Mpstor hyper converged technology webinar

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MPSTOR
Orkestra™ is a hyper converged
software for X86 platforms with
integrated software defined
storage and scale out technologies
Scaling made
simple

Useful resources
• MPSTOR website

Hyper converged technology
• HYPER-CONVERGENCE
• “Hyper-convergence (hyperconvergence) is a type of
infrastructure system with a software-centric architecture
that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking and
virtualization resources and other technologies from
scratch in a commodity hardware box supported by a
single vendor”
• Source:
• http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/definition/hype
r-convergence

Hyper converged technology
• HYPER-CONVERGED STORAGE
• Hyper-converged storage is a technology that
combines storage, compute, networking and
virtualization in one unit.
• Source:
• http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/definiti
on/hyper-converged-storage

Hyperconvergence solutions
• RED HAT (software)
• Nutanix (Appliance) (VM + VMWARE)
• Symplivity (Appliance) (VM + VMWARE)
• Symplivity (Appliance) (VM + OpenStack)
• Pivot (Appliance)
• Atlantis Computing(VM + VMWARE)
• MPSTOR (software + OpenStack) with plugins
for VMWARE, XEN

Beyond the Hyperconvergence definition
• Hyperconvergence in many cases requires additional
technologies such as
– Automation (SDN, SDS, SDC)
– Scale‐Out (Compute, storage and networking)
• The Hyperconverged appliance (that is useful) should
integrate Automation (SDDC) and Scale‐Out
technologies

Why Hyper-converged technology ?
• Proprietary independent equipment silos of storage,
compute and networking cannot meet the price
point of utility cloud computing.
– => requirement for standard X86 hardware for
everything
• Scaling the number of cloud users drives
exponentially the cost of provisioning these users.
– => requirement for software defined automated
provisioning technologies.

Why Hyper-converged technology ?
• Integration of compute, storage and networking is
complex and carries risk
– => requirement for hyper‐converged systems.
• Scaling an infrastructure of compute, storage and
networking is complex
– => requirement for scale out technologies

HyperC, Automation & Scaleout forces
Web Scale &
Utility cloud
Commodity
X86 Hardware
for everything
Integration of
Compute,
storage &
networking
Provisioning
costs
drives
automation
Subscriber
numbers drive
scale out
Capex
CapexOpex
Opex

Designed for the Datacentre Stakeholders

HyperConverged Software Stack
MPSTOR’s software integrates in a single hyper
converged software suite  scale out automated
provisioning of
• Storage
• Compute
• Networking
Our software enables customers to build
differentiated high value converged appliances.
There are three core software components:
• SAM module
• transforms bare metal hardware into full
featured storage arrays.
• Software defined storage module
• Scale  out  automated provisioning of
storage for a wide range of datacenter
consumers
• Virtual services  module
• Compute (EC2), Storage (EBS&S3) and
Networking  compatible services delivered
as a public or private cloud.

Principal Use cases
Orkestra
HyperConverged
Storage
software
Hyper converged
Software defined
(public/private
Cloud)
Hyper converged
Storage
All‐in‐one
appliance
Software defined
Scale out storage
Block, File, Object
storage

Use case 1: Hyperconverged Appliance
• The Hyper‐converged Appliance integrates in one physical unit a private
cloud or Virtual appliance.
• Both compute and storage can be incrementally added.
• End user can provision from a dashboard compute, storage and
networking from a single hardware box.
• The appliance can be incrementally scaled to provide extra capacity,
resiliency or both.
Sector Specific
Applications
• Education
• Medical
• POS
+ Surveillance
+ Digital
Signage
+CRM, Biz
Apps

Use case 2: Hyperconverged cloud system
Orkestra delivers a range of end user virtualised
storage, compute and networking services.
Hardware
Compute Storage
MPSTOR
Cloud OS
Cloud Services
e.g.
Windows
Dropbox
Video
Surveillance
ServicesHardware
Orkestra™

Use case 3: Scale out storage
10G/16G/40G
8PB 8PB 8PB 8PB
192TB
128
1
40G/100G
Scale out
cluster up to 10
proxy nodes
Exporting
• BLOCK
• FILE
• OBJECT
Scale out Storage
Nodes
Up to 128 nodes
of 192TB of RAID
resilient storage in
single or dual
controller nodes

Hyperconverged in the datacenter OS
SDS out‐of‐band control plane
Storage Providers
VBS Service Layer
Storage Protocol
Fabrics & Protocols
MPSTOR TM
component
Storage Consumers
Virtual
Storage Array
Software
Defined Storage
Storage Array
Management
FC/FCoE, SAS, ISCSI CIFS/NFS S3/SWIFT STORAGE
Offload Engine
Automated
Provisioning
Storage SLA
& Policy Mgt
Fabric
Mgt
Single Pane
Monitoring
& Alerts
Data
Protection
& Resiliency
MPSTOR on OpenPlatform H/W
Or 3rd Party Appliances
Tenants Virtual Machines Storage Services NodesSelf Service
dashboards
Snapshot, Thin provisioning, Replication, S3
backup, RAID, IOC management
Operator
ToolBox
BLOCK FILE OBJECT ANALYTICS
Fabrics & Protocols
STORAGE ARRAY PROVIDERS
Protocols&Fabrics
Volume services
IN‐BAND termination & services
Virtual Storage Layer
MPSTOR Delivery tools
Consumers
Virtual Machines, Nodes, Tenants

