The CloudStack European User group met on Thursday 11th for our quarterly meeting. Bob Defoe from Cloudian gave a good overview of the use of Cloudian for object based storage within CloudStack

1. Object Storage Cloud Platform

2. Cloudian®
• S3 Cloud Object Storage
Software Platform
• For Service Providers and
Enterprises
• Enables Public, Private,
and Hybrid Cloud Storage
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3. Use Cases
File Share
Backup
Archiving
AWS S3 compatible Secondary storage Enterprise Private
Storage as a Service system for Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
(StaaS) Compute Platform
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4. CloudStack Integration
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5. Citrix CloudPortal Integration
• Available in CloudPortal
Catalog
• Create Cloudian Product
Bundles
• Provision Cloudian S3 API
Storage
• Single sign-on
• Integrated billing
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6. Cloudian/CloudStack Deployment
Email Archive
BACKUP & SYNC CDN
STaaS
S3
SNAPSHOTS TEMPLATES
ZONE: 1 ZONE: 3
BACKUP S3/NFS
ZONE: 2 ZONE: 4
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7. Cloudian/CloudStack/CP Deployment
Email Archive
BACKUP & SYNC CDN
STaaS
S3
SNAPSHOTS TEMPLATES
ZONE: 1 ZONE: 3
BACKUP S3/NFS
ZONE: 2 ZONE: 4
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8. Why is S3 Object Storage so Important?
• Common S3 API provides
for all apps and tools in the
Availability Availability
Zone Zone ecosystem, allows hybrid
cloud migration
• Acts as recover mechanism
for Amazon-style clouds
Object Storage • Better than file-based
systems – less cost,
simpler, more scalable
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9. CloudStack DR
• Object storage should serve as the Bedrock
• Global access to templates and snapshots
• Ideal way is through native S3 API support and
Global DB, not per Zone
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10. Today with Swift
ZONE 1 ZONE 3
ZONE: 1 ZONE: 3
ZONE 2 ZONE 4
• Expensive
ZONE: 2 ZONE: 4
• Latency
• No Multi DC support
• No Multi Zone Access
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11. History of the effort by Cloudian
Started early 2012
1. Native S3 support
2. S3FS – FUSE approach
3. S3cmd approach
4. S3NFS streamer
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12. CS v 4.1
ZONE: 1 ZONE: 3
ZONE: 2 • Expensive ZONE: 4
• Latency
• Multi-part upload
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13. Cloudian S3NFS Streamer
ZONE: 1 ZONE: 3
ZONE: 2 • Multi Zone Access ZONE: 4
• Latency
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14. Object Storage Cloud Platform