Consider a storage system with 120 PiB net capacity (file-system size), Da

Question

Raw capacity of storage solution

net capacity = file-system size (this should be close to 120 PiB)
file-system utilization percentage at which performance is impacted
Usable capacity (net * %)
Maximum net size of physical cluster
Maximum net size of single namespace

Cumulative Read SMB

Cumulative Read NFS
Cumulative Read native client of your solution

Cumulative Read Cloud synchronization

Cumulative Write SMB
Cumulative Write NFS
Cumulative Write native client of your solution

Cumulative Write Cloud synchronization

Single Stream Read SMB

Single Stream Read NFS

Single Stream Read native client of your solution

Maximum number of users or connections

Continuous HW upgrade option without downtime

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 encryption at rest options

data tiering and management

Cloud (Azure, AWS) synchronization funtionality and options

list of missing network components

estimated cost of missing network components

separate management network with approx 1 Gbit/s foreseen (best
practice)
included in cost

power requirements
cooling requirements

number of racks
average rack weight

rack size

availability of storage system

rolling SW-upgrade/patching strategy (without downtime)

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 Total Capex price to DXC over 36 months (HW+SW)

NW included

racks included

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et capacity (file-system size), Data below should relate to this configuration

DDN Answer

Approx. 160,2 PiB for HDDs / data

Approx. 120,8 PiB for HDDs / data
Typically at over 90% fill-grade of file system
Approx. 108,7 PiB
Technically unlimited
2048 PiB (= 2305 PB)

Not provided in the present offering

Not provided in the present offering
508,0 GB/s
Depends on number of DataFlow DataMovers and
Internet connection speed to the cloud providers.
Not provided in the present offering
Not provided in the present offering
420,0 GB/s
Depends on number of DataFlow DataMovers and
Internet connection speed to the cloud providers.

Not provided in the present offering

Not provided in the present offering

10 to 12 GB/s

131,072

Yes, for most types of upgrades

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 Multiple functions are available with EXAScaler at no
additional cost: HotPool (data caching for higher
performance), Persistent-Client-Cache. The offered
Both
DataFlow layer is a powerful tool to enable data
management with Tiering, Backup, Archiving, and
The dataReplication,
Remote transfer between on-prem
including EXAScaler
Connectivity and
to Cloud
public (or private)
and Non-DDN cloud instances is managed by
Platforms.
DataFlow. (Please see the high-level descriptions in
the comments column. Much more details can be
provided separately.)

None

None

Yes
Yes

157,1 kW
530,4 BTU/h

12
972,2 kg

2134mm x 713mm x 1315mm

100.00%

Yes

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 14,276,000 €

Yes

No

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w should relate to this configuration

SVA for IBM Spectrum Scale

159
119
98.00%
116.62
562949953421312
562949953421312

384
384
528
16++
384
384
385
16++

2.4

2.4

15

16384 native clients ; 20,000 SMB connections

yes

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 both
Yes.
Transparent for users.
yesHDD, tape, S3, blob
Between NVMe, SSD,
synchronization
caching
archiving

yes
yes

154
527253

11
1070

99.95%

yes

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 EURO 12.730.000,00
yes

no

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 Cray ClusterStor

166
121
90.00%
108
121
121

Not Supported
600 ( via NFS Gateways)
500
Not Supported
Not Supported
500 ( via NFS Gateways)
500
Not Supported

Not Supported

5000 native clients

No

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 Media

Not apllicable, only disk tier proposed

Not Supported

N/A

N/A

Yes
Yes

221 (not including NFS Gateways)

13
1150

1860 x 800 x 1300

99.76%

No

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 approx € 16,7 mio

Yes

Yes

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 Dell Hybrid
Dell all-flash
(REVISED DESIGN:
(PREVIOUS DESIGN: 185xF900)
100xF900+152xH7000)
121.14 119.48
120.1 118.45
85.00% 85.00%
102.085 100.68
163.59 118.45
163.59 118.45

1021 861
1107 940

401 443
362 395

8
8
8 8

252000

185000

yes yes

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 both, see comment sheet both, see comment sheet

see comment sheet see comment sheet

see comment sheet see comment sheet

none

none
none
none
yes
yes
yes yes

158.915 150.044
542235 511968

10 11
613 860

2019.3 x 712 x 1219.2 2019.3 x 712 x 1219.2

99.99968 99.99968

yes yes

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 € 57,378,700
€ 77,770,421
no, + € 1,796,546 for FE NW
no, + € 1,497,122 for FE NW

no, + € 78,443 for 11x 40 U racks no, + € 78,443 for 11x 40 U racks

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 HPE/VAST Response Hitachi

103950 TB = 92,326 PiB 147

122,64 117
95.00% 95
? 80%
1 Exabyte 512PiB Flash, 14EB with tiering
1 Exabyte 14ExaBytes

1125 8930
1710 8930
1710 11907
11907GBs with Native Client, 8930
depends
with CIFS or NFS
270 3292
270 3292
270 4390
4390GBs with Native Client,
depends
3292GB with CIFS or NFS
up to 6.5GBs to Windows clients
5 and 11GBs to Windows clients with
RDMA compatible interfaces
2,2 via TCP or 3,0 via RDMA 3GBs to the NFS clients
160GBs to Linux clients with the
6 HCSF Posix Agent with compatible
DDPK/RDMA NICs

