Mithun Sugur, Storage Solutions Architect, Red Hat

1. RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE
Vs.
TRADITIONAL STORAGE APPLIANCES
Mithun Sugur
Storage Solutions Architect
msugur@redhat.com
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2.  Redefining Storage Industry- Red Hat Gluster
 Comparison: Red Hat Gluster Vs. EMC Isilon
 Beyond Traditional Storage
 Future of Red Hat Gluster
AGENDA
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3. Industry shifting from Monolithic Traditional Storage silos to Server based Storage; Software
defined Storage Architecture for Agility and Efficiency
Appliance
USER
Appliance
USER
Appliance
USER
SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE
USER
REDEFINING STORAGE:SERVER BASED STORAGE
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4. 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
DISRUPTION IN THE STORAGE INDUSTRY
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limited
better

5.  Technology dramatically changing traditional storage architectures
 Growth in Unstructured Data
 Leverage existing infrastructure to make better business decisions
 Seeking to reduce footprint and build upon virtualization for efficiency
 Budget constraints continues….
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OTHER BUSINESS CHALLENGES

6. RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE
PHYSICAL VIRTUAL CONTAINERS CLOUD
Open source, software-defined storage for unstructured
file data at petabyte scale
RED HAT GLUSTER
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7. COMPARISION: ARCHITECTURE
Freedom of x86Hardware Lock-in
Proprietary Open Source
ARCHITECTURE
 OneFS (Closed)
 Proprietary Vendor Lock-in
 Scale Up, Multiple Storage Silos
 Additional Feature Licenses and
High maintenance costs
 GlusterFS (Open Source)
 Hardware/Vendor Agnostic
 Software-Defined Storage, Workload
focused
 All-in-One Subscription Model
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8. COMPARISION: DATA PROTECTION
Erasure Coding &
Replication (Sync)
RED HAT GLUSTER
Erasure Coding
DATA PROTECTION
FILE 1
server1
DISTRIBUTED-REPLICATED VOLUME
Replicated Vol 0 Replicated Vol 1
BRICK
FILE 1
server2
BRICK
FILE 2
server3
BRICK
FILE 2
server4
BRICK
 Flexibility with different EC options (4+2,
8+3 & 8+4) Configurations
 ELIMINATES the need for RAID and
supports JBOD
 Supports 2-way and 3-way Replications
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9. COMPARISION: CLIENT ACCESS
Multiprotocol Access
RED HAT GLUSTER
SmartConnect (Basic)
CLIENT ACCESS
CLUSTERS OF SERVER HOSTS
HOSTS = ON-PREMISE OR PUBLIC CLOUD HOST INSTANCES
FUSE NFS SMB API Swift
FILE
 Multi-protocol distributed file system
access and optional Swift object
translator
 Native CTBD provides Load Balancing
 Support to Infiniband switches (RDMA)
 Active/Active NFSv4
 SMB3 (protocol negotiation)
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10. COMPARISION: SNAPSHOTS
Volume Snapshots
RED HAT GLUSTER
SnapshotIQ
SNAPSHOTS
 Snapshot Scheduling
 Managed via CLI/GUI
 User serviceable
snapshots
 Produces Crash
consistent image
 Support a max of
256 snapshots per
volume
 On the fly Point-in-time
Snapshots
 Volume level, ability to
create, list, restore, and
delete
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11. COMPARISION: QUOTAS
Directory Level Quotas
RED HAT GLUSTER
SmartQuotas
QUOTAS
 Quotas at both a directory and volume level
 Quota limits: Soft and hard
 Notifications on reaching soft quota limit
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12. COMPARISION: MEDIA TIERING
Tiering
RED HAT GLUSTER
SmartPools
TIERING
FILE
STORAGE CLUSTER
COLD SUBVOLUME
(SLOWER SPINNING DISK)
HOT SUBVOLUME
(FASTER FLASH)
 AUTOMATED promotion and demotion of
data between “hot” and “cold” sub volumes
 BASED on frequency of access.
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(Additional License)
Multiple Volumes

