Eliminate the High Cost of a SAN but not the SAN

See your ZFS handout All SAN Vendors, HP, IBM, DELL, EMC, are moving toward distributed storage platforms on commodity based systems.

What is Distributed Storage / Clustered Storage? Where did it come from?

Created By In Partnership With General Parallel File System (GPFS) Distributed parallel fault-tolerant file system For Commodity Based Intel Hardware GPFS, GPFS Derivates, ZFS, and Similar Technologies Power the Majority of Today's Supercomputer Centers AndMANYmanymore..

Traditional Storage Traditional SANs – Previous Generation Controller Based Storage (arrays with cluster features) Controller  Controller Units manage Reads/Writes of data as well as Controller Failover.  Control units track where data is stored in the array, thus mimicking a clustered environment.  The Control units have limited scalability. Traditional SANs also have a high acquisition cost, limited lifespan and a high replacement cost.  In addition disaster recovery options are expensive and limited with traditional SANs Controller

Who Makes Intelligent Clustered Storage? Nexenta Gluster ZFS GPFS NetApp Seanodes Amazon Google And Many More

Pre-Packaged Solutions Many other SAN vendors OEM ICS technologies

The Good & The Bad of Pre-Packaged Solutions Good: Complete solution One source for support Bad: Cost The Good & The Bad of Self-Built Solutions Good: Cost Bad: Complexity of integrating multiple products Multiple support arrangements

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