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Baidu –Tape near-line storage based on IBM Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Archive and Tape
Library
Client info: one of the largest internet company of China

Challenge Benefits
•Baidu is one of the largest internet companies in China, and the largest search •Baidu can migrate data from machine local disk to tape, and saves IT costs with this
company. It has many businesses, such as search, vehicle IoT and so on. solution.
•These businesses are creating new data every year, and it costs Baidu lots of •Lab Services provided an integrated and optimized solution to address the client’s special
money to save this data using x86 distributed storage with local disk, and most of requirement quickly.
the data was accessed and used only to a limited degree.

Solution
•Lab Services worked with the sales team, China Advanced Technical Skills team,
Tech Sales, China GPFS Developer Team, Japan Spectrum Archive EE Developer
Team, and the China Client Center to create a solution based on IBM products to Team
save 200PB data, including Spectrum Scale/Archive and IBM Tape Library. IBM contacts w/email: delbert.ma@cn.ibm.com, yqrao@cn.ibm.com
•Lab Services had developed tools to automatically deploy 95 LTFSEE+GPFS
environments and five tape libraries within three days.
•Lab Services managed the project.
•Lab Services improved and perfected the IBM solution with additional tools, like
monitoring tools, automatic log collecting and so on.

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Lab Services revenue: $40K. IBM Revenue: $5.2M.

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Proposed Solution Architecture
•Technical components in this solution includes: GPFS, LTFSEE/Spectrum
Archive EE, Tape Library

A-FS File System Cluster-2

Architecture Diagram

A-FS Node-1 A-FS Node-2 A-FS Node-95

GPFS LTFS EE GPFS LTFS EE GPFS LTFS EE

Metadata Metadata Metadata Metadata Metadata Metadata

Mount Mount Mount

Point Point Point

GPFS GPFS GPFS

Data Data Data

GPFS Single GPFS Single GPFS Single

Node Cluster-1 Node Cluster-2 Node Cluster-95

Logical Library Logical Library Logical Library

LTFSEE-1 LTFSEE-2 LTFSEE-n LTFSEE-95

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