storpool webinar: 5 ways to improve your storage layer
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@storpool
5 Ways
To Improve Your Storage Layer
@storpool
1. Current state of storage solutions
2. Pros & Cons (of 1.)
3. Storage wish-list
4. 5 ways to improve your storage
5. Q&A
Build a Cloud: Got storage?
- You are a Cloud builder - Hosting, MSP, XaaS, data center, Enterprise
- If you own / manage your infrastructure
- You realize data storage is the most expensive and problematic piece
- There should be a better approach to data storage
Build a Cloud: Got (block) storage?
(+) inexpensive (-) low on capabilities (-) no shared storage
(+) fast (+) rich on features (-) EXPEN$IVE (-) hard to scale (-) inflexible (-) complex (-) vendor lock-in
(+) fast (+) features (-) expensive (-) limited scalability (-) vendor lock-in
(+) affordable (-) limited scalability (-) inflexible (-) low performance /cannot replace a SAN/
What options customers have now?
Single Point of Failure
$UPER EXPEN$IVE!
Hard to scale
Inflexible
Hard to manage
Cap’d in performance
Single purpose
Vendor lock-in
Grows in pairs
“Slow & not stable”
Inflexible
Inefficient
This ?! That ?!
Inefficient
Bandwidth limits
Scale limitations
Additional hardware
Compute SAN / Flash Network
Compute SDS 1.0 Network
Wish-list: 5 ways to improve your storage
1. Reliability
2. Performance
3. Scalability & flexibility
4. Simplicity
5. Affordability
What you really want
Welcome to Software-Defined Storage (SDS) 2.0
What if…You can have all these things…in ONE solution?
Storage + Compute on the
same standard servers Network
distributed, shared pool of
capacity and performance
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…and it works!
1. Reliability
Hyper-scale infrastructure concept:
standard hardware, all the magic in the software layer
shared storage
many cheap components, not one “super reliable”
no single (dual) points of failure
data protection
self-healing
copies in different servers/racks, “no wait”
Preparation & Design, Procedures, “What ifs”
Burn-in
“Fire drills”
Backup/DR
2. Performance
scales in performance, besides capacity storage
As fast as needed – replay of real workloads, testing
No bottlenecks. No “throw money at the problem”
- Synthetic tests do not really work
Storage + Compute - efficiency
Fast rebuild – from whole cluster, not from one drive
No free lunch – you trade things-off
Find where the bottleneck really is
Software / features – caching, hybrid
Hardware upgrades – CPU, RAM, network, SSD, PCI, etc.
3. Scalability & flexibility
Online expansion, online changes
Move drives from one server to another
Online updates
Scales linearly, in small increments
Scale-out, not scale-up (no forklift upgrades)
Find where the bottleneck really is
All intelligence/features in software
Research, Plan
“Throw money at the problem”
Describe what flexibility you need
4. Simplicity
Simple all the way - to buy, deploy, operate, expand, support
As standard as possible - servers, drives and network
“Go Standard”, avoid vendor lock-in
Hardware agnostic
Intelligent - lose a drive example
Designed with You in mind!
Simple: no specialized vendor workforce / skills required
Choose carefully
Automate
Standard building block – storage + compute
5. Affordability
Pay-as-you-go / OpEx
- Higher utilization, lower TCO
Storage + Compute
Standard hardware
Standard skill set
Consider changing your storage
Play with features
Cannot do a lot – “sell it on eBay”
Recap and Q&A
Proper Storage Software can have it all in one solution
StorPool
[email protected] @storpool
Boyan Ivanov
@bhivanov
Q & A
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