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Storage Architectures and the Cloud& field notes from 18 months at SolidFire
Andy Roberts – [email protected] - Field Solutions Architect
Career Cloudwash
First day in storage was a Register worthy event March 2002 50K Mailboxes lost with a storage system on fire Supporting a SPaaS platform based on OpenSource
Customers bring VMWare into production 2004 – 2007 as VMWare becomes de facto Everything very manual or with minimal scripting
First Clouds – 2007 - 2010 Early attempts at automation Multi-tenancy becomes a daily focus
Cloud.Com appears on my radar - 2011 Cloud product evaluation The birth of a Cloud
March 2013 – time for a change First day at SolidFire – 8th April Jully 2013 – first CloudStack meetup Invested time into learning CloudStack & OpenStack
Public Cloud Has Raised the Bar
…driving the transformation of enterprise IT globally
The Silo’ed Infrastructure Model Is Unsustainable
Source: http://www.wired.com/2012/05/stuck-in-silo/
Purchasing Marketing Sales Development
First Cloud NIH Cloud 3rd go… This will be the
one…
Legacy Data Center
Single Tenant
Isolated work loads
Dedicated Infrastructure
Scale-up
Pre-provisioned capacity
Hardware defined
Project Based
Manual Administration
Next Generation Data Center
Multi-tenant
Mixed workloads
Shared infrastructure
Scale-out
Capacity on demand
Software defined
Self service
Automation
Entering a whole new world…
Regardless of the name, desired outcomes are the same
Next Generation Data Center
Software Defined Data Center Infrastructure 2.0 Cloud Computing
Private Cloud IT-as-a-Service
Agile Scalable Automated Predictable
A Fundamental Shift In App Design & Delivery
Apps span VMs
Data stored in scalable DBs, cached in memory tiers
Interaction via API, web or mobile
Apps run on a computer
Data stored in files
Interaction via UI
Legacy Data Center Next Generation Data Center
CloudStack ?
OpenStack ?
Next Gen VMWare ?
All of the above?
Roll my own?
Commodity Stack?
Engineered Stack?
Leave the legacy behind?
Bring it with me?
Public or private?
The “Community” is what makes it work
Users
Service Providers
Vendors
Integrators
Expanding the Reach of The Next Generation Data Center
Agile
Scalable
Automated
Predictable
What you build on matters
Flash for the Next Generation Data Center
Performance
Cap
acity
Scale-Out
Scale-Out vs. Scale-Up
Performance
Cap
acity
Scale-Up
Limited performance scalability Creates islands of storage with
poor utilization Forklift upgrade model
Massive single system scale Capacity and performance
managed as independent pools Performance increases as you
grow capacity New performance and capacity
resources available in minutes
Capacity
Perform
ance
SF2405 Initial Cluster
SF9010 nodes added
SF2405 nodes added
Addition of future SF nodes
Mixed Node Clusters
Dynamically change capacity and performance characteristics of your cluster over time
Two views on benefits of scale
Service Provider & Internal Service Provider Simplifies capacity management Re-use across product lines as they come and go Match spending to cash flow
Enterprise Buy only what you need, rather than 3 years up-front Continual Refresh of platform Simplifies capacity management
Performance Virtualization: Independent global pools of capacity and performance
Allocate: Storage performance independent of capacity
Manage: Performance real-time without impacting other volumes
Guarantee: Performance to every volume with fine-grain QoS settings
Deliver Guaranteed Storage Performance and Firm Performance SLAs
Guaranteed Performance - QoS
Two views on benefits of QoS
Service Provider & Internal Service Provider Much better for multi-tenancy than just vLANs alone Sell QoS as an advantage Remove performance / noisy-neighbour headaches
Enterprise The business will trust your XaaS platform Match performance to LOB applications Remove performance management headaches
Automated Management
Integrated REST-based API Enables complete automation of any
SolidFire function Supports development of user-facing
storage controls Seamless integration into current
billing/charge-back systems and management stacks
API Integration Support from SolidFire
Drastically Simplified Storage Management
SolidFire Architecture
Unified pool of capacity and performance
Automatic load distribution
Mixed-Node Cluster Support
Self-healing HA
Complete REST-based API automation
Traditional Storage Management
Separate pools of SATA, SAS, and Flash
RAID levels, aggregates, volume groups
Forklift controller and system upgrades
Fire drills on hardware failure
Manual UI Management
Views on benefits of Automation
Service Provider & Internal Service Provider Just what the market expects
Enterprise Reduce costs and/or drive out re-work Increase agility and time to market
Enabler for all other benefits QoS + Automation + Scale = Huge Compound Benefit
Personal View Storage marketplace is exciting as its ever been (!) Great range of options Blend multiple technologies together Persistent or ephemeral
Cloud Automation Market Amazing what you can achieve Things really have come a long
Challenges as a vendor Collaborate and differentiate at the same time Give people the widest choice Move up to the “Higher Ground”
CloudStack Storage EvolutionAndy Roberts - SolidFire
We’ve been busy...● Google Summer of Code
o http://www.solidfire.com/blog/mentoring-with-google-summer-of-code-and-lessons-in-cloudstack/
o Automated Regression Testingo Reworking host and storage taggingo New GUI functionality for plugins o Mentoring new talent as part of Apache Foundation
CloudStack Storage Evolution4.2 - dynamic provisioning for data drives4.3 - adding KVM support 4.4 - root disk dynamic provisioning & resize 4.5 - GUI for storage plug-in & snapshot baby steps4.6 - planned : snapshot & clone integration
immutable UUIDs are a challenge breaking the 256 LUN limit a focus
collaborative work with other vendors continues
Whats next?Come and see Mike present if you are at CollabCatch-up on slides if not Ideas appreciated on storage improvementSolidFire Continue to Invest in CloudStack
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