1. StratusLab is co-funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (Capacities) Grant Agreement INFSO-RI-261552 StratusLab: Storage Services EGI User Forum (Vilnius, Lithuania) 12 April 2011

2. 2 StratusLab Storage Services Disk-based abstraction  "More natural" abstraction for an IaaS cloud  Persistent, read-write disks for use within a cloud instance  Read-only disks shared between cloud instances  Both will be available in v0.4 and v1.0 releases File-based abstractions  "More natural" abstraction for scientific analyses  Likely to provide implementation with CDMI interface  Will appear after the v1.0 release in May 2011

3. 3 Using a Persistent Disk Workflow  Create a disk with a given size via the web or REST interface.  Launch a machine instance referencing that image.  Partition (fdisk) and format (mkfs) the disk via the running VM  Store data to the disk as usual  Dismount the disk or halt the machine instance  Disk with persistent data is available for use by another VM

4. 4 Persistent Storage Architecture

5. 5 Using Persistent Disks Standard workflow for persistent disks:  Create a disk with a given size via the web or REST interface.  Launch a machine instance referencing that image.  Partition (fdisk) and format (mkfs) the disk via the running VM  Store data to the disk as usual  Dismount the disk or halt the machine instance  Disk with persistent data is available for use by another VM

6. 6 Main Page

7. 7 Create Disks

8. 8 Defined Disks

9. 9 Create Metadata Description Try to validate the unsigned metadata file:  There is no signature so the file should not be valid Sign the contents of the file with a grid certificate:  ttylinux-9.3-i686-base-1.0.xml  ttylinux-9.3-i686-base-1.0.xml.orig  ttylinux-9.3-i686-base-1.0.xml contains endorser and signature elements $ stratus-validate-metadata ttylinux-9.3-i686-base-1.0.xml Invalid: ttylinux-9.3-i686-base-1.0.xml no signature $ stratus-sign-metadata \ --p12-cert grid.p12 \ --p12-password xxxxxx \ ttylinux-9.3-i686-base-1.0.xml Manifest file successfully signed: ttylinux-9.3-i686-base-1.0.xml $ stratus-validate-metadata ttylinux-9.3-i686-base-1.0.xml Valid: ttylinux-9.3-i686-base-1.0.xml

10. 10 Create Metadata Description Launch machine with new disk:  --persistent-disk Partition and format disk, first time only:  First time, partition and format  Afterward, just mount disk directly $ stratus-run-instance \ --persistent-disk=aa7f17e3-aa78-4efc-a1ee-a684e194b4ea \ $TTYLINUX ::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Starting machines :: ::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Starting 1 machine :: Machine 1 (vm ID: 1) Public ip: 134.158.75.33 :: Done! # fdisk /dev/hdd # mkfs /dev/hdd1 # mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt

11. 11 Using a Read-Only Disk (v0.4) Workflow  Launch a machine giving the Marketplace reference for the image  Machine is launched with the given disk image on the given device (typically /dev/hdd)  Mount the disk on the machine and use the data for an analysis  Dismount or halt the machine instance These disks are read-only and thus cannot be modified. They are managed, cached, etc. like machine images via the Marketplace.

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