webinar sept 22: gluster partners with redapt to deliver scale-out nas storage

A Better Way To Do Storage 1

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Time

PST

Segment – Working

Title

Duration Presenter Status Notes

10:00 AM Welcome, Housekeeping, 4 mins Heather Moderator

& Host

Set-up webinar objectives & manages flow,

introduces & welcomes speakers, etc.

10:04 AM Interactive Poll #1 2 mins Heather TBD After voting and sharing results, Heather introduces

Tom

10:06 AM Introduction to GlusterFS 20 mins Tom TBD Tom leads discussion on Introduction to GlusterFS;

turns over to Matt

10:26 AM Intro to REDAPT 20 mins Matt Matt leads discussion on REDAPT; Turns back over

to Tom for summary

10:46 AM Wrap up 1 mins Tom TBD Tom does Wrap Up & hands over to Heather for poll

10:47 AM Interactive Poll #2 2 mins Heather TBD After voting and sharing results, Heather starts Q&A

session

10:49 AM

Q&A session 10 mins Tom

Matt

TBD Heather asks softball questions and questions poised

by attendees. Answered by Tom & Matt

10:59 AM

Adjourn – Closing Comments

1 min Heather

TBD Heather closes out the webinar

Gluster Partners with REDAPT to Delivers Scale-out NAS Storage

Scale-out Storage Solutions from

Gluster and REDAPT


How To Ask a Question?

Some Housekeeping Items…

Ask a question at any time

Questions will be answered at

the end of the webinar

Slides will be available after

the webinar

The webinar is being

recorded


Today’s Speakers

Tom Trainer Director

Product Marketing

Gluster, Inc.

Matt Huff V.P. Business

Development

REDAPT


Poll Question

Are you working with REDAPT today? – Yes, we work with REDAPT regularly

– Yes, we work with REDAPT from time-to-time

– No, however we are considering REDAPT

– Just researching and trying to understand the Gluster – REDAPT partnership


History of Gluster

How it all started – Backgrounds in high performance, clustered computing

– Working at Lawrence Livermore National Labs

• AB Periasamy & Hitesh Chellani design “Thunder”

• One of the worlds fastest super computers

• On Intel commodity hardware

• Solved filesystem scalability and performance limitations

– Large customer in oil & gas persuaded them to focus on storage

– Gluster founded by Hitesh & AB to bring technology to market

Result: award winning technology

Thunder


Open Source

200,000+ downloads – ~17,000 /month

550+ registered deployments – 45 countries

2,500+ registered users – Mailing lists, Forums, etc.

Active community – Diverse testing environments

– Bugs identification and fixes

– Code contributions

Member of broader ecosystem – OpenStack, Linux Foundation, Open

Virtualization Alliance

Global Adoption


Why Gluster?

Increase the flexibility of your storage architecture – Deploy on the infrastructure that makes sense for your organization

– Provision elastically to meet your storage needs

– Customizable hardware configuration to match your workload

– Eases move to public, private and hybrid clouds

Scale without boundaries – Terabyte to petabyte and beyond architecture

– Scale up and out linearly in the increments you desire

Control your storage costs – Maximize the ROI in storage systems investment

• Cost / IoP

• Cost / TB

– Leverage commodity hardware

– Lower management and maintenance costs through simplified architecture


What is the Gluster File System?

Open source, scale-out storage software

Key features – Metadata free access to data

– Unified NAS file server & object storage

– Globally addressable namespace

– POSIX compliance

– High-availability

– Flexible replication

– Linearly scalable performance

– Easy to deploy and use

Innovative storage solution that helps you control

storage costs


Gluster Technology Advances

Software only – Infrastructure combinations choice (bare metal, virtual, private / public cloud)

No metadata server – Fully distributed architecture, no bottleneck

– Gluster Elastic Hash

High performance global namespace – Scale out with linear performance to hundreds of petabytes

– 1 GbE, 10GbE

– In production with >100 nodes in singe namespace

High availability – Replication to survive hardware failure

– Self-healing

– Data stored in NFS-like native format

Stackable userspace design – No kernel dependencies, simple install

– Match specific workload profiles

– Early maturity and rich functionality


A Standard Gluster Deployment

Gluster Global Namespace (HTTP, NFS, CIFS, Gluster Native) Application Data Objects

