CXFS 6 - SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem0 pages

High Performance
Shared Filesystem

KEY FEATURES
Delivers on the promise
of SANs. Provides full
cache coherency across
heterogeneous nodes
Instant, multiOS, no copy
data sharing
Time tested, proven
solution
Scalability and
performance ensure
investment protection
Solid, standard data
integrity
Architected to scale up to
18 million terabytes
Guaranteed application
bandwidth priorities
with GRIO V2

CXFS™ 6
SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem
Delivering on the Promise of Storage Area
Networks (SANs)

Instant, No-copy Data Sharing Among
Major Operating Systems

A SAN provides direct, high-speed physical
connections between multiple hosts and
disk storage. But in a typical data intensive
environment, 20–80% of the time it takes to
produce results is wasted by slow, resourceintensive data access methods. The mission-critical
ability to share data among computer systems is
often accomplished by using a network filesystem
such as NFS or manually copying files using FTP, a
cumbersome and often unacceptably slow process.

CXFS provides the software infrastructure to allow
simultaneous shared access to the storage—all
systems have direct access to all data and are no
longer bottlenecked by slow, congested networks
or overloaded fileservers. There is a huge reduction
in the time required to access data plus the
added benefit of no extra data copies to store and
manage.

InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS provides
instant data sharing with no network mounts and
no data copies. CXFS combines unparalleled 64-bit
scalability and performance with SAN technology,
enabling computer systems to efficiently share data
and do more work in less time. This allows
customers to realize the benefits of SAN
consolidation with a significant increase in overall
productivity for real return on investment (ROI).

CXFS supports metadata servers running SGI
Foundation Software for Linux and client-only
nodes running SGI Foundation Software or ProPack
for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server (SLES), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and
Microsoft Windows.
CXFS Shared Filesystem

SGI ProPack

Linux 64-bit

SGI Foundation

High availability with data
access failover
Most robust storage
resource management
available
True LAN-free backup and
restore

Linux 32-bit

Windows XP, Vista, 7
32 & 64 Bit

Mac OS X - 64 Bit

Complete SAN/NAS
gateway

Windows Server 2003, 2008
32 & 64 Bit

Mac OS X - 32 Bit