What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn't Telling You About NFS Support

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A discussion of the realities of NFS Support in Object Storage● Challenges of Object Storage without NFS● How NFS makes Object Storage more useful● Architecture of a typical NFS gateway● The Challenges of Hosting NFS on an Object Store

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● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

Our SpeakersGeorge Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.

He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

Our SpeakersW. Curtis Preston is a Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland. He has been specializing in data protection for over 20 years, having designed and implemented backup, DR, and archive systems for some of the largest companies in the world. He is the author of O’Reilly’s Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS.

Our SpeakersWith over 2 decades of experience, Caringo Product Manager Glen Olsen has a keen focus on architecting data and storage solutions. At Caringo, Glen leads efforts to bridge the gap between traditional storage and our leading-edge scale-out storage solution.

Who Is Caringo?

Object Storage Experts10+ Years

Swarm 8Searchable Storage for the Cloud Age

500+ Deployments

What Is An Object?

• An object can be a picture, a movie, a PDF file, sensor data, etc

• Object is essentially a file

• Files go in file systems

• Objects go in object storage systems

StoragePerformance

What Is An Object Storage System?

• It stores objects

• Each object has• Unique unit identifier (UUID)

• Metadata (Author, Sources, Content, Location, Topic)

• Object storage system stores everything with the object

• Allows retrieval via UUID & Metadata

Object Storage vs NFS• NFS

• No UUID

• Closest to UUID is file & path name

• Usually can’t find via Metadata

• All apps can write to NFS shares

• Object

• Always UUID

• Can find via UUID & Metadata

• Most apps can’t write to API

How NFS Makes Object Storage More Useful

• Bridge to object storage

• Adds common filesystem interface

• Allows legacy apps to write to modern storage

• Object Storage system can create UUID, Metadata

• Can still search on the backend

Architecture Of A Typical NFS Gateway

• Linux server running FUSE and NFS

• Files written to a local disk

• Each file stored as an object via API

The Challenges Of Typical NFS Gateway

• Each file is written twice

• NFS gateway becomes bottleneck

• Must translate file path into object

• Requires translation database

• Data must be accessed via NFS

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Searchable Scale-Out Storage

SwarmNFS Protocol ConverterNFS on Object Storage Done Right!

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Introducing Caringo SwarmNFS

The first lightweight file converter to bring thebenefits of scale-out object storage to NFSv4.

• 80% Less Resources Than Traditional Gateways• Easily Centralize, Distribute, and Manage Data• Improve Productivity Through Universal Access• Eliminate Separate Metadata Databases

SwarmNFS

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80% Less Resources Than Traditional Gateways

SwarmNFS

TraditionalGateway/Connector

NFS Server

NFS Clients

Object Store

Namespace/ FUSE

Proxy

Spooling/Caching

Caringo Swarm

SwarmNFS

NFS Clients ✓ Stateless and lightweight

✓ Linux process, appliance

or VM-deployable

✓ No caching or spooling

✓ Parallel data streaming

✓ No single point of failure

✓ Built-in high availability

SwarmNFS

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Easily Centralize, Distribute, and Manage Data

Fully Distributed NFS Architecture

• Distributed mount points• Multi-tenancy and security• Multiple data protection schemes

and built-in HA

Global Namespace with Universal Access

• Files can be written, read, and edited through any interface

− NFSv4, SCSP/HTTP, S3, HDFS

SwarmNFS

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Eliminate Separate Metadata Databases

Bring the Power of Metadata Directly to Files• Mount files contained in domains or buckets• Mount group of files associated with any metadata search or Collections• Add/update universal object metadata for any file directly through SwarmNFS

SwarmNFS

Tenant: acme_inc

Domain: security_videos

Bucket: parking_lot

Metadata across all content = ex: timestamp, location, movement

cmdprompt$ echo “x-meta-zipcode=94047” > parking_lot.mp4:metadata

Dynamic Updates for Evolving Views of Data

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SwarmNFS — Enables New Use Cases for Object Storage

Use Existing Native NFS File-Based Applications• No custom application development required• Reap the benefits of a limitless pool of scale-out storage with built-in data protection• Built-in content distribution and universal access

SwarmNFS

Content Distribution Video Surveillance Research

Document ManagementDigital CurationBig Data

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What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn't Telling You About NFS Support

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