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Veritas - Quality of Service- Predictable Performance and Protection for OpenStack

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The video discusses hyperscale for OpenStack cloud storage, focusing on quality of service, performance, data protection, and data management. It highlights the transition of Fairbanks to independence, collaboration with Canonical, and Veritas' emphasis on simplicity. The segments cover workload optimization, noisy neighbor issues, data plane separation, data resiliency, Dutch supermarket cloud project, quality of service in OpenStack, backup solutions, and storage economics. The importance of open-source collaboration, community support, and cloud scalability with containers is also emphasized.

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Introduction to hyperscale for OpenStack cloud by Carlos Guerrero.
00:31
Fairbanks CEO Ruth Harrison and VP of Engineering discuss the company's transition to independence after acquisition by Symantec.
Emphasis on data management, storage management, data protection, and data governance.
Veritas highlights simplicity in data management approach.
History of pioneering solutions in storage management with focus on multi-cloud environments and software-defined storage.
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Company's involvement in open-source business since 2011.
05:10
Open-source benefits innovation, flexibility, scalability, and cost savings.
Collaboration with Canonical to build clouds using Ubuntu.
Partnership with Veritas on hyperscale technology after receiving an NDA.
Focus on adding value in the open-source community, enhancing ICT and marketing concepts for partners and customers.
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Improving Workload Efficiency in Stacks.
10:01
Emphasizes the need to tailor workloads to specific needs rather than using a generic approach.
Highlights the importance of protecting workloads and ensuring hardware efficiency for performance and service quality.
Introduces hyper-scale for open-stack to offer agnostic storage solutions compatible with different technologies and vendors.
Focuses on optimizing workload resiliency, performance, and protection in the stack environment.
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Challenges of noisy neighbor issues and the importance of guaranteed performance in cloud environments.
12:10
Separating data management from performance is crucial for achieving zero backup windows.
Drawbacks of traditional storage architectures and inefficiencies of using flash storage for multiple data copies are highlighted.
Rethinking storage architectures for cloud computing is necessary to avoid scalability limitations and improve efficiency.
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Introduction to primary and secondary data consumption layers in storage architecture.
15:38
A new data plane is introduced to separate primary and secondary data for increased efficiency and problem-solving.
By dividing the compute plane and data plane, storage consumption can be optimized, leading to higher density storage and improved data protection.
Defining different flavors for resiliency factors in storage allows customization based on specific needs, reducing hardware costs.
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The video segment highlights a data storage solution based on commodity hardware, OpenStack, and episodic data sync.
21:55
The design enables high resiliency, cheaper storage, and customization based on hardware choice.
Storing Delta changes instead of full file copies creates primary and secondary copies for data resiliency.
The architecture allows scalability without strong clustering, enabling infinite scaling of compute and data nodes.
This approach ensures that storage needs do not impede application growth, providing a comprehensive and flexible storage management solution within OpenStack.
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Dutch supermarket's cloud building project with Fairbanks.
22:22
They needed a cloud for Oracle database ops and app hosting, but faced performance issues.
Testing showed Chef couldn't solve the problem, leading to a return to standard solutions.
Stress testing for the elastic cloud showed the need for high performance.
Focus on quality of service and performance optimization using SSDs and flash storage, with OpenStack categorizing virtual machines into gold, silver, and bronze tiers for different workloads.
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Quality of service in OpenStack and storage problems.
25:55
Assigning credits to applications based on priority and managing device latencies.
Noisy neighbors impacting database performance and solution involving resource sharing.
Balancing resources within the system and adjusting bandwidth allocation for improved performance.
Ensuring optimal performance and scalability in a multi-tenant physical node environment.
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Implementation of cloud infrastructure with reduced costs and no vendor lock-in.
30:22
Focus on offering high-quality services to customers using technologies like OpenStack.
Emphasis on data protection with zero backup window approach and quick restoration processes.
Integration with NetPacket for efficient backup and restoration of data for large enterprises.
Process involves taking data from the data plane to a backup device and restoring with a one-click option.
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Importance of backup solutions for OpenStack cloud.
33:33
Unique design allows for application consistency without data impact.
Integration with Horizon UI for creating backup policies.
Value of reliable backup solutions for organizations like universities.
Emphasis on efficient data protection for maintaining valuable information.
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Discussion on the value proposition and economics of utilizing hyper SQL architecture for storage solutions.
37:00
Emphasis on the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the storage structure with multiple copies distributed across compute and data planes.
Integration of storage persona into OpenStack Horizon for enhanced visibility and control over virtual machines and performance characteristics.
Plans to adapt the storage technology for containers like Dockers and Kubernetes to make it cloud-scalable and software-defined.
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Overview of the OpenStack community and platform.
40:40
Users and developers collaborate on the open source cloud computing platform, providing quick deployment, 24/7 support, and flexible pricing options.
Innovative cloud solutions are customized to meet specific requirements, with training and support available to users.
The OpenStack NL sandbox allows free testing of applications to demonstrate the platform's functionality in a hyper-scale environment.
Emphasis on optimizing instance performance through local storage and high bandwidth to enhance throughput with low latency.
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Speaker expresses gratitude and excitement for contributing to OpenStack.
44:10
Emphasizes the significance of helping customers in their cloud journey.
Stresses the importance of open source collaboration.
Thanks the community for their support and acknowledges the late hour of the event.
Shows appreciation for the hard work of everyone involved.