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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Principal Architect

Leil Storage

A renowned expert in software-defined storage, with years of experience building scalable and efficient systems for a variety of industries. His background includes working at Google, where he gained invaluable insights into large-scale distributed systems. Also, he is a founder and creator of LizardFS - open-sourced, distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant file system. LizardFS a was successful clone of GoogleFS with the POSIX interface and other perks like erasure coding. Today, he brings his expertise to Leil Storage, where he helps to create green cloud storage for backup and archive by exploring the advantages of host-managed SMR drives.

Bridging the Gap Between Host Managed SMR Drives and Software-Defined Storage

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This presentation delves into the development and implementation of a multi-petabyte archive storage solution, focusing on the challenges and architectural choices made to accommodate Host Managed Shingled Magnetic Recording (HM-SMR) drives in a software-defined storage environment. We will discuss the sequential write constraints of SMR drives and compare various HM-SMR libraries from a software engineering standpoint.

Implementing Selective Write-Grouping in Software-Defined Storage for Enhanced Energy Savings

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In this talk, we'll delve into the transformative potential of selective write-grouping within software-defined storage (SDS) systems, setting it against the backdrop of the Popular Data Concentration (PDC) approach. Both strategies are compatible with Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) and Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) disks with an erasure coding. Write-grouping confines write operations to a limited subset of drives, allowing inactive drives to power down and slash energy consumption by up to 43% in SMR configurations.

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