Red Hat Storage Day Boston - Why Software-defined Storage Matters
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Software-defined storage is an approach to data storage that uses software to control physical storage infrastructure and manages it as a unified pool of storage. This provides several advantages over traditional proprietary storage, including using standard hardware, centralized management, scale-out architectures, and open source software. Red Hat offers Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage, which provide software-defined storage solutions that are more flexible, cost-effective, and scalable than traditional storage appliances.
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Red Hat Storage Day Boston - Why Software-defined Storage Matters
- 1. WHY SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE MATTERS Will McGrath Red Hat November 2016
- 2. 2 THE DATA STORAGE SHORTFALL Data stores are growing exponentially, while IT budgets are not HDDs are becoming more dense, but $/GB decline is slowing Software and hardware advances are needed to close the gap GROWTH OF DATA IT STORAGE BUDGETS 20202010
- 3. 3 APPLIANCES ARENâT ENOUGH Complexity hidden from end users, along with flexibility Vendor lock-in leads to pricing premium Price premium over constituent components is difficult to sustain THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO STORAGE ADMINS MANAGEMENT INTERFACE DATA NFS/SMB/ISCSI ENDPOINTS STANDARD SERVERS AND MEDIA PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE
- 4. 4 PUBLIC CLOUD STORAGE ISNâT ENOUGH Complexity still hidden from end users, pay-as-you-go pricing Fastest-growing segment of IT storage budgets Mostly built with proprietary software CONVENIENT BUT LIMITED ADMINS MANAGEMENT INTERFACE DATA CLOUD STORAGE APIS STANDARD SERVERS AND MEDIA LINUX + PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE
- 5. 5 THE INDUSTRY IS RETHINKING STORAGE 38% of IT decision makers report inadequate storage capabilities as one of their top three weekly pain points 70% of IT decision makers admit that their organizationâs current storage canât cope with emerging workloads 98% of IT decision makers believe a more agile storage solution could benefit their organization Vanson Bourne Ltd: Storage limitations, frustrations, and coping with future needs, Red Hat Storage research results, June 2016
- 7. 7 STORAGE IS EVOLVING OPEN, SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE Standardized, unified, open platforms Standard Computers and Disks Ceph Gluster +++ Control Plane (API, GUI) Custom GUI Proprietary Hardware Proprietary Software Custom GUI Proprietary Hardware Proprietary Software USER USER USER ADMIN ADMIN ADMIN Custom GUI Proprietary Hardware Proprietary Software USER ADMIN Standard Hardware OpenSource Software TRADITIONAL STORAGE Complex proprietary silos
- 9. 9 WHAT IS SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE? SERVER-BASED CENTRALIZED CONTROL OPEN ECOSYSTEM
- 10. 10 SERVER-BASED STORAGE The use of software and standard hardware to provide services traditionally provided by single-purpose storage appliances (similar to server virtualization, which uses software to emulate servers), providing increased agility and efficiency Appliance USER Appliance USER Appliance USER Distributed Cluster of Services USER USER USER
- 11. 12 SAN/NAS IS ON THE DECLINE âą Storage capacity shipped inside servers has grown since 2010, and is now the majority âą Capacity shipped in SAN/NAS is declining, reflecting the use of server-based storage technologies by web-scale firms Changing workloads drive the need for flexible, economical server-based storage. WW DEPLOYED CAPACITY (TB) 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 EXTERNAL CAPACITY INTERNAL CAPACITY
- 12. 13 WHAT IS SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE? CENTRALIZED CONTROLSERVER-BASED OPEN ECOSYSTEM
- 13. 14 STORAGE ORCHESTRATION The ability to provision, grow, shrink, and decommission storage resources on-demand and programmatically, providing increased control and integration of storage into a software-defined data center Web Console API Command Line A browser interface designed for managing distributed storage A full API for automation and integration with outside systems A robust, scriptable command-line interface for expert operators Full life cycle management for distributed, software-defined data services PROVISION INSTALL CONFIGURE TUNE MONITOR
