Native InfiniBand Storage

Deployment & Customer Experiences

Dave Ellis

Director, HPC Architecture

LSI Logic

IBTA & OFA DevCon San Francisco

September 25, 2006

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Disclaimers

The material contains LSI Logic, Engenio Storage Group technology overview information

Referenced features, functionality and capabilities may not all be supported by all LSI ESG Partners

Dates contained here do not reflect product testing/qualification conducted by LSI ESG Partners

Dates and features are subject to change The opinions of the speaker do not reflect the opinions or policies of LSI Logic

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Co-wrote SCSI industry specificationsDeveloped first SCSI protocol chip

First SCSI macro cell

First PCI-Ultra2 SCSI chipFirst dual channel PCI-Ultra2 SCSI chip

Achieved SNIA certification for SMI-S provider

Industry’s first complete line of enterprise-class

SANmark 2003 certificationIndustry’s first serial ATA enterprise storage

Debuted Hotscale™ technology

Native InfiniBand demonstration

First SPC-1 results

Shipped first production SAS silicon to leading OEMs

First single chip RAID controller

First to validate Ultra320 interoperability

Industry’s first 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel storage systemShipped first SAS solution to the channel

Achieved industry’s first SAS Windows qualificationSampled industry’s first PCI Express SAS controller

First RISC-based SCSI chipRAID Storage System

Industry’s first RAID-assist chip set

Dual active RAID controller

Industry’s first Fibre channel RAID system

Industry’s first multi-mode RAID (0, 1, 3, 5) controller and system

Industry’s first wide SCSI interface

Caching RAID controller

First fully functional PCI-Fast SCSI chip

First fully functional PCI-Ultra SCSI chip

First Multi-function dual channel PCI-Ultra SCSI chip

First intelligent transportable battery backup module

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25 Years of Storage Innovation

Same technology, same partners, different names…

More than 180 Storage related patents issued and another 160 pending

Shipped over 300,000 storage systems

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LSI Logic Products and Markets

Consumer Products

Group

Storage Components

Group

Custom Solutions

Group

Engenio Storage Group

Silicon to Storage

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The Storage Landscape

Storage System

Bridge

Bridge

FC Switch

Server

HBA

Storage System

Blade NAS

Storage System

Server

HBAHBA

Server

SCSIFCSAS

JBOD

External Storage

Storage System

Disk Drive

FC Switch

Tape

Server

Disk Drive

Server

Disk Drive

PCI RAIDRAID on Motherboard

SCSISAS

JBOD

PCI RAID

Server

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2006 2007 2008 2009

Technology Roadmap – Industry View

Disk Drive Interface

Host Interface

Expansion Interface

External DriveForm Factor

4 Gb FC

3Gb SAS

4 Gb FC

SCSI

3.5” Low Profile (7.2K – 15K RPM)

1 Gb iSCSI

2.5” High RPM

10Gb iSCSI

10Gb IB 20Gb DDR IB

3Gb SAS

3Gb SAS

8 Gb FC8 Gb FC

4 Gb FC

3Gb SATA

8 Gb FC

2 Gb FC

1.5 Gb SATA

6Gb SAS

6Gb SAS

6Gb SATA

6Gb SAS

2 Gb FC

2 Gb FC

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LSI 6498 Overview

6th generation Redundant XBB architecture with Native InfiniBand Host

Four 10 Gb/s InfiniBand host-side interfaces

Eight 4 Gb/s Fibre Channeldrive-side interfaces

Support for up to 224 FC and/or SATA disk drives

– Over 100 TB Capacity Switched drive modules reduce latency and improve RAS LSI storage systems technologies are available through OEMs Standard Management Interface

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InfiniBand – Customer Experiences

Early Adopters– Strong opinions about direction– Insisted on co-development or alpha-level testing– Put resulting product into production and have not upgraded

Government Agencies and/or Labs– Co-development with very large test beds– Continue to push the technology to the limits– Have vision beyond capabilities of current generation of products

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InfiniBand – Customer Experiences

Commercial Customers– Looking for less expensive alternatives– Looking for performance enhancements beyond existing alternatives– Grid systems becoming more viable as applications are developed

Grass-roots Efforts– Many OEM Partners are just now deciding it is a viable solution– Some Partners’ internal labs have been testing for months– Generating demand from within

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InfiniBand – Development Experiences

IBTA Plugfest – Spring 2006 – University of New Hampshire– Storage array was connected, configured, and simply worked!– Commercial customers attended to observer the technology exchange– Valuable relationships formed

SC05 – Nov 2005, Seattle, WA– StorCloud – Interoperability pushed to the limits– Booth activity with many of our Partners– Lots of Customer interest– Post-SC05 Customer engagements ongoing

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InfiniBand – Development Continues

Driver Development– Lots of ongoing activity with the IB component vendors to ensure

interoperability– Lots of ongoing activity with our Partners to develop host-side device

drivers– Introducing “Enterprise Ready” Storage concepts to component

suppliers who have not worked in this area before Multi-path I/O Drivers Failover Drivers

– Providing years of FC Enterprise Experience to the IB community to ensure that IB Storage is a viable unified wire option

– Moving to OFED 1.1 SRP driver

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InfiniBand – Upcoming Committments

IBTA Plugfest – Fall 2006 – University of New Hampshire– We will attend and continue to support the IB community

SC06 – Nov 2006, Tampa, FL– We will attend and continue to support our Partners and the IB

community

Questions?

Contact Info:Dave EllisDirector, HPC ArchitectureLSI Logic, Engenio Storage Group770-330-9486 (Cell)256-895-0517 (Office)