Nexustorage - IT Press Tour #40 Sep./Oct. 2021

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1. Nexustorage www.nexustorage.com Software Defined Storage The IT Press Tour October 2021
2. Product Overview Nexustorage The IT Press Tour Oct 21 Agenda www.nexustorage.com 10 minutes – Company Overview 30 minutes - High-level Why/How Product Overview 20 minutes - Implementation/Install Demo 5 minute - Break 15 minutes – Nexfs Use Cases 20 minutes - Block on Object Overview with Demo 10 minutes - Future Roadmap 10 minutes – Question and Answer Session
3. Who Are We? www.nexustorage.com
4. Nexustorage • Startup • Company Founded in 2021 • R&D Commenced Mid 2020 • 100% Privately Owned & Funded • Founded by Glen Olsen • Pre-Revenue Who Are We? www.nexustorage.com FOUNDED
5. Who Are We? www.nexustorage.com Nexus: Connecting of two or more things Block & File Storage + Object & Cloud Storage Nexustorage = What’s in our name
6. Nexustorage • Head Office on the Kapiti Coast near Wellington, New Zealand • New Zealand has a strong Tech Sector History, success stories include: Who Are We? www.nexustorage.com
7. Bridging Removing the gap between traditional Block/file storage and Object/Cloud Storage Who Are We? www.nexustorage.com Nexustorage
8. Who Are We? www.nexustorage.com Nexustorage • Inaugural Product: Nexfs • Software-Defined Storage • First preview released May 2021 • Community Edition Scheduled for release October 2021 (after only 8 months in development)
9. Product Overview www.nexustorage.com
10. Product Overview Nexustorage www.nexustorage.com Since the introduction of Object and S3 Cloud storage, people have attempted to use Object as File and to scale out File as Object Block style workloads on Object as a use case, until now has not been achieved
11. Product Overview Nexustorage Nexfs www.nexustorage.com An automated data lifecycle management solution, presented as an intelligent pool of integrated tiers of block, file and Object/Cloud storage
12. There are Two Mainstream Storage Technologies Block & File Storage Object & Cloud Storage Expensive Can be cost effective Limited in scalability Massively scalable File protocols No native file interface Can present HTTP interface HTTP native interface Limited or no data protection Built in data protection Data needs to be backed up Backup may not be required Supports existing applications Applications must talk HTTP High performance Lower performance Structured data Not for structured data Unstructured data Designed for unstructured data
13. Product Overview www.nexustorage.com Misaligned Bridging Solutions
14. Product Overview Nexfs Addressable Storage Pool www.nexustorage.com Tier-1 SSD Tier-2 SATA (Optional) Tier-3 Cloud or Object (Optional) Hot Data Warm Data Cold Data Highest Performance Lower Performance ⎬ Tier 1 + 2 + 3 = The Nexfs Storage Pool
15. Product Overview Nexustorage Nexfs Storage Solution www.nexustorage.com Nexfs Storage Pool Storage Clients NFS SMB S3 ISCSI File, Block, Object & Cloud Storage Protocols Standard x86 Server Hardware and Networking Tier-1 SSD / SATA Optional Tier-2 SATA Tier-3 Cloud Storage or Object Storage
16. Product Overview www.nexustorage.com Unlike Nexfs, other solutions are outdated object archiving solutions, which move a file entirely between local storage and cloud/object storage. This is known as ‘file’ staging or ‘caching’ Non Nexfs solutions may then leave a form of ‘stub’ or ‘link’ in place of the original file Outdated File to Object/Cloud Archiving Outdated Fat File Archiving
17. Product Overview Nexfs Sub-File Intelligent Data Placement www.nexustorage.com
18. Product Overview Nexfs Intelligent Data Placement www.nexustorage.com Patent pending Nexassert removes the need for legacy data location registers such as: • Indexes • Relational Databases • NOSQL Databases • Manifests • Stub files • Symlinks In doing so, Nexassert reduces risks and latency
19. ✓ Product Overview Nexfs Intelligent Data Placement www.nexustorage.com • Reduces Primary Storage (Tier1&2) requirements and costs • Reduces Network Traffic to Object and Cloud Storage • Reduces Latency on Read from Object and Cloud Storage • Reduces Cloud Storage Transactions and Costs • Only transfers chunks of a file that have changed to Tier3 even if the entire file is rewritten to Nexfs
20. Product Overview No need for third party lifecycle management or archiving software www.nexustorage.com Third Party $olutions Nexfs ✓
21. Product Overview Nexfs Solution www.nexustorage.com Nexfs is a fully compliant Cloud and Object storage consuming Filesystem Validated with over 8,800 POSIX file operations using the pjdfstest test suite
