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Introduction to Red Hat Storage

January, 2012

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Today’s Speakers

Tom TrainerStorage Product Marketing

Manager

Heather Wellington Storage Program Marketing

Manager

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Red Hat Acquisition of Gluster – What it Means for You

● Gluster Red Hat Storage (closed October 2011)

● More resources for proven GlusterFS architecture

● Stability and long term viability for current and new customers

● Integration with Red Hat data center offerings including middleware, cloud and virtualization

● Accelerated delivery of new features and functions

● Global reach for support and services

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Red Hat Storage

● Scale-out storage software for Unstructured / file data

● Package offering includesGlusterFSRHELXFS

● ScalableScales linearly and non-disruptivelyPerformance CapacityPetabytes and beyond

● FlexibleDeploy anywhereMulti-tenancyHigh Availability● Affordable

Deploys on commodity hardwareSubscription model

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Red Hat Storage Software Appliance

Deploy Scale-out NAS in the Datacenter/Private cloud

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Red Hat Storage Virtual Storage Appliance

Deploy Scale-out NAS in the Amazon Web Services Cloud

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Many Enterprises Rely on Red Hat Storage

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Red Hat Storage (GlusterFS) Design Goals

Capacity

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form

ance

● Innovation● Eliminate metadata server● Dramatically improve performance ● Unify files and objects

● Elasticity ● Flexibility adapt to growth/reduction ● Add, delete volumes & users● Without disruption

● Scale linearly ● Multiple dimensions ● Performance ● Capacity ● Aggregated resources

● Simplicity ● Ease of management ● No complex Kernel patches ● Run in user space

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● Scalable ● No metadata server = faster file system

● Enables linear scaling of performance and capacity

● Flexible ● Software only ● Deploy on the infrastructure of choice ● Simultaneous files and objects● Modular, stackable storage OS architecture● Data stored in native file formats

● Affordable● Deploy on commodity hardware

Key Differentiators

Capacity

Per

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Software Only – Future Proofing Storage

● Superior storage economics & flexibility ● Data center / private cloud use commodity hardware● Public cloud – i.e. AWS, pay for what you need when you need it

● No hardware lock-in● You choose hardware vendors - at purchase time or in the future● Any Cloud – Public, private, and hybrid● Performance, capacity, or availability levels ● GlusterFS – not proprietary, files are stored in native formats (i.e. EXT4)

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A Strong Open Source Foundation

Global Adoption ● 300,000+ downloads● ~36,000 /month (Nov.2011)

● 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

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Common Solutions Built on Red Hat Storage

● Media serving (CDN)

● Large scale file storage

● File sharing

● High Performance Computing (HPC)

● IaaS storage layer

● Tier 2 & 3 archive

● Backup & Restore

● Disaster recovery

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CIC Electronic Signature Solutions

● Problem

Must leverage economics of the cloud Storage performance in the cloud too slowNeed to meet demanding client SLA’s ● Solution

Red Hat Storage Software ApplianceAmazon EC2 and Elastic Block Storage (EBS)RightScale Cloud Management

● Benefits

Enabled faster development and delivery of new products to clientsAll SLA’s are met with headroom to spare Accelerating move to the cloudScale-out architecture allows for constantly changing resources to be added and accessedData is highly available – allowing 24/7 client access to data

Hybrid Cloud: Electronic Signature Solutions

• Reduced time-to-market for new products

• Meeting all client SLAs

• Accelerating move to the cloud

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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

Private Cloud: Media Serving

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Brightcove

• Problem• Cloud-based online video platform

• Explosive customer & title growth

• Massive video in multiple locations

• Costs rising, esp. with HD formats

• Solution• Complete scale-out based on commodity

DAS/JBOD and GlusterFS

• Replication for high availability

• 1PB total capacity

• Benefits• Easily scale capacity

• Centralized management; one administrator to manage day-to-day operations

• Higher reliability

• Path to multi-site

• Over 1 PB currently in Gluster

• Separate 4 PB project in the works

Private Cloud: Media Serving

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Pattern Energy

• Rapid and advance weather predictions

• Maximizing energy assets

• Cost savings and avoidance

High Performance Computing for Weather Prediction

• Problem Create a high performance computing

system Need to deliver rapid advance weather

predictions Identify wind and solar abundance in

advance More effectively perform preventative

maintenance and repair

• Solution 32 HP compute nodes Red Hat SSA for high throughput and

availability 20TB+ total capacity

• Benefits Predicts solar 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

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Red Hat Storage Deployment Options

• Red Hat Storage Software Appliance• Deploy on bare metal • Any hardware on Red Hat Hardware HCL

• Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance• Runs within Amazon Web Services (AWS)• As an Amazon Machine Image

On-premise/datacenter

Public cloud

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Summary

• GlusterFS is scale-out storage• NAS

• Scalable, flexible, and affordable

• Open Source

• Innovative architecture provides a better way to do storage

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Questions & Answers

• Follow us on twitter: @RedHatStorage• Additional resources here: http://www.redhat.com/storage/• Join the community: http://www.gluster.org/• Read our blog: http://redhatstorage.redhat.com/

Contact us at: storage-sales@redhat.com or 1-800-805-5215