NFS on Steroids: Building Worldwide Distributed File System

Intel R&D environment spans dozens of locations across the Globe. It includes over 50,000 compute servers running Linux, and 10s of PBs of centralized NFS storage. NFS provides good solution for data sharing within data center. However, it doesn't necessarily give an answer for cross-site access over high latency links. The presentation will share Intel IT experience with development, implementation and adoption of the NFS-based federated distributed secure storage infrastructure, where every file is accessible from any client worldwide. It will describe multiple steps required to enable global multi-level on-demand caching infrastructure, including new caching and manageability solutions, environment standardization and more. Improvements made in data transfer and storage synchronization protocols will also be covered.

Learning Objectives

Global data sharing challenges in the large Enterprise
Implications of RPCSEC-GSS implementation in the large enterprise
Implications of RPCSEC-GSS implementation in the large enterprise
Self-service manageability solutions required for end users - internal development and call for action