StorPool Presents at Cloud Field Day 9

1. StorPool Storage Cloud Field Day 9 #CFD9 | @storpool 1

2. 2 1. Introduction to StorPool Storage 2. Who uses StorPool and why 3. Understanding performance 4. Performance measurement and comparison of leading public clouds 5. How StorPool-powered clouds compete 6. Conclusions Agenda

3. ● Chief of Product & Co-founder at StorPool ● 20+ years in ISPs, SDN, SDS ● IT Infrastructure with a focus on invention, performance & eﬃciency About me https://www.linkedin.com/in/krosnov/ @bkrosnov bk@storpool.com 3 Boyan Krosnov

4. About StorPool 4 ● Leader in high-performance, scale-out, block-storage software for demanding primary workloads ○ Runs on standard servers and turns them into high-end, all-flash storage system ○ Focus on New-Age IT stacks – KVM, Kubernetes (still supports legacy VMware/Hyper-V/XenServer, etc. stacks) ○ Comes as a Fully Managed Storage – mission critical 24/7 support, constant monitoring, proactive issue resolution, SLA ● Founded in 2011 and scaled up to a global vendor with customers on 4 continents, profitable & growing ● HQ in Sofia, Bulgaria ● StorPool is built from the ground up to provide public/private cloud builders with the fastest and most reliable software-defined storage solution on the market!

5. 5 StorPool in a nutshell Best-in-class Software-deﬁned Scale-out Block Storage Platform SDS 2.0 – Feature Rich Shared Storage System Faster than Local SSD Purpose Built Fully Distributed System – With own On-disk Format, Protocol, Quorum and more… Replace SAN, AFA and Other Storage Software Robust and High-quality End to End Data Integrity Scale-out / Low Latency / High Availability NVMe Performance Feature-rich Modern SDS 2.0 System Purpose Built for the Cloud Era

6. ● SDS - runs on Linux ● No special hardware requirements ○ Just NICs and NVMes ○ Also supports SAS & SATA drives, controllers ● Scale-out system, active/active multi-controller, pooling of capacity, pooling of performance ● Copy-on-write on-disk format ● End-to-end data integrity ● 3-way replication Architecture 6 ● Low latency <100 μs end-to-end (measured in VM) ● High throughput - 1M IOPS per storage node (10M+ IOPS in a 10-node system) ● Highly eﬃcient storage protocol and implementation, Kernel bypass ● API control. Common deployments are with 10000+ volumes, snapshots ● Integrations with OpenStack, CloudStack, Kubernetes, etc. ● Snapshots and multi-site capabilities ● Monitoring and ﬁne-grained metrics, analytics

7. StorPool Cluster 1 Storage node NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe 3+ storage nodes. Scale-out. Host (using block storage) Storage node NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe Storage node NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe Host (using block storage) Host (using block storage) Host (using block storage) Host (using block storage) Host (using block storage) Host (using block storage) Host (using block storage) 100s of servers using the storage system Ethernet switch Ethernet switch Architecture - topology diagram ... ...

8. storpool_server instance 1 CPU thread 2-4 GB RAM NIC storpool_server instance 1 CPU thread 2-4 GB RAM storpool_server instance 1 CPU thread 2-4 GB RAM storpool_block instance 1 CPU thread NVMe SSD NVMe SSD NVMe SSD NVMe SSD NVMe SSD NVMe SSD KVM Virtual Machine KVM Virtual Machine • Highly scalable & eﬃcient parallel architecture • Scales up in each storage node & out with multiple nodes 25GbE . . . 25GbE 8

10. Customer proﬁle Typical ● Hosting, MSP, Public Cloud, IaaS ● New IT, Modern IT - automation, APIs, integration/orchestration, continuous improvements ● > 100TB Tier 1 Primary Storage (SSD, NVMe) ● 1 to 10s of locations ● KVM hypervisor and/or containers/Kubernetes … and also ● Sizable private clouds - test/dev, production SaaS, Web/Mobile Apps, Gaming ● Multiple stacks - VMWare, Hyper-V, XenServer ● Upgrade for legacy IT 10

11. The Project: IT unification & consolidation: standardizing on a New-Age & scalable IT stack company wide. Hardware from multiple vendors - HPE, IBM, EMC, NetApp, Cisco, etc. The goals: Consolidate 10s of deployments from legacy platforms (acquired MSPs) to one new, future-proof platform. Benefit from modern IT practices - automation, scalability, hardware independence Streamline business operations and improve profitability The solution: New-Age IT IaaS platform - Software-Defined (SDDC design) The New-Age stack: KVM+OpenNebula, StorPool, Mellanox, Cumulus Linux Case study #1 - Dustin 11 Company Profile: Managed Service Provider 1.275 Billion Euro Net Sales 1800+ Employees 6 locations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark Grown through acquisitions Had multiple IT stacks (VMware, Hyper-V, Linux) https://storpool.com/storpool_ case-study_dustin_2020

12. Case study #2 - Amito 12 Company Proﬁle: UK-based Cloud and Managed Service Provider Founded in 2000 Presence in 28 data centers worldwide The Project: "Тhe most diﬃcult part of the infrastructure stack for high availability virtualized servers is storage. Amito was using quite a few different solutions, from big-name vendors to in house developed HA SANs based on ZFS. None of these solutions brought the expected results." The goals: Implement a high-performance storage across multiple data centers to support Amito’s broad range of applications, with a hugely different set of performance and availability requirements. The solution: High-performance data storage platform with CloudStack across several clusters. All storage clusters have been faultless since they implemented them and with zero downtime. Amito is currently using approx. 35% less storage than on their previous solution because of the way StorPool is built. https://storpool.com/amito-c ase-study-storpool

