The 3.0 release of the Maginatics Cloud Storage Platform (MCSP) includes great improvements in Data Protection, Multi-tier Caching and APIs, as well as other significant new features that make Maginatics the ideal choice for enterprise businesses with demanding storage requirements.

1. Rohit Goyal
rohit@maginatics.com
Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer
Maginatics Cloud Storage Platform (MCSP)
MCSP 3.0 Technical Highlights

2. Data Protection

3. Data Protection
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One-Click Disaster Recovery
• Hot-standby MVF VMs
• AES-256 bit encrypted backups
• Reduced RPO, RTO, and RCO
Amazon High Availability
• Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) Support
• Tolerate single or dual AZ outage(s)
• Relational Database Support (RDS)
• Fast MagFS Agent failover
• Seamless failover
VMware vSphere High Availability
• VMware vSphere HA
• Fast MagFS Agent failover
• Tolerate ESX Host, disk or memory failure
• Application restart or migration

4. Healing
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Healing
• Fast VM recovery
• Requires less resources (no DR cluster is needed)
• No downtime for the namespace

5. Share 1 Share 2 Share 3
Management
Share 1 Share 2 Share 3
Management
Database(s)
System Config System Config
Database(s)
Object Storage
Backing up
share metadata
Primary Site DR Site
Object Storage
Restoring share
metadata
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One-Click Disaster Recovery

6. Region
Mgmt
Availability Zone Availability Zone
S3 Object
Storage
RDS
Availability Zone
Share 1Share 1DNS Server
RP: Elastic IP
Discovery Service
FQDN: Inst. Name
Sync. Service
RP: Elastic IP
Discovery Service
FQDN: Inst. Name
Sync. Service
Public DNS
Discovery Service
FQDN: Int. Name
Sync. Service
VPC
MCSP Deployment: Single-Node Redundacy

7. Share 2 Share 2
Public DNS
Discovery Service
FQDN: Inst. Name
Sync. Service
Public DNS
Discovery Service
FQDN: Inst. Name
Sync. Service
Region
Mgmt
Availability Zone Availability Zone
S3 Object
Storage
RDS
Availability Zone
Share 1Share 1DNS Server
RP: Elastic IP
Discovery Service
FQDN: Inst. Name
Sync. Service
RP: Elastic IP
Discovery Service
FQDN: Inst. Name
Sync. Service
Public DNS
Discovery Service
FQDN: Int. Name
Sync. Service
VPC
MCSP Deployment: Dual-Node Redundacy

8. VMware vSphere High Availability
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Primary
ESX host
VMware
vSphere
Application Failover
VMware vSphere
Secondary
ESX host
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2
Application
Restart

9. Share 1 Share 2 Share 3
Management
Maginatics
Virtual Filer
1 2
Share 1 Share 2 Share 3
Management
Share 1 Share 2 Share 3
Management
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Lost Virtual Machine Restored
Functionality
• Maginatics Management Dashboard
• Single click Recovery
• Easy to find problem VM
Healing Maginatics VMs

10. Snapshots
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MVF
Metadatabase
VM
Full
MVF Snapshot
/snapshot /snapshot1 /snapshotX
Database
Artifact
Snapshot 1 Snapshot X
Incremental
Metadata
Database
LVM Pool
/dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
Logical Volume(s)
Volume Group(s)
Physical Volume(s)
Incremental

11. Multi-tier Caching

12. Site Cache v1.0 (Read Cache) and CDC
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Site Cache
• Local Virtual Machine
• Shared cache within office
• Improved READ performance
• LAN speed (100Mbps)
• Auto-discover nearest site cache (15ms RTT)
• MagFS Agents work with both Site Cache and CDC enabled
Content Delivery Cache (CDC)
• Amazon infrastructure
• Shared regional cache
• Improved READ performance
• 52 AWS edge locations (typically 5-10ms from client)
• Optimized data paths (Amazon, high speed network backbone)

13. MCSP provides several caching mechanisms for shared
data access across dispersed clients
Site Cache
1ms
CDN
1–5ms
Object Storage
10–300ms
Client Cache
< 1ms
LAN
Edge Network
WAN
Office ‘A’ Office ‘B’
Edge Node
MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent

14. The first cold read fetches chunks of a file from the cloud
object storage
Site Cache
1ms
CDN
1–5ms
Object Storage
10–300ms
Client Cache
< 1ms
LAN
Edge Network
WAN
Office ‘A’ Office ‘B’
Edge Node
MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent
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15. In the process, all MCSP layers of caching in the read path
get populated – CDN, Site Cache, Client cache(s).
Site Cache
1ms
CDN
1–5ms
Object Storage
10–300ms
Client Cache
< 1ms
LAN
Edge Network
WAN
Office ‘A’ Office ‘B’
Edge Node
MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent
1

