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Posted to dev@cloudstack.apache.org by Mike Tutkowski <mi...@solidfire.com> on 2013/05/15 22:13:29 UTC
Storage as a Service
Hi everyone,
I'm at Build a Cloud Day today in San Francisco and had a question from a
potential CloudStack user about Storage as a Service.
His business would like to sell Storage as a Service (like Amazon S3) and
would like to know if CloudStack was an applicable solution for this use
case.
Thoughts?
Thanks!
--
*Mike Tutkowski*
*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
e: mike.tutkowski@solidfire.com
o: 303.746.7302
Advancing the way the world uses the
cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
*™*
Re: Storage as a Service
Posted by Mike Tutkowski <mi...@solidfire.com>.
Thanks, everyone!
A person is actually presenting on Riak CS right now. :)
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:53 PM, John Burwell <jb...@basho.com> wrote:
> Chip,
>
> Disclaimer: I am an employee of Basho, makers of Riak CS.
>
> +1.
>
> The S3 compatibility layer provided by CloudStack lacks may of S3's
> availability guarantees since it stored the index in a MySQL table, and
> files in a single folder on disk. There are certainly ways to increase the
> reliability of this implementation (e.g. placing the file storage on a SAN,
> clustering MySQL). However, the operational complexity would be far
> greater than Riak CS, and would still lack horizontal scalability on
> commodity hardware (i.e. much lower cost per GB). If you interested in
> drilling in more deeply, I would be happy to have an offline conversation
> regarding Riak CS.
>
> Thanks,
> -John
>
> On May 15, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Chip Childers <ch...@sungard.com>
> wrote:
>
> > CloudStack isn't an object storage system really... the best bet, if
> > that's the focus of what he wants to do, is to look at things like Riak
> > CS, Swift, Ceph, etc...
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:13:29PM -0600, Mike Tutkowski wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I'm at Build a Cloud Day today in San Francisco and had a question from
> a
> >> potential CloudStack user about Storage as a Service.
> >>
> >> His business would like to sell Storage as a Service (like Amazon S3)
> and
> >> would like to know if CloudStack was an applicable solution for this use
> >> case.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> --
> >> *Mike Tutkowski*
> >> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
> >> e: mike.tutkowski@solidfire.com
> >> o: 303.746.7302
> >> Advancing the way the world uses the
> >> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
> >> *™*
>
>
--
*Mike Tutkowski*
*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
e: mike.tutkowski@solidfire.com
o: 303.746.7302
Advancing the way the world uses the
cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
*™*
Re: Storage as a Service
Posted by John Burwell <jb...@basho.com>.
Chip,
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Basho, makers of Riak CS.
+1.
The S3 compatibility layer provided by CloudStack lacks may of S3's availability guarantees since it stored the index in a MySQL table, and files in a single folder on disk. There are certainly ways to increase the reliability of this implementation (e.g. placing the file storage on a SAN, clustering MySQL). However, the operational complexity would be far greater than Riak CS, and would still lack horizontal scalability on commodity hardware (i.e. much lower cost per GB). If you interested in drilling in more deeply, I would be happy to have an offline conversation regarding Riak CS.
Thanks,
-John
On May 15, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Chip Childers <ch...@sungard.com> wrote:
> CloudStack isn't an object storage system really... the best bet, if
> that's the focus of what he wants to do, is to look at things like Riak
> CS, Swift, Ceph, etc...
>
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:13:29PM -0600, Mike Tutkowski wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm at Build a Cloud Day today in San Francisco and had a question from a
>> potential CloudStack user about Storage as a Service.
>>
>> His business would like to sell Storage as a Service (like Amazon S3) and
>> would like to know if CloudStack was an applicable solution for this use
>> case.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> *Mike Tutkowski*
>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
>> e: mike.tutkowski@solidfire.com
>> o: 303.746.7302
>> Advancing the way the world uses the
>> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
>> *™*
Re: Storage as a Service
Posted by Wido den Hollander <wi...@widodh.nl>.
On 05/15/2013 10:47 PM, Chip Childers wrote:
> CloudStack isn't an object storage system really... the best bet, if
> that's the focus of what he wants to do, is to look at things like Riak
> CS, Swift, Ceph, etc...
>
Indeed, I'd recommend looking at the RADOS Gateway [0] of Ceph. It gives
you a Amazon S3 compatible gateway.
[0]: http://eu.ceph.com/docs/master/radosgw/
Wido
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:13:29PM -0600, Mike Tutkowski wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm at Build a Cloud Day today in San Francisco and had a question from a
>> potential CloudStack user about Storage as a Service.
>>
>> His business would like to sell Storage as a Service (like Amazon S3) and
>> would like to know if CloudStack was an applicable solution for this use
>> case.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> *Mike Tutkowski*
>> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
>> e: mike.tutkowski@solidfire.com
>> o: 303.746.7302
>> Advancing the way the world uses the
>> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
>> *™*
Re: Storage as a Service
Posted by Chip Childers <ch...@sungard.com>.
CloudStack isn't an object storage system really... the best bet, if
that's the focus of what he wants to do, is to look at things like Riak
CS, Swift, Ceph, etc...
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:13:29PM -0600, Mike Tutkowski wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm at Build a Cloud Day today in San Francisco and had a question from a
> potential CloudStack user about Storage as a Service.
>
> His business would like to sell Storage as a Service (like Amazon S3) and
> would like to know if CloudStack was an applicable solution for this use
> case.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> *Mike Tutkowski*
> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
> e: mike.tutkowski@solidfire.com
> o: 303.746.7302
> Advancing the way the world uses the
> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>
> *™*