Too Many Cooks Spoil The Borscht StackGregory Touretsky, gtouretsky AT infinidat DOT com

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Who is Mr. Touretsky?

For this talk:

A vendor offering highly reliable, high performance unified storage solution

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What the heck’s the Borscht?

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The customer wants something good*…

* Some people think “good borscht” is nonsense… this is true for OpenStack also

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The customer gets the best ingredients• 1 floor tile• 3 PB (usable)• 99.99999% SLA• 1M+ IOPS, 12+ GB/sec• Infinite snaps w/ no

impact• < 3 Watts/TB (usable)• Unified – Block & NAS• Awesome API & GUI• 1/4 cost of enterprise

SAN• 1/10 cost of all-flash

array• Capacity-on-demand

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And integration with more ingredients...

CinderManila

Nova

SwiftGlanceCeilometer…

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Whose borscht will it be?

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Whose borscht will it be?

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• Multiple components Cinder, Manila, …

• OpenStack: 2 releases per year Mitaka, Newton

• Major distros: 5-6 Or more

Vendor’s pain…

20+ certifications / year!

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Integration with utensils?

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We should make it better

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Call for action: joint integration “kitchen”

Leveraging OpenStack Innovation Center?

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• Wide selection between multiple certified alternatives• Validated interoperability proved by both the vendor

and the distribution owner

Good for customers

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• Easy to certify with various distribution• Extension of the validation environment• Interoperability testing

ex: replication, migration

Good for vendors

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• Interoperability • Wide partnership with vendors• Demo place for customers

Good for distributions

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Questions?