1. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. Non-stop Storage GlusterFS Cluster File System

2. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. GlusterFS Cluster File System GlusterFS is a Cluster File System that aggregates multiple storage bricks over InfiniBand RDMA into one large parallel network file system. = N x Performance & Capacity ++

3. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. Key Design Considerations Capacity Scaling Scalable beyond Peta Bytes I/O Throughput Scaling Pluggable Clustered I/O Schedulers Advantage of RDMA transport Reliability Non Stop Storage No Meta Data Ease of Manageability Self Heal NFS like Disk Layout Elegance in Design Stackable Modules Not tied to I/O Profiles or Hardware or OS

4. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. GlusterFS Design GigE GlusterFS Clustered Filesystem on x86-64 platform Storage Clients Cluster of Clients (Supercomputer, Data Center) GLFS Client Clustered Vol Manager Clustered I/O Scheduler GLFS Client Clustered Vol Manager Clustered I/O Scheduler GlusterFS Client Clustered Vol Manager Clustered I/O Scheduler GLFS Client Clustered Vol Manager Clustered I/O Scheduler GLFS Client Clustered Vol Manager Clustered I/O Scheduler GlusterFS Client Clustered Vol Manager Clustered I/O Scheduler GLFSD Volume GLFSD Volume Storage Brick 1 GlusterFS Volume Storage Brick 2 GlusterFS Volume Storage Brick 3 GlusterFS Volume GLFSD Volume GLFSD Volume Storage Brick 4 GlusterFS Volume RDMA Storage Gateway NFS/Samba GLFS Client S torage Gateway NFS/Samba GLFS Client Storage Gateway NFS/Samba GLFS Client RDMA InfiniBand RDMA (or) TCP/IP NFS / SAMBA over TCP/IP Client Side Server Side Compatibility with MS Windows and other Unices Compatibility with MS Windows and other Unices

5. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. GlusterFS Server VFS Stackable Design Client Server Unify POSIX Ext 3 TCPIP – GigE, 10GigE / InfiniBand - RDMA POSIX Brick 1 Server GlusterFS Client GlusterFS Client Read Ahead Brick 2Brick n GlusterFS Server I/O Cache

6. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. work.od s corporate.od p driver.c benchmark.pd f test.ogg initcore. c mylogo.xcf driver.c ether.c test.m4a Unify Volume Volume Layout accounts- 2007.db backup.db.zip accounts- 2006.db accounts- 2007.db backup.db.zip accounts- 2006.db accounts- 2007.db backup.db.zip accounts- 2006.db Mirror Volume north-pole- map dvd-1.iso xen- image north-pole- map dvd1.iso xen- image north-pole- map dvd1.iso xen- image Stripe Volume BRICK1BRICK2BRICK3

7. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. I/O Scheduling ➢ Adaptive least usage (ALU) ➢ NUFA ➢ Random ➢ Custom ➢ Round robin volume bricks type cluster/unify subvolumes ss1c ss2c ss3c ss4c option scheduler alu option alu.limits.min-free-disk 60GB option alu.limits.max-open-files 10000 option alu.order disk-usage:read-usage:write-usage:open-files-usage:disk-speed-usage option alu.disk-usage.entry-threshold 2GB # Units in KB, MB and GB are allowed option alu.disk-usage.exit-threshold 60MB # Units in KB, MB and GB are allowed option alu.open-files-usage.entry-threshold 1024 option alu.open-files-usage.exit-threshold 32 option alu.stat-refresh.interval 10sec end-volume

8. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. GlusterFS Benchmarks Benchmark Environment Method: Multiple 'dd' of varying blocks are read and written from multiple clients simultaneously. GlusterFS Brick Configuration (16 bricks) Processor - Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz RAM - 8GB FB-DIMM Linux Kernel - 2.6.18-5+em64t+ofed111 (Debian) Disk - SATA-II 500GB HCA - Mellanox MHGS18-XT/S InfiniBand HCA Client Configuration (64 clients) RAM - 4GB DDR2 (533 Mhz) Processor - Single Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz Linux Kernel - 2.6.18-5+em64t+ofed111 (Debian) Disk - SATA-II 500GB HCA - Mellanox MHGS18-XT/S InfiniBand HCA Interconnect Switch: Voltaire port InfiniBand Switch (14U) GlusterFS version 1.3.pre0-BENKI

9. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. Aggregated Bandwidth Aggregated I/O Benchmark on 16 bricks(servers) and 64 clients over IB Verbs transport.  Peak aggregated read throughput -13GBps.  After a particular threshold, write performance plateaus because of disk I/O bottleneck.  System memory greater than the peak load will ensure best possible performance.  ib-verbs transport driver is about 30% faster than ib-sdp transport driver.  Peak aggregated read throughput -13GBps.  After a particular threshold, write performance plateaus because of disk I/O bottleneck.  System memory greater than the peak load will ensure best possible performance.  ib-verbs transport driver is about 30% faster than ib-sdp transport driver. 13GBps !

10. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. Scalability Performance improves when the number of bricks are increased Throughput increases with corresponding increased in servers from 1 to 16

11. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. Hardware Platform Example Intel EPSD McKay Creek Storage Building Block  Intel SE5000PSL (Star Lake) baseboard Uses 2 (or 1) dual core LV Intel® Xeon® (Woodcrest) processors Uses 1 Intel SRCSAS144e (Boiler Bay) RAID card Two 2 ½” boot HDDs or boot from DOM  2U form factor, 12 hot-swap HDDs  3 ½” SATA 3.0Gbps (7.2k or 10k RPM)  SAS (10k or 15k RPM)  SES compliant enclosure management FW  External SAS JBOD expansion Add-in Card Options  Infiniband  10 GbE  Fibre Channel

12. © 2007 Z RESEARCH Z RESEARCH Inc. Thank You! http://www.gluster.org http://www.zresearch.com Hitesh Chellani Tel: 510-354-6801 hitesh@zresearch.com