CloudByte's ElastiStor storage controller uses a patented TSM architecture that fully isolates each application at all storage stack levels, allowing resources to be intelligently provisioned based on an application's performance needs. This enables shared storage to deliver guaranteed quality of service to thousands of applications. ElastiStor controllers can scale linearly and use standard servers with no proprietary hardware, reducing costs by 80-90% over 3-5 years compared to dedicated storage islands.
VMware provides virtualization software that allows guest operating systems to run on virtual machines. This makes virtual machines highly portable between physical computers. Administrators can pause, move, or copy virtual machines. Virtualization treats hardware as a pool of resources available on demand. VMware was founded in 1999 and initially developed virtualization in the 1960s for mainframe computers. It offers two types of hypervisors - Type 1 is a bare metal hypervisor directly on hardware while Type 2 is hosted on a traditional operating system. VMware helps enterprises consolidate servers, provision applications quickly, isolate workloads, enable disaster recovery, and reduce costs. Welch's Foods case study showed VMware helped save over $100,000 by migrating servers to
Configuration and Deployment Guide For Memcached on Intel® ArchitectureOdinot Stanislas
This Configuration and Deployment Guide explores designing and building a Memcached infrastructure that is scalable, reliable, manageable and secure. The guide uses experience with real-world deployments as well as data from benchmark tests. Configuration guidelines on clusters of Intel® Xeon®- and Atom™-based servers take into account differing business scenarios and inform the various tradeoffs to accommodate different Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) objectives.
The document discusses the limitations of legacy storage solutions for cloud service providers hosting performance-sensitive applications. Traditional and advanced storage arrays cannot guarantee quality of service due to "noisy neighbor" issues where applications contend for shared resources. Scale-out storage overcomes noisy neighbors by overprovisioning hardware, but cannot set specific service level agreements for tenants. The document introduces CloudByte ElastiStor as a solution that can guarantee quality of service for each application running on shared storage by resolving noisy neighbor issues through its patented technology.
DATASHEET▶ Enterprise Cloud Backup & Recovery with Symantec NetBackupSymantec
Symantec NetBackup delivers reliable backup and recovery across applications,
platforms, physical and virtual environments.1 A single console unites the management and reporting of both on-premises and on-cloud information to provide additional operating efficiencies and simplified administration. The NetBackup platform has deep VMware® and Microsoft Hyper-V integration, built-in deduplication to protect the private cloud, seamless integration with industry-leading public cloud storage providers, self-service and multi-tenancy for backup as a service (BaaS).
The NetBackup cloud storage module enables you to backup and restore data from cloud storage providers and is integrated with Symantec's Open Storage (OST) module which provides features that can enhance the operational experience of backup and recovery from the cloud.
Enterprise data-centers are straining to keep pace with dynamic business demands, as well as to incorporate advanced technologies and architectures that aim to improve infrastructure performance
Hyperconvergence is the biggest IT shift since the rise of server virtualization. With any budding space, there tends to be some confusion around the technology. The FAQs in this paper were compiled to help clear up some of the confusion and highlight key customer benefits for using hyperconvergence.
Storage Multi-Tenancy For Cloud Service ProvidersCloudByte Inc.
Storage has mostly been an individually managed entity under server and networking virtualization layers. Today, there is a growing demand for this to change into storage virtualization platforms that act like and can be managed like a server virtualization layer. This presentation will look at the storage requirements that cloud service providers have today and what they can do to create a secure and flexible multi-tenant storage infrastructure.
The document discusses how the DataCore SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor can help virtualize business-critical applications without performance issues by managing resources across storage systems. It provides adaptive caching, auto-tiering of storage pools from different disk assets, and synchronous mirroring between fault domains. This allows applications to perform predictably even when virtualized, improves throughput by up to 5 times, and provides 99.999% availability. The storage hypervisor is a better solution than expensive hardware modifications to deal with virtualization issues, and provides benefits like preventing downtime and simplifying management of distributed infrastructure.
VMware provides virtualization software that allows guest operating systems to run on virtual machines. This makes virtual machines highly portable between physical computers. Administrators can pause, move, or copy virtual machines. Virtualization treats hardware as a pool of resources available on demand. VMware was founded in 1999 and initially developed virtualization in the 1960s for mainframe computers. It offers two types of hypervisors - Type 1 is a bare metal hypervisor directly on hardware while Type 2 is hosted on a traditional operating system. VMware helps enterprises consolidate servers, provision applications quickly, isolate workloads, enable disaster recovery, and reduce costs. Welch's Foods case study showed VMware helped save over $100,000 by migrating servers to
Configuration and Deployment Guide For Memcached on Intel® ArchitectureOdinot Stanislas
This Configuration and Deployment Guide explores designing and building a Memcached infrastructure that is scalable, reliable, manageable and secure. The guide uses experience with real-world deployments as well as data from benchmark tests. Configuration guidelines on clusters of Intel® Xeon®- and Atom™-based servers take into account differing business scenarios and inform the various tradeoffs to accommodate different Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) objectives.
