Cloud Storage:

Adoption, Practice and Deployment

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John Kreisa Vice President

Marketing

Gluster, Inc.

Tom TrainerDirector

Product Marketing

Gluster, Inc.

Deni ConnorFounding Analyst

Storage Strategies NOW

Today’s Speakers

James BagleySenior Analyst

&

Business Development Consultant

Storage Strategies NOW

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Poll Question

Are you using cloud storage today?– Yes, in a test environment

– Yes, it’s deployed in a production environment

– No, however we are considering it

– Just researching

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SSN Report Co-sponsored by – The Storage Networking Industry Association

– Gluster

– Storage Strategies NOW

133 Respondents

Q1 2011

Cloud Storage: Adoption, Practice and Deployment

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What is Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on

demand network access to a shared pool of configurable

computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage

applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and

released with minimal management effort or service provider

interaction.

www.nist.org

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Cloud Storage Attributes

Resource pooling and multi-tenancy

Scalable and elastic

Accessible via standard Internet APIs and communications protocols

Service-based

Pricing is normally based on usage

Shared and collaborative

On-demand self-service

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How is Cloud Storage Being Deployed?

Public cloud

Private cloud

Hybrid cloud

Community cloud

Cooperative Cloud

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Cloud Storage Requirements

Multi-tenancy

Security and secure transmission channel

Data verification and audit trails

Performance and Quality of Service

Data protection and Availability

Retention, compliance, eDiscovery

Manageability

Data and Metadata Portability

Metering and Billing

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Cloud Storage Deployment

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C-Level vs. IT adoption Plans

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Applications to be Deployed in the Cloud

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Survey Demographic

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Survey Demographic

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Survey Demographic

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Reasons for Storing Data in the Cloud

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“Apps” in The Cloud

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Cloud Takeaways

Adoption of cloud storage

– Flowing down from C-level to IT operations

– 75% of CIO/CTO’s expect to deploy

– 54% of IT Operations expect to deploy

Most likely data to store in the cloud

1. E-mail

2. Backup data

BC/DR driving cloud storage

– Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Modifications to existing applications

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GlusterFS

Storage for Any Cloud Any Where

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What is the Gluster File System?

A scale-out file system for

– Network Attached Storage (NAS)

– Object storage – In Beta Now: GlusterFS 3.3

– Highly available storage

– Predictable, linearly scalable performance

GlusterFS provides

– Unified file and object storage

– Flexibility to deploy in ANY environment

– Scalability to Petabytes & beyond

– Superior storage economics

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Gluster 3.3 Unified Access to Files & Objects

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

– NFS / CIFS / GlusterFS

– POSIX compliant

– Access files within objects

Window Access

– Improves Widows performance

– Uses HTTP, not slower CIFS

Object Storage

– API

– Internet Protocol (IP)

– ResTFul

– Get/Put

– Buckets

– Objects seen as files

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Key Differentiators

Filesystem runs in user space

Software only

Unified file and object storage

Open source

Modular, stackable storage OS architecture

Data stored in native formats

No metadata – Elastic hashing

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Open Source

200,000+ downloads– ~12,000 /month

500+ registered deployments– 45 countries

2,500+ registered users– Mailing lists, Forums, etc.

Active community– Diverse testing environments

– Bugs identification and fixes

– Code contributions

Member of broader ecosystem– OpenStack, Linux Foundation, Open

Virtualization Alliance

Global Adoption

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A Standard Gluster Deployment

Standard clients

running standard apps

Over any standard IP

network

Access application

data, as files & folders,

in a global namespace,

using a variety of

standard protocols

Stored in a

commoditized,

virtualized, scale-out,

centrally managed pool

DAS, SAN, NAS, Object

Gluster Global Namespace (NFS, CIFS, Gluster Native)

Application data

Clients/Apps Clients/Apps Clients/Apps

IP Network

VMs VMDK VMDK

virtual storage pool

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Unifying Public and Private Cloud Storage

Client/AppsClient/Apps

Private Cloud Public Cloud

Replication

Gluster Global Namespace

Client/AppsClient/Apps

Client/AppsClient/Apps

Client/AppsClient/Apps

Client/Apps

IP Network

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4 Supported Ways to Consume GlusterFS

Virtual Machines– GlusterFS deployable on the leading virtual machines

Amazon Web Services (AWS)– GlusterFS deployed within Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

RightScale Cloud Management – GlusterFS is available within a RightScale ServerTemplate

– Deployable via the RightScale Cloud Management Dashboard

Storage software appliance– Deployable on bare metal and supports any hardware on the Red Hat Hardware

Compatibility List (HCL) of certified servers and storage

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Pandora Internet Radio

Problem• Explosive user & title growth

• As many as 12 file formats for each song

• ‘Hot’ content and long tail

Solution• Three data centers, each with a six-node

GlusterFS cluster

• Replication for high availability

• 250+ TB total capacity

Benefits• Easily scale capacity

• Centralized management; one administrator

to manage day-to-day operations

• No changes to application

• Higher reliability

• 1.2 PB of audio served

per week

• 13 million files

• Over 50 GB/sec peak

traffic

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Brightcove

Problem• Cloud-based online video platform

• Explosive customer & title growth

• Massive video in multiple locations

• Costs rising, esp. with HD formats

Solution• Complete scale-out based on commodity

DAS/JBOD

• Replication for high availability

• 1PB total capacity

Benefits• Easily scale capacity

• Centralized management; one administrator

to manage day-to-day operations

• Higher reliability

• Path to multi-site

• Over 1 PB currently in

Gluster

• Separate 4 PB project

in the works

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Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions

Problem• Host a dedicated enterprise cloud solution

• Large scale VMware environment

• Need high availability

Solution• Gluster for VM storage, NFS to clients

• SAS drives on back-end

• Replication for high availability

Benefits• Storage provisioning from 6 wks to 15 min.

• Vendor agnostic storage

• Low cost of service delivery

• Elastic growth

• Large scale VM

storage

• Low cost service

delivery for enterprise

customer

• Drastic reduction in

provisioning time

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Many Enterprises Rely on Gluster Now

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Summary

Cloud Storage: Adoption, Practice and Deployment

GlusterFS – A scale-out NAS and Object file system

Flexible, scalable storage for any cloud environment

Innovative architecture provides a better way to do

storage

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