Jim Salter Openoid - System Administrator / Author POSSCON 4/14/2015 Operations/Back End Track - 11:00 AM Talk

1. SANOID for the win!
Enterprise Virtualization, Small Business Budget
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(C) 2014 jim@openoid.net
Jim Salter
Technomancer,
Mercenary Sysadmin,
Small Business Owner
Today's slides can be found at:
http://openoid.net/presentations/

2. Back in 2002, this guy
says to me...
Tim Anderson
Director of IT,
The Partners Group

3. “The IT Hero is dead.”

4. Client Acquisition Process
how IT typically works in Small Business

5. “What's the Fortune 500 do?”
-- Small Business Owners, every day

6. “You can't afford it.”
-- Small Business IT People, every day
http://www.janchristensen.org/updates/2010-june/paintings/

7. “Enterprise” Features
Which ones?
●
Predictability
No nasty surprises, please.
●
Minimal downtime
A little is OK, though. Especially if it's scheduled.
●
Rapid recovery
An emergency on your part does not constitute an
unscheduled employee holiday on my part!

8. “Enterprise” Features
How they do it:

9. “Enterprise” Features
How they do it:

10. “Enterprise” Features
How SANOID does it:

11. “Enterprise” Features
The Nitty-Gritty
Rolling hourly snapshots
[pool/dataset]
use_template = production
[template_production]
template = yes
hourly = 36
daily = 30
monthly = 3
yearly = 1
autosnap = yes
autoprune = yes
Rolling hourly snapshots
policy-driven
management

12. “Enterprise” Features
The Nitty-Gritty
Automated Monitoring
Know it's broken before the users do -
Know what's broken when you call them

13. “Enterprise” Features
The Nitty-Gritty
Asynchronous Incremental Replication
Rapid, granular, reliable disaster recovery

14. “Enterprise” Features
The Nitty-Gritty
Strong hardware decoupling
Upgrades on demand, no spare parts closets

15. welcome to the machine
Kernel Virtual Machine
High Performance “Bare Metal”
Hypervisor and utilities

16. the storage is the thing
OpenZFS Filesystem
I seriously don't understand
how you're living without this.

17. shiny.
Let's be bad guys!

19. root@remote:~# iperf -c onsite
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-11.9 sec 1.62 MBytes 1.15 Mbits/sec
root@remote:~# zfs list backup/images/fileserver
NAME USED AVAIL REFER
backup/images/fileserver 2.54T 2.96T 2.14T
root@remote:~# syncoid
root@onsite:images/fileserver backup/fileserver
Sending incremental syncoid_remote_2015-03-
08:22:00:06 ... syncoid_remote_2015-03-
09:13:24:09 (~ 912.0 MB):
908MB 0:13:36 [1.11MB/s] [============>] 99%
root@remote:~#
er, I mean replication is the thing
Syncoid Replication
Easy. Affordable. Offsite. DR.

20. putting it all in place
SANOID Topology

21. putting it all in place
SANOID Topology

22. et vos custodiet ipsos custodes
Nagios and OpenVPN

23. Questions?
Comments?
Angry denunciations?