The document discusses the limitations of legacy storage solutions for cloud service providers hosting performance-sensitive applications. Traditional and advanced storage arrays cannot guarantee quality of service due to "noisy neighbor" issues where applications contend for shared resources. Scale-out storage overcomes noisy neighbors by overprovisioning hardware, but cannot set specific service level agreements for tenants. The document introduces CloudByte ElastiStor as a solution that can guarantee quality of service for each application running on shared storage by resolving noisy neighbor issues through its patented technology.
DATASHEET▶ Enterprise Cloud Backup & Recovery with Symantec NetBackupSymantec
Symantec NetBackup delivers reliable backup and recovery across applications,
platforms, physical and virtual environments.1 A single console unites the management and reporting of both on-premises and on-cloud information to provide additional operating efficiencies and simplified administration. The NetBackup platform has deep VMware® and Microsoft Hyper-V integration, built-in deduplication to protect the private cloud, seamless integration with industry-leading public cloud storage providers, self-service and multi-tenancy for backup as a service (BaaS).
The NetBackup cloud storage module enables you to backup and restore data from cloud storage providers and is integrated with Symantec's Open Storage (OST) module which provides features that can enhance the operational experience of backup and recovery from the cloud.
Enterprise data-centers are straining to keep pace with dynamic business demands, as well as to incorporate advanced technologies and architectures that aim to improve infrastructure performance
Hyperconvergence is the biggest IT shift since the rise of server virtualization. With any budding space, there tends to be some confusion around the technology. The FAQs in this paper were compiled to help clear up some of the confusion and highlight key customer benefits for using hyperconvergence.
Storage Multi-Tenancy For Cloud Service ProvidersCloudByte Inc.
Storage has mostly been an individually managed entity under server and networking virtualization layers. Today, there is a growing demand for this to change into storage virtualization platforms that act like and can be managed like a server virtualization layer. This presentation will look at the storage requirements that cloud service providers have today and what they can do to create a secure and flexible multi-tenant storage infrastructure.
The document discusses how the DataCore SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor can help virtualize business-critical applications without performance issues by managing resources across storage systems. It provides adaptive caching, auto-tiering of storage pools from different disk assets, and synchronous mirroring between fault domains. This allows applications to perform predictably even when virtualized, improves throughput by up to 5 times, and provides 99.999% availability. The storage hypervisor is a better solution than expensive hardware modifications to deal with virtualization issues, and provides benefits like preventing downtime and simplifying management of distributed infrastructure.
Wellmont Health System - EMC Customer ProfileDarren Ramsey
Multiple tiers of EMC storage, representing over 500 terabytes of capacity, reside within Wellmont Health System’s three data centers. This tiered storage approach enables the organization’s IT team to provision the right kind of storage to accommodate different application service-level needs for the highest efficiency possible—all while ensuring non-stop access to information by those entrusted with patient care. A pair of EMC® Connectrix® (Cisco MDS 9000 family) directors at both the Kingsport corporate data center (CORP) and the Bristol Regional Medical Center data center (BRMC), along with two EMC Connectrix switches at the Holston Valley Medical Center (HVMC) form a high-performance, highly reliable eight Gigabit ring of connectivity between the sites.
There has been a lot of interest and buzz recently around hyperconvergence. It's the biggest IT shift since the rise of server virtualization. As with any budding space there is some confusion. This paper looks at the top 10 benefits of hyperconvergence and and also answers some frequently asked questions.
NetApp SnapManager for Hyper-V provides automated data protection for Microsoft virtualized environments by enabling fast backups and restores using intelligent storage management. It simplifies management through policy-based backup and allows admins to improve VM performance and increase productivity while achieving nondisruptive operations and intelligent management of storage resources.
Cooperative Schedule Data Possession for Integrity Verification in Multi-Clou...IJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
The document discusses Software-Defined Storage (SDS), which virtualizes storage such that users can access and control it through a software interface independent of the physical storage devices. SDS has advantages over traditional network storage systems like SAN and NAS in that it has lower costs, greater flexibility and agility, better resource utilization, and higher storage capacity. It divides storage functionality into a control plane that manages virtualized resources through policies, and a data plane that processes and stores data.
The benefits of having a “Virtual Infrastructure” – utilization, flexibility, hardware independence – and the savings that these benefits provide, are broadly understood and accepted in the server market. VMware claims millions of users worldwide. Citrix, Oracle and Microsoft have come out with their own virtual server offerings to join the fray, and a sub-industry of complementary vendors, resellers and service providers has grown up around the major server virtualization products. It is within this market that storage virtualization has quickly reemerged as a vital infrastructure for most enterprises. There are some very practical reasons why this is so.
This document provides best practices for implementing Vectorwise, a high performance database. It discusses hardware recommendations including using CPUs with high clock rates and memory, with at least 8GB per core. It recommends 64-bit operating systems like Red Hat, SUSE, or Windows. Database configuration defaults are generally good. Data loading is best done through bulk load or incremental insert, and high availability can be achieved through hardware redundancy and backups. Monitoring includes OS metrics, vwinfo data, and third party tools.
