deploy highly available and scalable storage in minutes
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Deploy Highly Available andScalable Storage in Minutes
April 6, 2011
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Your Panel Today
Presenting:• Uri Budnik: RightScale, Director ISV Partner Program.
@uribudnik
• Dave Garnett, Gluster, V.P. Product Management • Craig Carl, Gluster, Senior Systems Engineer
Q&A:
Ryan McGinnis: RightScale, Account Manager
Please use the chat box window to ask questions anytime!
Webinar Recordings: www.rightscale.com/webinars
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Agenda
• Introduction to RightScale• Introduction to Gluster• Live Demo• Live Q&A
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RightScale Real Customers, Real Deployments, Real Benefits
• Managed Cloud Deployments for 4 Years• More than 25,000 users; launched over 2MM servers• Behind the largest production deployments on that cloud to
date
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Complete Systems Management
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RightScale: Core Focus Improved Agility
Reduce complexity with ServerTemplates Manage Systems, not Servers Orchestrate and Automate
Maintain Choice Multi-cloud Configuration Asset Library ISV Partner Solutions
Control & Security User Access and Roles Cost Control and Allocation Complete Transparency
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ServerTemplates: Built-to-Order Servers
VS.
Image bundling and maintenance
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ServerTemplate in Library• Easy, on-demand global-namespace within minutes - no limit to scale• Less time spent managing storage• Reduced Risks, and Business Continuity • Add storage as you need it (usage based pricing)• Pooled storage that is highly available• Immediate storage pool w/out having to re-write your applications• No need to forecast storage demand• No vendor lock-in
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Storage Challenges in AWS EC2
EBS
EC2
Without Gluster Highly Available POSIX storage is impossible
– Redundant NFS is not possible within EC2
NAS performance is limited to the speed of a single instance
– 80MB/s maximum throughput for a single EC2 instance– Larger more expensive EC2 instances are required to reach
80MB/s
Performance within AWS is unpredictable– Resources within EC2 speed up and slow down– Performance on EBS volumes can vary up to 70% from the
mean hour to hour
NAS Is difficult to scale – An instance is limited to ~120TB of storage
S3 requires application rewrites to leverage object storage
– S3 is incredibly slow (~15MB/s)
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Enter Gluster – RightScale Server Template
We are the ONLY way to implement a highly available file system in Amazon.
We limit the performance vagaries of Amazon virtual machines and storage.
There is NO limit to the speed of a Gluster cluster, regardless of file size, block size, etc.
There is NO limit to the number of files in a Gluster cluster, regardless of file size, block size, etc.
Gluster is designed to work across availability zones and with S3 snapshots for genuine HA storage.
From concept to production in 30 minutes.
2 hour support SLA. Guaranteed.
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When to use Gluster• Unstructured Data
• Video Files• Audio Files• Pictures• General Office documents• Web content• Emails (Zimbra, Sendmail, etc.)
• When not to use Gluster• Databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, etc.)• Structured Files• Data where on-disk block order matters
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Scaling performance
The total speed of the cluster is the aggregated speed of every instance.
Single file performance is limited to the instances(s) on which the file exists.
Gluster has been benchmarked in Amazon @ 5300MB/sec aggregated throughput.
Single file performance is limited to ~80MB/sec.
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Demonstration
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Let’s Talk
Q & A Time
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We Appreciate Your Time
Contact:
RIGHTSCALE: [email protected]; (866) 720-0208
GLUSTER: [email protected]
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Additional Draft Material
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Company Background
History
• Founded in 2005 by both• Hitesh Chellani (LLNL, DEC, Tata Unisys) • Anand Babu Periasamy (LLNL)• Background in high performance, clustered computing
60 Employees
• US HQ with large development center in India
Active and broad worldwide user base
– with 125,000+ downloads– 300+ Deployments in 45 countries– Over 1,200 registered users
Large proven install base of Enterprise Customers
– 100’s of nodes and PB’s of storage