceeded our expectations.”

“Data centers installing SAN’s continue to live without comprehensive SAN-aware management and administrative tools,” says Alex Bouzari, chief executive officer of DataDirect Networks. “With the SAN Appliance Resource Management Suite, administrators can harnass the power of storage area networks – just as they harness the power of local area networks. The ability to manage storage virtualization, performance, configuration, security and firmware upgrades is an essential ingredient in tapping the potential of SAN technology.”

The SAN Appliance Resource Management Suite is a centralized, secure and powerful management capability that works with SAN infrastructure devices to provide five distinct functions:

The vLUN (virtual LUN) Manager controls SAN-attached storage resources and assigns them when and where they are needed. Using the vLUN Manager, storage can be assigned when and where it is needed in a matter of seconds through an intuitive user interface. The vLUN Manager enables storage to be added, removed and assigned at any time by the systems administrator. No host reboots are required. Storage is available for immediate use after being assigned. No storage is wasted using vLUN Manager assignments. Only the storage that is immediately needed must be assigned, simplifying data consolidation.

The vLUN Manager caps the rising cost of storage administration by consolidating storage into pools that can be assigned to hosts as desired – regardless of computing platform. Logical units and hosts can be managed as a single SAN using vLUN Manager. The ability to view and manage large Storage Area Networks enables fewer systems administrators to manage more storage than ever before.

Among the highlights of the vLUN Manager component of the SAN DataDirector SAN Appliance Resource Management Suite are:

— Used to add, delete, format and rebuild LUNs

— Provides LUN level storage assignments

— Supplies uniform management across heterogeneous SAN

— Manages individual LUNs or groups of LUNs

— Scalable up to the number of supported LUNs

— Add/remove/assign LUNs without host reboot

— No single point of failure

— Administers share groups for cluster configurations

— LUN geometry is stored in NVRAM and within each LUN for high availability

The Appliance Performance supplies the systems administrator with an extensive array of performance-related information that can be used to optimize the data delivery and response characteristics of the Storage Area Network. The capabilities delivered by the Appliance Performance Manager have previously been available only through the use of an array of software tools supplemented by an expensive and complex Fibre Channel analyzer.

Among the highlights of the Performance Manager component of the Appliance Resource Management Suite are:

— Extensive monitoring and reporting capability by host port, SAN DataDirector SAN Appliance port, disk channels and cache

— Centralized management capability accessible anywhere

— Uniform management across heterogeneous SAN

— Manages and monitors pre-fetch and cache efficiency, request distribution, transaction and transfer rates by port

— Enables I/O request response to be optimized based on data access patterns

The Appliance Configuration Manager is a highly effective resource for configuring and managing large, distributed, and continually increasing data volumes in which availability, scalability, and data integrity are critical factors. The Configuration Manager puts the systems administrator in control of the SAN DataDirector SAN Appliance and its connected devices.

Among the highlights of the Appliance Configuration Manager are the abilities to:

— Configure and monitor status of host ports

— Configure, add, remove and monitor status of connected storage assets

— Uniform management across heterogeneous SAN

— Display and alter storage array tier mapping

The Firmware Update Manager enables firmware updates to be applied to the High Speed Traffic Directors (HSTD) of a dual HSTD configuration without loss of data access. A single HSTD is taken off line during the period in which the firmware updates are being applied. The remaining HSTD remains on line during the firmware update supplying data to the SAN.

The Firmware Update Manager additionally enables on-line firmware updates to be applied non-disruptively to individual disk drives or groups of disk drives without affecting system operation.

The Security Administrator provides SAN storage access control, allowing systems administrators to build and manage complex SANs with heterogeneous servers and storage devices. Systems administrators can confidently assign storage to hosts, being assured that only authorized hosts can have access to data.

Among the highlights of the Security Administrator are:

— Creates correspondence between users (WorldWide Name), storage LUNs and access permissions

— Provides audit trail of SAN appliance logins

— Provides alerts in the event of unauthorized login attempts

— Maps internal LUN identification to external LUN identification

— Highly scalable – up to 128 users per port

— All security actions are securely logged

The SAN DataDirector SAN appliance gives IT professionals the ability to quickly deploy a high bandwidth, virtualized, fault tolerant, scalable SAN using a plug and play appliance. The SAN DataDirector SAN appliance brings a wide range of next generation features to companies preparing to deploy SAN technology including data virtualization and storage pooling, massive scalability, centralized management, integrated security, high availability through extensive fault tolerance and multi-vendor heterogeneous operation.

