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Banksia is an in-place upgrade to our previous tape-based system, which consisted of two libraries holding 70 PB of data in a mirrored configuration for greater data protection. The system Spectralogic T-Finity tape libraries, each with a current storage capacity of 74 PB - mirrored for greater data protection. Data was migrated from the old Pawsey HSM to the new system, via an in-place data migration, whereby the old format tapes are read back by Versity software. This system was supplied by Xenon Australia and is managed by the ScoutAM platform from Versity operating on Intel servers. It has a 5 PB front-end ScoutFS hybrid storage cache on DDN hardware to take advantage of the centre’s new 100 Gb network infrastructure. Both tape libraries have also been upgraded and now received an upgraded robotics control module, are connected by new IBM fibrechannel switches and contain 32 IBM® TS1150 high performance enterprise tape library drives and 2 IBM® TS1160 next generation drives accessing over 10,000 media slots.

Similar to the warm tier, we have shifted towards adopting more open standards by migrating to an open tape format and , using an open-standard S3 interface for access, as well as a REST API and a new event broker (Kafka) to suit event-driven workflows (as ASVO uses for example).

Banksia remains the home of our existing data projects, including the multi-PB SKA radio astronomy data, and is available via a managed storage application.

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