Openattic is an open-source storage management solution aimed at providing a unified management platform for both NAS and SAN systems, supporting Ceph for scalable storage needs. Recent developments include the removal of edition splits, full GPL v2 licensing, and the introduction of a public issue tracker, while the product roadmap emphasizes enhancements in storage pool management and Ceph management capabilities. The solution is built on modern web technologies and offers extensive monitoring and volume management functionalities.

1. Ceph and Storage Management
with openATTIC
solutions.hamburg 2016, Hamburg, Germany
2016-09-09
Lenz Grimmer <lenz@openattic.org>

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openATTIC – Our Vision
 Develop an open source alternative to proprietary
storage management systems
 „Traditional” unified storage (NAS/SAN)
 Support Ceph for scale-out scenarios
 Backed with commercial support and services

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openATTIC – Notable Recent Changes
 Removed Enterprise/Community Edition split
 Now fully under the GPLv2
 Removed requirement for CLA
 DCA (Signed-off-by) is all that's needed
 Public Jira Bug Tracker (Issue tracking & roadmap)
 Public pull requests / code reviews on BitBucket
 Development/Release Branch
 Monthly releases / nighly snapshot builds
 Entire code base (Backend/WebUI/Test/Docs) in one branch

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openATTIC – What Sets us Apart?
 Focus on data center storage management
 Support both SAN and NAS functionality without limitations
 Fully Open Source (GPLv2)
 No arbitrary functional restrictions
 Low entrance barrier for adoption
 Based on Linux / OSS tools
 Multiple Linux distributions (Debian/Ubuntu/Red Hat/SUSE)
 Well-established technology stack (e.g. drivers, hardware support)
 Broad user base

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 Modern Web UI
 RESTful API (Software-
Defined Storage)
 Unified Storage
 NAS (NFS, CIFS, HTTP)
 SAN (iSCSI, Fibre Channel)
 LVM, XFS, ZFS, Btrfs,
ext3/4
 Volume mirroring (DRBD®)
 Multi-node support
 Monitoring (Nagios/Icinga)
built-in
 Ceph management and
monitoring (WIP)
 Development sponsored
by it-novum
openATTIC – Open Source Storage Management

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 Backend
 Python (Django)
 Django REST Framework
(RESTful API)
 Linux tools for storage
management, e.g. LVM, LIO,
filesystem utilities, DRBD,
etc.
 Nagios/Icinga &
PNP4Nagios (Monitoring
and Graphing)
 Web Frontend
 AngularJS (JS framework)
 Bootstrap (HTML, CSS, and
JS framework)
 Uses REST API exclusively
 Automated Test Suites
 Python Unit Tests
 REST Backend Tests
(Gatling)
 WebUI Tests
(Protractor/Jasmine)
openATTIC – Components

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openATTIC – High Level Architecture

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openATTIC – Storage Development Roadmap
 Add Disk and Storage Pool Management to the API & WebUI
 Creating/Modifying LVM Volume Groups / MD RAID setups
 Creating/Modifying Btrfs/ZFS Pools (incl. RAID setups)
 Automatic discovery of disks/pools (via udev)
 Monitoring Disk health (SMART)
 Manage HW RAID controllers
 Add DRBD volume mirroring support to the WebUI
 Extend SAN functionality (more iSCSI/FC features)
 Public Roadmap on the openATTIC Jira/Wiki to solicit
community feedback

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openATTIC – Current Ceph Development Status
 Ceph Cluster Status Dashboard incl. Performance Graphs
 “NoDB” and “TaskQueue” backend architecture in place
 Pool management (view/create/delete)
 OSD management (view)
 RBD management (view/create/delete/map)
 Cluster health/performance & pool monitoring
 CRUSH map editor
 Support for managing multiple Ceph clusters

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https://wiki.openattic.org/display/OP/openATTIC+Ceph+REST+API+overview
openATTIC – Ceph Management REST API

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openATTIC – Ceph Development Roadmap
 Extend Pool Management
 OSD Monitoring/Management
 RBD Management/Monitoring
 CephFS Management
 RGW Management (users, buckets keys)
 Deployment, remote configuration of Ceph nodes (via Salt
Open)
 Remote node monitoring (via collectd)
 Public Roadmap on the openATTIC Wiki: http://bit.ly/28PCTWf

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openATTIC – Storage Management Dashboard

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openATTIC – Storage Dashboard Preview

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openATTIC – Volume Management

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openATTIC – Volume Utilization

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openATTIC – Volume Performance

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openATTIC – API Recorder

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openATTIC – Ceph Cluster Dashboard Preview

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openATTIC – Ceph Pool List

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openATTIC – Ceph OSD List

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openATTIC – Ceph RBD list

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openATTIC – Create Ceph RBD

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openATTIC – Ceph CRUSH map editing

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 www.openattic.org
 demo.openattic.org
 blog.openattic.org
 docs.openattic.org
 bitbucket.org/openattic
 tracker.openattic.org
 Twitter: @openATTIC
 G+: openATTIC
openATTIC – Resources

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