SUSE® Enterprise Storage – Case StudyTown of Orchard Park New York

Anthony TortolaSenior Sales Engineer - SUSEatortola@suse.com

Town of Orchard ParkChief Mark PacholecPaul Pepero, Network Coordinator

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Agenda

• Introductions

• Customer Backup – Real world storage requirements

• Customer Requirements

• Current issues

• Training and Support

• Next steps

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Customer InformationOrchard Park

• Orchard Park is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 29,054 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from a description of the local landscape, which abounded with orchards. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.

• Users for the town IT infrastructure are Police Department and Town offices. • Orchard Park Sponsors:

• Executive Sponsor - Town Supervisor, Dr. Patrick J Keen, • Technical Contact - Paul Warriner, IT Director.

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Customer NeedsOrchard Park

Orchard Park requires a robust and flexible storage solution for storing video data.

Video Data will be growing at a rapid pace.• Body and surveillance camera

Retention requirements are at a minimum of 180 days.

Must be able to retrieve and stream videos.

Departmental storage will be also required.

Surveillance cameras will also have a need for dedicated storage

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Use Case(s)Orchard Park

Copy and Retrieve Videos• Dock body camera at client.

• Sync video from client to server.

• Retrieve video from server for viewing

Storing files on Departmental Storage.

•Video retention policies driving the need for greater storage capabilities.

•Chain of custody is key to ensure video evidence is secure.

•This is the driving decision to house data internally.

•Instantaneous retrieval of video content

Police officer body camera

Safety Vision's PrimaView video management software

Body Cameras

Town Surveillance Cameras

ViconNet video management software

•30 Cameras used to monitor town building activity

•Retained video requested by DA’s office and used in court cases

•Adds a level of safety and security to municipal building

•Locally stored video is quickly extracted using video management software

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Proposed SolutionOrchard Park

- SES 2.1 Solution based on HP reference architecture

- SES Configuration Details for the PoC● Number of OSDs, Monitor, Storage nodes, etc

– 2 switches, 3 Monitors, 4 OSD’s– Base SES Software – iSCSI gateway

- Cache Tiering or Erasure coding– Cache Tiering

- Description of capability– 80 TB, Initial storage allocation will be 20Tb for Body camera, 20 Tb

Surveillance Cameras and 10Tb Departmental storage – Copy and retrieve example files

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Software-defined Storage

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Software-defined Storage

The general availability of open source based, software-defined storage from Linux vendors like SUSE, marks the beginning of a new era of much more agile, scalable and cost-effective storage.

Software-defined storage will displace traditional enterprise storage as the dominant storage architecture and therefore will create a strategic imperative for storage IT professionals.

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Why Deploy Software-defined Storage

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SUSE® Enterprise Storage

SUSE Enterprise Storage

An intelligent software-defined storage

management solution, powered by Ceph

technology, that enables IT to transform their

enterprise storage infrastructure to deliver highly

scalable and resilient storage that is cost-

efficient and able to seamlessly adapt to

changing business and data demands

SUSE Enterprise StorageSeamlessly adapt to changing business and data demands • Reduces IT capital and operational costs with

an intelligent software-defined storage management solution

• Delivers a highly scalable and resilient storage environment

• Consolidates block, object and file storage requirements

• Utilizes commodity off the shelf hardware • Open• Best solution of OpenStack, Large Data and

bulk storage requirements

Block Storage

File System

Object Storage

Truly Unified – Supports Object, Block and File System Storage in the Same Cluster

Data Encrypted at

Rest

MonitorNodes

Management Node

Heterogeneous OS Access

Automated management

Enterprise Ready SUSE Enterprise Storage - Major Feature Summary

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SUSE Enterprise StoragePowered by Ceph

• Most popular OpenStack distributed storage solution

• Extensively scalable from gigabytes to petabytes

• Storage appliance to cost-effective cloud solution

• Industry-leading storage functionality‒ Erasure coding for resilience

‒ Cache tiering for performance

‒ Unified block, file and object interface (File in 2.0)

‒ Thin provisioning for capacity optimization

‒ Remote replication for business continuity

• Built on clustered servers‒ Self healing

‒ Self managing

Open Source Ceph as the Base

Code Developers

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Total downloads

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SUSE Enterprise Storagewith Ceph Architecture

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Features aligned with Enterprise needs

• Unlimited scalability

• Self repairing

• Cache tiering for performance

• Thin provisioning for optimized utilization

• Copy-on-write clones for application rollback

• Erasure coding for space-efficient resilience

• Unified object and block access

• No disruptive scalability of capacity online

• Heterogeneous operating system access

• Data "at rest" encryption

• Rolling upgrades

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Public Network

OSD1 OSD2 OSD3 OSD4

Heterogeneous operating system support with iSCSI storage protocol

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Cluster Network

iSCSI Gateway

RBD Module

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RBD Module

iSCSI Initiator

RBD image

SUSE Enterprise Storage Sample Use Cases

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Content Store

Scientific Organizations• Meteorological data

• Telescope recordings

• Satellite feeds

Media Industries• TV stations

• Radio stations

• Motion picture distributors

• Web music/video content

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Video Surveillance

• Facility security surveillance

• Red light/traffic cameras

• License plate readers

• Body cameras for law enforcement

• Military/government visual reconnaissance

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Object or block bulk storage

• Data that constantly grows during the course of business

• SharePoint data

• D2D Backup• HPE Data Protector, CommVault, Veritas and others

• Financial records

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Virtual Machine (VM) Storage

• Ceph is already the leading storage choicefor OpenStack environments

• Low and mid i/o virtual machine storagefor major hypervisor platforms

• kvm – native RBD

• Hyper-V – iSCSI

• VMware - iSCSI

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That's great, but what did it look like?

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Solution OverviewOrchard Park

Windows10 Client Windows10 ClientWindows10 Client

Windows10 Clients Running SafetyVision Client

Windows 2012 R2 With Windows2012R2 VM

2g Trunk

HP Flex Fabric 10g

240Tb RAW/80 Tb Usable

Admin ServerSMT

Orchard Park Core

OSD Storage Nodes4x HP DL380

Monitor ServersCalamari

3x HP DL360

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Questions and Answers

Introducing SUSE Enterprise Storage 4

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 - The ideal solution for “Large Data” Storage Management. Customers can simplify and scale without limitations the storage of large data applications, such as; video surveillance, CCTV, online presence and training, streaming media, medical  ( xrays, mammography, CT, MRI etc), seismic processing, genomic mapping, CAD and backup datasets.

.Truly unify enterprise storage requirements with SUSE Enterprise Storage 4, the first production release of CephFS.  Enabling customers to run production workloads for Block, Object and File storage within a single cluster, further reducing capital and operation costs.

Major new features and benefits with SUSE Enterprise Storage 4• Further reduce capital and operational costs for your storage

infrastructure with a truly unified block, object and files solution with production ready Ceph filesystem (CephFS) adding native filesystem access.

• Expand hardware-platform choice to enterprise and hyper-scale customers with the added support for 64 bit ARM.  

• Long distance replication for block storage and multisite object storage replication for enhanced data protection and improved disaster recovery.

• Enhanced cluster orchestration using Salt for simplified storage cluster management.

• Customers get early access to NFS Ganesha support*, NFS access to S3 buckets*, CIFS Samba support* and RDMA/Infiniband support*.

• Optimised for “Large Data” use cases

File Storage

Block Storage

Object Storage