Project Fermi - A Highly Available NAS Gateway Built from Open Source Software

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Author(s)/Presenter(s):

Dan Pollack

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Presentation

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Abstract

The presentation describes the components and implementation of a highly available NAS gateway built from open source software. Using industry standard hardware and open source OS and HA clustering tools AOL has built a replacement for high cost commercial NAS systems. The performance and availability characteristics approach the capabilities of high cost commercial systems for a fraction of the cost.

Learning Objectives

Using open source for storage
Combining existing components to create robust systems
Tuning and lessons learned when building systems from scratch