Low Cost Storage With Commodity Disks

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INNOVA IT Solutions www.innova.com.tr

INNOVA IT SOLUTIONSCommodity Disk Usage

Ergn ZKAYA Solution Consultant


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The Problem

Data growth averages around 50% to 100% per year

Growing 8x in 5 years

Is your IT budget growing 8X every 5 years?

Ubiquitous accessibility becoming mandatory Mobile workforce, connected devices and an all

digital workflow

Compliance

Traditional storage cant keep up with the growth

Expensive, cant scale and is unreliable

Intense pressure on IT to deliver on-demand

enterprise-grade cloud storage

Source: IDCs Digital Universe Study 2011

NAS SAN Tape


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Five Key Storage Technologies to Reduce Storage Cost

(According to Gartner)

I. Storage Resource Management products/tools (SRM)

II. Using commodity disks (x86 based drives)

III. Thin provisioning / Storage Virtualization

IV. Deduplication

V. Archiving (archiving e-mail, database etc.)


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Nexenta Systems;

Enterprise class storage for everyone

Caringo ;

Object storage software

nPario ;

Simplify complex consumer data Mezeo Software

Cloud Storage Software

Drobo ;

Small Box. Big Storage.

Some Vendors for Commodity Disk Usage


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What is OpenStorage?

OpenStorage refers to storage systems built with an open architecture,using industry-standard hardware, and state-of-the-art storage

software;

o supports any connectivity, any protocol (FC, TCP/IP, combination), and any

file system format

o the system can be upgraded easily, significantly reducing costs by

sidestepping proprietary hardware that only can be sourced from a single

vendor

Key Drivers for OpenStorage;

Cutting enterprise storage costs (52%)

More customized storage solutions (30%)

No vendor locked-in (18%)


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o fully featured NAS/SAN software platform

o running on any industry standard hardware

o superior alternative to expensive, vertically integrated, proprietary storage

technologies, saving customers 70-80% over proprietary solutions

o inline deduplication, unlimited snapshots and cloning, unlimited file size,

and high-availability support

o full integration with virtualization approaches, even in mixed vendor

environments

o can create shared pools of storage from any combination of storage hardware,including SSDs, and delivers end-to-end data integrity, integrated search, and

inline virus scanning

o also enables efficient one-click virtual machine and other storage provisioning.

Nexenta NexentaStor


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Unified Appliance:

Support for NAS (NFS, CIFS WebDAV, FTP)

and SAN (iSCSI & FC) means flexibility

Unlimited Storage Capacity:

Designed for large-scale growth withunlimited snapshots and copy-on-writeclones

Unlimited File Size:

There are no such limitations with ZFS

128-bit File System:

ZFS-based technology provides the mostscalable and flexible 128-bit file system

Data Deduplication & Native Compression:

Inline data deduplication and compressionreduce the use of primary storage.

Hybrid Storage Pools:

Exploit I/O cache to accelerate read &write performanceSSD


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Heterogeneous Block & File Replication:

Synchronous or asynchronous replication

for easy disaster recoveryIntegrated Snapshot Search:

Perform indexing & Boolean searches fromthe file system to search for files withinsnapshots

Block-level Mirroring:

Setup remote backups and disasterrecovery at off-site locations

Simplified Disk Management:

Manage disks and JBODs using eithercommand line or NexentaStorManagement Viewer (NMV).

