Enterprise Storage Redefined - Meetup

Maximize the Promise of Hyper-convergence by Thinking Outside the Storage Box 4/16/2015

Agenda Hyper-Convergence and its Benefits

Maxta at a Glance Architecture, Key Features and Deployment Models Use Cases OpenStack and Storage Explained Maxta and OpenStack Configuration Summary

Hyper-Convergence Defined The melding together of previously disparate data center resources ― Converges Applications and Storage on Industry Standard Servers

Provides Shared Storage Capabilities Supports High Levels of Scale-up and Scale-out Supports Physical and/or Virtualized Environments

Benefits of Hyper-Convergence Streamlined infrastructure deployment processes

Simplified IT operations ― No more complex storage environment to manage

Granular Lego-like scalability ― Scale by adding more blocks

Significant performance improvements over typical legacy infrastructure ― Flash storage is leveraged judiciously

Ability to leverage commodity hardware ― Low cost hardware bound together by powerful software

Evolution of Converged Infrastructure Infrastructure

Building blocks

Integration Effort

Deployment Time

Traditional

Compute, network, & storage, sold separately

High

Weeks or months

Converged

One rack of components

Low

Days

Hyper-Converged

One simple node

Low/None

Hours

Deploy infrastructure more quickly with less effort ―

Simplify purchasing, integration

Increase efficiency ―

Fully utilize compute and storage in each node

How is Hyper-Convergence Different From DAS? Requires virtualization Provides a global namespace

Presents an overarching software layer to manage performance and data protection needs Delivers High Availability Has no islands of storage resources

Maxta at a Glance

Maxta Maximizes the Promise of Hyper-Convergence  Choice  Simplicity  Scalability

 Cost

Founded in 2009 2+ Years of Paying Customers Funded by Tier 1 VCs ― Andreessen Horowitz ― Intel Capital ― Tenaya Capital

Intel Development Partner Hyper-Converged Solutions ― Hyper-Converged Appliances: MaxDeploy ― Software-Defined Storage: MxSP

Maxta Solutions

MaxDeploy™

Choice

MxSP™

Hyper-Converged Appliance

Software-Defined Storage

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Preconfigured servers and Maxta Software 15 minutes from Zero to VMs

Flexibility

Peace-of-Mind ― ― ―

Interoperability Ease of Ordering & Deployment Predictability of Performance

Software Only Perpetual License & Subscription

― ― Agility Simplicity Savings No Compromise

D-I-Y: Your Choice in Hardware Works with Existing Infrastructure: No forklift upgrades

Full Featured ― ―

Enterprise Class Data Services Support Latest and Greatest Technologies

Maxta Storage Platform Architecture

Maxta Global Namespace MxSP

MxSP

MxSP

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

SSD

Disk Drives

SSD

Disk Drives

Server 1

Maxta Aggregated Storage Pool

SSD

Disk Drives Server n

Server 2

Ethernet Virtualization UI

Enterprise-class Data Services

Performance

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Global Namespace Snapshots Clones Capacity Optimization Data Integrity & High Availability

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SSD – Writeback/Read/Metadata caching Dynamic Auto Tiering Data Locality Align application and storage block size

Multi-hypervisor support

Maxta Storage Platform Features and Functionality

Data Integrity

Automatically detect and fix data integrity issues due to hardware failures

Simplicty

Manage VMs not Storage

Data Protection

High Availability

Protect your application simply and effecively

Minimize application downtime

Support for Stretch Storage Metro Cluster

Capacity Optimization

Thin Provisioning Snapshots& Clones, Compression, Deduplication

Performance &

Scalability

Eliminate tradeoffs between performance and cost Linear on-demand Scalability

Use Cases

Primary Storage

Primary Site GN MxS P Hyp

3rd Party Storage

Remote/Branch Office

Virtual Desktop

Secondary Site GN MxS P Hyp

Maxta Storage

DR Storage

Test and Development Managed Service Providers Test and Development

Maxta Storage Platform and OpenStack

Types of Storage in OpenStack

Persists Until

Accessible From

Used To

Managed By

Ephemeral

Block

Object

• Non-Persistent Storage • VM is terminated

• Persistent Storage • Deleted by User

• Persistent Storage • Deleted by User

• Within a VM

• Within a VM

• Anywhere

• Run operating system and scratch space

• Persistent Storage • Persistent Storage of of a virtual machine a virtual machine

• Nova (OpenStack Compute)

• Cinder (OpenStack Block Storage)

• Swift(OpenStack Object Storage)

Block and Object Storage

Block Storage/Cinder • Transactional Data

Use Cases

Workloads

• Database Applications

• Traditional IT applications

Object Storage/Swift • Unstructured Data • Data backups and Archival Images • Multimedia (videos, pictures, or music) Files

• Small Random Read/Write

• Large Sequential Read/Write

• Higher IOPS

• Lower IOPS

• Dynamic Content

• Static Content

Block Storage / Cinder

Block Storage allows devices to be connected to compute instance for expanded storage, better performance and integration with enterprise storage platform

Database

Cinder API

Queue

C-Scheduler

The block storage system manages the creation, attaching and detaching of block devices to servers Powerful data services (Storage Snapshots, Clones)

Cinder Volume

Cinder Volume

iSCSI

Cinder Volume

NFS Local Storage

Maxta and OpenStack Maxta Architecture is Virtualization-agnostic ― Support Closed Virtualization (VMware) and Open Virtualization (KVM)

OpenStack Support ― Maxta Driver Plug-in to OpenStack Cinder Storage and Nova Compute Modules ― End-to-end Integration of storage, data services, data availability and HA

Key Benefits ― Risk mitigation with support of Open, Closed, and OS-level virtualization ― No compromise on enterprise-class capabilities ― Simplified Management ― Attractive Cost

Demo

Current and Future OpenStack Projects Partnership with Mirantis ― Certified under Mirantis Technology Partner Program ― Pure play OpenStack deployment

OpenStack Kilo ― Cinder drivers will be released as part of Kilo ― Support for continuous integration

Maxta Value Proposition Maximize the Promise of Hyper-Convergence

SAN

NAS

Compromise

Maximize Choice

Maximize IT Simplicity

Maximize Cost Savings

Any Server, Any Hypervisor Any Storage, Any Workload

Manage VMs, NOT Storage

Standard Components and Capacity Optimization

Provide High Levels of Data Resiliency, Availability, and Protection

Maximize the promise of hyper-convergence

Think outside the storage box