This document discusses IBM's cloud storage solution for transforming information infrastructure. It provides three examples of how cloud storage could help organizations by allowing dynamic storage management: 1) A company running out of disk space on a Friday could non-disruptively add storage in the cloud. 2) Old storage systems can be replaced by migrating data to the cloud without downtime. 3) Cloud storage provides disaster recovery by replicating and accessing data in the cloud when primary storage fails.
Historically backups have been defined and referenced by the hostname of the physical system being protected. This has worked well when the relationship between the physical host and the operating system was a direct, one to one relationship. Backup processing impact was limited to each physical client and the biggest concern was saturating the network with backup traffic. This was easily managed by limiting the number of simultaneous client backups via a simple setting within the NetBackup policy.
Virtual machine technologies have changed this physical hardware dynamic. Dozens of operating systems (virtual machines) can now reside on a single physical (ESX) host connected to a single storage LUN with network access through a single NIC. When using traditional policy configurations, backup processing randomly occurs with no regard to the physical location of each virtual machine. As backups progress, a subset of ESX servers can be heavily impacted with active backups while other ESX systems sit idly waiting for their virtual machines to be protected. The effect of this is that backups tend to be slower than they need to be and backup processing impact on the ESX servers tends to be random and lopsided. Standard backup policy definitions simply do not translate well into virtual environments.
The NetBackup Virtual machine Intelligent Policy (VIP) feature is designed to solve this problem and more. With Virtual machine Intelligent Policy, backup processing can be automatically load balanced across the entire virtual machine environment. No ESX server is unfairly taxed with excessive backup processing and backups can be significantly faster. Once configured, this load balancing automatically detects changes in the virtual machine environment and automatically compensates backup processing based on these changes. Virtual machine Intelligent Policy places virtual machine backups on autopilot.
Falcon Stor Enables Virtual SANs For V MwarePaul Skach
FalconStor has packaged its storage virtualization software as a VMware virtual appliance. This allows organizations using VMware to leverage FalconStor's software to transform direct-attached storage into a virtual SAN. This enables these organizations to take advantage of VMware's high availability and business continuity features. The virtual appliance also provides enhanced data protection capabilities like mirroring and replication. By offering an affordable virtual SAN solution, FalconStor aims to help more organizations adopt shared storage and realize the full benefits of server virtualization.
Server virtualization has forever changed the way we think about compute resources. Traditional storage architecture is a mismatch for today's virtualized environments. Gridstore's unique and patented architecture solves this problem and increases performance while decreasing costs. Learn how.
Vectorwise is a high performance in-memory columnar database that was developed to bridge the 100x performance gap between relational databases and custom code. It uses a vectorized execution model to achieve significant performance gains over traditional row-oriented databases. After being acquired by Actian, Vectorwise is now integrated with the Ingres database and delivers fast query response times and affordable analytics capabilities. The presentation demonstrated Vectorwise's performance advantages through benchmarks and discussed its value proposition of high performance, low costs, and ease of use.
This white paper describes the EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA). The CTA enables NAS data tiering, allowing administrators to move inactive data from high-performance storage to less-expensive archival storage, thus enabling cost-effective use of file storage. The CTA also facilitates data migration which moves data to new shares or exports.
This white paper provides an overview of EMC's data protection solutions for the data lake - an active repository to manage varied and complex Big Data workloads
Storage Virtualization: Towards an Efficient and Scalable FrameworkCSCJournals
Enterprises in the corporate world demand high speed data protection for all kinds of data. Issues such as complex server environments with high administrative costs and low data protection have to be resolved. In addition to data protection, enterprises demand the ability to recover/restore critical information in various situations. Traditional storage management solutions such as direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) have been devised to address such problems. Storage virtualization is the emerging technology that amends the underlying complications of physical storage by introducing the concept of cloud storage environments. This paper covers the DAS, NAS and SAN solutions of storage management and emphasizes the benefits of storage virtualization. The paper discusses a potential cloud storage structure based on which storage virtualization architecture will be proposed.
This document proposes a new Cloud Elasticity as a Service (CES) framework in OpenStack for efficiently managing cloud infrastructure utilization. CES allows cloud administrators to define policies with configurable quality-of-service parameters. It periodically validates policies by collecting monitoring data and automatically scales resources up or down using templates when policy conditions are met, without human intervention. The framework was tested by increasing load on a virtual machine and observing CES scale it up by triggering the policy template as CPU usage exceeded thresholds.
Analysis of SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE (SDS)Kaushik Rajan
This document analyzes software defined storage (SDS) and compares it to traditional storage systems. SDS abstracts and simplifies data storage management, separating the storage software from hardware. It provides benefits like flexibility, reliability, lower costs, and higher performance. SDS also allows for easier scaling of storage capacity and automation of management. While traditional systems are suitable for some specific workloads, the comparison shows SDS has advantages and is revolutionizing storage in the IT industry.
Wellmont Health System - EMC Customer ProfileDarren Ramsey
Multiple tiers of EMC storage, representing over 500 terabytes of capacity, reside within Wellmont Health System’s three data centers. This tiered storage approach enables the organization’s IT team to provision the right kind of storage to accommodate different application service-level needs for the highest efficiency possible—all while ensuring non-stop access to information by those entrusted with patient care. A pair of EMC® Connectrix® (Cisco MDS 9000 family) directors at both the Kingsport corporate data center (CORP) and the Bristol Regional Medical Center data center (BRMC), along with two EMC Connectrix switches at the Holston Valley Medical Center (HVMC) form a high-performance, highly reliable eight Gigabit ring of connectivity between the sites.
