Network Storage: Tools and Technologies for Storing Your Company's Data

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1 Front-Matter_2017_Network-Storage.pdf Network Storage: Tools and Technologies for Storing Your Company’s Data 2 Copyright_2017_Network-Storage.pdf Copyright 3 Acknowledgment_2017_Network-Storage.pdf Acknowledgment 4 Introduction_2017_Network-Storage.pdf Introduction 5 Chapter-1---Why-Storage-Matters_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 1 - Why Storage Matters References 6 Chapter-2---Storage-From-30-000-Feet_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 2 - Storage From 30,000 Feet What Is Computer Storage? Storage Today The Large Corporation Mid-sized Operations The Small Business Storage in 3Years The Distant Future: 2019 and Beyond REFERENCES 7 Chapter-3---Network-Infrastructure-Today_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 3 - Network Infrastructure Today Storage Area Networks in Transition How SANs Work iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) SANs SAN Use Cases Upsides of SANs Downsides of SANs The Future of SANs Filer (NAS—Network-Attached Storage) How Filers Work Comparing NAS with SAN NFS, CIFS, SMB, Linux, and Windows Filer Use Cases Upsides of filers Downsides of Filers Filer Myths Filer Futures Scaling to Infinity—Object Storage How Object Storage Works Use Cases for Object storage Upsides to Object Storage Downsides to Object Storage Object Storage Myths Hard Drives How Hard Drives Work SAS and SATA Upsides to Hard Drives Downsides to Hard Drives Hard Drive Myths The Solid-State Revolution How do Flash and SSD Work? Improving Flash Capacity Deletion Problems in Flash Packaging Flash The NVMe Revolution Upsides of Flash Downsides of Flash Myths of Flash and SSD Write Wear-Out HDD is Way Cheaper Than Flash Not Enough Foundries Not Enterprise-Ready The Future of Flash and SSD RDMA—the Impact of All-Flash and Hybrid Arrays How RDMA Works Use Cases for RDMA Comparison of InfiniBand, iWARP, and RoCE Upsides of RDMA Downsides of RDMA The Future of RDMA Optimizing the Datacenter Some Use Cases I’m Running Out of Storage Space! I Need to Boost Performance I Need to Replace My Installation Q&A Is the Approach to Storage Different in the HPC/Big Data World? How do Falling Solid-State Prices Affect Planning What About Hybrid Arrays? Should I Consider Ethernet SANS? References 8 Chapter-4---Storage-Software_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 4 - Storage Software Traditional Solutions Pools, Lakes, and Oceans Compression, Deduplication, and All That Deduplication Compression Problems With Compression and Deduplication Today Open-Source Software OpenStack Swift Writing Data in Swift Problems With Consistency Problems With Swift Performance Swift Features Cinder Problems With Cinder Manila OpenStack and VMware Ceph Writing Objects in Ceph Read Operations in Ceph Chunking Issues in Ceph Ceph Future Directions Ceph and Networking Ceph and OpenStack GlusterFS GlusterFS Use Cases Gluster Futures Why Use GlusterFS Rather Than Ceph? Virtualization Tools VMware Virtual SANs The Operating System Storage Stack The Traditional SCSI Stack The NVMe Stack and Beyond Ethernet Drives and Key/Data Access Protocols References 9 Chapter-5---Software-Defined-Storage_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 5 - Software-Defined Storage Prelude Software-Defined Storage A Completely New Approach Who are the Players? “Lego” Storage Connecting the Pieces Unified Storage Appliances Agility and Flexibility The Implications of SDS to the Datacenter SDS and the Cloud The Current State of SDS The Future of the Storage Industry References 10 Chapter-6---Today-s-Hot-Issues_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 6 - Today’s Hot Issues NAS Versus SAN Versus Object Storage Ethernet and the End of the SAN Commoditization and the Storage Network References 11 Chapter-7---Tuning-the-Network_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 7 - Tuning the Network Getting up to Speed Let me Reach out to Those People Now! Tuning for Fast Systems The (Virtual) Desktop The Instance Store Networked Storage—SAN Networked Storage—NAS Filer Tuning SSD The Virtual SAN Tuning for Virtual Clusters Tuning for Big Data Tuning the Storage Network Tuning for the Cloud The New Storage Tiers Caching Data SSD and the File System What Tuning Could Mean in 5-Years’ Time References 12 Chapter-8---Big-Data_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 8 - Big Data Addressing Big-Data Bottlenecks Network Bandwidth Speeding In-Memory Computing Key/Value Storage Big Data Storage Platforms for HDFS Picking the Optimal Storage Model for Big Data Future Hardware Directions Big Data Processing in the Cloud Server Storage Versus Network Storage Technology Changing the Picture Bandwidth and Scale File Systems for Big Data HDFS Problems With HDFS The Alternatives Lustre GlusterFS Ceph OpenStack Swift Quantcast File System (QFS) Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) Other Storage Solutions Apache Spark Apache Cassandra Apache Kudu Google File System References 13 Chapter-9---High-Performance-Computing_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 9 - High-Performance Computing Major Scientific Experiments Big Simulations Surveillance Systems The Trading Floor High-Performance Computing Clouds Video Editing Oil and Gas Latency is KING! Converging Remote Direct Memory Access References 14 Chapter-10---The-Cloud_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 10 - The Cloud What Is the Cloud? Cloud Hardware The Future of Cloud Hardware Cloud Software OpenStack Software AWS Microsoft Azure Google VMware The Rest The Changing Datacenter Density, Cooling, and Power Using Cloud Storage Hybrid Clouds Evolving Clouds Hardware of the Cloud Over the Next Decade Software of the Cloud Over the Next Decade Networking for Cloud Storage Backup and Archiving Hybrid Clouds and Data Governance Containers and Their Impact on Storage networks Will the Private Datacenter Survive? References 15 Chapter-11---Data-Integrity_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 11 - Data Integrity RAID and Its Problems How RAID Works? RAID Levels RAID Myths Replication Erasure Coding Disaster Protection in the Cloud References 16 Chapter-12---Data-Security_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 12 - Data Security Losing Your Data Data at Rest Data in Transit Cold Data Protecting Cloud Data Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Hybrid Clouds and Data Governance The Modern Governance Approach Encryption Important Encryption Schemes Command and Status Messages Standard File Formats Key Management Information Rights Management References 17 Chapter-13---On-the-Horizon_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 13 - On the Horizon Solid-State Replaces Spinning Rust The impact on Appliance Design Collateral Considerations NVDIMMs: Changing the Balance of Storage The Hybrid Memory Cube Virtual SANs Internet of Things Retail and IoT The Other Big Data References 18 Chapter-14---Just-Over-the-Horizon_2017_Network-Storage.pdf 14 - Just Over the Horizon NAND Killers Phase-Change Memory Resistive RAM Spintronics MRAM Graphene Further Out References 19 Conclusion_2017_Network-Storage.pdf Conclusion 20 A-Brief-History-of-Storage-Networking_2017_Network-Storage.pdf A Brief History of Storage Networking 21 Glossary_2017_Network-Storage.pdf Glossary 22 Index_2017_Network-Storage.pdf Index A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W X