Swinburne University of Technology - Shunde Zhang & Kieran Spear, Aptira
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Aptira is a solution provider that collaborates with Swinburne University of Technology and SUSE to deliver a scalable and cost-effective storage solution using SUSE Enterprise Storage powered by Ceph. The partnership addresses challenges related to increasing data storage needs, improving researcher efficiency, and managing costs sustainably. As a result, Swinburne benefits from rapid, reliable, and secure storage while reducing capital expenditure and operational costs.
Swinburne University of Technology - Shunde Zhang & Kieran Spear, Aptira
- 1. Swinburne University of Technology Storage Case Study
- 2. Who are these guys? [email protected] Kieran Spear: Appstronaut @spearki
- 3. Who are these guys? [email protected] Shunde Zhang: Nebularchitectionaut @shundezhang
- 4. Overview 1) Who is Aptira? 2) What does Aptira do? 3) Who do we do this for? 4) Swinburne! 5) Aptira & SUSE 6) The Challenge 7) The Solution 8) The Results 9) Q&A
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- 12. Swinburne University of Technology Aptira + SUSE Enterprise Storage
- 13. Swinburne University of Technology is a public university based in Melbourne, Australia. Swinburne fosters close ties with industry, business and governmental organisations to help ensure that its degree programmes and research find practical applications. It has a reputation for preparing graduates for life in the working world, as well as for its research in science and technology.
- 14. Swinburne University of Technology We teamed up with SUSE to build a very high-performing and scalable storage landscape at a fraction of the cost than we would have been able to with traditional storage systems SUSE
- 16. Our Partners We like to partner with like-minded companies In SUSE, we have a mutually complementary portfolio, and a joint desire to concentrate on offerings that are commercially better for customers (and drinking buddies)
- 17. Swinburne University of Technology The Challenge
- 18. Challenge 1 Advances in technology have vastly expanded the scope of the university’s research work, which now demands greater compute and storage resources Large Requirements
- 19. Challenge 2 Swinburne is always looking for ways to help their researchers work more effectively, which means giving them access to powerful and flexible IT resources Efficiency
- 20. Challenge 3 Latency concerns and data- sharing restrictions prevented Swinburne from using a public Cloud Location
- 21. Challenge 4 Swinburne wanted to leverage Ceph, as it is the most commonly used storage for OpenStack However, they didn’t have the in-house resources to support a Community Ceph platform Limited Resources
- 22. Challenge 5 Most vendor-supported distributions are licensed on a capacity basis As Swinburne's data volumes grow, so too would the cost of storage This model of licensing is unsustainable for these requirements Sustainability
- 23. Challenge 6 How do we accommodate this ever-growing need for performance and capacity while sticking to a tight budget?Budget
- 24. The Solution Swinburne University of Technology
- 25. The Solution Swinburne recognised that a software defined approach to storage offered an ideal fit for its needs, as it could deliver high performance and scalability at significantly lower cost than a traditional storage infrastructure This is where SUSE & Aptira come in A Software Defined Approach
- 26. The Solution Swinburne selected SUSE Enterprise Storage, a software-defined storage solution powered by Ceph SUSE: Enterprise Storage
- 27. The Solution Swinburne called on Aptira to help integrate the new storage solution into their existing architecture Aptira: Integrators
- 28. The Solution Swinburne has deployed two clusters running SUSE Enterprise Storage One of these clusters is the backend of NeCTAR's OpenStack Architecture
- 29. The Solution Both clusters provide storage to Windows machines via iSCSI gateway The iSCSI gateway is developed by SUSE and only available on SES Storage for Windows
- 30. The Solution The storage environment is setup in a HA configuration, continuously replicating data between its main data centre and its secondary siteData Replication
- 31. The Solution Swinburne uses Commvault software to provide enterprise backup and recovery, using SUSE Enterprise Storage as its cloud-based target storageBackup & Recovery
- 32. RDB Mirroring RGW Multi-site iSCSI Gateway iSCSI Gateway iSCSI Multipath RADOS Gateway RADOS Gateway Commvault EN Commvault GS Windows SES EN SES GS OpenStack
- 33. The Results Swinburne University of Technology
- 34. The Results A distributed storage cluster, SUSE Enterprise Storage provides virtually unlimited scalability This gives Swinburne the ability to easily expand storage resources as required Flexible
- 35. The Results Rapid, reliable storage Guaranteed security and integrity of the stored data Secure
- 36. The Results With a fast, flexible storage platform in place, the IT team at Swinburne can support the needs of researchers more effectivelyEfficient
- 37. The Results As SUSE Enterprise Storage runs on commodity server and storage hardware, it keeps Swinburne’s initial capital expenditure and ongoing infrastructure costs low Affordable
- 38. The Results SUSE Enterprise Storage offers an enterprise-supported solution that is licensed per node, instead of on a capacity basis This makes the product commercially viable for Swinburne Commercially Viable