There has been a lot of interest and buzz recently around hyperconvergence. It's the biggest IT shift since the rise of server virtualization. As with any budding space there is some confusion. This paper looks at the top 10 benefits of hyperconvergence and and also answers some frequently asked questions.
NetApp SnapManager for Hyper-V provides automated data protection for Microsoft virtualized environments by enabling fast backups and restores using intelligent storage management. It simplifies management through policy-based backup and allows admins to improve VM performance and increase productivity while achieving nondisruptive operations and intelligent management of storage resources.
Cooperative Schedule Data Possession for Integrity Verification in Multi-Clou...IJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
The document discusses Software-Defined Storage (SDS), which virtualizes storage such that users can access and control it through a software interface independent of the physical storage devices. SDS has advantages over traditional network storage systems like SAN and NAS in that it has lower costs, greater flexibility and agility, better resource utilization, and higher storage capacity. It divides storage functionality into a control plane that manages virtualized resources through policies, and a data plane that processes and stores data.
The benefits of having a “Virtual Infrastructure” – utilization, flexibility, hardware independence – and the savings that these benefits provide, are broadly understood and accepted in the server market. VMware claims millions of users worldwide. Citrix, Oracle and Microsoft have come out with their own virtual server offerings to join the fray, and a sub-industry of complementary vendors, resellers and service providers has grown up around the major server virtualization products. It is within this market that storage virtualization has quickly reemerged as a vital infrastructure for most enterprises. There are some very practical reasons why this is so.
This document provides best practices for implementing Vectorwise, a high performance database. It discusses hardware recommendations including using CPUs with high clock rates and memory, with at least 8GB per core. It recommends 64-bit operating systems like Red Hat, SUSE, or Windows. Database configuration defaults are generally good. Data loading is best done through bulk load or incremental insert, and high availability can be achieved through hardware redundancy and backups. Monitoring includes OS metrics, vwinfo data, and third party tools.
This document discusses IBM's cloud storage solution for transforming information infrastructure. It provides three examples of how cloud storage could help organizations by allowing dynamic storage management: 1) A company running out of disk space on a Friday could non-disruptively add storage in the cloud. 2) Old storage systems can be replaced by migrating data to the cloud without downtime. 3) Cloud storage provides disaster recovery by replicating and accessing data in the cloud when primary storage fails.
Historically backups have been defined and referenced by the hostname of the physical system being protected. This has worked well when the relationship between the physical host and the operating system was a direct, one to one relationship. Backup processing impact was limited to each physical client and the biggest concern was saturating the network with backup traffic. This was easily managed by limiting the number of simultaneous client backups via a simple setting within the NetBackup policy.
Virtual machine technologies have changed this physical hardware dynamic. Dozens of operating systems (virtual machines) can now reside on a single physical (ESX) host connected to a single storage LUN with network access through a single NIC. When using traditional policy configurations, backup processing randomly occurs with no regard to the physical location of each virtual machine. As backups progress, a subset of ESX servers can be heavily impacted with active backups while other ESX systems sit idly waiting for their virtual machines to be protected. The effect of this is that backups tend to be slower than they need to be and backup processing impact on the ESX servers tends to be random and lopsided. Standard backup policy definitions simply do not translate well into virtual environments.
The NetBackup Virtual machine Intelligent Policy (VIP) feature is designed to solve this problem and more. With Virtual machine Intelligent Policy, backup processing can be automatically load balanced across the entire virtual machine environment. No ESX server is unfairly taxed with excessive backup processing and backups can be significantly faster. Once configured, this load balancing automatically detects changes in the virtual machine environment and automatically compensates backup processing based on these changes. Virtual machine Intelligent Policy places virtual machine backups on autopilot.
Falcon Stor Enables Virtual SANs For V MwarePaul Skach
FalconStor has packaged its storage virtualization software as a VMware virtual appliance. This allows organizations using VMware to leverage FalconStor's software to transform direct-attached storage into a virtual SAN. This enables these organizations to take advantage of VMware's high availability and business continuity features. The virtual appliance also provides enhanced data protection capabilities like mirroring and replication. By offering an affordable virtual SAN solution, FalconStor aims to help more organizations adopt shared storage and realize the full benefits of server virtualization.
Server virtualization has forever changed the way we think about compute resources. Traditional storage architecture is a mismatch for today's virtualized environments. Gridstore's unique and patented architecture solves this problem and increases performance while decreasing costs. Learn how.
Vectorwise is a high performance in-memory columnar database that was developed to bridge the 100x performance gap between relational databases and custom code. It uses a vectorized execution model to achieve significant performance gains over traditional row-oriented databases. After being acquired by Actian, Vectorwise is now integrated with the Ingres database and delivers fast query response times and affordable analytics capabilities. The presentation demonstrated Vectorwise's performance advantages through benchmarks and discussed its value proposition of high performance, low costs, and ease of use.
