1. Eliminate the High Cost of a SAN but not the SAN

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

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

4. 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..

5. 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

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

7. Pre-Packaged Solutions Many other SAN vendors OEM ICS technologies

8. 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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