Scality Conversations (Episode 3) Ever Evolving Data Center Hardware Leo Leung, VP of Corporate Marketing
Four Key Market Drivers Traditional SAN & NAS designed for terabytes, not petabytes Data growth continues Data silos remain Traditional storage designed to create silos of workloads, apps, departments, and sites Traditional storage designed for maintenance windows and immediate parts Users expect always on CFOs expect cloud economics Traditional storage appliances are inflexible and too expensive
Scality RING solves significant challenges Customers challenges Massive data growth Legacy storage silos Demand for Always on Scality RING software defined storage Simply scales out to hundreds of petabytes and billions of objects Consolidates 80% of storage workloads in one protected, efficient environment 100% uptime and durability Demand for Cloud economics Software-based, hardware-agnostic Slide 3
RING is good for a range of use cases and verticals ACTIVE ARCHIVES Intelligence Organization 40PB+ WEB & CLOUD Comcast, Orange, SFR 200 million users Dailymotion 10PB ENTERPRISE CLOUD Global Banks 10PB+ DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Los Alamos National Lab 500PB CONTENT DISTRIBUTION RTL2 7PB *Raw capacity
Scality Key Facts Founded: 2009 Product release: July 2010 $36M venture capital San Francisco (HQ), DC, Paris, Tokyo 100+ people Product: Scality RING software Markets: Service Providers, Banks, Media, Government 250% sales growth in 2014 DNA: Webmail for 200 million+ users who require high durability, 24x7 availability, instant access, & low cost 70+ cloud-scale customers in production worldwide
Scality RING Solution
Scality RING Unique Characteristics #1 Hardware-agnostic #2 100% uptime #4 High performance across workloads #3 Petabyte-scale
Hardware-agnostic BENEFITS Simple Support and deployments No hardware qualification Scality RING is a software-defined storage platform, Mix hardware generations and configurations Scality RING Software Defined Storage Significantly reduces acquisition cost and increases project flexibility x86 servers Limitless infrastructure scaling
Runs on any industry standard x86 servers File Applications Object Applications VM-based Applications Software Defined Storage Runs on standard Linux (no modifications) and standard x86 servers (no certification needed) Hyper-dense form factors App-oriented form factors Ultra low cost form factors
Buy software & initial hardware: grow however you need Scality RING Software Defined Storage platform 5 Petabytes license Initial servers 1PB Expansion 1PB Next generation hardware 2PB Add hardware as you need it Mix generations and form factors Mix media types and densities No more hardware lock-in 1TB drives 3TB drives 4TB drives
100% uptime and extreme durability with intelligent data protection mechanisms and geo-distributed architectures, BENEFITS Enables carriergrade service levels, reduced operating costs, and improved end user satisfaction SCALITY RING SOFTWARE Scality RING Software Defined Storage RING Management Security Replication Erasure Coding Geo-Redundancy Distributed DB Object Storage Self-Healing x86 servers Limitless infrastructure scaling
100% uptime even with expansions, upgrades, Year Users Application Architecture 2015 2.1M Scality RING Servers Disks /Capacity Planned expansion Proven 100% uptime with very little management overhead (½ FTE for 2PB) 2014 RING K 2013 Zimbra 8 (new architecture) Single Tier RING H 2012 Patches 2011 Zimbra 7 Patches Added 12 servers; Retired first gen servers Added 12 servers Changed to CentOS 2010 1.6M Zimbra 5 Two tiers RING D 12 servers 576 disks /1.6PB 432 disks / 1PB 144 disks / 144TB How we do it: Software-defined Shared-nothing Self-healing
Megabytes per second 100% uptime even with disk and server failures Fast rebuilds/rebalancing with no performance impact 2200 2100 2000 1900 Disk Failed Disk Repaired in only 16 minutes Storage Server Failure Self-healing: Rebalance / Rebuild 60TB in only two hours Scality RING on six servers 1800 1700 1600 Performance impact is limited to the offline server 1500 1400 START 0:16 1:30 3:30
100% uptime even with site failure Large SaaS Provider Application Proven multi-site availability and durability at very low cost Scality RING Software Defined Storage How we do it: Synchronous data over distance Site A Site B Site C Multi-site protection with low overhead (erasure coding)
Scality RING is Software-Defined Storage at Petabyte Scale Software-based and runs on standard x86 servers, increasing flexibility and reducing costs Designed for 100% uptime and extreme durability, improving service levels and reducing overhead Simply scales to hundreds of petabytes and billions of objects, easily handling massive data growth Serves 80% of applications and storage workloads, eliminating silos
Scality Conversations (Episode 3) Ever Evolving Data Center Hardware
Scality Conversations (Episode 3) Ever Evolving Data Center Hardware Leo Leung VP of Corp Marketing Scality @lleung David Chapa Chief Technology Evangelist Seagate CSS @davidchapa
Density, chassis form factors 5U, 84 SAS or SATA drives, 3 petabytes of data per rack, 500TB per shelf 4U, 60 SAS or SATA drives, 360TB per shelf
Flash storage
Changing of the guard? HDD density growth slows to 20% a year NAND density growth continues at 40% to 80% a year
SMR drives
Server Storage Application File System DB RAID POSIX 1986 1988 NTFS 1993 1990s to 2000s XFS 1993 POSIX File System Volume Manager Driver FC Storage Server RAID Battery Backed RAM SAS CACHE Devices SAS Interface SMR, Mapping Cylinder, Head, Sector Drive HDA
Application File System DB POSIX File System Volume Manager Driver Storage Server RAID FC Battery Backed SAS Devices RAM SAS CACHE Interface SMR, Mapping Cylinder, Head, Sector Drive HDA Standard Device Recording Key/Value Interface Ethernet Connectivity
Open Source Key/Value API and libraries Open Source Interface Specification Object storage software partners Systems partners Storage now fully disaggregated from compute
Same form factor Connector re-pinned Two Ethernet connections Connector
Core Core No new ports Ethernet v. SAS switch SAS SAS Eth Eth 72 HDDs + Ethernet + power
No impact to Data Center Networking Traditional Architecture Kinetic Architecture