software defined storage appliance power by arm based microserver

Aaron Joue / Swapnil Jain

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ARM Based Microserver

The Best Fit

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Data Centers need to increase cloud storage capacity dramatically !!!

The Storage Journey

What Does This Mean? There is a huge and ever increasing

demand for storage in cloud, data centers and enterprises

Data needs are growing at a rate unsustainable with today’s infrastructure

Scale out storage is the only way to keep surviving

Traditional Storage NAS/SAN

Proprietary Hardware (Vendor Locking)

Scale-Up Architecture Hardware based Intelligence More rack space High power consumption Huge Initial & Operational

Cost

Software Defined Storage

Low Cost Scale-out

architecture Software-based

intelligence More flexible, well

integrated technology

Why SDS ? Scale-out architecture provides durability and adapts to

increasing demands

Self-managing and selfhealing features reduce operational overhead

Standards-based interfaces and full APIs ease integration with applications and systems

Highly tunable, extensible, and configurable, with policy-based control and no single point of failure

Virtually unlimited storage

Ceph Software Define Storage Cluster

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SDS in Traditional Server

One Server board for many Object Storage Device

What is The Problem? CPU Utility is low High power consumption High Power cost used on cooling Failure of server caused lost of all storages Resource are shared and limited

Powering SDS with ARM based Microserver Cluster

Low power ARM based microserver cluster

One server with only one storage device

Server cluster linked by 2.5Gbps LAN

No single point of failure Dedicated CPU, memory and I/O

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Mars 200 ARM based Microserver

8x 1.6GHz Dual Core microserver - 2G Bytes DRAM - 8G Bytes Flash - Dual 2.5 Gbps LAN - < 5 Watts

Storage - 8x SATA3 HDD - 8x SATA3 SSD

300 Watts Redundant power supply

< 60Watts

OOB BMC port

Dual uplink switches - 2x 10 Gbps - SFP+ or 10G Base-T

ARM based Microserver Born for SDS

Supports CEPH & GlusterFS Scale-Out storage technologies Dedicate resource on CPU, DRAM, Network and Storage

bandwidth for every single storage device to provide stable performance

Aggregates network bandwidth to eliminate the bottleneck in a very low cost way

One microserver connects to only one storage device reduces the lost of single server node

Reduce cooling cost of your server room as it generates much less heat

Benefit low power and low hardware cost of the hardware 

What We Offer? VM Storage with OpenStack

Cinder, Glance & Nova Object storage for tenant apps Provides reliable and fully

distributed block storage Bucket based REST gateway

compatible with Swift & AWS S3 object storage APIs

Offers mature NFS, SMB, HDFS & iSCSI interfaces for enterprise use

Other Potential Applications Web Service Content Delivery NoSQL Database Big Data

Booth : 448