The SAN directION SAN appliance offers the full capabilities of the SAN DataDirector SAN appliance in a convenient and versatile “pay-as-you-go” model that grows with customer storage networking needs.

Complete information on the SAN DataDirector and SAN directION SAN appliances can be found at the company’s web site http://www.datadirectnet.com .

Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry is a leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems. Sonic Foundry’s award-winning products and services are used worldwide for multimedia and Internet applications, music, video, and broadcast solutions, and digital content creation.

Sonic Foundry’s digital audio and video tools include the award-winning ACID, Sound Forge, Vegas Audio, Vegas Video, VideoFactory, Stream Anywhere, SIREN Jukebox, Viscosity, and a variety of compatible music loop libraries and DirectX Audio Plug-Ins. For specific product descriptions, please reference the products section of the Sonic Foundry Web site. Additional information about Sonic Foundry is available at: http://www.sonicfoundry.com/news/presscenter .

============================================================

Subscribe to HPCwire's Weekly Update!

Be the most informed person in the room! Stay ahead of the tech trends with industry updates delivered to you every week!

Q&A with Nvidia’s Chief of DGX Systems on the DGX-GB200 Rack-scale System

March 27, 2024

Pictures of Nvidia's new flagship mega-server, the DGX GB200, on the GTC show floor got favorable reactions on social media for the sheer amount of computing power it brings to artificial intelligence.  Nvidia's DGX Read more…

Call for Participation in Workshop on Potential NSF CISE Quantum Initiative

March 26, 2024

Editor’s Note: Next month there will be a workshop to discuss what a quantum initiative led by NSF’s Computer, Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate could entail. The details are posted below in a Ca Read more…

Waseda U. Researchers Reports New Quantum Algorithm for Speeding Optimization

March 25, 2024

Optimization problems cover a wide range of applications and are often cited as good candidates for quantum computing. However, the execution time for constrained combinatorial optimization applications on quantum device Read more…

NVLink: Faster Interconnects and Switches to Help Relieve Data Bottlenecks

March 25, 2024

Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture may have stolen the show this week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. But an emerging bottleneck at the network layer threatens to make bigger and brawnier pro Read more…

Who is David Blackwell?

March 22, 2024

During GTC24, co-founder and president of NVIDIA Jensen Huang unveiled the Blackwell GPU. This GPU itself is heavily optimized for AI work, boasting 192GB of HBM3E memory as well as the the ability to train 1 trillion pa Read more…

Nvidia Appoints Andy Grant as EMEA Director of Supercomputing, Higher Education, and AI

March 22, 2024

Nvidia recently appointed Andy Grant as Director, Supercomputing, Higher Education, and AI for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). With over 25 years of high-performance computing (HPC) experience, Grant brings a Read more…

Q&A with Nvidia’s Chief of DGX Systems on the DGX-GB200 Rack-scale System

March 27, 2024

Pictures of Nvidia's new flagship mega-server, the DGX GB200, on the GTC show floor got favorable reactions on social media for the sheer amount of computing po Read more…

NVLink: Faster Interconnects and Switches to Help Relieve Data Bottlenecks

March 25, 2024

Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture may have stolen the show this week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. But an emerging bottleneck at Read more…

Who is David Blackwell?

March 22, 2024

During GTC24, co-founder and president of NVIDIA Jensen Huang unveiled the Blackwell GPU. This GPU itself is heavily optimized for AI work, boasting 192GB of HB Read more…

Nvidia Looks to Accelerate GenAI Adoption with NIM

March 19, 2024

Today at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia launched a new offering aimed at helping customers quickly deploy their generative AI applications in a secure, s Read more…

The Generative AI Future Is Now, Nvidia’s Huang Says

March 19, 2024

We are in the early days of a transformative shift in how business gets done thanks to the advent of generative AI, according to Nvidia CEO and cofounder Jensen Read more…

Nvidia’s New Blackwell GPU Can Train AI Models with Trillions of Parameters

March 18, 2024

Nvidia's latest and fastest GPU, codenamed Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company's AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from Read more…

Nvidia Showcases Quantum Cloud, Expanding Quantum Portfolio at GTC24

March 18, 2024

Nvidia’s barrage of quantum news at GTC24 this week includes new products, signature collaborations, and a new Nvidia Quantum Cloud for quantum developers. Wh Read more…

Houston We Have a Solution: Addressing the HPC and Tech Talent Gap

March 15, 2024

Generations of Houstonian teachers, counselors, and parents have either worked in the aerospace industry or know people who do - the prospect of entering the fi Read more…

Alibaba Shuts Down its Quantum Computing Effort

November 30, 2023

In case you missed it, China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba has shut down its quantum computing research effort. It’s not entirely clear what drove the change. Read more…

Nvidia H100: Are 550,000 GPUs Enough for This Year?