- 14. 15 WHAT IS SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE? OPEN ECOSYSTEMSERVER-BASED CENTRALIZED CONTROL
- 16. 17 WHY THIS MATTERS PROPRIETARY HARDWARE Common, off-the-shelf hardware Lower cost, standardized supply chain
- 17. 18 INDUSTRY STANDARD HARDWARE Standardization makes storage more convenient Customers can build clusters using standard hardware from existing vendors thatâs perfect for their workload. âą Clusters can be performance-optimized, capacity- optimized, or throughput-optimized âą Need capacity? Add more disks. Too slow? Add more servers. âą Clusters can become larger or smaller with no downtime
- 18. 19 WHY THIS MATTERS PROPRIETARY HARDWARE SCALE-UP ARCHITECTURE Common, off-the-shelf hardware Scale-out architecture Lower cost, standardized supply chain Increased operational flexibility
- 19. 20 PERFORMANCE THAT SCALES Performance should scale up as capacity does Software-defined storage intelligently uses hardware to provide performance at very large scale. âą Traditional appliances perform better when they are empty than they do when they are full of disks âą Performance in software-defined storage clusters improves as clusters get larger, not the other way around âą Intel, SanDisk, Fujitsu, and Mellanox regularly contribute performance optimizations PERFORMANCE
- 20. 21 WHY THIS MATTERS PROPRIETARY HARDWARE SCALE-UP ARCHITECTURE HARDWARE-BASED INTELLIGENCE Common, off-the-shelf hardware Scale-out architecture Software-based intelligence Lower cost, standardized supply chain Increased operational flexibility More programmability, agility, and control
- 21. 22 THE ROBUSTNESS OF SOFTWARE Software can do things hardware canât Storage services based on software are more flexible than hardware-based implementations âą Can be deployed on bare metal, inside containers, inside VMs, or in the public cloud âą Can deploy on a single server, or thousands, and can be upgraded and reconfigured on the fly âą Grows and shrinks programmatically to meet changing demands
- 22. 23 WHY THIS MATTERS PROPRIETARY HARDWARE SCALE-UP ARCHITECTURE HARDWARE-BASED INTELLIGENCE CLOSED DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Common, off-the-shelf hardware Scale-out architecture Software-based intelligence Open development process Lower cost, standardized supply chain Increased operational flexibility More programmability, agility, and control More flexible, well-integrated technology
- 23. 24 âą Contributions from Intel, SanDisk, CERN, and Yahoo âą Presenting Ceph Days in cities around the world and quarterly virtual Ceph Developer Summit events âą Over 11M downloads in the last 12 months âą Increased development velocity, authorship, and discussion has resulted in rapid feature expansion OPEN ECOSYSTEMS 97 AUTHORS/MO 2,453 COMMITS/MO 260 POSTERS/MO 33 AUTHORS/MO 97 COMMITS/MO 138 POSTERS/MO
- 24. 25 DISRUPTION IN THE STORAGE INDUSTRY PUBLIC CLOUD STORAGE TRADITIONAL APPLIANCES SOFTWARE- DEFINED STORAGE better faster more less weaker limited better faster less more stronger broad COST EFFICIENCY PROVISIONING VENDOR LOCK-IN SKILL REQUIRED GOVERNANCE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
- 26. 27 THE RED HAT STORAGE PORTFOLIO Gluster management Ceph data service Gluster data service Ceph management OPENSOURCE SOFTWARE STANDARD HARDWARE Share-nothing, scale-out architecture provides durability and adapts to changing demands Self-managing and self-healing features reduce operational overhead Standards-based interfaces and full APIs ease integration with applications and systems Supported by the experts at Red Hat
- 27. 28 OVERVIEW: RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE âą Purpose-built as a scale-out file store with a straightforward architecture suitable for public, private, and hybrid cloud âą Simple to install and configure, with a minimal hardware footprint âą Offers mature NFS, SMB and HDFS interfaces for enterprise use Intuit uses Red Hat Gluster Storage to provide flexible, cost- effective storage for its industry-leading financial offerings Nimble file storage for petabyte-scale workloads Container-Native Storage âą Persistent storage âą Containerized storage Enterprise File Sharing âą Media streaming âą Active Archives Enterprise Virtualization Rich Media and Archival CUSTOMER HIGHLIGHT: INTUIT TARGETUSECASES
