Reply to post: Don't Do That

Seagate wins HP as ClusterStor array reseller, bolts on IBM Spectrum Scale

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Don't Do That

HPC parallel file systems operate under different sorts of reliability and even performance constraints than enterprise or even SMB storage. You'll find Lustre especially, much less reliable in the medium to long term and it has terrible, terrible transactional performance. GPFS isn't quite as bad in either department, but I wouldn't trust Seagate to implement it well.

Also Lustre lacks almost all of the functionality that has become expected for enterprise and SMB storage, like snapshots and replication. Both 3PAR and MSA are far superior products unless you have the need to dump/load very large files, very very fast and don't really care what happens to them when you're done with the high IO processing. This is purely a niche play for HP so they can participate in HPC bids that require Lustre or GPFS in the RFP.

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