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Presentations from Past Meetings

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  (The following table can be sorted by clicking on the column headings. The topics shown below in blue have summaries available; just hover your mouse over the topic entry.)

Topic Author Organisation Date Links
Site report Peter Edwards CSIRO Scientific Computing 2019/08 Site_report
Death of Data: workflows for users providing protection using DMF Rob Bell CSIRO Scientific Computing 2019/08 Presentation
Encapsulation with Logical Collection Manager (LCM) Andrew Smith CSIRO Scientific Computing 2019/08 Presentation
Migrating to a new tape library Peter Edwards CSIRO Scientific Computing 2019/08 Presentation
Pre-history: the origins of HSM in scientific computing in Australia Rob Bell CSIRO Scientific Computing 2019/08 Presentation
DMF6 to 7 Zsolt Ferenczy HPE US 2019/08 Presentation
Video
DMF7 Backup / DR Zsolt Ferenczy HPE US 2019/08 Presentation
DMF7 DB architecture and sizing Zsolt Ferenczy HPE US 2019/08 Presentation
DMF7 GPFS Zsolt Ferenczy HPE US 2019/08 Presentation
Video
DMF7 GUI preview Zsolt Ferenczy HPE US 2019/08 Presentation
DMF7 Library Server and tape Zsolt Ferenczy HPE US 2019/08 Presentation
DMF7 Multi-site Zsolt Ferenczy HPE US 2019/08 Presentation
Zero Watt Storage Zsolt Ferenczy HPE US 2019/08 Presentation
IBM Spectrum Scale - More than just a Parallel Filesystem Andrew Beattie IBM 2019/08 Presentation
ZWS: Implementing a ZWS solution and how did it work Paul Newman Pawsey Centre 2019/08 Presentation
The future Roadmap for Open and Enterprise tape formats Mike Cocks Spectra Logic 2019/08 Presentation
Site report Grant Ward National Computational Infrastructure 2018/06 Site report
Site report Peter Edwards CSIRO Scientific Computing 2018/06 Site report
Scratch Management and Scalable Flushing Robert Bell CSIRO 2018/06 Presentation
DMF Tape Support Enhancements Zsolt Ferenczy HPE 2018/06 Presentation
DMFv6 to DMFv7 Migration Sergey Shlepakov & Zsolt Ferenczy HPE 2018/06 Presentation
DMFv7 Architectural Overview and Design Introduction #1 Zsolt Ferenczy HPE 2018/06 Presentation
DMFv7 Architectural Overview and Design Introduction #2 Zsolt Ferenczy HPE 2018/06 Presentation
DMFv7 Technology Features: Backup and Recovery Sergey Shlepakov HPE 2018/06 Presentation
DMFv7 Technology Features: Lustre Integration Sergey Shlepakov HPE 2018/06 Presentation
DMFv7 Technology Features: Monitoring and management interface Sergey Shlepakov HPE 2018/06 Presentation
Insights in over 30 years in the data storage industry Matt Starr Spectra Logic 2018/06 Presentation
Introduction to the MeDiCI Project David Abramson University of Queensland 2018/06 Presentation
Site report Clinton Chee Altair 2017/02 Introduction
Site report Nigel Williams University of Tasmania 2017/02 Presentation
Site report Stephen Wong National Supercomputing Centre 2017/02 Presentation
Managing tape repairs Peter Edwards CSIRO 2017/02 Presentation
Predicting Future Recalls (revisited) Peter Edwards CSIRO 2017/02 Presentation
Silver Anniversary - CSIRO DataStore Rob Bell CSIRO 2017/02 Presentation
Working with large DMF files Peter Edwards CSIRO 2017/02 Presentation
Future organisation of DMFUG Peter Edwards DMFUG 2017/02 Presentation
Migration from DMFv6 to DMFv7 (with Q&A) Gerald Hofer HPE/SGI Brisbane 2017/02 Presentation
DMFv6 Update 1 - What's new (with discussions) Susheel Gokhale HPE/SGI Melbourne 2017/02 Presentation
