1. Innovating Software Defined Storage with ZFS

2. Innovating Software Defined Storage with ZFS
About Steve
Steve Umbehocker is the founder and CEO of OSNEXUS, a software engineer, a 22 year enterprise storage industry veteran, and has over 20 patents granted in the areas of cloud and storage virtualization technologies.
Steve started in the storage industry at Veritas Software in 1997 where he contributed to the development of the industry’s first software-defined-storage platform which was based on Solaris and Veritas VxFS/VxVM.

3. Storage System Evolution

4. Evolution of IT Deployments
Central IT + Remote Office
Co-Los / Datacenters / Hybrid Cloud / Public Cloud

5. Managing Data Flow, Security, Availability
Co-Los / Datacenters / Hybrid Cloud / Public Cloud

6. Design & Planning / QuantaStor SDS
Must be Linux based so that it can leverage the latest hardware innovations
Must have advanced security features so IT organizations can trust it.
Must be completely API driven / Service Oriented Architecture
Must scale-out without bounds across servers, racks and datacenters
Must leverage, extend, and contribute to open-source storage technologies
ZFS
ext3? btrfs? xfs? jfs?

7. Why ZFS?
Volume
Manager
Filesystem
Replication
Reliability

8. QuantaStor SDS Overview
What is Quantastor?: QuantaStor is OSNEXUS’s Linux based SDS platform which bare-metal installs on x64 servers.
Storage Grid Technology: QuantaStor’s unique grid technology links appliances together so that they are easily managed as a federated entity across sites and datacenters.
Unified: NFSv3 & v4, SMB2 & SMB3, iSCSI, iSER, FC, S3 Object

9. Scaling-out ZFS with Grid Technology
QS REST API
Scriptable
QS CLI
Scaling-out ZFS with Grid Technology
QuantaStor Storage Grid
DALLAS
Datacenter
LONDON
Datacenter
AMSTERDAM
Datacenter
QuantaStor
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QuantaStor
QuantaStor VSAs
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ON-PREMISIS
LOCATION
QuantaStor
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QuantaStor’s control-plane technology combines systems into a federated storage grid which can span sites and datacenters.

10. QuantaStor ZFS based hyper-scale Storage Grids
2GB/sec
120GB/sec
100PB
100TB

11. QuantaStor SDS Overview
Integrations
VMware VAAI (migration)
SolarWinds (backup)
Sophos AV (backup)
Commvault (backup)
Microsoft VSS (backup)
Docker (provisioning)
OpenStack (provisioning)
Nagios (monitoring)
Splunk (monitoring)
IDERA (monitoring)
Librato (monitoring)
AVID (editing)
SNMP (call-home)
PagerDuty (call-home)
SMTP / (call-home)
Slack (call-home)
Skype (call-home)
Complete
REST API
Scriptable
QS CLI
Flash
Accelerated
VMware Certified
VAAI Integrated
Data
Compression
Thin/Over
Provisioning
CEE Compliant
Audit Logging
Snapshots /
Cloning
Active Directory
Integrated
QoS Controls
End-to-end Encryption
Backup
Policies
NFS & SMB
Cloud Storage
NFS & SMB
File Storage
iSCSI / FC
Block Storage
S3 & SWIFT
Object Storage
OpenStack
Integrated
DR / Remote
Replication
QuantaStor
Security Compliance
NIST , HIPAA, CJIS
FIPS L1*
QuantaStor

12. QuantaStor Grid Management / WUI
QuantaStor Web Management Interface is:
Designed to be easy to use by IT generalists.
Native HTML5, it supports all major browsers.
Single pane of glass management for all appliances in a storage grid.
Accessible from all appliances at the same time with concurrent user sessions.
Manage and monitor all aspects of a given storage grid without having to use a CLI.
Scriptable via REST APIs and our QS CLI.
All documentation is online and publicly available at wiki.osnexus.com.
Requires no knowledge of Linux, ZFS or Ceph.
Localized to Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, and French.

13. QuantaStor Grid Management / WUI
QuantaStor Web Management Interface is:
Designed to be easy to use by IT generalists.
Native HTML5, it supports all major browsers.
Single pane of glass management for all appliances in a storage grid.
Accessible from all appliances at the same time with concurrent user sessions.
Manage and monitor all aspects of a given storage grid without having to use a CLI.
Scriptable via REST APIs and our QS CLI.
All documentation is online and publicly available at wiki.osnexus.com.
Requires no knowledge of Linux, ZFS or Ceph.
Localized to Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, and French.

14. Certified Reference Configurations
Deploy and expand your multi-rack, multi-site storage grid on a
heterogenous mix of hardware from all major server vendors.
HPE Certified on DL380 & Apollo 4510
Dell OEM Certified on R740
Cisco IVT Certified on S3260
Supermicro X9/X10/X11

15. Multi-vendor Hardware Integrated

16. Case Studies
TerraPower is a GatesFoundation funded company developing next generation clean nuclear reactors that will use spent fuel rods from older reactors to extract unused energy and reduce nuclear waste. TerraPower has a large Windows based HPC cluster that uses QuantaStor highly-available storage appliances configured with multiple HPE SANs behind it. QuantaStor appliances aggregate capacity and performance to meet the high-performance SMB protocol requirements for their HPC cluster.
Health-care provider with over 16 sites using mix of IBM AIX and Linux servers. Required next-gen storage option to replace aging NetApp systems for internal applications and disk-to-disk backup.
Information Sciences Institute required flexible storage for cancer research R&D. Research applications produce millions of files stored in QuantaStor appliances to provide “google earth” style visibility into micro features, cancer cells. QuantaStor SDS has been rolled out for a broad spectrum of research projects at ISI. USC uses the OSNEXUS Cloud License Service so that they can redeploy and reassign storage assets to different researchers and research groups at will.
Dynamic transcoding and processing of sports data streams to produce game highlights delivered directly to mobile phone platform. QuantaStor is an integral part of all the processing stages with the final output transferred up to a global cloud based content delivery network (CDN).

17. QuantaStor SDS Value Proposition
Proprietary
Open
Unified NAS, SAN & Object
Grid Technology
Fast deployment
Low labor requirements
Long-term innovation
Automation / API driven
Reduces costs by 50%+
Pros:
Fast deployment
Low labor requirements
Cons:
Proprietary HW/SW lock-in
High price per TB
Fork-lift upgrades
Short-term innovation
Pros:
Lower HW/SW Costs
Long-term innovation
Cons:
High deployment complexity
Difficult to operationalize
High labor costs

18. Roadmap 2018
General
Platform upgrades / 4.4 kernel, Ceph Luminous upgrade, iSER protocol support
Advanced Ceph CRUSH map management for multi-site object storage clusters
Data mover / Backup Policy enhancements for automated storage tiering
Security
FIPS Certification
Multi-factor Authentication
Active-Directory Single-Sign-On
KMIP integration for encryption key management
Analytics
Volume and Pool level real-time stats graphing of IOPS, MB/s, Latency
Remote replication real-time stats graphing of MB/s transfer speed
Object Storage cluster real-time stats graphing for MB/s
Grid Configuration Health Check
Performance
NVMe JBOF mode with iSER
Multi-tenancy
Improved multi-tenancy features / LUN scoping to Resource Group / VLAN
Integrations
VMware VASA/VOL/SRM integration

19. Q&A