Clients/Apps Clients/Apps Clients/Apps

IP Network

VMs

VMDK VMDK

ApacheTM HadoopTM

Standard clients running

standard apps

Over any standard IP

network

Access to application data,

as files and folders and or

objects, in global

namespace, using a variety

of standard protocols

Stored in a commoditized,

virtualized, scale-out,

centrally managed pool of

DAS, SAN, NAS

virtual storage pool


Software Approach to File and Object Storage

Windows Access

– Improves Windows performance

– Uses HTTP, not slower CIFS

Object Storage

– API

– Internet Protocol (IP)

– RestFul

– Buckets

– Objects seen as files

Standards based

– Amazon S3 RestFul interface compatible

– Access data as objects and a NAS interface

– to access files (NFS, CIFS, GlusterFS)

High performance storage across heterogeneous server environments

Network Attached Storage

– NFS / CIFS / GlusterFS

– POSIX compliant

– Access files within objects


Compatibility for Apache Hadoop

Enhanced GlusterFS provides new Hadoop storage option – Proven scale-out storage provides simultaneous file and object access within Hadoop

– Introduces a 4th storage option for Hadoop (HDFS, local disk, Kosmos)

Included in GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 available August 23, 2011 – Community beta for testing and participation

– Select enterprise customer engagements

Requirements driven by community & customer requests – “Eliminate the 64MB fixed block size imposed by HDFS”

– “Eliminate the centralized metadata server bottleneck”

– “Give us NAS” (via POSIX compliance)

Benefits – Out of the box compatibility with MapReduce applications, no rewrite required

– Enables organizations to unify data storage

– Flexible and powerful, it simplifies access and management of data


The Gluster Connector for OpenStack

Enables GlusterFS to be the underlying file system

Connects GlusterFS to Xen and KVM hypervisor

– Unified File and Object storage

– Highly-available, scale-out NAS

– Alternative to SWIFT

SWIFT

OpenStack Imaging Services

Unified File &

Object Storage

… Compute

API Layer

Mobile Apps. Web Clients. Enterprise Software Ecosystem

OpenStack Prior to Gluster

OpenStack with Gluster


The Gluster Connector for OpenStack

Connector enables GlusterFS to be chosen as the filesystem

– Provides:

• Unified File and Object storage

• Highly scalable NAS

• High Availability – synchronous and asynchronous replication

• Preferred, scalable alternative to SWIFT

• Virtual motion of virtual machines (a.k.a. vmotion)

GlusterFS

Server (CPU/Mem)

Hypervisor

VM

GlusterFS

Server (CPU/Mem)

Hypervisor

VM

VM

VM

VM

Virtual storage pool

VM

VM

VM


Pandora Internet Radio

Problem • Explosive user & title growth

• As many as 12 file formats for each song

• „Hot‟ content and long tail

Solution • Three data centers, each with a six-node

GlusterFS cluster

• Replication for high availability

• 250+ TB total capacity

Benefits • Easily scale capacity

• Centralized management; one administrator

to manage day-to-day operations

• No changes to application

• Higher reliability

• 1.2 PB of audio served

per week

• 13 million files

• Over 50 GB/sec peak

traffic

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Pattern Energy

Problem • Create a high performance computing system

• Need to deliver rapid advance weather predictions

• Identify wind and solar abundance in advance

• More accurately perform preventative and repair

maintenance

Solution • 32 HP compute nodes

• GlusterFS for high throughput and availability

• 20TB+ total capacity

Benefits • Precisely predicts solar times and wind patterns 3 to

5 days in advance

• Maximize energy production and repair times

• Avoid costs of outsourcing weather predictions

• Solution has paid for itself many times over

Datacenter: Renewable Wind & Solar Energy Producer

• Rapid & advance

weather predictions

• Maximizing energy

assets

• Cost savings and

avoidance


CIC Innovates Faster with Cloud Storage

Client/Apps Client/Apps

Private Cloud Public Cloud

Replication

Gluster Global Namespace




Client/Apps

IP Network


Sample Gluster Customers


Gluster Enterprise Deployment Options

Storage Software Appliance – Deploy on bare metal

– Any hardware on Red Hat Hardware HCL

Virtual Machines – Deployable on the leading virtual machines

Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Runs within Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

RightScale Cloud Management – GlusterFS managed via a RightScale ServerTemplate

– Deployable via the RightScale Cloud Management Dashboard

GoGrid Cloud – Gluster Server Image (GSI) for scale-out NAS on GoGrid cloud

On-premise/datacenter

Virtualization/private cloud

Public cloud


Introducing REDAPT Business Information Technology That Propels Business


Who is REDAPT

Founded in 1996

REDAPT provides data center

architecture:

– Solutions

– That tackles business objectives head-on

– Which lowers TCO and provides investment

protection

Headquarters

– Redmond WA

Field offices and facilities – nation

wide

– Austin TX

– Ashburn VA

– Los Angeles

– Santa Clara CA

Loyalty to the “REDAPT Way”

– Over 60% of our sales team have been with

the company for over 10 years


REDAPT and the IT Evolution

Traditional IT

Virtualization

Cloud

Fulfillment and Supply Chain Management

Design and Implementation

Custom Configuration

Capacity Management and Planning

Cloud Assessments

Orchestration

Automated Provisioning

Elastic Compute


REDAPT CLOUD RACK

– Work on commodity (x86) hardware

– Support for several thousand physical servers

– Hypervisor flexibility

– Permit a single virtual machine instance per server

– Amazon-like security zones

– Rightscale cloud management

– IP routed network

Private

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RightScale Multi-cloud Engine

Automation Engine

Configuration Asset Library

Multi-cloud Dashboard, User Management

The RightScale Solution


REDAPT CLOUD RACK SIMPLE, FAST, SMART CLOUDS

Ready to Deploy Virtual cloud infrastructure

POC to Production

Proven performance in Hyper-Scale Deployments

Hybrid Strategy Benefits – Security, Performance

Focus on your business


Rack Specs

44 CPU’s

1TB RAM

37TB Disk Capacity

88 Server NICs

60 PDU ports

96 Switch Ports

4 10GB Uplinks

600 Amazon Compute Units


Problem – Large Social gaming company with a

significant investment in the public

cloud required a more cost effective

delivery model for their offering

REDAPT CLOUD RACK Case study: Social Gaming Company

Solution – Deployed cloud racks with RS

technology to manage static and

elastic workloads

Benefits – ROI

– Greater cost control

– Rapid deployment

– Multiple resource pools

– Elastic Compute

– Security


Information Week 2011 On REDAPT

“This ability to invoke and coordinate both private and public clouds

is "the hidden jewel" of Zynga's success”, says Allan Leinwand,

CTO of infrastructure engineering at the company. “ And it's also an

architecture that might work for more conventional businesses, in

certain situations.”

-Information Week Global CIO 2011

Hybrid Cloud Strategy


Current Client Projects - Zynga

REDAPT provides custom fulfillment and integration for

Zynga’s rapidly growing infrastructure needs.

“From start to finish,

REDAPT made our

project a success by

introducing innovative

technologies and

delivering fully

integrated racks ahead

of schedule.”

-Mark Stockford, VP of

Production Operations,

Zynga


REDAPT Practice Areas

Cloud

Strategies

Capacity

Management

and Planning

Storage

Capacity

Management

Asset Lifecycle

Management

Network

Design and

Implementation

Custom

Fulfillment and

Integration


Vibes Media Joint Gluster – REDAPT Customer

Problem • Nearing capacity limits with rapid data growth

• Incumbent storage vendor costs too high

• Must find lower cost, highly available storage

• Need trusted infrastructure provider

Solution • Network upgrade

• GlusterFS for high throughput and availability

• REDAPT as trusted infrastructure advisor &

deployment

Benefits • Significant cost savings and much lower TCO

• Higher storage performance and availability

• Room for data growth

• Flexible, low cost solution for future capacity

expansion

Datacenter: Renewable Wind & Solar Energy Producer

• Mobile Marketing

• >50TB‟s

• Lower overall TCO

• Cost savings and

avoidance


Summary

Gluster provides innovative scale-out storage – NAS & Object combined

– Big Data

– Flexibility, scalability, superior performance and economics

REDAPT – A leader in data center IT architecture, solutions, and implementation

– CLOUD RACK – hyper-scale, performance, and security

Together a powerful combination of cloud compute and

storage


Poll #2

Are you using Gluster today? – Yes, in a test environment

– Yes, it‟s deployed in a production environment

– No, however we are considering it

– Just researching


Questions and Answers

Resources:

Try Gluster for free here: http://www.gluster.com/trybuy/

Gluster resources: http://www.gluster.com/products/resources/

REDAPT Cloud Services: http://www.redapt.com/cloud_strategies

For more information: [email protected] or 1-800-805-5215

http://www.gluster.com/trybuy/

http://www.gluster.com/products/resources/

http://www.gluster.com/products/resources/

http://www.redapt.com/cloud_strategies

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