DMFv6 Update 2 - Lustre HSM in the Enterprise (with discussions) Rob Mollard HPE/SGI Melbourne 2017/02 Presentation
Digital Preservation David Honey HPE/SGI NZ 2017/02 Presentation
CXFS Scalability - Towards 500 clients & Tier Zero Storage (with Q&A) Kirill Malkin HPE/SGI US 2017/02 Slide16 onward
DMFv7 - Scalable Distributed Architecture (with Q&A) Kirill Malkin HPE/SGI US 2017/02 Presentation
Developments in tape Mike Grayson Spectra Logic 2017/02 Presentation
Our Python API for DMF Dave Leach Weta Digital 2017/02 Presentation
Some changes we've made to our DMF infrastructure to reduce our file count Dave Leach Weta Digital 2017/02 Presentation
Moving a Data Centre Interstate in 28 hours(?) Peter Edwards CSIRO 2016/02 Presentation
Nagios tests for DMF servers Peter Edwards CSIRO 2016/02 Presentation
Setting storage policies, and implementing them Robert Bell CSIRO 2016/02 Presentation
GPFS Active File Management (AFM) with DMF Daniel Richards DDN 2016/02 AFM link
Presentation
Moving 6PB of data - NCI's migration from LTO-5 to TS1150 Grant Ward National Computational Infrastructure 2016/02 Presentation
HPC Archive Storage: Trends, Technologies, and Integrated Solutions April Alstrin Oracle StorageTek Engineering 2016/02 Presentation
Achieving Zero Data Loss DR with DMF Integrated Backups and MediaFlux Zsolt Ferenczy SGI US 2016/02 Presentation
DMF JBFS Zsolt Ferenczy SGI US 2016/02 Presentation
ibound 2.0 Zsolt Ferenczy SGI US 2016/02 Presentation
Lustre HSM (including Robinhood) Mark Seamans SGI US 2016/02 Presentation
The Future of Tape Nick Westcott Spectra Logic 2016/02 Presentation
Site report Robert Bell & Dave Morrison CSIRO Scientific Computing
(DataStore & LTSF resp.)
2015/02 DataStore Presentation
LTSF Presentation
Zero data loss with DMF and Mediaflux Jason Lohrey (by phone) Arcitecta 2015/02 Presentation
Faking a snapshotting filesystem Peter Edwards CSIRO Scientific Computing 2015/02 Presentation
Hybrid filesystems revisited (tutorial) Peter Edwards CSIRO Scientific Computing 2015/02 Presentation
Scripts
Testing experiences of S3, DDN Web Object Scaler and DMF Daniel Richards DDN Storage 2015/02 Presentation
DMF without tapes Al Davis National University of Singapore 2015/02 Presentation
QUT's experiences using DMF Ashley Wright Queensland University of Technology 2015/02 Presentation
DMF control from Windows (including demo) Joe Nemeth & Susheel Gokhale SGI Engineering & SGI Melbourne 2015/02 Presentation
DMF queue view (including demo) Joe Nemeth & Susheel Gokhale SGI Engineering & SGI Melbourne 2015/02 Presentation
Ask SGI Joe Nemeth,
John Sygulla, Kevan Rehm
and other storage team members
SGI Engineering 2015/02 Q & A
DMF cold storage Joe Nemeth SGI Engineering 2015/02 Presentation
DMF integrated backup Joe Nemeth SGI Engineering 2015/02 Presentation
DMF with Lustre Joe Nemeth SGI Engineering 2015/02 Presentation
DMF with PostgreSQL Joe Nemeth SGI Engineering 2015/02 Presentation
Design considerations and options for Lustre HSM with DMF Robert Mollard SGI Melbourne 2015/02 Presentation
DMF recent features Robert Mollard SGI Melbourne 2015/02 Presentation
Mineset for data analytics (demo) Peter McGonigal SGI Melbourne 2015/02 Presentation
Welcome and Introduction Robert Bell & Luc Betbeder-Matibet 2015/02 Presentation
Site report Stephen Dart Monash University 2013/12 Report
DMF Hints for the Help Desk Peter Edwards CSIRO Scientific Computing 2013/12 Presentation
