Delivering Standards Based SDS Framework with OpenStack SDS Controller Implementation

Software Defined Storage (SDS) has significant impact on how companies deploy and manage public and private cloud storage solutions to deliver on-demand storage services while reducing the cost. Similar to Software Defined Networking (SDN), SDS promises to simplify management of diverse storage solutions and ease of use. However in order to deliver this promise, there is a need to define SDS framework with specific focus on abstracting control plane functionality that paves the way for using distributed storage solutions on standard high volume servers as well as traditional storage appliances. This presentation explores standards based SDS framework for north bound and south bound interaction as well as working prototype using Openstack Cinder with SNIA standards (SMI-S, CDMI) based integration.

Learning Objectives

Learn Software Defined Storage framework for managing cloud wide storage services
Understand SDS controller control plane abstraction, application and storage interfaces using open standards (SMI-S, CDMI)
Understand the paradigm shift in application integration using Service Level Objectives and how SDS controller abstracts underlying storage system implementations
Learn about the emerging OpenStack shared file service, Manila
Learn about new developments in OpenStack storage