OpenZFS created quickly with checkpoints, backups and big performance

Brendan Bouffler
Date : March 10, 2022
Categories : AWS ParallelCluster ,Amazon NICE DCV ,Life Sciences
Tags : cpus ,covid 19 ,dcv ,ec2 ,fsx for open zfs ,gpus ,hpc ,high performance computing ,lustre ,open zfs ,parallel cluster ,schedulers ,storage ,zfs ,backup ,checkpoint ,clusters ,virtualization ,vizualization ,techshorts

We launched Amazon FSx for OpenZFS at re:invent in December, and well let’s just say it’s been more than a bit popular :-)

ZFS and it’s friends have been a long time favorite of the HPC community, so we asked Delwin Olivan, the Snr Product Manager for the service to come and show us how easy it is to get big scale, and big performance with very little effort.

Auto-backups and one-click snapshots are exactly as they’re described on the lid. Which is awesome.

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