THE FUTURE OF STORAGE IS SOFTWARE DEFINED. Jasper Geraerts Business Manager Storage Benelux/Red Hat

THE FUTURE OF STORAGE IS SOFTWARE DEFINED Jasper Geraerts Business Manager Storage Benelux/Red Hat

THE FUTURE OF STORAGE Traditional Storage Complex proprietary silos Open, Software-Defined Storage Standardized, unified, open platforms USER USER USER ADMIN USER Control Plane (API, GUI) ADMIN ADMIN ADMIN Ceph Gluster +++ Custom GUI Proprietary Software Proprietary Hardware Custom GUI Proprietary Software Proprietary Hardware Custom GUI Proprietary Software Proprietary Hardware Open Source Software Standard Computers and Disks Standard Hardware

WHY BOTHER? PROPRIETARY HARDWARE SCALE-UP ARCHITECTURE Common, off-the-shelf hardware Lower cost, standardized supply chain Scale-out architecture Increased operational flexibility HARDWARE-BASED INTELLIGENCE Software-based intelligence More programmability, agility, and control CLOSED DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Open development process More flexible, well-integrated technology

THE JOURNEY Open Software-Defined Storage is a fundamental reimagining of how storage infrastructure works. It provides substantial economic and operational advantages, and it has quickly become ideally suited for a growing?????? Containers Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Native Apps Analytics Hyper- Convergence TODAY EMERGING FUTURE

THE RED HAT STORAGE PORTFOLIO

RED HAT STORAGE PRINCIPLE ARCHITECTURE Scale out performance, capacity, and availability Scale up capacity RED HAT STORAGE SERVER (CPU/MEM) SERVER (CPU/MEM) 4TB 1TB RED HAT STORAGE FOR ON-PREMISE.................. Single global namespace...... Deploys on RHEL-supported x86- servers with built-in Storage or JBOD Built on and ships with RHEL Scales out linearly Built-in Data-Redundancy and High Availability Self-healing and Self-managing Rebalancing

DIFFERENT KINDS OF STORAGE CAPACITY PERFORMANCE Object storage OpenStack Sync and share Hyperconvergence DBaaS Analytics NEXT-GEN TRADITIONAL Enterprise file sharing VMWare

STANDARD HARDWARE THE RED HAT STORAGE PORTFOLIO Share-nothing, scale-out architecture provides durability and a Ceph management Ceph data services Gluster management Gluster data services Self-managing and self-healing features reduce operational ov OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Standards-based interfaces and full APIs ease integration with Supported by the experts at Red Hat and key hardware partne

OVERVIEW: RED HAT CEPH STORAGE Powerful distributed storage for the cloud and beyond Built from the ground up as a next-generation storage system, based on years of research and suitable for powering infrastructure platfor Highly tunable, extensible, and configurable, with policy-based control and no single point of failure TARGET USE CASES Offers mature interfaces for block and object storage for the enterprise Cloud Infrastructure VM Storage with OpenStack Cinder, Glance & Nova Object storage for tenant apps Customer Highlight: Cisco Cisco uses Red Hat Ceph Storage to deliver storage for next-generation cloud services Rich Media and Archival S3-compatible object storage

OVERVIEW: RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE Agile file storage for petabyte-scale workloads Purpose-built as a scale-out file store with a straightforward architecture suitable for public, private, and hybrid cloud Simple to install and configure, with a minimal hardware footprint Offers mature NFS, SMB and HDFS interfaces for enterprise use TARGET USE CASES Analytics Machine analytics with Splunk Big data analytics with Hadoop Enterprise File Sharing Media Streaming Active Archives Customer Highlight: Intuit Enterprise Virtualization Intuit uses Red Hat Gluster Storage to provide flexible, cost-effective storage for their industry-leading financial offerings. Rich Media & Archival

FOCUSED SET OF USE CASES ANALYTICS CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE RICH MEDIA AND ARCHIVAL SYNC AND SHARE ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION Big Data analytics with Hadoop Machine data analytics with Splunk Virtual machine storage with OpenStack Object storage for tenant applications Cost-effective storage for rich media streaming Active archives File sync and share with owncloud Storage for conventional virtualization with RHEV

ROADMAP: RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE 2014 (v3.0) 1H 2015 (v3.0.4) TODAY (v3.1) CORE PROTOCOL SCALE HARDWARE MGMT Volume snapshots HDP 2.0.6 Hadoop plugin support NFSv4 tech preview refresh 128 nodes per cluster 60 drives per chassis Expanded HCL SSD support Monitoring using Nagios SNMP support RPM based install GlusterFS 3.6, RHEL 6 CORE RHEL 6.6 support HDP 2.1 support (TEZ, Hbase) RDMA User serviceable snapshots Icehouse rebase for Swift Object expiration support 3-way replication + JBOD support Stability and performance fixes GlusterFS 3.6, RHEL 6 CORE PERF SECURITY PROTOCOLMGMT Cache tiering Bit rot detection Snapshot scheduling Backup hooks Erasure Coding Small file Rebalance SELinux enforcing mode NFSv4 (multi-headed) SMB 3 (subset of features) Device management, dashboard Snapshots, Geo-replication GlusterFS 3.7, RHEL 6, RHEL 7

ROADMAP: RED HAT CEPH STORAGE V1.2.3 TODAY (V1.3.0) FUTURE ( Tufnell and Beyond) Erasure coding Cache tiering RADOS read-affinity OSD w/ssd optimization More robust rebalancing Improved repair process Local and pyramid erasure codes OpenStack Barbican integration OoS Kerberos/LDAP support CORE OBJECT MGMT User and bucket quotas Off-line installer GUI management Ceph FIrefly CORE BLOCK OBJECT Improved read IOPS Faster booting from clones S3 object versioning Bucket sharing Foreman/puppet installer CLI :: Calamari API parity Multi-user and multi-cluster CORE BLOCK OBJECT iscsi Mirroring NFS Active/Active multi-site Off-line installer GUI management MGMT Ceph Hammer MGMT Ceph Jewel

POSSIBLE FUTURE USE CASES ANALYTICS CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE RICH MEDIA AND ARCHIVAL SYNC AND SHARE ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION Big Data analytics with Spark Machine data analytics ELK, Solr DBaaS / OpenStack Trove FSaaS / OpenStack Manila Compliant archives Storage for shared folders with Object backend Hyper-converged architecture

STANDARD HARD FUTURE PORTFOLIO: STEP 1 A common management system will be included with both pro Common Storage Controller Consistent manageability across the entire portfolio OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Ceph Data Services Gluster Data Services Increased partner and community alignment Increased marketing focus on the portfolio, less on each indiv Products differentiate on use case

STANDARD HARD FUTURE PORTFOLIO: STEP 2 Red Hat Storage Controller One product: a controller that knows how to deploy a variety o OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Ceph Data Services Gluster Data Services??? Future data services can be included when upstream technolo Unified orchestration, good potential for HSM Still the best enterprise product available for both Ceph and G

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