The challenges of Hyper converged technology
• Hyper converged technologies (HCT) integrate the three core
components of any IT system, this requires very high levels of
functionality and expertise in compute, storage and
networking.
• Too large a gene problem !
• HCT OPEX when used in large scale infrastructure must stay
flat, this means at scale HCT requires additional frameworks;
– Framework 1: Scale‐out technology
– Framework 2: Software defined automated provisioning
controllers

The challenges of Hyper converged technology
• HCT CAPEX: Utility cloud pricing requires standard
hardware !
• Configuring standard hardware for resiliency and
high availability is difficult as it lacks specific
hardware control features.
• Requires innovative ways to achieve HA & Resiliency
found in proprietary T1 appliances.

MPSTOR background
• MPSTOR software is a hyper converged software product integrating in a single
management toolset all the components to manage storage, compute and
networking.
• MPSTOR Storage Array Management (SAM)
• MPSTOR’s SAM software is an enterprise class storage software compatible with
standard x86 platforms. MPSTOR SAM uses scale out technologies to achieve very
high BW, IO performance and storage capacity.
• MPSTOR Software defined storage (SDS)
• MPSTOR’s SDS technology automates the provisioning of a pool of SAM storage
arrays across multiple fabric types to all datacenter consumer types.
• MPSTOR Hyper Converged Infrastructure(HCI)
• MPSTOR’s HCI integrates all the technologies to create Hyper‐converged storage
systems.

Thank You

Deep Dive

MPSTOR Software
MPSTOR’s Orkestra software suite integrates in
a single product scale out automated
provisioning of
• Storage
• Compute
• Networking
Our software enables customers to build
differentiated high value virtual appliances.
There are three core software components:
• SAM module
• transforms bare metal hardware into full
featured storage arrays.
• SDS module
• Scale out automated provisioning of
storage for a wide range of datacenter
consumers
• IaaS module
• Compute (EC2), Storage (EBS&S3) and
Networking compatible services delivered
as a public or private cloud.

 Create unique differentiated
datacenter services
 Universal provisioning from any
storage provider to any storage
consumer
 Provides in‐band services from
managed storage pools such as
data protection, SLA control,
caching, security, fabric
management
Orkestra Overview
Storage Array Management
Totally new paradigm
Software Defined Storage
Gives SDS new dimensions
Infrastructure as a Service
Fully SDDC enabled
 Unique integrated  open‐
platform, open‐standard, full
featured storage array
management
 Provides block, file and object
storage with multi fabric
support
 Available either as a physical or
virtual storage array controller
with high availability
 Dramatically lowers the cost of
ownership
 Turnkey cloud management
software systems
 Based around OpenStackTM,
the open source cloud
computing platform
 Support for all industry
hypervisors  (KVM, ESXi,
HyperV)
 Extended end user
dashboards
OrkestraTM  Software Suite

Datacentre Stakeholders

Commercial: Capex & Opex
Reduces overall cost by providing a
single turnkey distribution for
storage, compute and networking.
Enables datacenter
differentiation of its services
through service creation
tools.Reduces Opex by automating the provisioning of
compute, storage and networking.
Reduces Capex by standard
server and storage
hardware.

Service Creation
Software defined storage (SDS) controller
‘plug and discover’ capability automates
capacity expansion.
SDS controller aggregates raw/base
provider storage into managed pools
of media tiers, across different fabrics
with policy driven provisioning and
management
End user can provision on demand, through end user or
admin dashboards, at the required SLA for the end user
workload.
Storage is provisioned by the end user from scale out
storage pools as block, file or object storage.
Storage is provisioned by the end user from scale
out storage pools as block, file or object storage.
BASIC
PREMIUM
STANDARD
SDS automates the
provisioning of storage
per group
Orkestra – SDS
AutomationCompute Containers Fabrics Storage Containers

Cloud Services
Type Service Description
Infrastructure
service
Compute as a service EC2 compatible service that allows an end user to
create, delete, backup virtual machines in KVM or
VMWARE hypervisors.
Infrastructure
service
Elastic Block storage as a service EBS type service that allows an end user to
provision block storage at a specific SLA and QoS
from the datacenter storage pools and attach to
virtual machine.
Infrastructure
service
Object storage as a service S3 compatible service that allows any S3 application
to provision, upload, download object data.
Tenant services
Storage Array as a service Allows end users to manage their own storage array
in their own tenant space for their virtual machines
over CIFS, NFS or iSCSI. Provides a rich storage
feature set of snapshot, thin provisioning,
replication and backup.
Storage Centric
VMs
A catalog of storage centric virtual
machines implementing drop‐box type
solutions, file servers, video surveillance,
Database, LAMP
Virtual machines integrated with special purpose
storage centric applications .

