SUSE Enterprise Storage is a scalable and resilient software-based storage solution. It lets you build cost-efficient and highly scalable data storage using commodity, off-the-shelf servers and disk drives.

1. SUSE Enterprise Storage
Highly Scalable Software Defined Storage
Gábor Nyers
Sales Engineer @SUSE
gnyers@suse.com

2. Setting the Stage

3. 3
Enterprise Data Capacity Utilization
Tier 0
Ultra High
Performance
Tier 1
High-value, OLTP,
Revenue Generating
Tier 2
Backup/Recovery,
Reference Data,
Bulk Data
Tier 3
Object, Archive,
Compliance Archive,
Long-term
Retention
Source: Horison Information Strategies - Fred Moore
50-60%
of Enterprise Data
20-25%
15-20%
1-3%

4. SUSE Enterprise Storage

5. 5
SUSE Storage Feature Overview
Scalability
Upper Limit: EBs,
Incremental expansion
No Single Point of
Failure
100% Software
Defined Storage
Self managing,
Self healing

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Traditional Storage vs. SUSE Storage
Proprietary hardware
Traditional Storage
Proprietary software
Life-cycle enforced by vendor
Hard scale limit
Commodity hardware
Ceph
Open Source software
Hardware
Exabyte scale
$$$$ $$

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Ceph Architecture
Librados
A library to
directly access
RADOS
(C,C++, Java,
Python, Ruby
and PHP)
RADOSGW
A REST Gateway
compatible with
Amazon S3 and
OpenStack Swift
RBD
Object based
distributed block
device with
support for
Linux kernel and
Qemu/KVM
CEPH FS
POSIX compliant
distributed file
system with
support for
Linux and
FUSE
RADOS
Reliable Autonomous Distributed Object Store comprised of self-healing, self-
managing intelligent storage nodes
APP APP Host / VM Client

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Unified Storage
Amazon S3,
OpenStack Swift
Object Storage Block Storage
Filesystem
Storage
Multi-tenant
Replication
Erasure coding
Clones
Snapshots
Native Linux
kernel driver
Thin provisioning
POSIX compatibility
CIFS / NFS
Native Linux
kernel driver
Dynamic Subtree
Partitioning

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Main Components in a Ceph cluster 1/2
M
M
M
Object Storage Daemon (OSD)
► Responsible for storing
objects on a local file system
and providing access to them
over the network
File System
► XFS, Btrfs, Ext4
Disk
► Local SATA or SAS disk
Disk
OSD OSD OSD OSD
Disk Disk Disk
FS FS FS FS

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Main Components in a Ceph cluster 2/2
M
M
M
A Ceph Monitor
► Maintains maps of the cluster
state, incl:
►monitor map,
►OSD map,
►Placement Group (PG) map,
►CRUSH map.
Disk
► Local SATA or SAS disk
M

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SUSE Storage use case: object store
M
M
M
Application
librados
librados features:
► C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby,
PHP, etc... bindings
RadosGW features
► Amazon S3 compatibility
► OpenStack Swift
compatibility
Application
Amazon S3
Application
librados
RadosGW
Swift

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SUSE Storage use case: block storage
M
M
M
VM
KVM Hypervisor
librbd + librados
VM
KVM Hypervisor
librbd + librados
Block
Device
Live
migration
Features:
● Thinly Provisioned
● Resizable images
● Image import/export
● Image copy or rename
● Read-only snapshots
● Revert to snapshots
● Ability to mount with Linux or
QEMU KVM clients!

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SUSE Storage Product Positioning
JBOD Storage
Mid-range
Array
Mid-range
NAS
High-end
Disk Array
SUSE Enterprise
Storage
Fully Featured
NAS Device
Entry-level
Disk Array

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Summary
SAVINGS: Total cost of ownership
• Reduced CAPEX expenditures
• Reduced OPEX expenditures
• Ease of management
FLEXIBILITY: Adaptability to evolving business needs
• Reduced dependency upon proprietary “Locked In” storage
CONFIDENCE: Reliability and availability
• Leverage SUSE world-class support and services

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Thank you.
Questions?

16. Thank you.
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