The document discusses building your own storage area network (SAN) using inexpensive commodity hardware. It describes what a SAN is and compares it to network attached storage. The author built their own SAN with three hard disks in a workstation running Solaris to provide 2.72TB of block storage across 20 virtual environments. By using ZFS and its snapshot and cloning capabilities, they were able to use just 750GB of space instead of the 12TB that would be required otherwise. The document encourages others to consider building their own low-cost SAN and provides resources for learning more.
Cleaning out your IT Closet - Offloading Infrastructure and Headaches to Windows Azure IaaS. SharePoint Saturday Redmond Presentation. Learn how an Azure Virtual Private Network can help you move your servers into the cloud, including entire SharePoint farms.
Running your Java EE 6 applications in the CloudIndicThreads
Session Presented @IndicThreads Cloud Computing Conference, Pune, India ( http://u10.indicthreads.com )
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The Java EE 6 platform is an extreme makeover from the previous versions. It breaks the “one size fits all” approach with Profiles and improves on the Java EE 5 developer productivity features. It enables extensibility by embracing open source libraries and frameworks such that they are treated as first class citizens of the platform. NetBeans, Eclipse, and IntelliJ provide extensive tooling for Java EE 6.
But how can you leverage all of this on a cloud ?
GlassFish v3, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. This talk will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3. The attendees will learn how to create a simple Java EE 6 sample application and deploy them on GlassFish v3 running locally. Then it will deploy that sample using Amazon, RightScale, Joyent, and Elastra cloud infrastructures. It will also show how servers are dynamically provisioned in some environments to meet the demand. The talk will also explain the advantages of each approach enabling you to choose the optimal strategy for your environment.
Takeaways from the session
The attendees will be able to learn how to deploy a Java EE 6 application in different cloud environments. They’ll also learn about the pros/cons of these infrastructures.
Cleaning out your IT Closet - Offloading Infrastructure and Headaches to Windows Azure IaaS. SharePoint Saturday Redmond Presentation. Learn how an Azure Virtual Private Network can help you move your servers into the cloud, including entire SharePoint farms.
Running your Java EE 6 applications in the CloudIndicThreads
Session Presented @IndicThreads Cloud Computing Conference, Pune, India ( http://u10.indicthreads.com )
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The Java EE 6 platform is an extreme makeover from the previous versions. It breaks the “one size fits all” approach with Profiles and improves on the Java EE 5 developer productivity features. It enables extensibility by embracing open source libraries and frameworks such that they are treated as first class citizens of the platform. NetBeans, Eclipse, and IntelliJ provide extensive tooling for Java EE 6.
But how can you leverage all of this on a cloud ?
GlassFish v3, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. This talk will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3. The attendees will learn how to create a simple Java EE 6 sample application and deploy them on GlassFish v3 running locally. Then it will deploy that sample using Amazon, RightScale, Joyent, and Elastra cloud infrastructures. It will also show how servers are dynamically provisioned in some environments to meet the demand. The talk will also explain the advantages of each approach enabling you to choose the optimal strategy for your environment.
Takeaways from the session
The attendees will be able to learn how to deploy a Java EE 6 application in different cloud environments. They’ll also learn about the pros/cons of these infrastructures.
What's new in Amazon Aurora - ADB207 - New York AWS SummitAmazon Web Services
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database that runs on Amazon RDS and offers versions compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Aurora provides the speed, reliability, and availability of commercial databases at a fraction of the cost and is faster than standard MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. In this session, we provide an overview of Aurora, exploring recently announced features, such as serverless, multi-master, and performance insights. We also discuss what you need to get your organization started with Aurora.
MED201 Media Ingest and Storage Solutions with AWS - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
In this session we will discuss the numerous ways to ingest data into AWS including options such as physical media import & direct connect. We also talk about policy-based Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) in the cloud, total cost of ownership, the importance of storage durability, and the infinite scalability of Amazon S3. Also, the founder of photo-share sensation IMGUR, Alan Schaaf, speaks about their migration to AWS.
Leveraging the Cloud: Getting the more bang for your buckDesk
Cloud management and monitoring includes a broad set of tools that help cloud managers to keep track of their deployment health, utilization, consumption and cost.
This deck will cover techniques and best practices for efficient cloud deployment, specifically: how to implement capacity, utilization and cost metrics in your AWS cloud deployment in order to maximize the ROI.
What's new in Amazon Aurora - ADB207 - New York AWS SummitAmazon Web Services
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database that runs on Amazon RDS and offers versions compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Aurora provides the speed, reliability, and availability of commercial databases at a fraction of the cost and is faster than standard MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. In this session, we provide an overview of Aurora, exploring recently announced features, such as serverless, multi-master, and performance insights. We also discuss what you need to get your organization started with Aurora.
MED201 Media Ingest and Storage Solutions with AWS - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
In this session we will discuss the numerous ways to ingest data into AWS including options such as physical media import & direct connect. We also talk about policy-based Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) in the cloud, total cost of ownership, the importance of storage durability, and the infinite scalability of Amazon S3. Also, the founder of photo-share sensation IMGUR, Alan Schaaf, speaks about their migration to AWS.
Leveraging the Cloud: Getting the more bang for your buckDesk
Cloud management and monitoring includes a broad set of tools that help cloud managers to keep track of their deployment health, utilization, consumption and cost.
This deck will cover techniques and best practices for efficient cloud deployment, specifically: how to implement capacity, utilization and cost metrics in your AWS cloud deployment in order to maximize the ROI.
Stacking up with OpenStack: Building for High Availability
Build your own san
1. Build your own SAN!
Sriram “Ram” Narayanan
Devops Engineer Thoughtworks
@sriramnrn
www.belenix.org
2. What is a SAN ?
Storage Area Network
Provides storage services
Block and file based storage
High fidelity storage
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3. What is a NAS ?
Network Attached Storage
Usually file based storage services
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4. What does a SAN look like ?
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance - 7320
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5. SAN Vendors
HP
Sun/Oracle
IBM
NetApp
EMC
3Par
HP
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6. SAN/NAS vs desktop sharing
Performance
Caching
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7. The Engineering
Power supply
Read Write Cache engineering
Battery backups
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8. SAN/NAS vs desktop sharing
Performance
Caching
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9. Building your own SAN
Pros
Full Control
Low price
Good learning ground to understand
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SAN technologies @sriramnrn
10. Building your own SAN
What we did
Workstation
Three hard disk drives
Solaris 10 / OpenIndiana
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11. Building your own SAN
Avoid Hardware RAID
ZFS gives it to you already
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12. Building your own SAN
What we achieved
2.72 TB usable space
20 Environments of 600 GB each
Used 750 GB instead of 12 TB
Build your own SAN! to snapshots and clones)
(thanks @sriramnrn
14. Future directions
A basic box per office in India
DB Virtualization
SuperMicro base
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15. ZFS Presentation
Let’s see the ZFS Presentation
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16. Hands on !
Power on the VM
user/password
root/password123
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17. Hands on !
Power on the VM
user/password
root/password123
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18. Want to know more ?
Bangalore Open Solaris User Group
(bosug)
Regular meetups
Project: Belenix
www.belenix.org
@belenix
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