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 Clint Wyckoff presents at Storage Field Day |
This Presentation date is August 6, 2020 at 10:00-12:00.
Presenters: Andy Roberts, Clint Wyckoff, Craig Nunes, Josh Price, Michael Heyeck, Siamak Nazari
Still deciding between using expensive all flash arrays or restrictive hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)? Stop compromising right now with Nebulon Cloud-Defined Storage. Cloud-Defined Storage a flexible, enterprise-class storage solution that’s delivered within your application server and managed entirely in the cloud. It consumes no server CPU or memory resources, supports any OS or hypervisor, and delivers features of an enterprise storage array without the expense or footprint. Watch us live from Storage Field Day to experience first-hand self-service provisioning and storage operations-as-a-service unlike you’ve ever seen before.
Introduction to Nebulon Cloud-Defined Storage
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Siamak Nazari, CEO, introduces Nebulon’s cloud-defined storage solution at Storage Field Day 20. Founded in 2018, Nebulon includes many of the original 3PAR team, including CEO David Scott (now Executive Chairman), Chief Software Architect Nazari (now CEO), Platform Director Sean Etaati (now CTO), and CMO Craig Nunes (now COO). Nebulon cloud-defined storage (CDS) is an on-premises server-based enterprise-class storage solution that consumes no server CPU or memory resources and is managed through the cloud.
COO Craig Nunes then joins the presentation to present the ideal customer case for Nebulon: Demanding infrastructure managers who need low latency storage for mission-critical on-premises workloads. They buy from their existing server vendor, with HPE and Supermicro leading the way.
Personnel: Craig Nunes, Siamak Nazari
The Endpoint – Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU)
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Josh Price, Hardware Architect, details the Nebulon Services Processing Unit. The SPU replaces the RAID card of FC HBA in the application server, connecting server SSDs and presenting local or shared volumes. A group of SPU-equipped servers is called an nPod by Nebulon, scaling out to 32 servers. The SPU includes all the attributes of an enterprise all-flash array: a high-performance 8-core CPU and 32 GB NVRAM, hardware-accelerated encryption engine, two data plane ports and one cloud connection. The SPU offloads the full storage stack, with enterprise data services and no software dependencies. Throughout the presentation, Price takes questions from the Storage Field Day delegates.
Personnel: Josh Price
The Cloud Based Control Plane – Nebulon ON
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Michael Heyeck, Cloud Architect, presents Nebulon’s cloud-based control plane, Nebulon ON. Because the management stack comprises three quarters of the traditional storage operating system, Nebulon ON allows all Nebulon users to have an up to date management solution at all times. The SPUs, installed in each application server, run a lightweight storage operating system called nebOS. Nebulon ON is a true web scale product, designed to securely manage customer infrastructure as a service. Infrastructure is provisioned according to standard templates, with VMware, Kubernetes, and MongoDB offered initially. Heyeck is joined by Josh Price, Hardware Architect, as he takes questions from the Storage Field Day delegates.
Personnel: Josh Price, Michael Heyeck
Nebulon Cloud-Defined Storage Demo
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Clint Wyckoff, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates the Nebulon solution. He begins with an overview of the demo infrastructure, which consists of an nPod on four servers equipped with Nebulon SPUs and local SSDs. The first demo focuses on a VMware vSphere environment with SSDs in each server. Next, Andy Roberts, Solutions Architect, shows how to automate Nebulon using python to boot from Nebulon using CentOS. Finally, Wyckoff uses an Ansible playbook to set up a Kubernetes cluster with the Nebulon CSI driver via helm chart. Throughout the presentation, the Storage Field Day delegates are ask questions and make comments.
Personnel: Andy Roberts, Clint Wyckoff