Red Hat Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, software-defined storage platform that provides block, object, and file storage using a single, unified storage infrastructure. It offers several advantages over traditional proprietary storage, including lower costs, greater scalability, simplified maintenance, and an open source development model. Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 includes new capabilities like enhanced object storage integration, multi-site replication, and a new storage management console.

1. THE POWER OF RED HAT CEPH STORAGE
And how it’s essential to your software defined datacenter
Rodrigo Missiaggia
Principal Solutions Architect
28/07/2016

2. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
Essential – Critical component of software-defined datacenter
Elastic – Massively scalable for next generation workloads
Economical – Runs on standard servers and disks
Efficient – Unifies infrastructures to support different data types
Elegant – Sophisticated & powerful – designed for IT practitioner
Easy – Now included with Red Hat OpenStack Platform / Cloud Suite

3. AGENDA
● Requirements and trends
● Software-defined storage
● Red Hat Ceph Storage 101
● OpenStack integration
● Product features, benefits, and
differentiation
● Service offerings
● Where to go next

4. REQUIREMENTS, TRENDS, AND
SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE

5. CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS
● Greater cost-efficiencies (30-40% annual data growth, while 60%
storage budgets flat or declining)
● Control of data growth with flexible multi-workload architectures
● Freedom from worsening labor constraints of proprietary storage
● Better day-to-day maintenance of complex storage infrastructures
● Enterprise-readiness: resilience, performance, data protection
● Agile infrastructure to match capabilities of cloud services

6. Traditional Open, software-defined
Standard
computers
and disks
Standard
Hardware
OpenSource
Software
Ceph Gluster +++
Control Plane (API, GUI)
ADMIN USER
THE FUTURE OF STORAGE
ADMIN
USER
ADMIN
USER
ADMIN
USER
Interface de Adminsitração
Software e Hardware proprietários

7. FOUNDATIONAL SHIFTS
PROPRIETARY HARDWARE
HARDWARE-BASED INTELLIGENCE
SCALE-UP ARCHITECTURE
CLOSED DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Standards-based, interoperable hardware
Lower cost, standardized supply chain
Scale-out architecture
Increased operational flexibility
Software-based intelligence
More programmability, agility, and control
Open development process
More flexible, well-integrated technology

8. RISING TIDE OF SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE
“By 2020, between 70-80% of unstructured
data will be held on lower-cost storage
managed by SDS environments.”
“By 2016, server-based storage solutions will
lower storage hardware costs by 50% or more.”
Gartner: “IT Leaders Can Benefit From Disruptive Innovation in the Storage
Industry”
Innovation Insight: Separating Hype From Hope for Software-Defined Storage
~20% CAGR between 2015 and 2019
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
$1,349M
$1,195M
$1,029M
$859M
$706M
$592M
SDS MARKET SIZE BY SEGMENT
$457M
Block Storage
File Storage
Object Storage
Hyper converged
Source: IDC
“By 2019, 70% of existing storage array products
will also be available as software only versions”
Innovation Insight: Separating Hype From Hope for Software-Defined Storage

9. THE RED HAT STORAGE MISSION
To offer, with our partners, a unified, open
software-defined storage portfolio for next
generation workloads thereby accelerating the
transition to modern IT infrastructures.

11. RED HAT CEPH STORAGE 101

12. RED HAT CEPH STORAGE
12
Distributed, enterprise-grade object storage, proven at web scale
Open, massively-scalable, software-defined
Flexible, scale-out architecture on clustered commodity hardware
Single, efficient, unified storage platform (block, object, file)
User-driven storage lifecycle management with 100% API coverage
Integrated, easy-to-use management console
Designed for cloud infrastructure and emerging workloads

13. BUSINESS BENEFITS
● Open source - no proprietary lock-in, large ecosystem, community backing
● Lower cost - than traditional NAS/SAN, particularly petabyte workloads
● Peace of mind - decade of development, production proven, overwhelmingly
preferred, supported and integrated by Red Hat

14. TECHNICAL BENEFITS OF CEPH
● Massive scalability, to
support petabytes of data
● Maximum uptime, with
no single point of failure
● Reduced maintenance,
via self-management and
self-healing
● Operational efficiency,
by distributing data
dynamically among servers
and disks