dm_notify - informing users about recalls Peter Edwards CSIRO Scientific Computing 2013/12 Presentation
First impressions of SGI's new FileTek product, TrustedEdge Rob Bell CSIRO Scientific Computing 2013/12 Presentation-1
Presentation-2
Why is storing data at multiple sites so hard? Rob Bell CSIRO Scientific Computing 2013/12 Presentation
iVEC/Pawsey Centre Overview Neil Stringfellow iVEC 2013/12 Presentation
Integration of Samba servers with DMF Stephen Dart Monash University 2013/12 Presentation
HPC solution sizing with IS5600 Don Wake NetApp 2013/12 Presentation
Log files - do you have them when you need them? Lindsay Brebber Queensland Dept Natural Resources & Mines 2013/12 Presentation
Upgrading to ISSP 3.0 - our experience Lindsay Brebber Queensland Dept Natural Resources & Mines 2013/12 Presentation
Ask SGI Greg Banks, John Sygulla, Kevan Rehm & other DMF team members SGI Engineering 2013/12 Q & A
Cloud MSP options coming Greg Banks SGI Engineering 2013/12 Presentation
Infinite Storage Gateway Overview Greg Banks SGI Engineering 2013/12 Presentation
Integrated DMF backup and restore Greg Banks SGI Engineering 2013/12 Presentation
Integrated LTFS support for data import/export Greg Banks SGI Engineering 2013/12 Presentation
Logical Block Protection with Oracle T10k tape drives Greg Banks SGI Engineering 2013/12 Presentation
Update on the DMF database replacement Greg Banks SGI Engineering 2013/12 Presentation
Update on ZeroWatt disk options coming Greg Banks SGI Engineering 2013/12 Presentation
Extending DMF into the Enterprise Rob Mollard SGI Perth 2013/12 Presentation
Overview of future developments of TFinity produce line Mike Cocks/Mike Grayson Spectra Logic 2013/12 Presentation
Dealing with large numbers of files in DMF David Leach Weta Digital 2013/12 Presentation
Ask SGI Arun Ramakrishnan, John Sygulla, Kevan Rehm & other DMF team members SGI Engineering 2012/12 Q & A
Dynamically generated file systems based on metadata Jason Lohrey Arcitecta 2012/12 presentation
Packaging data to reduce file counts both for network transmission and data storage Jason Lohrey Arcitecta 2012/12 presentation
mdss - ANU's interface into DMF David Houlder Australian National University 2012/12 presentation
The ANU Datacloud Storage Environment Ahmed El Zein Australian National University 2012/12 presentation
SAM-FS to DMF Exodus Jason Ozolins Australian National University 2012/12 presentation
Monitoring DMF usage and reporting Robert Bell CSIRO ASC 2012/12 presentation
Local tools used to administer DMF at CSIRO ASC Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2012/12 presentation and directory
dmunput - the under-appreciated DMF repair tool Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2012/12 presentation
DDP - Dynamic Disk Pooling Anthony Bayer & Steve Pettit NetApp 2012/12 presentation-1
presentation-2
Digital Preservation Adam Butler & Russell Noble Oracle 2012/12 presentation
Lessons learnt from a decade of use of dmmove Lindsay Brebber Queensland Dept Natural Resources & Mines 2012/12 presentation
Copan MAID Fast Mount Cache feature Arun Ramakrishnan SGI Engineering 2012/12 presentation
Dmfman enhancements Arun Ramakrishnan SGI Engineering 2012/12 presentation
DMF database scalability project Arun Ramakrishnan SGI Engineering 2012/12 presentation
DMF and Lustre HSM research project Arun Ramakrishnan SGI Engineering 2012/12 presentation and audio (AIF) (MP3)
DMF 5.5/5.6 Feature Update Arun Ramakrishnan SGI Engineering 2012/12 DMF 5.5/5.6 details provided afterwards
