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Build your own SAN!
Sriram Ram NarayananDevops Engineer [email protected]
What is a SAN ?
Storage Area Network
Provides storage services
Block and file based storage
High fidelity storage
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What is a NAS ?
Network Attached Storage
Usually file based storage services
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What does a SAN look like ?
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Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance - 7320
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SAN Vendors
HPSun/OracleIBMNetAppEMC3ParHP
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SAN/NAS vs desktop sharing
Performance
Caching
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The Engineering
Power supply
Read Write Cache engineering
Battery backups
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SAN/NAS vs desktop sharing
Performance
Caching
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Building your own SAN
Pros
Full Control
Low price
Good learning ground to understand SAN technologies
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Building your own SAN
What we did
Workstation
Three hard disk drives
Solaris 10 / OpenIndiana
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Building your own SAN
Avoid Hardware RAID
ZFS gives it to you already
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Building your own SAN
What we achieved
2.72 TB usable space
20 Environments of 600 GB each
Used 750 GB instead of 12 TB(thanks to snapshots and clones)
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Snapshots and Clones
Demo !
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Future directions
A basic box per office in India
DB Virtualization
SuperMicro base
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ZFS Presentation
Lets see the ZFS Presentation
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Hands on !
Power on the VM
user/passwordroot/password123
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Build your own SAN!
Hands on !
Power on the VM
user/passwordroot/password123
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Build your own SAN!
Want to know more ?
Bangalore Open Solaris User Group(bosug)Regular meetupsProject: Belenixwww.belenix.org@belenix
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