This white paper describes the EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA). The CTA enables NAS data tiering, allowing administrators to move inactive data from high-performance storage to less-expensive archival storage, thus enabling cost-effective use of file storage. The CTA also facilitates data migration which moves data to new shares or exports.
This white paper provides an overview of EMC's data protection solutions for the data lake - an active repository to manage varied and complex Big Data workloads
Storage Virtualization: Towards an Efficient and Scalable FrameworkCSCJournals
Enterprises in the corporate world demand high speed data protection for all kinds of data. Issues such as complex server environments with high administrative costs and low data protection have to be resolved. In addition to data protection, enterprises demand the ability to recover/restore critical information in various situations. Traditional storage management solutions such as direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) have been devised to address such problems. Storage virtualization is the emerging technology that amends the underlying complications of physical storage by introducing the concept of cloud storage environments. This paper covers the DAS, NAS and SAN solutions of storage management and emphasizes the benefits of storage virtualization. The paper discusses a potential cloud storage structure based on which storage virtualization architecture will be proposed.
This document proposes a new Cloud Elasticity as a Service (CES) framework in OpenStack for efficiently managing cloud infrastructure utilization. CES allows cloud administrators to define policies with configurable quality-of-service parameters. It periodically validates policies by collecting monitoring data and automatically scales resources up or down using templates when policy conditions are met, without human intervention. The framework was tested by increasing load on a virtual machine and observing CES scale it up by triggering the policy template as CPU usage exceeded thresholds.
Analysis of SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE (SDS)Kaushik Rajan
This document analyzes software defined storage (SDS) and compares it to traditional storage systems. SDS abstracts and simplifies data storage management, separating the storage software from hardware. It provides benefits like flexibility, reliability, lower costs, and higher performance. SDS also allows for easier scaling of storage capacity and automation of management. While traditional systems are suitable for some specific workloads, the comparison shows SDS has advantages and is revolutionizing storage in the IT industry.
The Future of Software Defined Storage (SDS)Ahmed Banafa
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is a term for computer data storage technology which separates storage hardware from the software that manages the storage infrastructure. This technology enables a "software-defined storage environment" and provides policy management for services such as duplication, replication, thin provisioning, snapshots and backup.
Caching for Microservices Architectures: Session IVMware Tanzu
This document discusses how caching can help address performance, scalability, and autonomy challenges for microservices architectures. It introduces Pivotal Cloud Cache (PCC) as a caching solution for microservices on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. PCC provides an in-memory cache that can scale horizontally and increase performance. It also allows for data autonomy between microservices and teams while providing high availability. PCC offers an easy and cost-effective way to cache data and adopt microservices on Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Why is Virtualization Creating Storage Sprawl? By Storage SwitzerlandINFINIDAT
Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there is one area of the data center that has actually increased in cost since virtualization started to make its way into production… storage. Because of virtualization, more data centers need "ash to meet the random I/O nature of the virtualized environment, which of course is more expensive, on a dollar per GB basis, than hard disk drives. The single biggest problem however is the signi!cant increase in the number of discrete storage systems that service the environment. This “storage sprawl” threatens the return on investment (ROI) of virtualization projects and makes storage more complex to manage.
Learn more at www.infinidat.com.
Virtualized environments have become standard for organizations seeking benefits like reduced costs and flexibility. However, infrastructure elements often remain separated. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) integrates compute, storage, and networking through software to provide these benefits. This document examines the pros and cons of HCI for small and medium-sized businesses, discussing how HCI simplifies management but may also create challenges around security, staffing needs, and scalability.
The document summarizes the findings of a proof of concept (POC) that tested adding compute resources to storage arrays and solutions in order to create more efficient and cost-effective storage. Key findings include:
1) Adding CPU cores and RAM to storage controllers and solutions through virtualization can reduce storage consumption by up to two-thirds and improve performance and resiliency.
2) Compute-intensive solutions that leverage data deduplication and compression in software delivered significant space savings and faster rebuild times compared to hardware-based solutions.
3) The POC validated that adding compute to storage follows the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider's business model of self-service and delivers efficient primary
vVols and Your Cloud Operating Model with Tristan ToddChris Williams
For almost 10-years now, future-focused datacenter teams have been trying to evolve to more cloud-like operating model. Some of us have succeeded, some of use have failed. During this fun-filled, example-heavy session, Pure Storage Solutions Architect Tristan Todd will share patterns of failure, patterns of success, some practical examples, and recipes for success on how organizations have succeeded in realizing success in adapting to a cloud ops model. And, of course, Tristan will highlight how Pure is helping Customer with real transformation.
White Paper: Rethink Storage: Transform the Data Center with EMC ViPR Softwar...EMC
This white paper discusses the software-defined data center (SDCC) and challenges of heterogeneous storage silos in making SDDC a reality. It introduces EMC ViPR software-defined storage, which enables enterprise IT departments and service providers to transform physical storage arrays into simple, extensible, open virtual storage platform.
Data Warehouse Scalability Using Cisco Unified Computing System and Oracle Re...EMC
This Cisco white paper describes how the combination of EMC VNX storage matched to Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers offers a major deployment platform boost that is urgently needed to contend with the rapid increase in data volume and processing demand for Oracle data warehouse projects.
