EMC ScaleIO integrates with OpenStack to provide an elastic, scalable, and resilient storage solution using local disks of application servers. The document outlines the architecture, features, and hardware/software configurations for deploying ScaleIO in an OpenStack environment, highlighting its interoperability and support for various hypervisors and protocols. Key offerings include block services and management capabilities under OpenStack, making it suitable for cloud infrastructure deployments.

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SCALEIO IN
AN OPENSTACK
ENVIRONMENT
JASON STURGEON & RANDY BIAS

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• Role: ScaleIO Product Manager
• Mission: Drive ScaleIO integration with OpenStack &
Partners
• 20 years in tech
• Big tech geek and love helping people build clouds
• Contact info
– Twitter: @osaddict
– Email: jason.sturgeon@emc.com
JASON STURGEON

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WHAT IS EMC SCALEIO?
ScaleIO agent
(minimal footprint)
• Installs on industry-standard x86 servers that run
databases, hypervisors, or any other applications
• Aggregates application servers’ local disks
• Add storage and/or compute on the fly
Software that
uses application
servers to create
an elastic,
scalable, and
resilient Server
SAN at a
fraction of the
cost and
complexity of
traditional SANs

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MIX AND MATCH OS, HYPERVISORS, PLATFORMS,
AND MEDIA IN THE SAME SCALEIO SYSTEM!
INFRASTRUCTURE AGNOSTIC
HYPERVISORSOPERATING
SYSTEM
CLOUD MEDIA
SSDs
HDDs
PCIe
Flash

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SCALEIO LOGICAL ARCHITECTURE
Application(s)
SDC: ScaleIO
Data Client
SDS: ScaleIO
Data Server
MDM: Metadata
Manager
C
S
PRESENTATION LAYER
ScaleIO Data Client (SDC)
DATA SERVER
ScaleIO Data
Server (SDS)
ScaleIO Metadata
Manager (MDM)

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• ScaleIO integrated with
OpenStack since Havana
• Upstreamed since Liberty
• Plugins for Mirantis Fuel,
Charms for Canonical, &
Ansible / Puppet scripts
SCALEIO & OPENSTACK

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• Cinder driver interfaces between ScaleIO
and OpenStack
– Presents volumes to OpenStack as block
devices available for storage
• Nova driver handles compute and
instance volume-related operations
• ScaleIO driver executes volume
operations by communicating with the
backend ScaleIO components through the
ScaleIO REST Gateway
SCALEIO – BLOCK SERVICES
SDC
SDS
MDM
Applications
(NOVA)
Cinder Volume
GATEWAY
Driver
Rest API
Commodity Platform

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• Full support of QoS
– QoS support previously, but using Extra Specs
• Support for Consistency Groups
• Option to bring existing ScaleIO volumes
under OpenStack management
– As well as remove from OpenStack managment
OPENSTACK MITAKA
EMC SCALEIO NEW FEATURES

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• 1 Oracle VM
– 64G RAM & 16 vCPUs
• 1 Load Generation Client VM
– Running Swingbench tool
• Demo flow
– FIO load -> Live Migrate
– 20 User DB load -> Live Migrate
– 200 User DB load -> Live Migrate
ORACLE RUNNING IN OPENSTACK W/SCALEIO

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• Storage Side
– 7 Cisco C240 M4SX hosts
• CPU: 2xE5-2680 v3 @ 2.5GHz
• RAM: 128G or 256G depending
on node
– Storage
• 3 Toshiba 400GB SSDs each
• Mix of either 6 or 10 900GB
HDDS
– Not used in Demo, but available as
slower tier
WHAT’S THE HARDWARE UNDER THE HOOD?
• Compute Side
– Same 7 Cisco C240
M4SX hosts
• AKA Hyper-Converged
– 1 Server that is only a
client
• AKA 2-layer

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• Database
– Oracle Version 12.1.0.2.0
• OpenStack Version
– Liberty 12.0.1
• Operating System
– CentOS Linux 7.2.1511
– Kernel 3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64
• Storage Software
– ScaleIO 2.0.0.0
WHAT’S THE SOFTWARE UNDER THE HOOD?

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Cisco Nexus 5548
Each node connects with
• 2 Intel 10GbE NICs

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DEMO

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DON’T WAIT
• OpenStack deployments can take time
– Get comfortable with the scale-out storage now
• ScaleIO is useful in building any cloud
• One click download with no limits: Search ”Download ScaleIO”
• Try out our plugins and give use feedback: Chad’s Blog
• Check out recent reviews on storagereview.com
• Other Sessions:
– “Swisscom in Production with OpenStack and Cloud Foundry” – 4:40pm
– “Optimizing SDS for OpenStack” feat. EMC & Mirantis – Thursday 11:00am
– Check out the ScaleIO / Ceph live bakeoff session from Tokyo Summit
• OpenStack session on Ceph vs ScaleIO
• Shorter video: http://www.emc.com/scaleiocephbattle