Double-Take® Software Offers All-in-One Solution with Double-Take® Flex for High Performance Computing
July 01 2010 - 8:58AM
Business Wire
Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ:DBTK) has announced the
availability of Double-Take® Flex for High Performance Computing
(HPC), an all-in-one solution for diskless iSCSI booting for
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 storage, bootstrap and boot
volume management, allowing companies to virtualise, consolidate,
share, and centrally manage HPC compute node boot volumes.
Double-Take Flex for HPC extends Windows HPC Server customers’
investments in iSCSI SAN infrastructure and provides a powerful
underlying iSCSI Storage Server tuned especially for sharing HPC
nodes’ boot images. It is a comprehensive solution that includes
all of the required technology to automate the deployment of
hundreds of diskless HPC compute nodes, and includes the iSCSI
Service Provider, centrally-managed back-end storage, and boot
image management.
Double-Take Flex Product Highlights:
- Manageability – Before
Double-Take Flex for HPC, customers faced a time-intensive, costly
manual process of individually provisioning each boot volume for
each HPC compute node. Now customers can create and provision all
boot volumes at the same time by sharing a single master boot
volume to all compute nodes, while at the same allowing individual
nodes to utilise individual differences.
- Flexibility – Double-Take
Flex for HPC allows for easy, cost-effective re-purposing of
compute nodes or additional non-HPC clients for other boot-from-SAN
usage. This allows customer to provision desktops for ordinary
office tasks during the day and for high performance computing at
night.
- Reliability – Using
hundreds of compute node disks together can be unreliable due to
moving parts, but Double-Take Flex for HPC allows users to replace
these unreliable hard disks with reliable and centrally managed
software-based diskless iSCSI boot capabilities.
- Costs – Consolidating
disks with Double-Take Flex for HPC eases purchase, power and
cooling requirements.
- Security – In some HPC
environments, disks must be tightly managed. By having fewer disks,
companies can significantly improve the manageability of physical
disks and therefore provide a greater level of security.
Mutlu Kurtoglu, Group Product Manager, Technical Computing, at
Microsoft Corporation commented, “Windows HPC Server 2008 offers
world class performance, takes advantage of existing technology
investments and skills and makes supercomputing simple to manage
and easy to use. Double-Take Flex for HPC brings value to
customers, helping them get their work done in smart, efficient
ways.”
Steve Marfisi, product manager at Double-Take Software, said
“Double-Take Flex for HPC is a one-stop software solution that
automates deployment of hundreds of diskless HPC compute nodes It
offers customers a complete environment from which to virtualise,
share, and centrally manage desktop and server boot volumes.”
About Double-Take® SoftwareHeadquartered in Southborough,
Massachusetts, Double-Take® Software (Nasdaq:DBTK) is a leading
provider of affordable Workload Optimisation products that are
simple to use and enable IT managers to easily move, protect,
recover and more flexibly run critical IT workloads in physical and
virtual environments, regardless of platform or location.This
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