Logical Block Protection Arun Ramakrishnan SGI Engineering 2012/12 presentation
OpenVault features and roadmap Arun Ramakrishnan SGI Engineering 2012/12 presentation
Ask SGI John Sygulla, Kevan Rehm & other DMF team members SGI Engineering 2011/11 Q & A
Optimising DMF Storage Workflows with LiveArc Peter Cross Arcitecta 2011/11 presentation , technote-1 and technote-2
CSIRO ASC Hybrid SSD-HDD Filesystems Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2011/11 presentation
Generational Change Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2011/11 presentation
Predicting Future Recalls Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2011/11 presentation
Ways to lose data Robert Bell CSIRO ASC 2011/11 presentation
An introduction to storage design (interactive workshop) Rob Mollard DataDirect Networks (DDN) 2011/11 presentation
Large Research Data Store (LaRDS) architecture overview Stephen Dart Monash University 2011/11 presentation
An Update on SGI ArcFinity Bill Mannel SGI Marketing 2011/11 presentation
Ask SGI John Sygulla, Kevan Rehm & other DMF team members SGI Engineering 2011/02 summary and details of questions
Managing your Digital Assets - The Crown Jewels Jason Lohrey Arcitecta 2011/02 presentation
Dealing with Robot Failures Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2011/02 presentation and audio
Regenerating Corrupted Tapes Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2011/02 presentation
Strategies for workflows on a migrating filesystem Robert Bell CSIRO ASC 2011/02 presentation and audio
HSM analysis tools for pre-emptive management Rob Mollard iVec 2011/02 presentation, notes and audio
Pawsey Centre and SAM-FS Rob Mollard iVec 2011/02 presentation
Experiences, joys and trials of a new DMF site Greg Orange RPS MetOcean 2011/02 presentation, overview, detail and audio
Considerations when implementing HA in DMF Gerald Hofer
(presented by Susheel Gokhale)
SGI Brisbane 2011/02 presentation and audio
Best practices for managing and tuning DMF Susheel Gokhale SGI Melbourne 2011/02 presentation and audio
Demonstration of DMF Manager (dmfman) Ted Wood SGI Marketing 2011/02 presentation which would have been used
if demo failed
and audio
DMF Roadmap Ted Wood SGI Marketing 2011/02  
EVO videos Experimental recordings
access Australian or US EVO site 2011/02 EVO-2011-02-22 and EVO-2011-02-23
CSIRO ASC SSD Plans Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2010/05 short talk
DMF's Tape Error Avoidance Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2010/05 presentation
Why HSM? Robert Bell CSIRO ASC 2010/05 presentation
James Cook University's experience with DMF Wayne Mallett James Cook University 2010/05 presentation
DMF/COPAN Integration Bill Kendall SGI Engineering 2010/05 presentation
Using COPAN VTL and MAID with DMF David Honey SGI NZ 2010/05 presentation
DMF Roadmap Bill Kendall SGI Engineering 2010/05 presentation
Parallel DMF - What it gives you Bill Kendall SGI Engineering 2010/05 presentation
A dmget Wrapper Script Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2009/10 presentation and directory
CSIRO ASC Site Overview Robert Bell CSIRO ASC 2009/10 presentation
Load Sharing Recalls Between Multiple Volume Groups Peter Edwards CSIRO ASC 2009/10 presentation and directory
Using DMF as target for backups Robert Bell CSIRO ASC 2009/10 presentation
DMF as Green Storage David Honey SGI NZ 2009/10 presentation

Last updated 20 July 2020