August 17, 2023

The GPU Squeeze continues to place a premium on Nvidia H100 GPUs. In a recent Financial Times article, Nvidia reports that it expects to ship 550,000 of its lat Read more…

Shutterstock 1285747942

AMD’s Horsepower-packed MI300X GPU Beats Nvidia’s Upcoming H200

December 7, 2023

AMD and Nvidia are locked in an AI performance battle – much like the gaming GPU performance clash the companies have waged for decades. AMD has claimed it Read more…

DoD Takes a Long View of Quantum Computing

December 19, 2023

Given the large sums tied to expensive weapon systems – think $100-million-plus per F-35 fighter – it’s easy to forget the U.S. Department of Defense is a Read more…

Synopsys Eats Ansys: Does HPC Get Indigestion?

February 8, 2024

Recently, it was announced that Synopsys is buying HPC tool developer Ansys. Started in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1970 as Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc. (SASI) by John Swanson (and eventually renamed), Ansys serves the CAE (Computer Aided Engineering)/multiphysics engineering simulation market. Read more…

Choosing the Right GPU for LLM Inference and Training

December 11, 2023

Accelerating the training and inference processes of deep learning models is crucial for unleashing their true potential and NVIDIA GPUs have emerged as a game- Read more…

Intel’s Server and PC Chip Development Will Blur After 2025

January 15, 2024

Intel's dealing with much more than chip rivals breathing down its neck; it is simultaneously integrating a bevy of new technologies such as chiplets, artificia Read more…

Baidu Exits Quantum, Closely Following Alibaba’s Earlier Move

January 5, 2024

Reuters reported this week that Baidu, China’s giant e-commerce and services provider, is exiting the quantum computing development arena. Reuters reported � Read more…

Leading Solution Providers

Contributors

Comparing NVIDIA A100 and NVIDIA L40S: Which GPU is Ideal for AI and Graphics-Intensive Workloads?

October 30, 2023

With long lead times for the NVIDIA H100 and A100 GPUs, many organizations are looking at the new NVIDIA L40S GPU, which it’s a new GPU optimized for AI and g Read more…

Shutterstock 1179408610

Google Addresses the Mysteries of Its Hypercomputer 

December 28, 2023

When Google launched its Hypercomputer earlier this month (December 2023), the first reaction was, "Say what?" It turns out that the Hypercomputer is Google's t Read more…

AMD MI3000A

How AMD May Get Across the CUDA Moat

October 5, 2023

When discussing GenAI, the term "GPU" almost always enters the conversation and the topic often moves toward performance and access. Interestingly, the word "GPU" is assumed to mean "Nvidia" products. (As an aside, the popular Nvidia hardware used in GenAI are not technically... Read more…

Shutterstock 1606064203

Meta’s Zuckerberg Puts Its AI Future in the Hands of 600,000 GPUs

January 25, 2024

In under two minutes, Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, laid out the company's AI plans, which included a plan to build an artificial intelligence system with the eq Read more…

Google Introduces ‘Hypercomputer’ to Its AI Infrastructure

December 11, 2023

Google ran out of monikers to describe its new AI system released on December 7. Supercomputer perhaps wasn't an apt description, so it settled on Hypercomputer Read more…

China Is All In on a RISC-V Future

January 8, 2024

The state of RISC-V in China was discussed in a recent report released by the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The report, entitled "E Read more…

Intel Won’t Have a Xeon Max Chip with New Emerald Rapids CPU

December 14, 2023

As expected, Intel officially announced its 5th generation Xeon server chips codenamed Emerald Rapids at an event in New York City, where the focus was really o Read more…

IBM Quantum Summit: Two New QPUs, Upgraded Qiskit, 10-year Roadmap and More

December 4, 2023

IBM kicks off its annual Quantum Summit today and will announce a broad range of advances including its much-anticipated 1121-qubit Condor QPU, a smaller 133-qu Read more…

  • arrow
  • Click Here for More Headlines
  • arrow
HPCwire