Total Product Safety:

Proactive, automated alert mechanismssend alerts when configuration deviatesfrom Golden Image (best configuration)

VM Integration:

VMware ESX, Citrix Xen, MS Hyper-V

End-to-End Data Integrity:

No silent data corruption

HA Cluster

Support for multiple virtual IP Addresses

Removed requirement for alternatededicated heartbeat device

Auto-Sync

New remote replication protocol Multi-destinations now supported

Replication status bar

Ability to resume Auto-Sync service

Change source and destination paths onthe fly via set-up Auto- Sync edit paths

Integrated Snapshot Search:

Perform indexing & Boolean searchesfrom the file system to search for fileswithin snapshots

SCSI Target FC

Added support for multiple mappingsof LUNs


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Additional Features

Support of metro cluster or stretch cluster deployments:

Real-time failover between active/active clusters in different geographies, up to 30miles apart

Reduce the amount of required storage in VDI deployments:

SCSI UNMAP as a client-side feature frees up storage in the back end, in thecontext of thin provisioning (a 100-to-one reduction in space for VDI when using

NexentaStor)

Reserve space for future growth:

Reserve pool space, ensuring to never run out of space accidentally, allowing forwork continuation without disruption. with ZFS

Synchronization to multiple destinations:

Site-to-site replications across disparate destinations.Improves optimization by supporting CIFS cross-forest (groups of clients) trust

Quick replication:

Between different data centers asynchronously through the use of a new Layer 5multi-connection, multi-destination, multi-pathing protocol


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Useful feedback about the

machine is provided via the

browser. No need to dive into

the guts of the machine.

Detailed stats can be checked

and viewed on disks,

network, CPU and more


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Recommended system requirements:

64 bit processor (32 bit not recommended

for production)

1GB RAM minimum for evaluation, The

more ram the better.. 2 identical relatively small disks for high-

availability system folder (for operating

system and the rest appliance's software),

requires less than 10GB

Additional drives/storage for data volumes

Versions of NexentaStor


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Caringo

Object storage software

Use any x86 hardware

Highly automated and

scalable

Multi-site, single namespace

Caringo Object

Storage Platform

Vendor neutral software

Multi-tenant, metering,

reporting

Centralized management

Self service UI for end users

Caringo CloudScaler

Software & Portal

File system interface (CIFS,

NFS, FTP and WebDAV)

Ubiquitous HTTP access via

unique identifier or name

Robust ecosystem

Caringo Content File Server,

HTTP interface & Ecosystem

Instant Access Deliver Enterprise

Cloud Storage

Cloud Storage

Architecture

Vendor Neutral * Cloud Storage * Infrastructure Software


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Cloud Economics 5 year TCO - 20% savings over NAS, 40% over tape (based on ESG report)

No provisioning and fully self optimizing - 1 system admin can manage 10+ PB

Adaptive power consumption reduces power usage up to 35% and disk

utilization by 30%

Vendor neutral scale-out, platform neutral access

Up to 15M objects/GB of RAM, no limit in capacity or file size

Use any combination of x86 hardware at up to 98% disk utilization

Zero IOPs to first byte

Automated Protection and Replication, no backup needed

Compliance ready, WORM capable with auditable access

Continuous integrity checks, self-healing and rapid recovery

Actionable metadata drives replication, location and duration

Caringo Platform Benefits


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Caringo CAStor (object storage engine)

Highly efficient

Software and indexes live in RAM, disks

are only for data

Symmetric - all nodes perform alloperations, no single points of failure, nobottlenecks

Global accessibility

128 bit unique ID or named objects

Future proof HTTP access

Instant object lookup regardless ofcapacity

Intelligent and automated

Actionable and customizable metadata

Self optimization, self healing and selfbalancing

Data is stored

contiguously on disk

No limitof nodes per cluster

Software that enables massive scalability and future-proof accessibility ofunstructured data. Utilizing any combination of standard x86 server hardware,

any size hard drive and any type of storage


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BeyondRAID: Storage Without Limitations

Problems with Traditional RAID

The complexity of RAID has made it challenging for small businesses and

consumers to effectively use the technology. RAID has a high learning curve

with many options. There's RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60 along with

unfamiliar terminology like striping, mirroring, and parity.

o Lock-in RAID levels

o Lack of expandability

o Debilitated state after a drive failure

Aside from complexity, these are the primary challenges with traditional RAID:


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BeyondRAID vs Traditional RAID


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Which Drive is Right for My Drobo?


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Drive Types Supported in Each Drobo

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