Easynet France Improves Response Time With Network Attached Storage
📅 - French ISP Easynet France (easynet.fr), announced an improvement in servicetoday after switching from server-attached storage to network attachedstorage. The company said it has experienced rapid growth in its Internetservice provider and web hosting businesses, forcing improvements in everyarea but particularly in data storage. The local storage used in the pastmade it impossible to meet the company's performance targets, especiallywhen it was necessary to access data across the network.
Benjamin Ryzman, Research and Development Manager for Easynet France, evaluated a range of different network storage solutions and selected the Auspex NS2000 system because, unlike other network attached storage devices, it offers a modular architecture that is easy to expand and provides a high level of fault tolerance. "Since we installed the storage server," Ryzman said, "we have grown from 30,000 to 60,000 customers while actually reducing the time that visitors to the sites that we host have to wait for data."
Easynet implemented the changes as a result of their "enormous" storageneeds. The company currently hosts approximately 60,000 mailboxes and 3,000web sites for its customer base and delivers about 300,000 email messagesper day, and has approximately 100 servers. In the past, Easynet used localdisks attached to each server to as its primary storage resource. "Therewere a number of problems with this method," Ryzman said. "First of all, thestorage server workload conflicted with the web server workload, which had anegative impact on response time. Second, the application servers frequentlyhad to access files from across the network, creating further delays.Finally, the fact that storage was scattered across the network made itdifficult to manage the system and expand it over time. It was clear that weneeded to find a better approach in order to meet the demands of our rapidlygrowing customer base."
"We evaluated a number of different network attached storage solutions,"Ryzman said. "We decided to go with the Auspex NS2000 because we like itsunique modular architecture. Each storage server has a host processor and atleast one network processor. This parallel architecture is optimized for thetask of moving file data as efficiently as possible from disk to network andvice versa. It also improves reliability since the network processor cancontinue working if the host processor fails. We also met with users of theNS2000, including operators of large data centers. Each one told us thatthey were delighted with its performance and reliability."
Each NS2000 node contains a dual-Intel processor motherboard that hasdifferent and logically separate processing functions. The network processorprocesses network protocols and manages associated caches. The file andstorage processor is dedicated to managing the file systems and associatedstorage hardware. The result is a dramatic improvement in performance: theability to perform approximately twice as many NFS operations per second,the most representative measurement of network attached storage performance,than comparable systems.
For more information on the NS2000, visit www.auspex.com.
Benjamin Ryzman, Research and Development Manager for Easynet France, evaluated a range of different network storage solutions and selected the Auspex NS2000 system because, unlike other network attached storage devices, it offers a modular architecture that is easy to expand and provides a high level of fault tolerance. "Since we installed the storage server," Ryzman said, "we have grown from 30,000 to 60,000 customers while actually reducing the time that visitors to the sites that we host have to wait for data."
Easynet implemented the changes as a result of their "enormous" storageneeds. The company currently hosts approximately 60,000 mailboxes and 3,000web sites for its customer base and delivers about 300,000 email messagesper day, and has approximately 100 servers. In the past, Easynet used localdisks attached to each server to as its primary storage resource. "Therewere a number of problems with this method," Ryzman said. "First of all, thestorage server workload conflicted with the web server workload, which had anegative impact on response time. Second, the application servers frequentlyhad to access files from across the network, creating further delays.Finally, the fact that storage was scattered across the network made itdifficult to manage the system and expand it over time. It was clear that weneeded to find a better approach in order to meet the demands of our rapidlygrowing customer base."
"We evaluated a number of different network attached storage solutions,"Ryzman said. "We decided to go with the Auspex NS2000 because we like itsunique modular architecture. Each storage server has a host processor and atleast one network processor. This parallel architecture is optimized for thetask of moving file data as efficiently as possible from disk to network andvice versa. It also improves reliability since the network processor cancontinue working if the host processor fails. We also met with users of theNS2000, including operators of large data centers. Each one told us thatthey were delighted with its performance and reliability."
Each NS2000 node contains a dual-Intel processor motherboard that hasdifferent and logically separate processing functions. The network processorprocesses network protocols and manages associated caches. The file andstorage processor is dedicated to managing the file systems and associatedstorage hardware. The result is a dramatic improvement in performance: theability to perform approximately twice as many NFS operations per second,the most representative measurement of network attached storage performance,than comparable systems.
For more information on the NS2000, visit www.auspex.com.
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