- 28. 29 STRENGTH: DEPLOYMENT FLEXIBILITY HOSTS VIRTUAL MACHINES PRIVATE CLOUD CONTAINERSPUBLIC CLOUD HYBRID CLOUD
- 29. TARGET WORKLOAD: CONTAINERS 30 Deploys storage alongside applications in containers Lowers TCO by increasing utilization of resources Unifies container and storage orchestration Allows for rapid adjustments to compute/storage ratio CONTAINER NGINIX CONTAINER MASTE R Node 2 Node 3 Node 1 Node 4 NGINIX CONTAINER POSTGRES CONTAINER
- 30. 31 OVERVIEW: RED HAT CEPH STORAGE âą Built from the ground up as a next-generation storage system, based on years of research and suitable for powering infrastructure platforms âą Highly tunable, extensible, and configurable, with policy-based control and no single point of failure âą Offers mature interfaces for block and object storage for the enterprise Cisco uses Red Hat Ceph Storage to deliver storage for next-generation cloud services Powerful distributed storage for the cloud and beyond Cloud Infrastructure âą VM storage with OpenStackÂź Cinder, Glance Keystone, Manila, and Nova âą Object storage for tenant apps Rich Media and Archival S3-compatible object storage CUSTOMER HIGHLIGHT: CISCO TARGETUSECASES
- 32. 33 STRENGTH: MASSIVELY DISTRIBUTED DATA
- 33. TARGET WORKLOAD: OPENSTACK 34 Allows for instantaneous parallel creation of VMs at massive scale Integrates easily and tightly with OpenStack Cinder, Glance, Nova, Keystone, and Manila Offers instant backup capabilities Provides persistent object, ïŹle, and database storage for applications
- 34. TARGET WORKLOAD: OBJECT STORAGE 35 Stores unstructured data at web scale, using standard hardware Works with standard object APIs for a wide range of compatibility Spans multiple regions with no single point of failure Ideal for active archives, big data archives, and content libraries
- 35. 36 STORAGE AT RED HAT PHYSICAL VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD CONTAINERS PUBLIC CLOUD
- 36. IDC â The economics of software defined storage Comparable features and performance at significantly lower cost of traditional storage appliances http://red.ht/2eoTdB6 IDC study finds Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage to be 53% and 39% less expensive, respectively, than comparable NAS solutions from traditional storage vendors, across five years
- 37. GARTNER NAMED RED HAT A VISIONARY IN DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS AND OBJECT STORAGE Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from https://engage.redhat.com/gartnermagic-quadrant-storage-s- 201610121525. âą Red Hat Storage recognized as a Visionary by Gartner in their first Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. âą Red Hat Storage positioned furthest and highest in both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute in the Visionaries quadrant.
- 39. Red Hat Ceph Storage provides us with a high- performing system that can scale to meet the significant storage needs required for genomic sequencing.â THOMAS CONNOR, PH.D.SENIOR LECTURER, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY AND CO-INVESTIGATOR, CLIMB. â ACHIEVING STORAGE NEEDS TO SUPPORT MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS BUSINESS CHALLENGE Free cloud-based compute, storage, and analysis tools for academic microbiologists in U.K. Shared IT infrastructure to facilitate collaboration among geographically dispersed research community Easy to use solution to manage 100s of TBs, scale on demand to PBs SOLUTION Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Consulting BENEFITS Object storage to meet large-scale storage requirements of medical research Greater efficiency in storing enterprise data and managing data growth Scalability to 1.5PB of raw object storage per site Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics
- 40. Throughput Optimized SSD, HDD in standard / dense chassis Use Case: Rich Media 41 CEPH IS NOT JUST SCALE OUT CAPACITY IOPS Optimized NVMe SSD in SLED chassis Use Case: MySQL Cost / Capacity Optimized HDD in dense / ultra-dense chassis Use Case: Active Archives High MB/s throughput Large, sequential IO Read / write mix High IOPS / GB Smaller, random IO Read / write mix Low cost / GB Sequential IO Write mostly