16. Subsequent reads from any client in the same branch
(LAN) get cache hits from the Site Cache
Site Cache
1ms
CDN
1–5ms
Object Storage
10–300ms
Client Cache
< 1ms
LAN
Edge Network
WAN
Office ‘A’ Office ‘B’
Edge Node
MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent
1 2

17. Subsequent reads from any client in the same region
(common edge node) get cache hits from CDN
Site Cache
1ms
CDN
1–5ms
Object Storage
10–300ms
Client Cache
< 1ms
LAN
Edge Network
WAN
Office ‘A’ Office ‘B’
Edge Node
MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent
1 2 3

18. Additionally, the MagFS Agent has 3 levels of local caching:
Kernel (IO Buffer), L1 (In memory) and L2 (Disk)
Site Cache
1ms
L2 (disk)
L1 (in memory)
Kernel (IO Buffer)
CDN
1–5ms
Object Storage
10–300ms
Client Cache
< 1ms
LAN
Edge Network
WAN
Office ‘A’ Office ‘B’
Edge Node
MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent
MagFS Agent
1 2 3 4
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19. Site Cache
1ms
L2 (disk)
L1 (in memory)
Kernel (IO Buffer)
CDN
1–5ms
Object Storage
10–300ms
Client Cache
< 1ms
LAN
Edge Network
WAN
Office ‘A’ Office ‘B’
Edge Node
MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent MagFS Agent
MagFS Agent
Our unique, multi-tier caching layers hide WAN latency
and enable high throughput transfers (reads).

20. APIs

21. MCSP 3.0 - RESTful APIs
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• Control any aspect of Management via Web UI or our new RESTful APIs
• Full, programmatic control over a MCSP cluster
• Automate any or all aspects (e.g., provisioning, managing and
monitoring)
• On-demand resource configuration
• Automate cloud resource usage for bursty workloads
• IaaS cost reduction (e.g., expand storage when required)

22. Provisioning and Management APIs
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VM lifecycle mgmt.
MCSP lifecycle mgmt.
Manual
• EC2 Management Console
• vSphere Client/vCenter
Manual
• UI Driven
Programmatic
• Cloud Formation
• vSphere APIs
Programmatic
• RESTful API

23. MCSP 3.0 - Simplified Operation
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Home Folder Redirection
• Auto-mount home folders
• Simplifies user experience when accessing MCSP
• Simplifies integration within AD scripted infrastructure to mount
network shares
Access Based Enumeration
• Hide files and folders based on ACLs
• Enhanced security when sharing infrastructure
across teams and organizations (users only see what they can
access)
ACL Manipulation tool
• Simplifies the task of managing file system ACLs independently of
the IDM in use
Multi-Share Web Services
• Pool multiple Web Servers together
• Multiple share access, single interface

24. Operating Environment Enhanced
Compatibility
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Two File System Modes
• Mixed Mode (default)
• Full Windows file system semantics and POSIX compatibility
• Unicode support with respect to file names
• Windows PCs, Mac and Linux interoperability
• File locking supported on Windows PCs and Mac
• Case insensitive
• POSIX Mode
• POSIX file system semantics only (e.g., case sensitivity)
• Unicode support with respect to file names
• Linux and Mac interoperability
• Case sensitive

25. With MCSP v3.0 - Admin Auditing Logs
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Management UI - Active Directory Integration

26. Licenses
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From v3.0 onward, licenses are cluster-based and not tied to a share. E.g., a
10 TB license can be used for 10 x 1 TB shares or 1 x 10 TB share at your
discretion.
Licenses issued for <3.x deployments will not be compatible with 3.x.
Equally the new MCSP 3.x license format is not backward compatible with
older versions.
• 30 day grace period in which to update your license
• Alerts are visible on the Management Server UI and via System
Notifications (email)
• We required the FQDN of your Management Server to generate a 3.x
license
• Existing, valid license will be updated for 3.x at no charge. Your
existing license length and capacity will not be impacted.

27. MCSP 3.0 - EMC ViPR object storage support
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EMC ViPR Platform
ViPR
Controller
Provisioning Self-Service Reporting Automation
ViPR
Data Services
Third-Party
Isilon
Atmos
VMAX VNX VPLEX
Commodity
XtremIOCentera
Maginatics Virtual Filer
Elastic NAS NAS Consolidation

28. Thank you.
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