Richelle Ahlvers, Chair, SNIA Scalable Storage Management Technical Working Group, and Principal Storage Management Architect with Broadcom, gives an introduction to Swordfish. This was designed out of a need to improve storage management APIs in terms of efficiency, with the goal of making them applicable to hyperconverged and hyperscale users. This is a client-oriented, built […]
SNIA NVDIMMs with with Rob Peglar
Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and SVP at Symbolic IO, reviews the specifications for different NVDIMM modules that SNIA has developed. These are vendor agnostic, and use a memory controller to manage data over the fast memory interface to either NAND flash, or a combination of flash and DRAM.
SNIA NVM Programming Model with Rob Peglar
Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and SVP at Symbolic IO, reviews the non-volatile memory programming model. This was developed to give a standard around which to programmatically address this emergent storage medium. Rob also takes time to answer delegate questions surrounding how this software model in implemented in hardware.
SNIA Persistent Memory Introduction with Rob Peglar
Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and SVP at Symbolic IO, gives an overview on what the organization is developing and promoting with persistent memory. Rob frames this simply as having persistent storage living within a memory slot.
Dell EMC ScaleIO Performance with Dan Aharoni
Dan Aharoni, Senior Director of Engineer with Dell EMC ScaleIO, reviews some of the performance of their SDS and SDC components, which handle drive and application performance with storage, respectively. This includes two different profiles, which includes default and performance modes. This allows for configuration of performance requirements, based on utilization of additional RAM and […]
Dell EMC ScaleIO Demo with Joel Sprouse
Joel Sprouse, Senior Systems Engineer with Dell EMC ScaleIO, gives a demonstration of ScaleIO to the delegates. This demonstrates both their SDS drive management component, but also SDC, their application management, and metadata manager component. He walks the delegates through their UI, and shows how policy and provisioning are handled in the system.
Dell EMC ScaleIO Vision and Architecture with Erez Webman
Erez Webman, CTO at Dell EMC ScaleIO, gives the delegates a review of ScaleIO’s architectural fundamentals. This design is highly scalable, supporting well into thousands of nodes. Erez shows how ScaleIO gains performance with each added node, and goes into detail on it’s designed residency, with fault sets and distributed mirroring.
A Quick Overview of Dell EMC ScaleIO with Tamir Segal
Tamir Segal, Director of Product Marketing, gives a brief overview of Dell EMC’s ScaleIO software-defined storage solution. This was acquired by EMC in 2013, and has expanded to over 400 customers, and 450PB deployed. He reviews the operational advantages of ScaleIO’s approach, and how flexible it is in terms of deployment, from pure software to […]
vSphere Virtual Volumes with NetApp SolidFire QoS with Andy Banta
Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at NetApp, gives a specific overview of how SolidFire can apply QoS policies in Virtual Volumes via vSphere. He quickly demonstrates a few use cases to the delegates.
vSphere Virtual Volumes with NetApp SolidFire with Andy Banta
Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at NetApp, reviews how vSphere Virtual Volumes integrates with NetApp SolidFire. Virtual Volumes allow for great visibility and policy based management, as opposed to VMFS. NetApp’s overall focus was on maintaining the ability to implement guaranteed QoS, while maintaining scale out and not requiring additional VMs to add capabilities.
The Death of the Specialized Admin with Andy Banta
Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at NetApp, discusses the death of the dedicated storage admins. Andy sees them going the way of the database and server admins, as data centers are increasing looking for admins with broad skill sets, with depth in one particular field. Andy reviews the business benefits of this transition, and how policy […]
StorageCraft On-Premises Demo with Martin Merrell
Martin Merrell, Sales Engineer at StorageCraft, reviews the company core product, ShadowProtect SPX. This is their on-premises image based backup solution. These images are created at the sector level, and saved in StorageCraft’s proprietary format. Martin reviews the UI, and walks through a typical backup and recovery scenario.
StorageCraft Cloud Demo with Martin Merrell
Martin Merrell, Sales Engineer at StorageCraft, gives a demonstration of their StorageCraft Cloud. He gives an overview of their UI, and shows how data can be recovered both wholesale, or on a much more granular level. The main emphasis with StorageCraft Cloud is to provide complete data recovery with as little down time as possible.
StorageCraft Introduction with Martin Merrell
Martin Merrell, Sales Engineer at StorageCraft, introduces the company to the delegates, starting with a history of their disaster recovery solutions. With their core solution, StorageCraft is able not only save and restore, but have an image that can restore in a single process. He also gives an overview of their StorageCraft Cloud, which allows […]
Object Storage in Pure Storage FlashBlade with Brian Gold
Brian Gold, Director of Engineering at Pure Storage, discusses the state of object storage on FlashBlade via their Purity Operating Environment. This is part of how Pure Storage sees FlashBlade serving cloud-native applications with rich metadata databases. Brian gives a detailed walkthrough of how it would serve an IO from an object store, highlighting the […]
Scaling Pure Storage FlashBlade with Robert Lee
Robert Lee, the Chief Architect with FlashBlade, takes the stage to get into a technical deep dive on how FlashBlade is designed to grow above fifteen blades. In the discussion, he reviews how FlashBlade is focusing on linear scaling, allowing for a single namespace into the petabyte range, while at the same time growing IOPS […]
Pure Storage FlashArray VMware Virtual Volume Support with Cody Hosterman
Cody Hosterman, Technical Director at Pure Storage, gives an overview of virtual volume support on FlashArray //X. Their emphasis on this was to make virtual volume set up as simple as possible across all aspects. This includes an architectural overview showing what exactly happens with a virtual volume is created. He then goes through a […]