learn how stanford university leveraged openstorage to meet their storage needs

Learn how Stanford University has leveraged Open Storage technology to meet their

Storage needs

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Learn how Stanford University has leveraged Open Storage technology to meet their

Storage needs

Webinar will start in 5 minutes

Agenda

• Introduction to Open Storage• Real life experiences - Stanford University• Overview - Nexenta Systems• Q&A

“IDC estimates that the total amount of digital information created, captured and replicated will grow at a rate of 58% per year – reaching 1,610 Exabytes in 2011”

structured data

unstructured data 80 % of all digital data is unstructured

Increasing cost to manage growing storage resources

Unstructured data resists categorization, utilization, and reuse

Explosion of Unstructured Data

Trained Administrator

Customer Challenges

Fork lift upgrade

Expensive

Getting smart to address the problem

Buy More!

Simple to manage

Easy to Scale

Economics of Scale

Innovation and better storage economics

What is OpenStorage?

Freedom of choice at every level of storage stack

OpenStorage represents a growing part of the existing Storage ecosystem. Open storage will account for $10.6B of the $90B Storage market.

Source: Oracle Research Paper, March 2010, Get More Storage Efficiency with Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

Disks

Proprietary Disk System

Open Storage Server System

Proprietary Head Unit

Controller Hardware

Storage Software

Commodity Hardware

Industry Controllers

NexentaStor

Disks

Must buy vendor disk at 5x markup

Must buy vendor controller

Must buy vendor units

10X Storage cost

Market price disks

Lower costBetter selection

Lower cost

Open Source

Agenda

• Introduction to Open Storage• Real life experiences - Stanford University• Overview - Nexenta Systems• Q&A

Open Storage at Stanford University

Joe LittleElectrical Engineering

How we got here

Commercial and non-commercial file servers

Tape Backup

Data Growth

Why buy today when its cheaper tomorrow

User Expectations

Too Many Choices

2nd Tier Storage

Disaster Recovery

Tape is dead

Commodity growth curve

Snapshots

The New Backup(Amanda and Crashplan)

VMs storage reqs

Reliability

Performance

Snapshot integration

1st Tier Storage

Prime Time

1st Tier Setup

Get your feet wet with 2nd tier storage

HA possible, but at some cost

Go through your failure scenarios

Expectations may warrant vendor/VAR/SI

Storage Growth == Commodity Storage Growth

Growth At Stanford

Get to the Meat

Best PracticesStanford ActiveDirectory is typically

non-standard: Use the “gateway” approach

NFSv4/Kerberos a work in progress

RAID10 is best

RAID5/6/Z1/Z2+ for 2nd Tier only

More drives > larger drives

Sweet spot == 1TB?

Evil Practices

Hardware RAID

Cloud Directions

First move is to 3rd PartiesSecond stage is external services leveraging other

services (DropBox)Third stage is

building in-house clouds

Agenda

• Introduction to Open Storage• Real life experiences - Stanford University• Overview - Nexenta Systems• Q&A

• Founded in 2004; GA product in 2008

• Privately held; HQ in Mountain View with operations in India, Russia, UK, Holland and Germany

• ZFS optimized filesystem based on Open Storage

Company Overview

“Enterprise class storage for everyone”

29

Resellers

Partners

29

Customers

30,000+ User and 2,000+ Paid customers

Enterprise Edition+ search + synch replication

+ ease of use + remote management

Optional modules+ VM management + WORM +

Windows ‘Deloreon’ + HA Cluster• Hardware independent• NAS/SAN/iSCSI/FC• CDP via ZFS snapshots• CDP via block sync• Advanced graphics• Event based API

Solaris kernelmulti-core + clustering

Debian / Ubuntu#1 community + packaging

NexentaOS:• Loves multiple cores• Boot level ZFS•>1 million downloads

ZFS: File system• universal: SAN/NAS/iSCSI/FC• performance: variable block

size + prefetch• Software RAID that identifies

and corrects data corruption

ZFSchecksums

not volumes128 bit

What is NexentaStor

Breaking through economic and performance barriers

Servers can handle ~1M IOPSSupport Flash Storage devicesBest Price / Performance sweet spot

Less power consumptionSimple to maintain and manageLess Expensive than DRAMs

Support for Hybrid storage pools

Application

NexentaStor

Write Cache Read Cache High Capacity Storage

SSDs HDDs

Commodity Hardware

Industry Controllers

NexentaStor

Disks

Increased computational power by adding processors with more CPUs and cache

Increase performance using additional SSDs to cache storage reads and writes

Expand total capacity by adding disk drive expansion units

Easy to Scale

CIFS NFS SCSI iSCSI FC Infiniband

Multiple protocols for Linux and Windows platforms

Storage efficiency Built in compression De-duplication Data protection Self-Healing storage system

Enterprise grade product that is rich in features

How to get started with Nexenta

Free Community editionFree 45 day Trial edition

Visit www.nexenta.com

Agenda

• Introduction to Open Storage• Real life experiences - Stanford University• Overview - Nexenta Systems• Q&A

Breaking through economic and performance barriers

Fastest Drives = 300 – 500 IOPS onlyLarge pools of 15K RPM drives + large buffer of DRAMs

More power consumptionComplex to maintain and manageExpensive to add DRAMs