SUSE Enterprise Storage

Agenda

• Business Challenges

• SUSE Enterprise Storage

• Product Overview

• Technical Details

• Use Cases

• Customer Quotes

• Services

• Next Steps and Resources

A Data ExplosionDemand For Data Storage Will Outstrip Production

Mobile Data

Emails

Transactional

Data

Videos

Medical Data IoT Data

175ZBby 2025

Difficult to Scale

and Manage

Data Growth

Expensive Won’t Extend to

the Software-defined

Data Center

$

What You Have Today Can’t Keep Up

Reduce IT operational expenses using off-

the-shelf servers and disk drives no matter

where they are, in your data center or the cloud

Seamlessly adapt to changing business and

data demands when needed and without

disruption

SUSE Enterprise Storage

Monitor

Nodes

Management

Node

Storage

Nodes

Unified

Open Source

Software on

x86

Resilient &

Self-healing

High

Performance

Massively

Scalable

Public

Cloud Like

Pricing

Object

Storage

Block

Storage

File

System

Unified

Cluster

Hardware

Flexibility

Reduced

IT Costs

An intelligent software-defined storage management

solution, powered by Ceph technology that enables IT to

transform their enterprise storage infrastructure to:

Deliver a highly scalable and resilient

enterprise-grade storage environment with a

single unified software-defined storage cluster

Deliver a Highly Scalable and Resilient

Enterprise-grade Storage Environment

A single unified software-defined storage

cluster provides applications with object,

block and file system storage ensuring:

• Maximize availability with self-healing capabilities

• Unlimited scalability - 100s of petabyte and beyond

• No single points of failure

Intelligent software-defined storage solution

that uses commodity hardware no matter

where they are, in your data center or in the

cloud to help you:

• Significantly increase CAPEX savings

• Reduce OPEX with a single unified storage

management tool

• Optimize data placement without growing IT staff

• Improve IT efficiency

Reduce IT Operational Expenses

A flexible storage solution that automatically

optimizes, upgrades or adds storage, when

needed without disruption so you can:

• Automatically respond to changing demands

• Easily provision and seamlessly delivery

• Maximize flexibility with no vendor lock-in

• Accelerate innovation

Seamlessly Adapt to Changing Business

and Data Demands

Key Capabilities

• Support for block, file and object

storage

• Ceph dashboard*

• Elasticsearch plugin*

• Policy-based tiering**

• Quality of service (block)*

• Erasure coding

• Data compression

• Storage enclosure integration*

• Event notification including

SNMP alerts*

• Data encryption (at rest & inflight*)

• CephFS snapshot** New in SUSE Enterprise Storage 6

** Tech Preview in SUSE Enterprise Storage 6

Ease of Management with Ceph Dashboard Advanced Graphical Interface

SUSE Enterprise Storage Reference Architecture

Supported Protocols, Existing and Native

SUSE hasn’t left the existing world behind:

• NFS, SMB/CIFS, and CephFS can all export the same data,

ensuring all your clients can access a common storage

infrastructure

• ISCSI and RBD provide block access for applications both

those with native RBD clients and those that don’t

• S3, Swift and NFS for S3 provide mechanisms to load and

access object data

Native protocols with intelligent clients that

scale performance as your cluster grows:

• RBD (Block)

• CephFS (With multiple active MDS Servers)

• RADOS (Object)

Supported Hardware Platforms

Choose the hardware platform that best meets YOUR needs:

SUSE Enterprise Storage server roles supported for:

• x86_64 (Intel and AMD)

• 64-bit ARM platforms

Balance data protection, space consumption and performance

• Replication can be set from one to infinity, though practical limits are less than 10

• Erasure coding is heavily customizable to balance consumption with recoverability

Stretch your cluster across racks, rows, data centers, campus or metro area!

• Designing for PB scale means we have to think about constant data availability, recovering

100PB from tape just isn’t reasonable

• Protect it how you need it

Supported DeploymentMultiple Methods to Deploy Clusters

Reference

ArchitectureApplianceCustom Build

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server “Yes” Certified Hardware

DIY with

Off-the-shelf

Servers

Pre-validated

Flexible

Easy deployment

Pre-configured

Fast deployment

Thomas Krenn,

Ambedded &

Other IHVs

Backup to Disk Solution

Appliances

HPC Storage

Certified Reference Architectures

Analytics Custom Apps

SUSE Enterprise Storage

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Use Case Focused SolutionsPartnership Ecosystem

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File Sync and

Share

Public Cloud

Cloud & App Delivery

SUSE CaaS PlatformKubernetes

Backup Solutions and Benefits

Data Protector

Lower

CostScalability

Improved

SLAs

Meet

Regulatory

Requirements

Block, File

or S3

SUSE Enterprise Storage

Veeam and SUSE

VM VM VM

Backup Server Proxy

SES

(Archive

Repository)

SES

(Performance Tier

Repository)

SES

(Cloud Tier

Repository)