13. Case study #3 - Katapult by Krystal 13 Company Proﬁle: Katapult by Krystal One of the largest independent UK web hosting companies. Founded in 2002 and steadily grown over the last 18 years Comprehensive portfolio of hosting, cloud and VPS services The Project: Virtual Infrastructure as a Service platform built for extreme performance and simplicity with several high-performance NVMe storage clusters running on StorPool Storage. The goals: A storage solution which keeps the promise of a modern SDS; high availability, extreme performance, a high level of ﬂexibility and guaranteed data integrity. The solution: Virtual Infrastructure as a Service platform, ensuring high performance, robust API, unique space savings features and the extremely high level of data protection offered from StorPool’s triple data replication. https://storpool.com/krystal-k atapult-case-study

15. Why performance ● Better application performance -- e.g. time to load a page, time to rebuild, time to execute speciﬁc query ● Happier customers in cloud and multi-tenant environments ● ROI, TCO - Lower cost per delivered resource (per VM) through higher density ● For public cloud - win customers over from your competitors ● For private cloud - do more with less; win applications / workloads / teams over from public cloud 15

16. Latency opspersecond best service 16

17. Latency opspersecond best service lowest cost per delivered resource 17

18. Latency opspersecond best service lowest cost per delivered resource only pain 18

19. Latency opspersecond best service lowest cost per delivered resource only pain 19 benchmarks

20. Benchmarks 20

21. Real load 21

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24. Storage benchmarks Beware of caveats... ● Performance numbers from hardware conﬁgurations totally unlike what you’d use in production ● Synthetic tests with high iodepth - 10 nodes, 10 workloads * iodepth 256 each. (because why not) ● Testing with ramdisk backend ● Synthetic workloads don't approximate real world 24

25. ● Design benchmarks which reflect your use-case and application ● Measure what matters. Examples: ○ developer productivity - simple SQL database for up to X users, so no need to pay for complexity of clusters; runs CI/tests in half the time ○ Efficiency - $ per user, $ per features ● If you can't measure what matters directly, find good proxies. Example: ○ "I can't run my entire stack as a benchmark, but I know it consists of a load balancer and a transaction-heavy database, so I'll use a load balancer and a DB benchmark" Benchmarks 25

27. * - ramdisk used to reduce usable RAM to 16 GB VMs and block storage Provider Service name $/GiB/mont h IOPS limit Size of volume [GiB] Monthly cost Katapult Shared disk NVMe $0.15 unlimited 1024 $154 StorPool Private Cloud 3 NVMe unlimited 500 n/a AWS EBS gp2 $0.10 3,072 1024 $102 Google Cloud SSD Persistent Disk $0.17 15,000 1024 $174 Google Cloud Balanced Persistent Disk $0.10 6,144 1024 $102 Microsoft Azure Premium SSD $0.12 3,500 1024 $123 Digital Ocean Block Storage $0.10 10,000 1024 $102 Provider Instance name region monthly cost (with 12 month commitment) vCPUs RAM Katapult ROCK-24 London $120 8 24GB* StorPool Lab one-8vcpu-16gb Soﬁa n/a 8 16GB AWS Compute optimized: c5.2xlarge us-east-2 $245 8 16GB Google Cloud General purpose: n2-8vcpu-16gb us-central1 $197 8 32GB* Microsoft Azure Compute optimized: Standard_F8s_v2 - 8 vcpus, 16 GiB memory East US 2 $235 8 16GB Digital Ocean CPU Optimized Droplet: 16GB sfo2 $160 8 16GB 27

28. ● Previous version of our tools and methodology: ○ https://storpool.com/storage-performance-and-resilience- testing ● We'll be releasing updated tools and method with the write-up in the next month ○ coremark, ﬁo, rsync, pgbench, sysbench ● Until then drop us an email at info@storpool.com Benchmarks 28

29. ● Storage heavy, a little CPU ○ FIO, rsync ● Storage & CPU ○ pgbench, sysbench ● CPU, RAM* ○ coremark ● Network* * - future additions to our suite Tools used 29

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31. 31 Unﬁt for databases!

32. 32 Unﬁt for databases!

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34. 2.5-3x lower latency at ﬁxed load 34

35. 2.3x transactions with same CPU, RAM / same cost 35

36. pgbench small database 36

37. sysbench / MySQL 37

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42. ● Storage performance determines application performance to a large degree. ● VMs with seemingly identical parameters like CPU and memory can have orders of magnitude difference in application performance. ● Both IOPS and latency are important for application performance. ● Applications perform measurably better on StorPool-powered clouds - up to 2.5 times better than the second-best public cloud offering and in some case more than 10 times better than the other leading clouds Storage performance = Application performance 42

43. 1. Top performance, Top availability, Top support 2. Great solution economics permit competitive positioning of cloud service 3. StorPool manages storage layer so highly skilled team can focus on improving the services How StorPool-powered clouds compete 43

45. 1. Good application performance is critical for every cloud 2. When measuring performance, measure what matters to you 3. 2x-3x higher application performance (per $ !) than hyperscalers is within reach for small to mid-sized public and private clouds. Half cost for the same workload! 4. On your next project work with partners who understand performance. You can gain a lot! 5. StorPool delivers a unique combination of performance, reliability, scalability, ease of use and proactive mission-critical support. The best storage for demanding public and private clouds. Conclusions 45

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47. Talk to us: Twitter: @storpool info@storpool.com https://storpool.com Thank you + Q&A! 47

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