Why Today’s Cloud & Hyperscale Storage Topologies use SAS: A Look Into Meta’s Grand Canyon

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Author(s)/Presenter(s):

Rick Kutcipal

Madhavan Ravi

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Abstract

Hyperscale deployments are using Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) today, to solve capacity and cost challenges within their large-scale storage infrastructure. Specific features within SAS address these problems and offer developers real solutions. This presentation will discuss how SAS addresses the scaling, reliability, cost and flexibility requirements of modern hyperscale architectures and show how this maps to Meta's Grand Canyon architecture.

  • Attendees will learn: why modern hyperscale architectures are using SAS infrastructure,
  • What recent technology advances within the SAS specifications makes that possible,
  • How SAS infrastructure scales extensively and keeps cost down, and 
  • How the underlying technology reliability, cost and flexibility are influencing deployment decisions.