Single Architecture for Multiple Uses

Built for Enterprise Data Protection including SAP

Workloads

HPC Storage SolutionMost Common Use Case as Tier 2 Storage

Low Latency

Storage (Lustre,

XFS, NFS etc)

HPC Compute

Cluster

SUSE Enterprise

Storage

• Use Cases:

• Primary Storage (Certain Use Cases)

• Nearline or Archival Storage

• Home Directories

• Certified with HPE Data Management Framework (DMF) and iRODS

Data Warehouse OptimizationEnhanced via a Data Lake

Data Lake

Kafka

Logstash

Spark (A) Spark (B)

Elastic

IoT Data

Kibana

Other Ent Apps

Spark (C)

Data

Consolidation Agility

Cost

Reduction

Better

Predictive Capability

BI Apps

Containers

SUSE Enterprise

Storage *

SUSE CaaS PlatformKubernetes

Container Storage

Interface

*: Currently not supported on the same node as Kubernetes

Container Storage

Interface

SUSE Enterprise Storage

in the Public Cloud

Available on Azure today

• Deploy SUSE Enterprise Storage for

Cloud workloads

• Fully Supported on Azure* for all

access protocols

• Example use cases:

o Primary storage for cloud workloads

o Backup of the cloud workloads

o Cloud bursting

o All on-prem equivalent use cases

• Consulting strongly recommended for

deployment; reference architectures

available for deployment

On-Premise

MS Azure

Leverage

Power of

Cloud

Massive

Scalability

Hybrid

Cloud

*: SES not available on Azure Marketplace currently, coming soon

Benefits

Cloud

Agility

What are Our Customers Saying?

“Based on our experience to date, SUSE Enterprise Storage is better than

any solution we have previously tried. It’s exceptionally fast and easy to

add capacity, and there are no restrictions or vendor lock-in.”

“With SUSE Enterprise Storage, we will be able to easily and no-

disruptively add new capacity to existing nodes, or deploy entire new ones.

We can also duplicate stored data to our second data center for disaster

recovery, safeguarding vital research data.”

“Thanks to the savings we have achieved using SUSE Enterprise

Storage, we can now offer the end-consumer a price 25 percent lower

than our nearest competitor.”

What are Our Customers Saying?

“SUSE Enterprise Storage enabled us to achieve the performance

and availability we needed without requiring us to make large

ongoing investments in specialized storage hardware.”

“With SUSE Enterprise Storage, we have built a very high-performing

and scalable storage landscape at a fraction of the cost than we

would have been able to with traditional storage systems.”

“We wanted an alternative approach for clients who liked the SDS

concept but couldn’t justify the cost…By selecting SUSE Enterprise

Storage powered by Ceph technology we gained access to all the

benefits of Ceph without any downsides.”

SUSE Global ServicesTrusted Partner for Rapid IT Transformation

Gain direct access to technical and

product experts who can help you

leverage best practices to:

• Reach desired business outcomes

• Solve complex challenges with the right business

solutions

• Minimize downtime, maintain security and avoid

business disruption

• Address any skills gaps

• Stay ahead of your competition

Premium

Support

Services

Select

ServicesConsulting

Services

Premium

Engineers

Service

Delivery

Managers

Consultants

SUSE Select Services Fast track your software-defined infrastructure

Fixed-cost, 12-month, blended service

offerings, providing cost-effective and

flexible implementation, consulting,

premium support and knowledge

transfer to jumpstart engagement of

SUSE Enterprise Storage.

• Jumpstart implementations with

specialized SUSE IT Consultants

• Keep systems and solutions running

smoothly with SUSE Premium Support Engineers

• Meet changing business demands with SUSE

Customer Success Managers

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Physical Infrastructure: Multi-platform Servers, Switches, Storage

StorageSUSE Enterprise

Storage

NetworkingSDN and NFV

ComputeVirtual Machine

& Container

Multimodal Operating SystemSUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Software-Defined Infrastructure

Platform as a ServiceSUSE Cloud Application Platform

SUSE Manager

Infrastructure

& Lifecycle

Management

Application Delivery

SUSE Global

Services

Consulting

Services

Select Services

Premium Support

Services

Services

Business-critical

Applications

Machine

Learning

Business

Analytics

High Performance

Computing

Traditional IT

& ApplicationsInternet of

Things

Open, Secure, Proven

Public Cloud

SUSE Cloud

Service Provider

Program

SUSE: Underpinning Digital Transformation

Container ManagementSUSE CaaS Platform

Reduce IT operational expenses using off-

the-shelf servers and disk drives no matter

where they are, in your data center or the cloud

Seamlessly adapt to changing business and

data demands when needed and without

disruption

SUSE Enterprise Storage

Monitor

Nodes

Management

Node

Storage

Nodes

Unified

Open Source

Software on

x86

Resilient &

Self-healing

High

Performance

Massively

Scalable

Public

Cloud Like

Pricing

Object

Storage

Block

Storage

File

System

Unified

Cluster

Hardware

Flexibility

Reduced

IT Costs

An intelligent software-defined storage management

solution, powered by Ceph technology that enables IT to

transform their enterprise storage infrastructure to:

