RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE

Vs.

TRADITIONAL STORAGE APPLIANCES

Mithun Sugur

Storage Solutions Architect

msugur@redhat.com

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Redefining Storage Industry- Red Hat Gluster

Comparison: Red Hat Gluster Vs. EMC Isilon

Beyond Traditional Storage

Future of Red Hat Gluster

AGENDA

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Industry shifting from Monolithic Traditional Storage silos to Server based Storage; Software

defined Storage Architecture for Agility and Efficiency

Appliance

USER

Appliance

USER

Appliance

USER

SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE

USER

REDEFINING STORAGE:SERVER BASED STORAGE

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PUBLIC CLOUD

STORAGE TRADITIONAL

APPLIANCES

SOFTWARE-

DEFINED

STORAGE

better

faster

more

less

weaker

limited better

faster

less

more

stronger

broad

COST EFFICIENCY

PROVISIONING

VENDOR LOCK-IN

SKILL REQUIRED

GOVERNANCE

DEPLOYMENT

DISRUPTION IN THE STORAGE INDUSTRY

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limited

better

Technology dramatically changing traditional storage architectures

Growth in Unstructured Data

Leverage existing infrastructure to make better business decisions

Seeking to reduce footprint and build upon virtualization for efficiency

Budget constraints continues….

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OTHER BUSINESS CHALLENGES

RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE

PHYSICAL VIRTUAL CONTAINERS CLOUD

Open source, software-defined storage for unstructured

file data at petabyte scale

RED HAT GLUSTER

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COMPARISION: ARCHITECTURE

Freedom of x86 Hardware Lock-in

Proprietary Open Source ARCHITECTURE

OneFS (Closed)

Proprietary Vendor Lock-in

Scale Up, Multiple Storage Silos

Additional Feature Licenses and

High maintenance costs

GlusterFS (Open Source)

Hardware/Vendor Agnostic

Software-Defined Storage, Workload

focused

All-in-One Subscription Model

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COMPARISION: DATA PROTECTION

Erasure Coding &

Replication (Sync)

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Erasure Coding

DATA PROTECTION

FILE 1

server1

DISTRIBUTED-REPLICATED VOLUME

Replicated Vol 0 Replicated Vol 1

BRICK

FILE 1

server2

BRICK

FILE 2

server3

BRICK

FILE 2

server4

BRICK

Flexibility with different EC options (4+2,

8+3 & 8+4) Configurations

ELIMINATES the need for RAID and

supports JBOD

Supports 2-way and 3-way Replications

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COMPARISION: CLIENT ACCESS

Multiprotocol Access

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SmartConnect (Basic)

CLIENT ACCESS

CLUSTERS OF SERVER HOSTS

HOSTS = ON-PREMISE OR PUBLIC CLOUD HOST INSTANCES

FUSE NFS SMB API Swift

FILE

Multi-protocol distributed file system

access and optional Swift object

translator

Native CTBD provides Load Balancing

Support to Infiniband switches (RDMA)

Active/Active NFSv4

SMB3 (protocol negotiation)

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COMPARISION: SNAPSHOTS

Volume Snapshots

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SnapshotIQ

SNAPSHOTS

Snapshot Scheduling

Managed via CLI/GUI

User serviceable

snapshots

Produces Crash

consistent image

Support a max of

256 snapshots per

volume

On the fly Point-in-time

Snapshots

Volume level, ability to

create, list, restore, and

delete

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COMPARISION: QUOTAS

Directory Level Quotas

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SmartQuotas

QUOTAS

Quotas at both a directory and volume level

Quota limits: Soft and hard

Notifications on reaching soft quota limit

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COMPARISION: MEDIA TIERING

Tiering

RED HAT GLUSTER

SmartPools TIERING

FILE

STORAGE CLUSTER

COLD SUBVOLUME

(SLOWER SPINNING DISK)

HOT SUBVOLUME

(FASTER FLASH)

AUTOMATED promotion and demotion of

data between “hot” and “cold” sub volumes

BASED on frequency of access.