1. The document discusses various software-defined storage solutions from vendors like IBM, DataCore, and Nimble that can maximize availability, increase performance, and reduce costs for organizations.
2. It provides an overview of different storage platforms like IBM Storwize, IBM Spectrum Virtualize, DataCore VDSA appliances, and Nimble hybrid storage arrays that offer features like virtualization, high availability, flexibility, efficiency, and automation.
3. Recommendations are provided on which solutions are best suited for different use cases and storage requirements.
This is a paper was written by David Reine, an IT analyst for The Clipper Group, and highlights IBM’s SAN Volume Controller new features, capabilities and benefits. These new capabilities were announced on October 20, 2009Virtualization is at the center of all 21st Century IT systems, yet many CIOs fail to fully understand all of the benefits it can deliver to the data center operation. When we think of virtualization, we think compute, network, and storage—and we mostly think about driving up utilization on each. Storage controllers have always offered the ability to carve out pieces of real storage from a large pool and deliver them efficiently to a number of hosts, but it is storage virtualization itself that offers improvements that drive operational efficiency. IBM has been quietly addressing storage virtualization with SAN Volume Controller (SVC) for the last six years, building up a significant technical lead in this space.
Strange but true: most infrastructure architectures are deliberately designed from the outset to need little or no change over their lifetimes. There are two main reasons for this:
1. Change often means outages and customer impact and must be avoided
2. Budgets are set at the beginning of a project and getting more cash later is tough
Typically, then, applications are configured with all of the storage capacity they need to support the wildest dreams of their business sponsors (and then some extra is added for contingency by IT). Equally, storage is always configured with the performance level (storage tier) set to cope with the wildest transactional dreams of the business sponsor (and guess what? IT generally adds a bit more for good measure.).
No wonder storage is now one of the largest cost components involved in delivering and running a business application.
This document provides an overview of software-defined storage (SDS) concepts and discusses several SDS solutions from major vendors. It defines SDS and explains how adding a control layer allows for visibility, communication, and allocation of storage resources. Benefits highlighted include efficiency, automation, flexibility, scalability, reliability and cost savings. Specific SDS products are then profiled from vendors such as EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp, VMware, Coraid, DataCore, Dell, Hitachi, Pivot3, and RedHat.
Workload Centric Scale-Out Storage for Next Generation DatacenterCloudian
For performance workloads, SolidFire provides a scale-out all-flash storage platform designed
to deliver guaranteed storage performance to thousands of application workloads side-by-side,
allowing performance workload consolidation under a single storage platform. The SolidFire system
can be combined together over standard networking technologies in clusters ranging from 4 to 100
nodes, providing high performance capacity from 35TB to 3.4PB, and can deliver between 200,000
and 7.5M guaranteed IOPS to more than 100,000 volumes / applications within a single cluster.
Rethink Storage: Transform the Data Center with EMC ViPR Software-Defined Sto...EMC
This white paper discusses the evolution of the Software-Defined Data Center and the challenges of heterogeneous storage silos in making the SDDC a reality.
1.An Ultimate Guide on Data Storage Virtualization Technology.pdfBelayet Hossain
What is data storage virtualization technology? Storage systems are undergoing a digital revolution to enhance functionality. Businesses are implementing advanced storage software to increase scalability, flexibility, and profits.
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This document provides an introduction to cloud computing, discussing its key attributes of scalable, shared computing resources delivered over a network with pay-per-use pricing. It describes the different delivery models of cloud computing including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). The document also discusses virtualization techniques that enable cloud computing and how cloud computing enables highly available and resilient systems through capabilities like workload migration and rapid disaster recovery.
Sofware architure of a SAN storage Control SystemGrupo VirreySoft
The document describes the software architecture of a storage control system that uses a cluster of Linux servers to provide storage virtualization and management in a heterogeneous storage area network (SAN) environment. The storage control system, also called the "virtualization engine", aggregates storage resources into a common pool and allocates storage to hosts. It enables advanced functions like fast-write caching, point-in-time copying, remote copying, and transparent data migration. The system is built using commodity hardware and open source software to reduce costs compared to traditional proprietary storage controllers.
New Features in PSP2 for SANsymphony™-V10 Software-defined Storage Platform and DataCore™ Virtual SAN. New enhancements include OpenStack support, deduplication and compression, veeam backup integration and random write accelerator.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on BlockchainClaudio Di Ciccio
Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus.
Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16
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CloudByte Technology Whitepaper
1. White Paper
Technology
STORAGE ARCHITECTED FOR THE
NEW-AGE DATACENTERS
CloudByte ElastiStor makes Storage Predictable, Affordable and Easy
even as Datacenters Scale to Thousands of Applications
2. Table of Contents
Executive Summary ……………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Legacy Solutions are a Misfit in the New-Age Datacenters …………………….. 4
CloudByte Technology
TSM Architecture ……………………..…………………………………………………………. 5
Heuristics Based Performance Control ……………..………………………………… 6
CloudByte Deployment Architecture …………………….……..………………………….... 7
ElastiStor: Key Features …………………….……..……………………………..………………….. 8
ElastiStor: Standard Storage Features ……..…………………………………………………. 9
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3. Executive Summary
Legacy storage solutions fail to scale up to the demands of new-age datacenters, which are
witnessing a rapid increase in number of applications and new levels of performance requirements.
