Gluster has partnered with Redapt, Inc., an innovative data center architecture and infrastructure solutions provider, to integrate GlusterFS with hardware providing customers with highly-scalable NAS storage technology for on-premise, virtual and cloud environments. Gluster's storage technology enables Redapt to offer a comprehensive, cost-effective storage solution delivering the scalability, performance and reliability that companies need to effectively run their data centers. This webinar will provide an overview of the partnership, benefits of the joint solution, and include use cases of how customers today are deploying the joint solution. .

1. Scale-out Storage Solutions from
Gluster and REDAPT

2. Some Housekeeping Items…
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3. Today’s Speakers
Tom Trainer Matt Huff
Director V.P. Business
Product Marketing Development
Gluster, Inc. REDAPT
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4. 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
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5. 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
Thunder
Result: award winning technology
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6. Open Source
200,000+ downloads
Global Adoption – ~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
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7. 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
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8. 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
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9. 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
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10. A Standard Gluster Deployment
Standard clients running
Clients/Apps Clients/Apps Clients/Apps
standard apps
IP Network Over any standard IP
network
Access to application data,
Gluster Global Namespace (HTTP, NFS, CIFS, Gluster Native) as files and folders and or
objects, in global
Application Data Objects VMs ApacheTM HadoopTM
namespace, using a variety
of standard protocols
VMDK VMDK
Stored in a commoditized,
virtualized, scale-out,
virtual storage pool centrally managed pool of
DAS, SAN, NAS
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11. Software Approach to File and Object Storage
High performance storage across heterogeneous server environments
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) Network Attached Storage
– NFS / CIFS / GlusterFS
– POSIX compliant
– Access files within objects
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12. 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
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13. The Gluster Connector for OpenStack
Enables GlusterFS to be the underlying file system
Connects GlusterFS to Xen and KVM hypervisor
OpenStack with Gluster
– Unified File and Object storage
– Highly-available, scale-out NAS
– Alternative to SWIFT
Mobile Apps. Web Clients. Enterprise Software Ecosystem
API Layer
OpenStack Prior to Gluster
…
Compute
Unified File &
Object Storage
SWIFT
OpenStack Imaging Services
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14. 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)
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
Hypervisor Hypervisor
GlusterFS GlusterFS
Server Server
(CPU/Mem) (CPU/Mem)
Virtual storage pool
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15. 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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16. Pattern Energy
Datacenter: Renewable Wind & Solar Energy Producer
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
• Rapid & advance • 32 HP compute nodes
• GlusterFS for high throughput and availability
weather predictions • 20TB+ total capacity
• Maximizing energy Benefits
assets
• Precisely predicts solar times and wind patterns 3 to
• Cost savings and 5 days in advance
avoidance • Maximize energy production and repair times
• Avoid costs of outsourcing weather predictions
• Solution has paid for itself many times over
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17. CIC Innovates Faster with Cloud Storage
Client/Apps Client/Apps Client/Apps
Client/Apps Client/Apps Client/Apps
Client/Apps Client/Apps Client/Apps
IP Network
Gluster Global Namespace
Private Cloud Public Cloud
Replication
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18. Sample Gluster Customers
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19. Gluster Enterprise Deployment Options
On-premise/datacenter
Storage Software Appliance
– Deploy on bare metal
– Any hardware on Red Hat Hardware HCL
Virtualization/private cloud
Virtual Machines
– Deployable on the leading virtual machines
Public cloud
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
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20. Introducing REDAPT
Business Information Technology That Propels Business
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21. 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
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22. REDAPT and the IT Evolution
Fulfillment and Supply Chain Management
Design and Implementation
Custom Configuration
Capacity Management and Planning
Cloud Assessments Cloud
Orchestration
Automated Provisioning Virtualization
Elastic Compute
Traditional IT
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23. 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
Cloud
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24. The RightScale Solution
Multi-cloud Dashboard, User Management
Configuration Asset Library
Automation Engine
RightScale Multi-cloud Engine
API API
Amazon Web Services
Rackspace
Cloud #1 Cloud #2 Cloud #3 Cloud #4
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25. 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
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26. 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
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27. REDAPT CLOUD RACK
Case study: Social Gaming Company
Problem Solution
– Large Social gaming company with a – Deployed cloud racks with RS
significant investment in the public technology to manage static and
cloud required a more cost effective elastic workloads
delivery model for their offering
Benefits
– ROI
– Greater cost control
– Rapid deployment
– Multiple resource pools
– Elastic Compute
– Security
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28. Information Week 2011 On REDAPT
Hybrid Cloud Strategy
“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
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29. 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
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30. REDAPT Practice Areas
Capacity Network
Cloud
Management Design and
Strategies
and Planning Implementation
Storage Custom
Asset Lifecycle
Capacity Fulfillment and
Management
Management Integration
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31. Vibes Media
Joint Gluster – REDAPT Customer
Datacenter: Mobile Marketing Solutions Provider
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
• Mobile Marketing • REDAPT as trusted infrastructure advisor &
deployment
• >50TB‟s
• Lower overall TCO Benefits
• Significant cost savings and much lower TCO
• Cost savings and
• Higher storage performance and availability
avoidance • Room for data growth
• Flexible, low cost solution for future capacity
expansion
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32. 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
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33. 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
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34. 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: info@gluster.com or 1-800-805-5215
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