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Abstract
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Red Hat Storage advanced topics
Elastic volume management
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Red Hat Storage design goals
Elasticity
Linear scaling
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High availability
Technical differentiators
Open source
Complete storage operating system stack
User space
10 Conclusion
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Red Hat StoRage SeRveR deSign goalS
Elasticity
Linear scaling
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Scale-out with Red Hat Storage Server
the enterprise wants to gain performance, they can
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numbers, actual performance tests have proven this lin
we have seen write throughput scale from 1.5 GB/s (one
system) to 12 GB/s (eight systems).
tecHnical diffeRentiatoRS
connecting to between one
Software-only
Open source
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User space
Red Hat Storage Server is a
complete storage stack
in userspace
Everything is a “volume”
Volume = C shared-object library
Stack volumes to create
configuration
Customize to match unique
workload needs
Open APIs
Volume-to-volume and
Platform-to-world
Development is like application
programming
Rapid time to market
Third party development
a function such as replication if high avail
Data stored in native formats
No metadata with the elastic hash algorithm
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Red Hat Storage Server global namespace technology
in the private cloud or datacenter
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Red Hat StoRage SeRveR advanced topicS
Elastic volume management
Unified file and object
HigH availability
N-way local synchronous replication
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Geo-rep long distance asynchronous replication
Replication in the private cloud/datacenter, public cloud, and hybrid
cloud environments
conclUSion
1-888-REDHAT-1
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gloSSaRy
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