15. RED HAT CEPH STORAGE
FEATURES AND BENEFITS

16. COMPLETE, DEEPLY INTEGRATED STORAGE
FOR OPENSTACK
● Deeply integrated with modular architecture and components for ephemeral
& persistent storage
 Nova, Cinder, Manila, Glance, Keystone, Swift
● Optimized for Database as a Service (DaaS) with MySQL workloads
● Bundled in Red Hat OpenStack Platform

17. ADVANTAGES FOR OPENSTACK USERS
● Instantaneous booting of 1 or 100s of VMs
● Instant backups via seamless data migration between Glance, Cinder, Nova
● Tiered I/O performance within single cluster
● Multi-site replication for disaster recovery or archiving

18. SCALABILITY
Hundreds of nodes
CRUSH algorithm
(placement and rebalancing)
No single point of failure
SCALABILITY
Hundreds of nodes
CRUSH algorithm
(placement and rebalancing)
No single point of failure PROTOCOLS
S3, Swift
Cinder block storage
POSIX (Tech preview - TP)
NFS to S3 gateway (TP)
iSCSI (2.1)
PROTOCOLS
S3, Swift
Cinder block storage
POSIX (Tech preview - TP)
NFS to S3 gateway (TP)
iSCSI (2.1)
SECURITY
Pool-level authentication
Active Directory, LDAP, Keystone
v3
At-rest encryption
SECURITY
Pool-level authentication
Active Directory, LDAP, Keystone
v3
At-rest encryptionDATA SERVICES
Snapshots, cloning, and copy-on-write
Global clusters for S3/Swift storage (New)
Disaster recovery for block storage (New)
DATA SERVICES
Snapshots, cloning, and copy-on-write
Global clusters for S3/Swift storage (New)
Disaster recovery for block storage (New)
PERFORMANCE
Client-side caching
Server-side journaling
BlueStore (TP)
PERFORMANCE
Client-side caching
Server-side journaling
BlueStore (TP)
EFFICIENCY
Standard (commodity) hardware
Erasure coding (reduced footprint)
Thin provisioning
EFFICIENCY
Standard (commodity) hardware
Erasure coding (reduced footprint)
Thin provisioning
FEATURES, NO FLUFF
Red Hat Ceph
Storage 2

19. WHAT’S NEW IN 2
1. New storage management platform, “Red Hat
Storage Console 2”
2. RGW geo-clusters with single namespace
3. RBD Mirroring to enable multi-site replication for
disaster recovery and archival
4. Support for Active Directory, LDAP, and Keystone v3
5. Improved S3 and Swift protocol API support
6. Tech preview of CephFS
7. Tech preview of NFS to S3 gateway
8. Tech preview of BlueStore turbocharge

20. NEW INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT WITH
RED HAT STORAGE CONSOLE 2
• Easy to use graphical interface to
manage storage cluster life cycle
• Ansible-based deployment tools for
installation, importation, and granular
configuration from CLI or GUI
• Monitoring and troubleshooting with
statistical and graphical information
about cluster components
RADOS. RGW, RBD, CALAMARI
RED HAT STORAGE CONSOLE 2
CLUSTER OF STANDARD SERVERS AND MEDIA
CLIENTSADMINS

21. RED HAT STORAGE CONSOLE 2
BENEFITS
• Ease of use
 Integrated on-premise management console and service dashboard
 Easy installation, management, and monitoring from modern UI
• Comprehensive visibility
 Unified view of storage infrastructure
 Enhanced discovery, insight, and management
• Operational intelligence
 Proactive health management, capacity and performance utilization
through advanced monitoring and diagnostic information

22. Great improvements to RGW, Ceph’s
object storage interface:
• Support for authentication using Active
Directory, LDAP & OpenStack Keystone v3
• Greater compatibility with the Amazon S3
and OpenStack Swift object storage APIs
• AWS v4 signatures, object versioning, bulk deletes
• New NFS gateway for bulk import and
export of object data (tech preview)
OBJECT STORAGE IMPROVEMENTS