While virtualization has made rapid strides on the server side, storage technology witnessed just
incremental innovations in the past decade. By baking in advanced technologies of virtualization
and software-defined intelligence, ElastiStor is architected to make storage predictable, affordable,
and easy, even as datacenters scale to thousands of applications.
CloudByte ElastiStor controllers are built for multi-tenancy i.e., every application hosted on a
shared storage platform is completely isolated and dedicated its own set of storage resources.
ElastiStor intelligently provisions these storage resources based on an application’s performance
(QoS) demands. This allows datacenters to realize the cost efficiencies of shared storage, while
delivering guaranteed QoS to every application.
In addition to affordably delivering performance to a large number of applications, ElastiStor offers
complete security, comprehensive management tools and superior reliability, that’s expected in
carrier-grade storage solutions. Software-only and software-defined, ElastiStor is installable on
industry-standard servers. With zero-proprietary hardware and OpenStorage, ElastiStor frees
datacenters from any proprietary lock-in and allows storage infrastructure to be custom-built,
whether it’s SATA, SAS or SSD.
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4. Legacy Solutions are a Misfit in the New-Age Datacenters
Legacy storage solutions were designed to handle stable workloads from applications hosted on
dedicated physical servers. However, with server virtualization and the new class of enterprise
applications, datacenters have to deal with rapidly increasing number of applications, new levels of
performance demands, which are often dynamic and hosted on virtual servers. Due to their
architecture limitations, legacy solutions cannot scale well in these virtualized environments.
Tradeoff between Performance and Affordability
Legacy solutions are restricted by monolithic controller architecture, making it impossible to
completely isolate applications within shared storage. As a result, applications contend for the
shared storage resources and due to this noisy neighbor effect, no application can be guaranteed
performance. In short, to ensure predictable performance, applications require dedicated physical
storage. The cost structure and complexity to host these dedicated storage islands is prohibitively
high, especially with rapidly increasing number of applications. Datacenters are forced to choose
between delivering predictable performance and balancing their cost structure.
Current workarounds include overprovisioning shared storage resources, grouping similar
workloads together, and dedicating storage to performance-sensitive applications. These are far
from perfect and fail to either deliver predictable performance or optimally utilize resources.
Management Nightmare
With legacy solutions, provisioning performance (QoS) requires hardwiring of storage, which is just
not scalable with today’s dynamic workloads. Fragmented management of multiple storage islands
can be tedious and daunting even for datacenters with large management overheads. Further,
within shared storage, legacy solutions are incapable of providing granular resource usage
analytics, leading to complexities in identifying bottlenecks and billing customers (for a CSP).
Several storage management tools have popped up over the last decade due to the sheer number
of inefficiencies in the legacy systems. While they help alleviate the above-mentioned pain points,
none of them address the core problems– eliminating the need for storage fragmentation or
enabling on-demand provisioning.
Security
Storage assigned to a customer/application must be free from data snooping, unauthorized
manipulation, and deletion. In many scenarios, data confidentiality maybe required even from the
service provider or enterprise IT. With the lack of complete isolation and encrypted access, legacy
solutions do not meet these standard security requirements.
In the SAN world, LUN masking is used to some extent to separate an application’s storage at the
switch level. However, this is neither comprehensive nor scalable. Service providers cannot provide
comprehensive security without expanding their physical infrastructure.
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5. CloudByte Technology: Patented TSMTM Architecture
Legacy Architecture
Legacy storage solutions are restricted by their monolithic controller, where applications share the
same access layer, file system and disk subsystem. Further, physical resources of a controller such
as CPU and memory are shared without any reference to an application’s performance needs. With
the monolithic approach, it is impossible to guarantee QoS to applications within shared storage.
CloudByte TSM Architecture
The CloudByte storage controller is designed and built from the ground up for multi-tenancy. In a
CloudByte controller, each application is fully isolated at all storage stack levels and unified under a
Tenant Storage Machine (TSM). With completely isolated applications, controller resources allotted
to each application can now be easily monitored, controlled, and provisioned.
As we’ll see in detail in the next section, CloudByte also intelligently provisions controller resources
to each application, based on the application’s QoS requirements (IOPS, latency and throughput).
Further, each application’s data can now be optionally encrypted to provide additional security.
Figure 1: Legacy Monolithic Architecture vs. ElastiStor TSM Architecture
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6. CloudByte Technology: Heuristics Based Performance Control
CloudByte Intelligence Dynamically Provisions Resources based on QoS Requirements
For the first time ever, CloudByte delivers tailored QoS (IOPS, throughput, latency) to every
application within shared storage. CloudByte software includes an intelligent heuristics daemon
which continuously learns the quantity of various controller resources needed to deliver the
required QoS and accordingly provisions them to each application.