The 6 big storage issues of datacentres

Resiliency & Redundancy
• MPSTOR's software maximises resiliency by
using Information Dispersal Algorithms (IDA)
and data encryption when storing scale out data
across storage arrays.
• MPSTOR’s unique Virtual Block Store
technology (VBS) creates a Virtual Block Device
(VBD) that is stripped across multiple storage
arrays with additional parity.
• Depending on the amount of Parity required the
VBD can sustain one or more entire storage
array failures.
• Each VBD chunk is built on resilient storage
array RAID6 groups, allowing each storage
array to sustain multiple disk failures.
• By keeping the RAID groups to a fixed size the
recovery time can be set to a known acceptable
value.

Managing the Cloud architecture
Tenant Space
VMs
Tenant Space
VMs
Tenant Space
VMs
The Cloud
The Under
Cloud
Tunneled
Network per
Tenant Space
SAN
Managed By
Orkestra‐SDS
Orkestra‐SAM
OpenStack
PlugIn

Cloud Operations
• MPSTOR solves the BIG6 storage requirements by efficiently managing block, file and object storage with
its Software Defined Storage (SDS) storage software.
• MPSTOR provisions BLOCK, OBJECT and FILE storage, enabling data centres to scale UP and scale OUT
block storage technology on open hardware bare metal platforms.
• Using ERASURE code technologies both within and across storage arrays, MPSTOR provides IN‐THE‐ARRAY
resiliency and scale out stripes ACROSS‐THE‐ARRAYS to deliver a scale UP and SCALE‐OUT redundant
storage provider pool.
• From this pool, storage can be automatically provisioned and exported to a diverse range of workloads
through the user’s choice of protocol (BLOCK, FILE, OBJECT) over an end user choice of fabrics.
• MPSTOR’s single pane of management presents to the datacenter operator monitoring, diagnostic, fault
finding and recovery tools for every physical and logical element captured in the datacenter CMDB
(Common Management Data Base).
• MPSTOR’s SDS toolkit tracks and monitors the datacenter usage so that accurate resource planning can be
implemented.

(1) End User Dashboard EC2 compute service
Select image to
launch from
service catalog
Configure
CPU, Memory
and local disk
size
Configure security
settings
Firewall/keypair
Configure options
and Launch Virtual
Machine in compute
group
Manage Virtual
Machine
RDP/SSH Login, Start,
Stop,Backup
Delete Virtual
Machine
4
1
3
26
5

(1) End User Dashboard EBS storage service
Select storage size
Select Storage group
‐SLA/QoS
‐Storage policy
Attach to Virtual
Machine image
Manage Volume
‐Snapshot
‐Backup
Delete Volume
1
3
25
4
1TB

Application server catalog
• The application service
catalog consists of a set of
special purpose applications
servers.
• Web & Cloud services
• Lamp stack
• Video surveillance
• Video streaming
• Dropbox type solutions
• Database management
• Storage Array service
• File sharing as a service

Scale out ComputeGroups Block and Object Storage model
BASIC
STANDARD
1G
iSCSI
10G
iSCSI
6G SAS
4/8/16G
FC
Fabrics Storage Containers
PREMIUM
Automated EBS
Block Storage
Compute Containers
BRONZE compute GROUP
SILVER compute GROUP
Object Storage
S3
Web
1
2
Scale out Storage Groups

End User Services Catalog
Type Service Description
VM OS
Catalog
An EC2 catalog of General purpose
Windows, Centos, Ubuntu, RHEL, SLES
KVM and VMWARE compatible virtual
machine images
A catalog of Virtual machine images with end user
configuration of memory, cpu and storage.
VM Application
server
catalog
An EC2 catalog of mainly Linux based
business application servers for a range of
storage centric applications (e.g dropbox)
A catalog of special purpose Virtual machine images
with end user configuration of memory, cpu and
storage.
Storage Catalog A EBS compatible catalog of block storage
volumes at specific QoS and SLA levels for
specific VM workloads.
S3 compatible service that allows any S3 application
to provision, upload, download object data
Storage Array
as a service
A special purpose VM image that provides
storage array services in the customer
tenant space for advanced storage
management
Allows end users to manage their own storage array
in their own tenant space for their virtual machines
over CIFS, NFS or iSCSI. Provides a rich storage feature
set of snapshot, thin provisioning, replication and
backup.
Object storage An S3 object storage compatible service Virtual machines integrated with special purpose
storage centric applications

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