Gluster CTO and Co-founder, AB Periasamy, discusses Gluster's vision of the future of cloud storage.

1. Future of Cloud Storage
AB Periasamy | CTO Gluster, Inc.
Thu, June 9, 2011

2. Storage Transforming to Reflect Compute
Multi-tenant / Commoditized
Virtualized Automated
shared Standardized
Scale on Free Software
In the Cloud Scale Out
Demand / OpenSource
Storage must support the public and private cloud environment
• Storage is the Achilles heel of full data center virtualization
• Storage performance, availability, capacity, & interface is the Achilles heel of public
cloud
• Big Data, data migration, multi-site consistency are the Achilles heel of hybrid cloud
Storage will look like the computing environment
• Storage should be a commoditized, virtualized, centrally managed pool
• Monolithic proprietary systems now challenged by nimble and shared network storage
• Storage becomes a software problem
• The “Google model” of storage
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3. Disk Systems & Storage Interconnects
FC (FCP)
Infiniband (SRP, iSer, NFSoRDMA)
Ethernet (iSCSI, FCoE, AoE, NBD/DRBD, NFS, HTTP)
DAS vs JBOD vs SAN
SATA vs SAS vs SSD
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4. Filesystems
Ext3/4, XFS, Btrfs, ZFS
NFS, OCFS2, Lustre, GFS, GPFS
MogileFS, VMFS, SheepDog, Ceph
GlusterFS
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5. Future of Cloud Storage
Filesystems vs Object Storage
vs Big Data vs NoSQL
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6. GlusterFS towards Unified Storage
Unified Multi-Protocol Storage
NAS + Objects + Big Data + SAN
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7. GlusterFS Simple Commands
# gluster peer probe HOSTNAME
# gluster volume info
# gluster volume create VOLNAME [stripe COUNT] [replica
COUNT] [transport tcp | rdma] BRICK …
# gluster volume delete VOLNAME
# gluster volume add-brick VOLNAME NEW-BRICK ...
# gluster volume rebalance VOLNAME start
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9. Gluster Architecture Advantages
Software only
No metadata server
‘Google Storage’ for • Fully distributed architecture, no bottleneck
Everyone • Gluster Elastic Hash
• Intelligence in the SW High performance global namespace
• Leverage commodity HW • Scale out with linear performance
• Hundreds of petabytes
• Scale-out elastically • 1 GbE, 10GbE
• Replication for reliability High availability
• Software enables • Replication to survive hardware failure
virtualization • 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
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10. Evolution of GlusterFS
2006-2009 GlusterFS v1.0 – v3.0
Distributed Filesystem capabilities with self-healing, synchronous
replication, stripe, distribute (global name space)
2010 GlusterFS v3.1
Elastic Cloud capabilities
2011 Q2 GlusterFS v3.2
GeoGraphic replication, Enhanced monitoring, Directory level
quotas (also works as cloud usage billing APIs)
2011 Q3/Q4
Hadoop HDFS drop-in replacement, Unified File and Object
Storage (Amazon S3 compatible) and Near CDP.
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11. Story of Gluster
1st meeting room
1st Office US
1st Office Bengalooru 1st Office Bengalooru
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12. 1000s of Community Deployments
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13. Fast Growing Commercial Deployments
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14. www.gluster.org
Thank You

15. Gluster Deployment
Private Cloud Public Cloud
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16. GlusterFS & OpenStack
VM Image Storage – Answer to VMWare VMFS
Unified File & Object Storage – Application Data
GeoReplication – Enable Hybrid Clouds
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17. Partners Healthcare
Private Cloud: Centralized Storage as a Service
Problem
• Capacity growth from 144TB to 1+PB
• Multiple distributed users/departments
• Multi OS access - Windows, Linux and Unix
Solution
• Over 500 TB • GlusterFS Cluster
• 9 Sun “Thumper” • Solaris/ZFS/x4500 w/ InfiniBand
systems in cluster • Native CIFS/ NFS access
Benefits
• Capacity on demand / pay as you grow
• Centralized management
• Higher reliability
• OPEX decreased by 10X
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18. 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
• 1.2 PB of audio served • Replication for high availability
per week • 250+ TB total capacity
• 13 million files Benefits
• Over 50 GB/sec peak • Easily scale capacity
traffic • Centralized management; one
administrator to manage day-to-day
operations
• No changes to application
• Higher reliability
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19. Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions
Problem
• Host a dedicated enterprise cloud solution
• Large scale VMware environment
• Need high availability
Solution
• Large scale VM
• Gluster for VM storage, NFS to clients
storage
• SAS drives on back-end
• Low cost service • Replication for high availability
delivery for enterprise
customer Benefits
• Drastic reduction in • Storage provisioning from 6 wks. to 15 min.
provisioning time • Vendor agnostic storage
• Low cost of service delivery
• Elastic growth
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20. Envoy Media
Public Cloud: Media Serving on AWS
Problem
• Limited scalability
• Slow response to demand spikes
• Manual data management
Solution
• Four EBS volumes under Gluster global
• Targeted media namespace
serving • Replication for high availability
• 100% AWS hosted • EC2 for compute; S3 for backup
• Unpredictable traffic Benefits
• No change to application
• Content immediately available to all servers
• Automatic resource allocation
• Lower cost (vs. colo and proprietary options)
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