Building Hyperscale OpenStack Clouds with Software-Defined Storage

Copyright 2015 Hedvig Inc.1

Rob Whiteley – VP, Marketing, Hedvig

May 20, 2015

Building Hyperscale OpenStack Clouds with Software-Defined Storage


Business innovation drives OpenStack / cloud

Business innovation

Time-to-market

Flexible infrastructure

Business executives Developers IT infrastructure / DevOps


But storage is a bottleneck to OpenStack

Current storage approaches – even software-defined ones – aren’t designed for clouds

• Software-defined storage is the right direction.

• Hyperconverged is an answer, not the answer.

• Scale, flexibility, self-service, and automation. . .

• . . . require a distributed systems approach.


Hyperscale storage is an inflection point

Price-performance

Storage capabilities

Traditional Scale-up Scale-out Elastic

Before After

Hardware with software Hardware + cloud + software

Scale-out Elastic

High-availability + RAID Distributed + Replication

Array, Hyperconverged Hyperconverged + Hyperscale


The hyperscale storage architecture

Storage proxyPresents block, file, or object to bare metal,hypervisor, or OS environment in OpenStack

Storage volumesProvides scalable abstraction layer for granularprovisioning of enterprise storage functions

Storage nodesForms cluster using any commodity serverfor scale-out, elastic storage pool


DC1 DC2 Cloud3

How hyperscale storage works

iSCSI NFS

1 Admin provisions volume with storage policies via UI, CLI or API

2 Volume presents block, file, orobject storage to proxy

3 Proxy captures guest I/O andcommunicates to underlying cluster

4 Storage nodes distribute and replicate data throughout cluster

5 Storage nodes auto-tier and balance across racks, datacenters, and clouds

VM VM

VMOS / App

VM VM

VM

S3, Swift


What to look for in hyperscale storage

Scale-out seamlessly with x86 or ARM

Consolidate all protocols in one platform

Support hyperconverged and hyperscale

Run agnostic to any hypervisor, container, or OS

Provide hybrid-aware DR, across any public cloud

Provision storage with unprecedented flexibility and speed

Make enterprise-grade storage features fundamental primitives


Four reasons why hyperscale with OpenStack1. Complete platform

Eliminates islands of storage with block, file, and object with the functionality of a mature hybrid array.

2. Environment agnostic: Truly agnostic of hardware, hypervisor, container, and OS.

3. Policy and API granularity:Per-volume granularity ideal for multi-tenancy, plus complete platform APIs for orchestration & automation.

4. Implicitly hybrid: Seamlessly bridges and spans private and public clouds, easily incorporating cloud as a tier and DR environment.


Hedvig is hyperscale storage

> Scales to petabytes, all in software.> Provides block, file, and object storage.> Contains full enterprise storage capabilities.> Connects to any compute, runs in any cloud.


Thank you!

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How we’re different

Data Management ServiceProvides self-healing, clustering, and advanced storage capabilities.

Data Persistence ServiceMaintains state and tracks health of cluster nodes.

Patented distributed systems engine


Storageflavors

Storagefeatures

Deploymentflexibility

Hedvig is a superset of current solutions

Hyperconverged

Current SDS

Monolithic arrays

Virtual SANs


Hedvig case studies

Servervirtualization

Bringing apps back in house onnew virtualized, multi-datacenter architecture.

Needed solution that provided features and built-in resiliency.

Deploying 1.5 PBs of Hedvig.

Big data

Need quick, reliable indexing of 100M active client docs in HP Autonomy.

Needed a scale-out, flash-friendly solution to replace local SSDs.

Getting 6x performance with Hedvig.

Private cloud / OpenStack

Growing at a rate of 1 terabyte per hour in private and hybrid cloud environments.

Needed scalability and multi-protocol in non-hyperconverged solution.

Building Hedvig managed services.


Who we are

Founded in 2012 by Avinash Lakshman

Avinash co-invented Amazon Dynamo and invented Apache Cassandra

$12.5M in Series A funding

CEO & Founder

Avinash Lakshman

VP, Solutions

Suresh Rajagopalan

VP, Operations

Srinivas Lakshman

VP, Marketing

Rob Whiteley

EVP, Sales

Richard Dyke

Technology

Building Hyperscale OpenStack Clouds with Software-Defined Storage