DEFIANCE OF THE APPLIANCE

Irshad RaihanRed Hat

February 2017

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RIP TRADITIONAL ENTERPRISE STORAGE

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CHALLENGES WITH TRADITIONAL STORAGE

COST CONSOLIDATION SECURITY

• Acquisition

• Maintenance

• Lock in

• Privacy

• Data Integrity

• Compliance

• Unstructured Data

• Multiple Silos

• Cloud

THE ROAD TO SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE

Development

Model

Application

Architecture

Deployment

& Packaging

Application

InfrastructureStorage

Waterfall

Agile

DevOps

Monolithic

N-tier

Microservices

Virtual Services

Containers

Bare Metal

Hosted

Hybrid

Cloud

Data Center

Scale Out

Software-Defined

Storage

Scale Up

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RED HAT – A STORAGE VISIONARY

• File, Object, and Block Storage

• Across bare metal, virtual machines, private and

public clouds

• Reference Architectures, Soft bundles, or

appliances

• Container-native storage

• #1 storage for OpenStack

• Choice of industry leading OEM partners

• Thriving open source communities

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STORAGE DEPLOYMENT

PHYSICAL VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD CONTAINERS PUBLIC CLOUD

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• Contributions from Intel, SanDisk, CERN, and Yahoo

• Presenting Ceph Days in cities around the world and

quarterly virtual Ceph Developer Summit events

• Over 11M downloads in the last 12 months

• Increased development velocity, authorship, and

discussion has resulted in rapid feature expansion

OPEN ECOSYSTEMS

97 AUTHORS/MO

2,453 COMMITS/MO

260 POSTERS/MO

33 AUTHORS/MO

97 COMMITS/MO

138 POSTERS/MO

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COMPARING THROUGHPUT AND COSTS AT SCALE

STORAGE PERFORMANCE

SCALABILITYSTORAGE COSTS

SCALABILITY

Number of Storage Nodes Number of Storage Nodes

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Sto

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Read

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hro

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hp

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(mB

ps

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Software Defined

Scale out Storage

Traditional

Enterprise NAS

Storage

Traditional

Enterprise NAS

Storage

Software Defined

Scale out Storage

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TCO COMPARISONFor 1PB Usable Capacity Throughput-optimized Solutions

3 Year TCO

(incl. support)

Throughput

Configuration

• HDD-only media

• Higher CPU-to-media

ratio than archive

configurations

• 2x replication with RHGS

• 8:3 Erasure Coding with

EMC Isilon

X-210 12LFF 12LFF

(small)

X-410 36LFF 36LFF

(medium)

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

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For large file sequential IO patterns

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

4M-Seq-Reads/disk 4M-Seq-Writes/disk (2x Rep)

MB

yte

s /

sec

/ d

isk

Gluster (M) - 2xRep

Gluster (S) - 2xRep

NEAR LINEAR PERF SCALING RHGS SMALL(12LFF) AND MEDIUM (36LFF) NODES

OneFS

Distributed

File System

FreeBSD

Linux

Proprietary Server

Scale up, multiple

storage silos

Additional feature

licenses and support

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OPEN MATTERS

GlusterFS

Distributed

File System

Red Hat

Enterprise Linux

Choice of x86 Server

Scale out, workload

focused

All in one

subscription

VS.

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RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE

Data Services

Erasure Coding

Tiering

Bit-Rot Detection

Snapshots

Quotas

Geo Replication

Protocols

Active/Active NFSv4

SMB3 (protocol negotiation, in-flight

encryption, server-side copy)

Management

Device Management

Dashboard

Monitoring

Command and Control

Security & Data Integrity

SSL based in-flight encryption

At-rest encryption using dm-crypt

SELinux Enforcing Mode

Self Healing

Half the price for comparable features & greater flexibility

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THE SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE LITMUS TEST

HARDWARE

INNOVATION

• Can I repurpose existing industry-standard servers as storage servers rather than buy new

hardware?

• Can I run my storage clusters on a heterogeneous mix of server brands?

OPERATING

EXPENSES

• Can innovations in storage controller software be delivered independently from hardware

upgrades?

• Am I limited by my vendor’s ability to validate new storage features and hardware advances?

• Can I grow my storage cluster in small increments (e.g., by a few servers at a time) or am I

limited to the increments defined by the vendor (e.g., quarter, half or full rack)?

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