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Webinar Segments & Time Line – Updated 9.24.11
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Time
PST
Segment – Working
Title
Duration Presenter Status Notes
10:00 AM Welcome, Housekeeping, 4 mins Heather Moderator
& Host
Set-up webinar objectives & manages flow,
introduces & welcomes speakers, etc.
10:04 AM Interactive Poll #1 2 mins Heather TBD After voting and sharing results, Heather introduces
Tom
10:06 AM Introduction to GlusterFS 20 mins Tom TBD Tom leads discussion on Introduction to GlusterFS;
turns over to Matt
10:26 AM Intro to REDAPT 20 mins Matt Matt leads discussion on REDAPT; Turns back over
to Tom for summary
10:46 AM Wrap up 1 mins Tom TBD Tom does Wrap Up & hands over to Heather for poll
10:47 AM Interactive Poll #2 2 mins Heather TBD After voting and sharing results, Heather starts Q&A
session
10:49 AM
Q&A session 10 mins Tom
Matt
TBD Heather asks softball questions and questions poised
by attendees. Answered by Tom & Matt
10:59 AM
Adjourn – Closing Comments
1 min Heather
TBD Heather closes out the webinar
Gluster Partners with REDAPT to Delivers Scale-out NAS Storage
Scale-out Storage Solutions from
Gluster and REDAPT
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How To Ask a Question?
Some Housekeeping Items…
Ask a question at any time
Questions will be answered at
the end of the webinar
Slides will be available after
the webinar
The webinar is being
recorded
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Today’s Speakers
Tom Trainer Director
Product Marketing
Gluster, Inc.
Matt Huff V.P. Business
Development
REDAPT
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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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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
Result: award winning technology
Thunder
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Open Source
200,000+ downloads – ~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
Global Adoption
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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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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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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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A Standard Gluster Deployment
Gluster Global Namespace (HTTP, NFS, CIFS, Gluster Native) Application Data Objects
Clients/Apps Clients/Apps Clients/Apps
IP Network
VMs
VMDK VMDK
ApacheTM HadoopTM
Standard clients running
standard apps
Over any standard IP
network
Access to application data,
as files and folders and or
objects, in global
namespace, using a variety
of standard protocols
Stored in a commoditized,
virtualized, scale-out,
centrally managed pool of
DAS, SAN, NAS
virtual storage pool
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Software Approach to File and Object Storage
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)
High performance storage across heterogeneous server environments
Network Attached Storage
– NFS / CIFS / GlusterFS
– POSIX compliant
– Access files within objects
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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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The Gluster Connector for OpenStack
Enables GlusterFS to be the underlying file system
Connects GlusterFS to Xen and KVM hypervisor
– Unified File and Object storage
– Highly-available, scale-out NAS
– Alternative to SWIFT
SWIFT
OpenStack Imaging Services
Unified File &
Object Storage
… Compute
API Layer
Mobile Apps. Web Clients. Enterprise Software Ecosystem
OpenStack Prior to Gluster
OpenStack with Gluster
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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)
GlusterFS
Server (CPU/Mem)
Hypervisor
VM
GlusterFS
Server (CPU/Mem)
Hypervisor
VM
VM
VM
VM
Virtual storage pool
VM
VM
VM
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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
• Replication for high availability
• 250+ TB total capacity
Benefits • Easily scale capacity
• Centralized management; one administrator
to manage day-to-day operations
• No changes to application
• Higher reliability
• 1.2 PB of audio served
per week
• 13 million files
• Over 50 GB/sec peak
traffic
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Pattern Energy
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 • 32 HP compute nodes
• GlusterFS for high throughput and availability
• 20TB+ total capacity
Benefits • Precisely predicts solar times and wind patterns 3 to
5 days in advance
• Maximize energy production and repair times
• Avoid costs of outsourcing weather predictions
• Solution has paid for itself many times over
Datacenter: Renewable Wind & Solar Energy Producer
• Rapid & advance
weather predictions
• Maximizing energy
assets
• Cost savings and
avoidance
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CIC Innovates Faster with Cloud Storage
Client/Apps Client/Apps
Private Cloud Public Cloud
Replication
Gluster Global Namespace
Client/Apps Client/Apps
Client/Apps Client/Apps
Client/Apps Client/Apps
Client/Apps
IP Network
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Sample Gluster Customers
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Gluster Enterprise Deployment Options
Storage Software Appliance – Deploy on bare metal
– Any hardware on Red Hat Hardware HCL
Virtual Machines – Deployable on the leading virtual machines
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
On-premise/datacenter
Virtualization/private cloud
Public cloud
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Introducing REDAPT Business Information Technology That Propels Business
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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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REDAPT and the IT Evolution
Traditional IT
Virtualization
Cloud
Fulfillment and Supply Chain Management
Design and Implementation
Custom Configuration
Capacity Management and Planning
Cloud Assessments
Orchestration
Automated Provisioning
Elastic Compute
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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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RightScale Multi-cloud Engine
Automation Engine
Configuration Asset Library
Multi-cloud Dashboard, User Management
The RightScale Solution
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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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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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Problem – Large Social gaming company with a
significant investment in the public
cloud required a more cost effective
delivery model for their offering
REDAPT CLOUD RACK Case study: Social Gaming Company
Solution – Deployed cloud racks with RS
technology to manage static and
elastic workloads
Benefits – ROI
– Greater cost control
– Rapid deployment
– Multiple resource pools
– Elastic Compute
– Security
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Information Week 2011 On REDAPT
“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
Hybrid Cloud Strategy
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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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REDAPT Practice Areas
Cloud
Strategies
Capacity
Management
and Planning
Storage
Capacity
Management
Asset Lifecycle
Management
Network
Design and
Implementation
Custom
Fulfillment and
Integration
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Vibes Media Joint Gluster – REDAPT Customer
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
• REDAPT as trusted infrastructure advisor &
deployment
Benefits • Significant cost savings and much lower TCO
• Higher storage performance and availability
• Room for data growth
• Flexible, low cost solution for future capacity
expansion
Datacenter: Renewable Wind & Solar Energy Producer
• Mobile Marketing
• >50TB‟s
• Lower overall TCO
• Cost savings and
avoidance
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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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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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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: [email protected] or 1-800-805-5215