Controller resources needed to deliver a specific QoS are not static, but vary depending on factors
such as the configuration of disks, the location of tenant data on disks, the amount of data in
cache, and the amount of data that needs to be fetched from the disks. The equation continually
changes and this pattern is learnt by CloudByte heuristics daemon. This pattern is then used to
provision the resources of the storage controller such as CPU, memory, cache lengths in the file
system, and network bandwidth. While the heuristics learning happens at the storage controller
level, resource enforcement happens at the TSM level.
Figure 2: Resource provisioning to achieve QoS requirements
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7. CloudByte Deployment Architecture
Figure 3: CloudByte deployment architecture
Scale to Thousands of Applications
An ElastiStor controller is built by deploying ElastiStor OS on industry-standard server. These
controllers can be linearly scaled to form an ElastiStor cluster, with one ElastiStor controller
dedicated as an administration node. With each controller supporting several applications/VMs, an
ElastiStor cluster can scale to thousands of applications.
With zero-proprietary hardware and OpenStorage, ElastiStor frees datacenters from any proprietary
lock-in and large upfront investments. Further, infrastructure can be custom-built based on the
datacenter demands, whether it’s SATA, SAS or SSD.
Storage made Predictable, Affordable, and Easy
For the first time ever, ElastiStor delivers guaranteed QoS to every application right from shared
storage, eliminating the need for any dedicated storage islands. By un-fragmenting storage islands
and optimally utilizing resources, ElastiStor steeply cuts down datacenters’ storage footprint,
leading to 80-90% cost savings over 3-5 years. With its on-demand provisioning, ElastiStor breaks
the need for hardwiring storage to deliver an application's performance. Further, ElastiStor makes
storage management incredibly easy with vCenter-like administration, delegated administration
and REST APIs (see “key features” for more details).
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8. ElastiStor: Key Features
QoS-Configurable Storage Endpoints
Share your storage and deliver predictable performance to every application.
For the first time ever, ElastiStor allows storage LUNs to be defined beyond
capacity, in terms of IOPS, throughput and latency. This allows applications
with diverse workloads to be guaranteed QoS right from a shared storage
platform. Together with linear scaling, a single extensible shared storage
platform from ElastiStor can now replace legacy solutions’ dedicated storage
islands. By un-fragmenting storage islands and optimally utilizing resources,
ElastiStor steeply cuts down your storage footprint, leading to 80-90% cost
savings over 3-5 years.
On-Demand Storage Provisioning
Do you still manually configure hardware to provision storage for any new
application? Break the need for hardwiring storage with ElastiStor's
on-demand provisioning. Just enter the required SLA/QoS parameters and let
ElastiStor automate node selection and resource allocation for you. ElastiStor
includes an intelligent heuristics daemon which continuously learns the
quantity of various controller resources needed to deliver the required QoS.
vCenter-like Administration Console
ElastiStor makes managing storage as easy as managing VMs, even when as
you scale to hundreds of applications. Storage admins can now comprehen-
sively manage the entire storage cluster, spanning across multiple sites, from
a single web-based console. Further, ElastiStor gives you unprecedented ac-
cess and control over resource usage within shared storage, right down to
the application-level granularity.
REST APIs and Plugins for Easy Integration
Every action performed at ElastiStor admin console translates into a REST
based API call in the backend, enabling admins to fully manage ElastiStor
right from their existing portals. Our plugin for VMware vCenter (also based
on REST API) enables storage management right from the vCenter, right from
setting QoS policies to monitoring resource usage.
N-way High Availability
ElastiStor enables N-way High Availability, exponentially increasing reliability
(mean time to failure), compared to the standard 2-way HA provided by
existing solutions. CloudByte's storage un-fragmentation and its patented
TSM architecture make N-way HA affordable and feasible.
Delegated Administration
A much requested feature from the cloud service providers, delegated
administration empowers both CSPs and its customers to monitor and
control storage, as necessary. Management privileges vary based on the
admin functionality – for example, a super admin can manage the entire
storage cluster, whereas a customer admin can manage just the storage
resources allotted to that particular customer.
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9. ElastiStor: Standard Storage Features
Scalability 128-bit file system
Zettabyte storage capacity
Unlimited file size
Access Protocols NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS, iSCSI, FC
Storage Connectivity SAS JBODS, iSCSI targets, FC targets
Storage Resilience RAIDZ1, RAIDZ2
Storage Efficiency De-duplication
Compression
Thin provisioning
Backup Efficient Snapshots, Unlimited
Efficient Clones, Unlimited
Tape Backup
Availability N-way high availability (N-way HA)
Partial failure transfer to the available node
Active-Active mode
HA with/without storage redundancy
Disaster Recovery Tenant level disaster recovery
High availability across primary and DR sites
Block level replication
Synchronous mirroring
Asynchronous mirroring
RPO—Last minute
RTO—Few minutes
Data Integrity Protection against silent data corruption
Fixes corrupt block without having to take the file system offline
CloudByte’s file system is built on ZFS and hence, it inherits all the standard ZFS features
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10. multi-tenant storage
Service Providers can now provide full benefits of dedicated
storage to their customers on a shared storage platform
For more information, visit www.cloudbyte.com or follow us on Twitter @CloudByteInc
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