learn how stanford university leveraged openstorage to meet their storage needs
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Discussion with Joe Little (Stanford University Systems/Network Manager) on: - different deployments of NexentaStor on Stanford's campus - the benefits of choosing NexentaStor for their storage needs - how using OpenStorage can lower storage TCO - new trends in storage Join the Nexenta Webinar Series here: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/eventsTRANSCRIPT
Learn how Stanford University has leveraged Open Storage technology to meet their
Storage needs
Webinar will start in 10 minutes
Learn how Stanford University has leveraged Open Storage technology to meet their
Storage needs
Webinar will start in 5 minutes
Agenda
• Introduction to Open Storage• Real life experiences - Stanford University• Overview - Nexenta Systems• Q&A
“IDC estimates that the total amount of digital information created, captured and replicated will grow at a rate of 58% per year – reaching 1,610 Exabytes in 2011”
structured data
unstructured data 80 % of all digital data is unstructured
Increasing cost to manage growing storage resources
Unstructured data resists categorization, utilization, and reuse
Explosion of Unstructured Data
Trained Administrator
Customer Challenges
Fork lift upgrade
Expensive
Getting smart to address the problem
Buy More!
Simple to manage
Easy to Scale
Economics of Scale
Innovation and better storage economics
What is OpenStorage?
Freedom of choice at every level of storage stack
OpenStorage represents a growing part of the existing Storage ecosystem. Open storage will account for $10.6B of the $90B Storage market.
Source: Oracle Research Paper, March 2010, Get More Storage Efficiency with Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
Disks
Proprietary Disk System
Open Storage Server System
Proprietary Head Unit
Controller Hardware
Storage Software
Commodity Hardware
Industry Controllers
NexentaStor
Disks
Must buy vendor disk at 5x markup
Must buy vendor controller
Must buy vendor units
10X Storage cost
Market price disks
Lower costBetter selection
Lower cost
Open Source
Agenda
• Introduction to Open Storage• Real life experiences - Stanford University• Overview - Nexenta Systems• Q&A
Open Storage at Stanford University
Joe LittleElectrical Engineering
How we got here
Commercial and non-commercial file servers
Tape Backup
Data Growth
Why buy today when its cheaper tomorrow
User Expectations
Too Many Choices
2nd Tier Storage
Disaster Recovery
Tape is dead
Commodity growth curve
Snapshots
The New Backup(Amanda and Crashplan)
VMs storage reqs
Reliability
Performance
Snapshot integration
1st Tier Storage
Prime Time
1st Tier Setup
Get your feet wet with 2nd tier storage
HA possible, but at some cost
Go through your failure scenarios
Expectations may warrant vendor/VAR/SI
Storage Growth == Commodity Storage Growth
Growth At Stanford
Get to the Meat
Best PracticesStanford ActiveDirectory is typically
non-standard: Use the “gateway” approach
NFSv4/Kerberos a work in progress
RAID10 is best
RAID5/6/Z1/Z2+ for 2nd Tier only
More drives > larger drives
Sweet spot == 1TB?
Evil Practices
Hardware RAID
Cloud Directions
First move is to 3rd PartiesSecond stage is external services leveraging other
services (DropBox)Third stage is
building in-house clouds
Agenda
• Introduction to Open Storage• Real life experiences - Stanford University• Overview - Nexenta Systems• Q&A
• Founded in 2004; GA product in 2008
• Privately held; HQ in Mountain View with operations in India, Russia, UK, Holland and Germany
• ZFS optimized filesystem based on Open Storage
Company Overview
“Enterprise class storage for everyone”
29
Resellers
Partners
29
Customers
30,000+ User and 2,000+ Paid customers
Enterprise Edition+ search + synch replication
+ ease of use + remote management
Optional modules+ VM management + WORM +
Windows ‘Deloreon’ + HA Cluster• Hardware independent• NAS/SAN/iSCSI/FC• CDP via ZFS snapshots• CDP via block sync• Advanced graphics• Event based API
Solaris kernelmulti-core + clustering
Debian / Ubuntu#1 community + packaging
NexentaOS:• Loves multiple cores• Boot level ZFS•>1 million downloads
ZFS: File system• universal: SAN/NAS/iSCSI/FC• performance: variable block
size + prefetch• Software RAID that identifies
and corrects data corruption
ZFSchecksums
not volumes128 bit
What is NexentaStor
Breaking through economic and performance barriers
Servers can handle ~1M IOPSSupport Flash Storage devicesBest Price / Performance sweet spot
Less power consumptionSimple to maintain and manageLess Expensive than DRAMs
Support for Hybrid storage pools
Application
NexentaStor
Write Cache Read Cache High Capacity Storage
SSDs HDDs
Commodity Hardware
Industry Controllers
NexentaStor
Disks
Increased computational power by adding processors with more CPUs and cache
Increase performance using additional SSDs to cache storage reads and writes
Expand total capacity by adding disk drive expansion units
Easy to Scale
CIFS NFS SCSI iSCSI FC Infiniband
Multiple protocols for Linux and Windows platforms
Storage efficiency Built in compression De-duplication Data protection Self-Healing storage system
Enterprise grade product that is rich in features
How to get started with Nexenta
Free Community editionFree 45 day Trial edition
Visit www.nexenta.com
Agenda
• Introduction to Open Storage• Real life experiences - Stanford University• Overview - Nexenta Systems• Q&A
Breaking through economic and performance barriers
Fastest Drives = 300 – 500 IOPS onlyLarge pools of 15K RPM drives + large buffer of DRAMs
More power consumptionComplex to maintain and manageExpensive to add DRAMs