Network Storage

Overview of Network Storage

Network Storage (The BlueArcs) are currently two large, scalable, redudant hardware (FPGA) NFS servers (no operating system), providing extremely fast and reliable data storage and access. RCAC uses these to provide home directory, applications, scratch, and miscellaneous space to nearly all of our computational resource systems and servers. Network Storage combined currently contain more than 240 TB of redundant, high-availability SATA and Fibre Channel disk space, and are a central component of RCAC's systems infrastructure.

File-storage is two-tiered. New files and files in use are on fast fibre disks, while older files are migrated to slower SATA disks. This approach enables efficient utilization of storage resources while still providing both the performance and capacity required.