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This Presentation date is April 26, 2012 at 16:00-18:00.
Coraid Introduction and Architecture
Coraid CEO Kevin Brown introduces the company and its history:
- Founded by Brantley Coyle (Cisco PIX and NAT)
- Coraid’s 10-year history, growth, funding, and management
- Financial value of the Coraid solution
Next, Carl Wright, Executive VP of Sales for Coraid, talks about the product architecture:
- Positioning Coraid in the FC and IP storage market
- Migration of high-end features down from high-end systems
- The Coraid global namespace
- ATA over Ethernet appears as a SCSI controller to hosts
- Simplicity of a connectionless datagram protocol
- LUN configuration is stored on the drives for flexibility and resilience
- Virtual software RAID
- Automation and one-click provisioning
Personnel: Carl Wright, Kevin Brown
Storage Protocols Compared to AoE with Coraid
Robert Przykucki (Director, Product Management at Coraid) compares enterprise storage protocols:
- Physical configuration of Coraid arrays
- History of networking and storage
- Protocol stack comparison: AoE, Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI
- The iSCSI data path: Connection-based and serial
- The AoE data path: Connectionless and parallel
Personnel: Carl Wright, Mark LaRosa
Coraid Use Cases and Technology Deep Dive
Mark LaRosa (Principal Architect) discusses use cases for the Coraid storage solution:
- Customer story: DLA – Coraid AoE SAN plus ZFS NAS
- Customer story: i-cubed – high-throughput GPFS
Next, Mark and Carl Wright go into greater depth on the Coraid technology:
- Whiteboard demo of Coraid LUN and RAID configuration with a few simple CLI commands
- Mixing drive types in the Coraid environment (SATA, SAS, SSD)
- LUN masking and access control
- How the architecture enables automation and mass-scale
Personnel: Carl Wright, Mark LaRosa