Deliver a highly scalable and resilient

enterprise-grade storage environment with a

single unified software-defined storage cluster

Let SUSE be Your Bridge to the Future

Today’s Data Center

• Traditional data center with storage silos

• Disparate network, compute and storage

• Data center disruptions because of changing technologies

Tomorrow’s Data Center

• Software-defined infrastructure

• Software-defined storage is a key component

• Simplified data center management

• Increased speed of delivery

• Increased reliability and durability

• No vendor lock-in

Learn More at suse.com/storage

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Backup

SUSE Enterprise Storage Roadmap

Unified File, Object & Block

•CephFS

• Multisite object replication

• Acquired openATTIC

Performance and Ease of Use

• BlueStore• Compression• Block/File

Erasure code• NFS/S3 interface• NFS/CephFS interface• openATTIC integrated

with DeepSea• Enhanced monitoring

and management

Interoperability and Security

• Integration with OpenStack

• CIFS/Samba interface• Multi-distribution

Ceph clients• Event notification• AppArmor integration• Security audit testing

Enhanced Management and Hybrid Cloud

• Ceph Dashboard

• Enhanced monitoring

• Sync to external cloud

• Phone home

• RBD QoS

• CephFS snapshot

• Async file replication

Containerization and Autonomous Self Healing

• Containerization

• Enhanced intelligent data placement

• Guided troubleshooting

• Guided HW upgrade

• Guided OSD repair

• Data deduplication*

• RDMA interconnect*

• Windows drivers

SES 4: Nov 2016 SES 5: Oct 2017 SES 5.5: Oct 2018 SES 6: June 2019 SES 7: Q2 2020*

* These dates or features are indicative only, not guaranteed

AnalyticsThe Ideal Data Lakes Platform

SUSE Sales and Business Partner Use Only

The central repository for data

supporting multiple workloads

Supported through various

protocols (CephFS, S3, S3A)

Various use cases:

• Data pipeline

• AI & HPC

• Archival for Spark and NoSQL NoSQL

MapReduce

Spark

ElasticSearch

Kafka

Data Lake

Splunk*

*Coming Soon

Data Management

Geo Distributed NAS / Storage SES

File Virtualization Layer

Users &

Apps

Use Cases:• Workflow Automation

• Storage Tiering

• Landing Zones for Data

• Transformation

• Data Discovery

Benefits• Reduce Opex by Automating Workflows

• No More Storage Silos

• Single Pane of Glass Management for Storage

S3 Connectivity Available; Native RBD

Connectivity in Beta

Data Grid

SUSE Enterprise Storage for OpenStack

Ceph is the Most Deployed

Block Storage Backend for

OpenStack

• Ceph RBD is used in almost Half

the Deployments

• 48% Usage in Large Clouds with

over 1000 Cores

OpenStack User Survey April 2017* N=363

“Our new cloud service, based on

OpenStack and SUSE Enterprise

Storage gives our colocated

customers the best of both world,

combining security with flexibility”²

"SAP has been working with SUSE to solve IT infrastructure

challenges for more than 18 years. We are excited that SAP Cloud

Platform in SAP data centers now leverages SUSE's reliable and high-

performing open source solutions for managing and deploying virtual

machines, as well as storing and managing critical enterprise data."¹

File Sync and Services Solution

• Built on SUSE Enterprise Storage

• Integrates with various portals

• Use cases (dependent on portal used):

• Internal Dropbox-like file sharing solution

• Remote office backup

• Enables self service storage access

FILR

Secure File

SharingOpen Source File

Sync and Share

Secure File

SharingEnterprise

File Services

SUSE Compliant Archive SolutionPartnership with iTernity

• iTernity iCAS is a middleware that

protects application data on SUSE

Enterprise Storage

• iCAS is certified to meet the legal

requirements of healthcare and

financial industries*

• Use Cases:

• Email and file archiving

• Banking transaction data

• Voice recordings

• Patient data

• X-Rays, scans and MRIs

• Records retention

• PII data

iTernity iCAS

SUSE Enterprise

Storage

* www.iternity.com/software-partner.html

100+ Certified

Business Applications e.g.

Archival Solution with PSMPolicy-based File Archiving and Tiering

CIFS/NFS Prim

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How It Works

PoINT

Storage

Manager

1

Monitoring primary storage and classifying files to be

1

2

Copying classified files to secondarystorage / archive device

2

3

Replacing original file by stub file and retain transparent access

3

Accessing archived / stubbed files by applications through primary storage

4

4

Providing archived file to application / “pass through read”

5

5

S3

Primary Storage Supported: EMC VNX, NetApp FAS, Windows Filers, Other NAS Systems

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Health Check / Patch

UpdatesAnnual / Quarterly Quarterly / Quarterly Monthly / Quarterly

On-site Support Days 0 Up to 2 days per year Up to 4 days per year

Consulting 5 days 10 days 20 days

Assigned Customer

Success ManagerNo Yes Yes

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