How to extract the greatest efficiency from your existing storage infrastructure with purpose-built virtualized storage. Avoid or minimize capital expenses and tap in to unused and wasted disk space. With virtualized storage, you can work with and supplement other storage technologies such as SAN, NAS, and SSDs.

1. Service Provider Opportunities in Virtualized
Storage and Software Defined Storage
John Lawler, VP Marketing and Product Development

2. Virtuozzo
Introduction to our new organisation
 Founded in 2001, “spun out” in 2015
 Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in Moscow, London and Munich
 Over 170 employees, including 100+ engineers + 15 kernel developers
 120+ patents in container, virtualization and storage technology
 A network of 700+ worldwide partners powering 5,000,000+ virtualized environments
 Key Open Source sponsor and/or contributor of OpenVZ, CRIU, Linux, and P.Haul
 Founding members of Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and OpenStack Foundation
 Strong Technology Alliances

3. Industry Trends in Storage
• 70x increase in average data consumption
(survey of European hosting companies)
• Data-driven applications
• Big Data analytics
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Learning/AI based systems
• Storage as a Service

4. Hosters’ Requirements
• Find ways to extract greatest efficiency
from existing storage infrastructure
• Avoid or minimize capex
• Enormous quantities of unused disk
space locked to servers
• Average of 63% unused/wasted
• Work with/supplement other storage
technologies like SAN, NAS, and SSDs
• Storage purpose-built for hosting
• Everything in scale

5. Purpose-Built Storage
• Container awareness
• Must get faster and more robust as
is scales
• Designed and optimized for the
random I/O, read/writes of hosters
Sequential load Random load
Cluster: 5 nodes, 1 GbitVirtuozzo Storage
CEPH
• Hot data auto-balancing
• Maximize performance by distributing IOPS and
minimizing network traffic
• High availability and fast storage recovery speeds

6. SDS for the Service Provider
- Reuses existing hardware -- no need for dedicated, expensive
hardware or vendor lock-in
- Any mix of HDDs in a cluster
- Scalable up to hundreds nodes and up to PBs
- Performance and reliability increases as cluster scales
- Failure tolerant and redundant
- Out-of-the-box SSD caching improves read and write performance
- Automatic data and load/performance balancing
- Server storage capacity and bandwidth no longer limited by
individual node

7. Use Case: Big Data/BI SaaS
Provider
• Solution: Virtuozzo / Virtuozzo Storage
• Details
Virtuozzo Storage gave us unparalleled uptime
and better than SAN performance at a fraction of
the cost, saving us millions per year in both
hardware and avoided outages. The hyper-
converged design of Virtuozzo and Virtuozzo
storage ensures that in the event of a failure their
production environments are moved seamlessly
according to the disaster recovery
• Goal: Improve business-critical application performance
and capacity
• Problem: Traditional hypervisor solutions were costly
both on price and performance. Running the application
on bare metal seemed necessary, but was problematic
in terms of efficiency while balancing customer needs
and availability
• Isolated workloads with secure multi-tenancy,
dynamic scaling without rebooting
• Virtuozzo Storage efficiently caches identical files found in
multiple containers to reduce I/O and memory bottlenecks,
maximizing resource utilization on Apptio’s servers.
• Avoided huge capex
570TB 550 servers 14 major clusters across 3 continents

8. Summary
Storage purpose-built for hosting providers
enables
 Consolidation and rationalization of
storage resources
 Container-aware storage that gets faster
and more robust as it scales
 Hot and cold data
 Minimizes capex, maximize margin
Provides the enabling technology and cost model to allow you to
pursue new, higher value use cases and business opportunities

9. www.virtuozzo.com
@VirtuozzoInc
www.linkedin.com/company/virtuozzo
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