13. COMPARISION: SECURITY
Encryption
RED HAT GLUSTER
SmartLock
SECURITY
 SSL based in-flight encryption
 At-rest encryption using dm-crypt
 SELinux Enforcing Mode
 Self Healing and BitRot
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(Additional License)

14. COMPARISION: DISASTER RECOVERY
Geo-Replication
RED HAT GLUSTER
SyncIQ
DISASTER
RECOVERY
Site B
Site A Site C
Site B
Cascading replication
Site A
One-to-One Replication
 Asynchronous across LAN, WAN, or
Internet
 Master-slave model, Cascaded Replication
 Continuous and incremental
 Multiple configurations
 One to one
 One to many
 Cascading
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15. COMPARISION: MANAGEMENT
RH Console and
Nagios(SNMP 3.0)
RED HAT GLUSTER
InsightIQ
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM TRENDS
3rd Party
Tools
Queries and
Commands
REST API
Queries and
Commands
Results
Http
requests
3rd Party
Tools
SNMP Traps
Nagios
active
checks
Nagios
active
checks
RED HAT GLUSTER
STORAGE CONSOLE
NAGIOS SERVER
for RHGS
STORAGE ADMINISTRATORS
 Easy Management and Analytics
with RH Console
 Faster Deployment with Ansible
 Monitoring and Reporting with
Nagios
 Integration with 3rd Party
Monitoring Framework
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(Additional Analytics
License)

16. COMPARISION: COST
TCO Savings
RED HAT GLUSTER
$$$
COST
 3x times cost savings on solution
acquisition and ongoing
maintenance
 Deployment Choice: On-premise,
Cloud & Containers
 Certified H/W partners X-210 12LFF 12LFF
(small)
X-410 36LFF 36LFF
(medium)
Pricing Sources: EMC Isilon: Gartner Competitive Profiles, as of 2/16/16) &Supermicro:Thinkmate,as of 1/13/16)
3 Year TCO (incl. support)
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17. SITE A SITE B
Red Hat
Gluster
AWS/AZURE/GOOGLE
BEYOND TRADITIONAL STORAGE
 Disaster Recovery in the cloud or
On-Premise
 High Availability in Amazon AWS
 Offers Failover and Failback
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18. BEYOND TRADITIONAL STORAGE
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CONTAINER NODE 1
CONTAINER NODE 2
NGINX Container
Wordpress Container
 Storage provided by a dedicated
Red Hat Gluster Storage cluster
and accessed over the network
 Enterprise grade storage provider
support for OpenShift
 Storage & compute can scale
independently

19. Gluster 3.7, RHEL 6, 7 Gluster 3.8, RHEL 6, 7 Gluster 4, RHEL 7
TODAY (v3.1) V3.2 FUTURE
COREFILESECMGMT
COREFILESECMGMT
COREFILESECMGMT
ERASURE CODING
BIT ROT DETECTION
TIERING
SNAP SCHEDULE
ACTIVE/ACTIVE NFSV4
SMB 3
SELINUX
SSL ENCRYPTION
( IN-FLIGHT)
DEVICE MANAGEMENT
GEO-REPLICATION,
SNAPSHOTS
DASHBOARD
INODE QUOTAS
FASTER SELF-HEAL
CONTROLLED REBALANCE
SMB 3
(ADVANCED FEATURES)
MULTI-CHANNEL
AT-REST ENCRYPTION
DYNAMIC PROVISIONING
OF RESOURCES
COMPRESSION
DEDUPLICATION
HIGHLY SCALABLE CTRL PLANE
HYPER-CONVERGED SOLUTION
CONTAINER STORAGE
pNFS
QOS
CLIENT SIDE CACHING
NEW UI
GLUSTER REST API
FUTURE OF RED HAT GLUSTER
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20. Gaining Market & Community Momentum
We now have access to a much faster system.
Compared to EMC Solution, our costs are 8 times
lower- NIELS JONKMAN, GLASHART MEDIA
Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Distributed File Systems and Object
Storage
Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object
Storage, October 2016
GARTNER REPORT AND GROWING CUSTOMER BASE
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