NFS: 6144 Connections per Node

(45x 4 Nodes = 1105920
Connections)
The maximum number of
SMB: 448 Connections per Node
concurrent users is 3000 for SMB,
(45x 4 Nodes = 80640
512 for NFS and 3267 HCSF Posix
Connections)
clients.
S3: 1792 Connections per Node
(45x4 Nodes = 322560
Conenctions)

yes YES

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 namespace. Therefore our aim is
not to tier data but federate data
between different instances,
locations & systemswhile still
Currently we support
maintaining the replication
a coherent
of Snapshots
namespace. to acan
media
Data S3 Service like
be managed both
AWS S3 or other custom S3
by lifecycle rules, protection
Services out of the
policies, tenant box. Vast-in-
segregation and
the-cloud will be
more available in Yes
Autumn 2023 for AWS, and Azure
will follow afterwards.
YES

The Solution is provided as an

Appliance Solution. Therefor we
deliver all the components up to
our front end ports. A customer or
partner is required to source
Network Switching and cabling for
the clients to connect to VASTs
none
frontend ports. In the specific
configuration we are currently
looking at, we will need at least
180x 100GE Frontend Ports or
360x 100GE Frontend Ports if the
customer would like to connect all
CNODES with dual ports.

frontend LAN switches (pricing in

NA
progress at HPE)
yes Currrently not in configuration
no Currrently not in configuration
We do not deliver Management
Switches as Customers usually
have their preferences when it
comes to such things-
18,3 281
62403 960,815

11 16
622 395KG

1800x750x1200 2030 x 600 x 1174

99.999 across the install fleet but

99.997
99.9999999 architecturally

yes Yes

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 ramp-up model price estimate
included in eMail (approx € 30 m) +
€ 29,459,000
racks + frontend LAN switches
(pricing in progress at HPE)
no / HPE will price network
Yes
switches seperately (s.o.)
no / HPE price information
attached to the eMail YES

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 Pure Answer type or options

171,241 PiB
117,014 PiB
100 %
117,014 PiB
5,85 PiB
> 120 PiB

1312 GB/s
1312 GB/s
n/a GB/s
23,1
GB/s
383,16 GB/s
383,16 GB/s
n/a GB/s
211,2
GB/s

3,5
GB/s
8 GB/s

n/a
GB/s

9000

integer number

YES yes/no

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 Media media/file/both
Provided by Hammerspace with a
CloudSync connector running
inside of the HyperScaler.
provided Different
by Hammerspace freeform text
tiering priorities can be assigned.
Additional monitoring capabilities
included freeform text

text list

yes/no
yes/no

12937 / 258740 kW
46321 / 926420 BTU/h

depends (see answer Line 42) integer number

n/a kg
n/a utilising Standard Racks /
540RU in totla needed at 120 PiB height x width x depth
(mm x mm x mm)

99.99900
%

Yes yes/no

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 € 129,931,239
€
No
yes/no

No yes/no

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 Consider a storage system with 120 PiB net capacity (file-system size), Da

Question

Raw capacity of storage solution

net capacity = file-system size (this should be close to 120 PiB)
file-system utilization percentage at which performance is impacted
Usable capacity (net * %)
Maximum net size of physical cluster
Maximum net size of single namespace

Cumulative Read SMB

Cumulative Read NFS
Cumulative Read native client of your solution
Cumulative Read Cloud synchronization
Cumulative Write SMB
Cumulative Write NFS
Cumulative Write native client of your solution
Cumulative Write Cloud synchronization
Single Stream Read SMB
Single Stream Read NFS
Single Stream Read native client of your solution

Maximum number of users or connections

Continuos HW upgrade option without downtime

encryption at rest options

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 data tiering and management

Cloud (Azure, AWS) synchronization funtionality and options

list of missing network components

estimated cost of missing network components
separate management network with approx 1 Gbit/s foreseen (best practice)
included in cost

power requirements
cooling requirements

number of racks
average rack weight
rack size

availability of storage system

rolling SW-upgrade/patching strategy (without downtime)

Total Capex price to DXC over 36 months (HW+SW)

NW included
racks included

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et capacity (file-system size), Data below should relate to this configuration

comments (if necessary)

Previous design:
185x F900: 24*30.72*185 = 136396.8 TB Raw / 124052.17 TiB Raw *0.826
= 102490.11 TiB (Usable Capacity @ 100% Utilization) * 1.2 (Data
Reduction) = 122988.13 TiB / 120.11 PiB (Effective / Net Capacity)

Revised design:
152x H7000: 20*20TB*152 = 60800 TB / 55297.28 TiB Raw * 0.826
(Storage Efficiency) = 45678.96 TiB (Usable Capacity @ 100% utilization) *
1.2 (Data Reduction) = 54814.76 TiB (Effective Capacity)

100x F900: 24*30.72*100 TB= 73728 TB Raw / 67055.23 TiB Raw * 0.826
(Storage Efficiency) = 55400.06 TiB (Usable Capacity @ 100% utilization) *
1.2 = 66480.07 TiB (Effective Capacity)

> 121294.76 TiB / 118.45 PiB (Effective / Net Capacity)

Revised design:
Hot Tier
552
598
n/a
depends on upload bandwith
217
196
n/a
depends on upload bandwith
6
6
n/a

This number indicates active connections. It's not a hard limit but a
recommendation.

Yes, self-encrypting drives / SEDs for storing the data encyrpted on the
media. For transport encryption we support KRB5P and SMB3.

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 Yes, this solution integrates automated tiering between internal and external
pools via SmartPools. See Chapter 3.3.4 in the RFI Response Document.

Best Practices: See https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/l/powerscale-

onefs-best-practices/smartpools-data-tiering

Smartpools Whitepaper: See https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-

us/products/storage/industry-market/h8321-wp-powerscale-onefs-
smartpools.pdf

Yes, SmartSync cloud copy is optimized to move data between file and
object repositories like ECS, Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. SmartSync
can enable push or pull replication. See Chapter 3.4 in the RFI Response

(best practice)

with 40U Racks

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to this configuration

Warm Tier
309
342

227
200

2
2

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