23. Global object storage clusters with
single namespace
• Enables deployment of clusters across
multiple geographic locations
• Clusters synchronize, allowing users to
read from or write to the closest one
Multi-site replication for block devices
• Replicates virtual block devices across
regions for disaster recovery and archival
NEW MULTISITE CAPABILITIES
USERUSER
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAYCEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
USERUSER
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAYCEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
STORAGE CLUSTER
US-EAST
STORAGE CLUSTER
US-WEST

24. PERFORMANCE BOOST WITH BLUESTORE
• New storage backend optimized for modern media - Tech
preview in RHCS 2
• Replaces FileStore, optimized for HDDs – file system for
object data management impacted performance
• Benefits of BlueStore:
• 2-3X performance
• Mitigates need for underlying file system or dedicated journal device
• Flexible media topologies (SSDs, K/V drives, persistent memory
devices) to help optimize data or metadata I/O
• Native checksumming to detect data corruption on media

25. OPENSTACK FILE SUPPORT WITH CephFS
• POSIX-compliant file system to store data in accordance
with OpenStack Manila Project
• Tech Preview RHCS 2 – Manila Tech Preview OSP 7, 8
• FUSE or kernel clients (RHEL 7.2)
• CephFS Manila driver (tech preview) with OSP 9
• Roadmap: robustness, hardening, then scalability
November 2015:
Manila Tech
Preview in OSP 7
July 2016: CephFS tech preview
in RHCS 2 and clients
August 2016:
CephFS Manila
driver tech
preview in OSP 9
November 2016: Manila
production support in OSP 10
2017: CephFS
production
support RHCS 2.x
Timeline is Red Hat Confidential

26. The other guys
Description Software-defined, unified storage and
distributed object store
Traditional NAS & SAN appliance (still
requiring two storage systems)
Capacity 1000s of nodes, limitless petabytes ~6 PBs
Scalability Easy to add and manage- via single nodes on
standard servers and disks
Difficult - via forklift installation of
additional appliances
VM migration and
backups
Live, instantaneous, for high agility in cloud
environments
Cumbersome and slow: Image pulled
from Swift for each instance
Design process Open source Proprietary
Maintenance Nodes added and removed on fly Appliance replacement impacts data
migration and downtime
Cost Pay-as-you-go OPEX, economical at scale Large upfront CAPEX, much (75%+)
more expensive on PB+ workloads
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING THE OPTIONS

27. SERVICE OFFERINGS

28. SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM RED HAT
Spanning Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat OpenStack Platform
 Subscription Benefits – Streamlined product and resource access, lifecycle management,
Knowledgebase and deployment resources, security and accountability
 Jumpstart - 3 day consulting for pre-production cluster implementation at customer site
 Health Check - 3-5 day evaluation of total solution best practice engagement
 Red Hat Storage Consulting Services - recommended for initial storage design and set-up
 Global Services and Support - production subscriptions for smooth lifecycle deployments
 Red Hat Storage training – 2 and 5 day for storage or cloud admins, including OpenStack

29. REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES
http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA5-8638ENW.pdf

30. REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES
 Performance and Sizing Guide: Red Hat Ceph Storage on Supermicro Storage
 Performance and Sizing Guide: Red Hat Ceph Storage on QCT Servers
 Deploying Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 with Red Hat OSP director 7.1 (Access via customer portal)
 Guidelines and Considerations for Performance and Scaling your Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 7 Cloud (Access via customer portal)
 Guidelines and Considerations for Performance and Scaling your Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 6 Cloud (Access via customer portal)
 Deploying Highly Available Red Hat OpenStack Platform 6 with Red Hat Ceph Storage
 Deploying Red Hat OpenStack Platform 6 with Ceph Storage
 Dell Red Hat Cloud Solutions Reference Architecture Guide
 Cisco UCS C3160 High-Density Rack Server with Red Hat Ceph Storage

31. CLOSING TIME

32. WHERE TO GO NEXT?
 Red Hat Subscriptions: https://access.redhat.com/subscription-value
 Evaluation, Pre-production, and Production contracts available through Red Hat sales
 Red Hat Consulting: http://www.redhat.com/en/services/consulting/storage
 Red Hat Storage training: https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training
 Red Hat Storage test-drive: http://red.ht/cephtestdrive

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