John Griffith, SolidFire's lead open source developer and the Project Technical Lead (PTL) for the OpenStack Block Storage project (i.e. Cinder) will provide an update on the OpenStack Block Storage project and a sneak preview of what is coming in the Grizzly release. John will also demo some of the newest Cinder features on a SolidFire cluster.

1. Prepare for the BEAR
Preview of Cinder G release & demo with SolidFire
John Griffith, Lead Open Source Developer, john.griffith@solidfire.com, @jdg_8
Dave Cahill, Director of Strategic Alliances, dcahill@solidfire.com, @dcahill8

2. Who the %$&# are these guys?
• John Griffith
• Lead Open Source developer @SolidFire
• Technical Lead for OpenStack Block Storage Project
(Cinder)
• Dave Cahill
• Director, Strategic Alliances @SolidFire

3. The OpenStack Opportunity

4. Why the
urgency
around
OpenStack?
• OpenStack is only a 3-year old startup,
BUT…
ü Cloud is happening NOW
ü Pain points are REAL
ü LACK of viable alternatives
ü Opportunity is MASSIVE
ü AWS is not standing still

5. Margin
High
Med
Low
IOPS
What is the
opportunity?
Low High
Cloud 2.0
Performance Sensitive Apps
Oracle / SAP
Hadoop / NoSQL / etc.
Performance Sensitivity
$$$
$$
$
Applications
Test / Development
Backup / Archive
Cloud 1.0

6. We’ve
seen this
movie
before...
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x86 Virtualization – The Test/Dev Era

7. Is this a
re-run?
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Cloud Computing – The Test/Dev Era

8. Why yes,
it is!
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The Test/Dev Era – x86 Virtualization vs. Cloud Computing

9. x86 Virtualization
This movie
ended well…
x86 Virtualization – From Test/Dev to Production
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10. Cloud
Computing
This ending
is still being
written
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The Production Era Opportunity: x86 Virtualization vs. Cloud

11. How do we
influence the
outcome?
Margin
High
Med
Low
IOPS
Low High
Cloud 2.0
Performance Sensitive Apps
Oracle / SAP
Hadoop / NoSQL / etc.
Performance Sensitivity
$$$
$$
$
Applications
Test / Development
Backup / Archive
Cloud 1.0
Key Cloud
Infrastructure
Innovations
• Availability
• Performance
• Quality-of-Service
• Scalability
• Automation

12. What does
this have to
do with
Cinder?
• Storage is a major pain-point in most
early-cloud deployments
• Unpredictable Performance
• Not designed for Multi-tenancy
• Management = Complex + Inefficient + Costly
• Storage a key underpinning to successful
application deployments
• Cloud 1.0 = Backup/Archive, Test/Dev.
• Cloud 2.0 = Mission & Business Critical
Applications

13. Cinder Update
6 Months Later

14. Little over halfway by the numbers
37 blueprints/new features (and counting)
43 bug fixes (and counting)
300+ commits into GitHub (during Grizzly time-frame, and counting)

15. Highlights
Boot From Volume
Copy image -> Volume -> Image
Clone volumes
LVM-Thin and LVM-Mirrors
Types/Extra-Specs
Filter Scheduler
API-V2
Multiple-Backend support
LIO (iSCSI target option)

16. Almost there
Fibre Channel
Drivers....
Honorable mentions (still hoping to get these, but likely H1)
Aggregates*
Glance plugins*

17. Let's demo some new features on a
SolidFire Cluster
Simple config:
Create some volume-types that can translate to QoS
Create a volume that can be attached
Create a bootable volume
Let's make another using the clone features

18. 1620 Pearl Street,
Boulder, Colorado 80302
Phone: 720.523.3278
Email: info@solidfire.com
www.solidfire.com
Questions?
John Griffith, john.griffith@solidfire.com, @jdg_8
Dave Cahill, dcahill@solidfire.com, @dcahill8