Vancouver, BC
May 21-24, 2018

Event Details

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Distributed File Storage in Multi-Tenant Clouds using CephFS

CephFS provides a fault-tolerant, elastic, scalable open source file store that leverages the same distributed Ceph storage cluster that many already use to provide OpenStack object and block storage solutions.

We'll cover how Manila has been extended to support export of shares backed by CephFS via the widely-used NFS protocol to tenant VMs, reasons for using NFS instead of or in addition to using native CephFS as the share protocol, and current and planned approaches to solve multi-tenancy, performance, and scale-out issues.

This talk will be of immediate practical interest to cloud operators who have or are planning to use Ceph clusters for object and block storage and want to use the same cluster for shared file services as well as to those more generally interested in Manila, distributed file systems, or Ceph evolution.

 


What can I expect to learn?
  •  Background in manila, cephfs, and nfs ganesha
  • Deployment at scale with the *native* cephfs storage back end
  • Deployment with the CephNFS storage back end
  • Futures including:

        - active-active CephNFS gateways

        - dynamic launch and scale out of CephNFS gateways per tenant

        - NFS performance improvements

        - file service to containers and clients outside OpenStack proper

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, May 23, 12:20pm-12:30pm (7:20pm - 7:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Red Hat
Tom serves as PTL for the OpenStack Manila project and works for Red Hat as a principal software engineer. Besides working to maintain the health and vitality of the Manila project, Tom has a passion for production quality open source storage back ends like CephFS and for using Manila as general purpose cloud infrastructure to serve more than just Nova compute instances. Tom started late in the... FULL PROFILE
Red Hat
Ramana Raja is an upstream contributor currently working on integrating CephFS with OpenStack Manila. He's been involved in the Manila project since the Juno release. Besides the OpenStack project, he's contributed to other popular open source projects such as Ceph and Gluster. FULL PROFILE
Software Engineer
Patrick Donnelly is a software engineer at Red Hat, Inc. working as the project team lead for the Ceph distributed file system. In 2016 he completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Notre Dame with a dissertation on the topic of file transfer management in active storage cluster file systems. He has given talks at conferences including IEEE CCGrid, IEEE CloudCom, IEEE/ACM... FULL PROFILE