The document discusses the challenges of enterprise data storage, emphasizing the limitations of traditional storage solutions in scaling and managing data growth. It highlights SUSE's contributions to the Ceph open-source community and its developments in software-defined storage over the years. Additionally, it outlines future directions for SUSE's enterprise storage solutions, including improved user experiences and interoperability.

1. Our first 5 years with Ceph
Lars Marowsky-Brée
lmb@suse.com
Distinguished Engineer, Architect Software-Defined-Storage

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Welcome!

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Enterprise Data Storage Challenges

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Common Limitations of Traditional
Enterprise Storage
Unable to scale and
manage data
growth
Expensive Won’t extend to
the software-defined
data center
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Data Continues to Grow Very Fast
Medical Data
EmailsVideos
Mobile Data IoT Data
Transactional Data

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Data Protection Problem is Getting
Compounded
• Inability to keep enough data online
• Not being able to recover lost data fast enough
• Migrations to larger disk or dedupe appliances every year
Increasing volumes of data compound the data protection problem
*SUSE Software Defined Storage Study 2016
Cost of storage
Performance / availability
Challenges with back up, disaster recovery and archiving
Increasing volumes of data
Security and data governance
45%
46%
46%
54%
56%
Customer Facing Numerous Backup Challenges:
Top 5 Data Management Challenges*

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Open Source is the only sustainable option

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About SUSE Enterprise Storage

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SUSE’s history with Ceph
August 2012 SUSE Cloud 1 Argonaut
February 2015 SUSE Enterprise Storage 1 Firefly
October 2015 SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 Hammer
June 2016 SUSE Enterprise Storage 3 Jewel
October 2016 openATTIC team joins SUSE!
November 2016 SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 Jewel
October 2017 SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 Luminous
Later 2018 SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 Mimic

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Curate open source solutions – projects and features
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Track, test, and manage software dependencies
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Incorporate and provide patches and backports
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Advise customers on recommended practices and hardware
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Represent customers and partners in the community
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Bridge the worlds of community and IHVs/ISVs
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Provide high quality support
Vendor value add

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Strong contributor to Ceph community & Ceph Advisory Board
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True Open Source - “Upstream first”
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iSCSI with Multipathing/VMware support
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First supported Ceph distribution for ARM64
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First to support CephFS for production deployments
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Salt-based orchestration for upgrade and FileStore/BlueStore migration
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Lead on openATTIC, Prometheus & Grafana, now merged into core
Ceph management functionality
Major SUSE contributions

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Monitoring with openATTIC

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Management with openATTIC

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openATTIC merging into the Ceph dashboard

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Strong industry partnerships

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Use Case Focused Solutions
Backup to Disk Solution Compliant
Archives
SAP HANA
Storage Solution
Appliance
HPC Archives
Certified RAs
Cloud
SOC SES
IoT
Configuration CSPs +
SES
Mode1
Customers
Mode2
Customers
Example SUSE Enterprise Storage Partners

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Growth of our Ceph deployments

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Industry validation

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Marc Koderer, SAP
March 2018
Case Study: Ceph at SAP
How to Build a Cattle Cloud

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Integraton
Environment
SAP Cloud Platform, private edition – High Level
Security Platorm
Services
SAP Cloud Platorm Private Cloud
Data & Storage
Foundaton
XS Advanced Development
IaaSSAP HANA
Database
Hardware / Bare Metal
Applicaton / IoT
ERP

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Traditional applications vs cloud native applications (pets vs cattle)
DB
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DB
Active
App App
Centralized
Storage
Characteristics:
• Runs on bare metal and/or VM’s
• HW failure is exceptional
• Centralized instead of distributed
monolithic payloads
Characteristics:
• Runs on VMs or in Containers
• HW failure can happen all the time
• Highly distributed
Distributed Storage / SDS
DB2DB1
Service Service Service…
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Distributed/scale-out payloads

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AZ1 AZ2 AZ3
Private cloud architecture

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Ceph in detail
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Ceph in detail
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• Hardware characteristics
• 108 storage nodes
• 24 disk per osd node; 2 NVMEs
• 4x 25 Gbit (2x 25 Gbit bond frontend; 2x 25 Gbit bond backend)
• Spine/leaf network architecture across all AZs
• RBD and Radosgw usage
• The Ceph cluster is designed to compensate the outage of one Availability Zone
• Max performance ~60 GB/sec (writes; 4MB)

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Ceph in detail: RGW
Loadbalancer
VM VM VM VM VM
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RGW stress test
# of RGW
(6 vcpus)
Max
concurrent
connection
Method Throughput
1 512 put 250 MB/sec
1 512 get 300 MB/sec
3 1536 put 700 MB/sec
3 1536 get 900 MB/sec
9 4608 put 1950 MB/sec
9 4608 get 2100 MB/sec

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The next 5 years

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SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 – based on Mimic
•Incorporates Ceph Mimic
•Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15
•Improve interoperability
•Internationalization and localization
•Improved scale-out user experience
•Eventing and alerting
•Metric reporting and telemetry

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Hyper-converged infrastructure

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SUSE Container as a Service Platform

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openATTIC <3 Ceph’s Dashboard
Provide a better user experience
Make complex tasks easier
Assist users along the way of sizing,
deploying, and managing a Ceph cluster

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Machine Learning and AI

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Ceph? Not if. When.
Open source cloud operating systems and software-defined storage
platforms are based on the Linux operating system.
SUSE is a Linux OS pioneer and successful software vendor with
thousands of installations. Customers should expect to receive
nothing less than expert support for their software-based storage.
Learn more at suse.com/storage/