David Shepherd

Senior Solutions Consultant

9 March 2017

Open Enterprise Server 2018#MFSummit2017

The problem…

• OES 2018 (VEGA)

• Release outline

• Storage improvements

• Protocol improvements

• Cloud integration

Agenda

Release outline

Features

Platform and ecosystem currency

• Newer hardware platform and technology support – SLES 12

• Update OES to include the updated version of eDirectory –

eDirectory 9

Enhancements to SMB stack – relevant capabilities of SMB 2.1 and 3.0

• Improved performance; end-to-end encryption support

OES 2018

Features

• Lower TCO

• Unified OES update channel – SLES and OES updates from

a single repository

• NSS improvements – better storage allocation, support for online

defragmentation*, exponentially increase the limit on number of files

• Adding support for secondary cloud tier for storage of

‘cold’ / back up data*

• Additional enhancement from OES community submitted

via IDEAS Portal

OES 2018

Storage improvements

NSS Delayed Block Allocation

Performance improvements

• Read

• Write

• Backup/Restore

Sample numbers from test data set

• Write throughput improved by 169%

• Read throughput improved by 403%

• Backup throughput improved by 477%

NSS support for 64bit zids

• zids in the volume to grow more than 32 bits.

• No need for Pool Rebuild (Rezid)

• NCP server and CIFS server makes use of the new 64bit

zid (inode numbers)

• Requires Pool Media Upgrade.

• 8 Trillion files/folders in a volume

Protocol improvements

CIFS / SMB Enhancements

• Authentication expiry and dynamic re-authentication

• Large MTU support

• Parallel reads/writes

• Enhanced Mac user experience

• Alternate data streams – configuration options

• SMB 3.0 – security enhancements

• Purge salvage over CIFS – Mac

• Password change notification – Windows, Mac

Large MTU support

• Feature in SMB 2.1 – enables better SMB performance for

10-gigabit ethernet networks.

• This has been achieved with a feature called ‘Large MTU’, or

‘multi-credit’ operations.

• In SMB 2.1 this maximum data unit was increased from 64KB

to 1 MB.

• Tasks such as copying large files are improved with this capability.

Enhanced MAC user experience using

alternate data streamsLarge directory: improved listing performance

SMB2 and above.

Optionally enabled/disabled

SMBv1 can be made disabled for Mac/Windows clients for data format compatibility

Improves application interoperability on Mac (refer bug 950189)

Server-side migration utility

Color code information migration for files created using AFP

AFP Resource fork, FinderInfo -- CIFS Alternate Data Streams (stored as extended attribute in NSS)

usage : migafp2cifs <volume>:<file-path> [-r | --recursive] [-v | --verbose] [-d | --deleteAFP] [-i | --iconRename] [-f fileNamePrefix | --fileName=fileNamePrefix]

Server side copy

Sequence

1. Client issues read requests to server

2. Server reads file data off disk

3. Server sends data to client

4. Client sends duplicate file data to server

5. Server writes duplicate file data to disk

Result

1. File data traverses network and disk

2. Duplicate file data stored on disk

Traditional file copy Server Side Copy

Sequence

1. Client issues

FSCTL_SRV_COPYCHUNK

requests to server

2. Server reads file data off disk

3. Server writes duplicate file data

to disk

Result

1. File data traverses disk only

2. Network round trip avoided

3. Duplicate file data stored on disk

Data tiering service with

Cloud storage support

Disclaimer: This section provides an overview of future releases; due to market changes, customer enhancement requests, and other factors, product themes and timings are subject to change.

High Level Deployment View

OES Cloud Tiering Service

Amazon S3 Cloud

Database Server

OES 2018 Server OES 2015 Server Futures

Key Goals

Policy Driven Data Migration

•Create/Manage Cloud Accounts, Policies, Pairs, Policy Execution

•Data Migration; Isolated Stub Namespace

•Multiple Jobs; Multiple Sources (OES)

Support For Multiple Object Stores

•AWS S3

•Ceph

•Minio

•S3 Scality

End-User Experience

•Low latency Merged View

•File Re-call

Other

•CI/CD

The key pieces of the puzzle

DTS backend

infra

Database Integration

Chunking, Revamped REST APIs

Control Data Plane

Split

OES side

REST interfaces for

CTS communication

Tier Pair management, downstream

communication

OES interfaces for NSS/HSM

file recall

Upcalls; re-call flow

Merged View

Policy engine

REST APIs

Create Pairs

List Jobs

Policy Driven Execution of jobs

Manage

Webstack; Workflow

View Cloud accounts

View Pairs

View Jobs

Other

CI/CD

Automation

TC Design

Docker

Encryption

Summary

‘A network service that manages my data intelligently, reduces

TCO and improves flexibility’

Data tiering service with Cloud storage

support = immense potential•Per-object key managementOn-premises encryption

• Compression

• Global de-duplicationData reduction

•Post-processing also WHAT????In-line analytics, data-aware

system

•Local index?Search

•Data + Meta-dataLocal caches

•No on-prem data transferCloud-to-Cloud data movement

•S3, Glacier, Nearline, …Moving across different classes

of storage within Cloud

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