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(Additional License)

Multiple Volumes

COMPARISION: SECURITY

Encryption

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SmartLock

SECURITY

SSL based in-flight encryption

At-rest encryption using dm-crypt

SELinux Enforcing Mode

Self Healing and BitRot

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(Additional License)

COMPARISION: DISASTER RECOVERY

Geo-Replication

RED HAT GLUSTER

SyncIQ

DISASTER

RECOVERY

Site B

Site A Site C

Site B

Cascading replication

Site A

One-to-One Replication

Asynchronous across LAN, WAN, or

Internet

Master-slave model, Cascaded Replication

Continuous and incremental

Multiple configurations

One to one

One to many

Cascading

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COMPARISION: MANAGEMENT

RH Console and

Nagios(SNMP 3.0)

RED HAT GLUSTER

InsightIQ

MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM TRENDS

3rd Party

Tools

Queries and

Commands

REST API

Queries and

Commands Results

Http

requests

3rd Party

Tools

SNMP Traps

Nagios

active

checks

Nagios

active

checks

RED HAT GLUSTER

STORAGE CONSOLE

NAGIOS SERVER

for RHGS

STORAGE ADMINISTRATORS

Easy Management and Analytics

with RH Console

Faster Deployment with Ansible

Monitoring and Reporting with

Nagios

Integration with 3rd Party

Monitoring Framework

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(Additional Analytics

License)

COMPARISION: COST

TCO Savings

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$$$

COST

3x times cost savings on solution

acquisition and ongoing

maintenance

Deployment Choice: On-premise,

Cloud & Containers

Certified H/W partners X-210 12LFF 12LFF

(small)

X-4 10 36LFF 36LFF

(medium)

Pricing Sources: EMC Isilon: Gartner Competitive Profiles, as of 2 /16/16) & Supermicro: Thinkmate, as of 1/13/16)

3 Year TCO (incl. support)

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SITE A SITE B Red Hat Gluster

AWS/AZURE/GOOGLE

BEYOND TRADITIONAL STORAGE

Disaster Recovery in the cloud or

On-Premise

High Availability in Amazon AWS

Offers Failover and Failback

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BEYOND TRADITIONAL STORAGE

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CONTAINER NODE 1

CONTAINER NODE 2

NGINX Container

Wordpress Container

Storage provided by a dedicated

Red Hat Gluster Storage cluster

and accessed over the network

Enterprise grade storage provider

support for OpenShift

Storage & compute can scale

independently

Gluster 3.7, RHEL 6, 7 Gluster 3.8, RHEL 6, 7 Gluster 4, RHEL 7

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ERASURE CODING

BIT ROT DETECTION

TIERING

SNAP SCHEDULE

ACTIVE/ACTIVE NFSV4

SMB 3

SELINUX

SSL ENCRYPTION

( IN-FLIGHT)

DEVICE MANAGEMENT

GEO-REPLICATION,

SNAPSHOTS

DASHBOARD

INODE QUOTAS

FASTER SELF-HEAL

CONTROLLED REBALANCE

SMB 3

(ADVANCED FEATURES)

MULTI-CHANNEL

AT-REST ENCRYPTION

DYNAMIC PROVISIONING

OF RESOURCES

COMPRESSION

DEDUPLICATION

HIGHLY SCALABLE CTRL PLANE

HYPER-CONVERGED SOLUTION

CONTAINER STORAGE

pNFS

QOS

CLIENT SIDE CACHING

NEW UI

GLUSTER REST API

FUTURE OF RED HAT GLUSTER

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Gaining Market & Community Momentum

We now have access to a much faster system.

Compared to EMC Solution, our costs are 8 times

lower- NIELS JONKMAN, GLASHART MEDIA

Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for

Distributed File Systems and Object

Storage

Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object

Storage, October 2016

GARTNER REPORT AND GROWING CUSTOMER BASE

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