Scale-out Storage Solution (2013)

Today, data is growing at an exponential rate and the need to provide an efficient storage mechanism has become more critical than ever. In this presentation, we will discuss about a scale out storage solution intended to address small and medium businesses in a cost effective manner. This is a Linux based software-only solution that works on commodity hardware. It is a POSIX compliant solution and provides file storage through CIFS/ NFS interfaces. The entire solution is designed to have small footprint and easy installation on available Linux machines. This paper presents technical details of the solution and implementation challenges. In addition, the paper will also discuss about tools and techniques used to test scale out storage product.

Learning Objectives

Overview of the Scale-out storage solution
Solution details - architecture of the Distributed File system, Storage workload distribution mechanism, Key optimizations to achieve higher performance
Testing Scale-out Storage - Challenges in testing Scale out products, Stress, scalability and performance testing and Various open source tools