22. Product Overview Nexfs Core Capacity Management www.nexustorage.com
23. Product Overview Nexfs Advanced Data Management www.nexustorage.com SmartProtect • Automated copies of primary storage data in self protecting Cloud and Object storage • Replicates Nexfs POSIX file index information to local block and to Cloud or Object storage • No data recovery required for SmartProtected data after a primary storage failure • Reduce data protection costs Asynchronous or data-chunk near-synchronous
24. Product Overview Nexfs Advanced Data Management www.nexustorage.com SmartTier • Moves data fast from primary storage to self protecting Cloud and Object storage • Frees primary storage • Reduces storage and data protection costs • SmartTier runs: on file close, on file data chunk- change and/or periodicity for open files Asynchronous or data-chunk near-synchronous
25. Product Overview Nexfs Advanced Data Management www.nexustorage.com SmartClone • File gold images can reside Tier-3 Object/Cloud Storage • Create Instant child clones from gold images • Child changed chunks remain unique to that client • Unique child changes can move to Tier-3 storage • Changes can later be: - forgotten (resets to gold) - retained for life of clone, or - combined with remaining gold chunks to create a whole new file
26. Product Overview Nexfs Product Overview Summary www.nexustorage.com Presents a single pool of storage Consumes S3 native and compatible Cloud and Object storage Transparently manages the data life cycle at sub-file level Allows customers to consume more existing Cloud and Object storage Allows block style works to utilise Object and Cloud Storage Reduces primary storage needs and costs Can decrease Cloud Storage costs No data location index, stub-files, links
27. Nexfs Implementation and Installation Demo www.nexustorage.com
28. Implementation www.nexustorage.com Nexfs Delivered as Software- Defined-Storage Flexibility Scale hardware to meet requirements Not forced to purchase a preset HW appliance Direct Download from Nexustorage Website Free Community Edition General Linux Administration Skills Very easy to install Can be installed and running in under an hour
29. Implementation www.nexustorage.com Nexfs Runs on Standard Hardware Runs on Standard x86 Server Hardware No Hardware Vendor Lockin Mix and Match Hardware (Vendor/Specs) • Tier1 for best performing storage (NVMe/SSD) • Tier2 for optional lower cost storage (SATA) • Tier1 & Tier2 must be using internal Disks or SAN attached Requires locally accessible Block Storage Nexfs can run on either a Physical or Virtual Server
30. Implementation www.nexustorage.com Nexfs Runs on Linux Certified to run on major Linux distributions Runs either as a Physical or Virtual Server Containers / Kubernetes are not currently supported
31. Implementation www.nexustorage.com • Tier 1 & 2 Storage examples: • Flash, SSD, and SATA • Internal Storage • Direct or SAN attached Storage enclosures Recommend Tier 1 & 2 are Raid Protected • Tier-3 Storage examples: • AWS S3 • Any compatible S3 Object or on-prem or a S3 Cloud Service Nexfs Supported Storage Tiers
32. Implementation www.nexustorage.com • Storage Tier sizing only needs to match the customer use case: • Some organisations will only need data to remain on Tier1 or 2 for a few minutes - data may be quickly archived and seldom updated • Other organisations may want to a week, a month or more days data on Tier1 or 2 • Some organisations may want to always retain all data as a primary copy on Tier1 or 2 and only SmartProtect data to Tier-3 • Read data does not need to be moved from Tier3 back to Tier1 or 2 Nexfs Tier Capacity Sizing
33. Implementation www.nexustorage.com Nexfs Basic On-Premise Implementation Nexfs Tier-1 SSD Tier-2 SATA S3 Compatible Object Storage
34. Implementation www.nexustorage.com Nexfs Basic Hybrid Storage Implementation Nexfs Tier-1 SSD Tier-2 SATA Tier-3
35. Implementation www.nexustorage.com Nexfs Resilience & High availability Tier-1/2 Storage Server 1 Nexfs Cloud Object Storage Primary storage must be raid protected from disk failures Optionally Nexfs replicates file information to locally accessible block storage Can implement a warm standby Nexfs server for fast HA failover Server 2 Nexfs
36. Implementation www.nexustorage.com Nexfs DR Fast recovery with SmartProtect SmartProtect creates a copy of Tier1 & 2 storage data in Tier3 storage SmartProtect replicates file information to Cloud/Object storage No data location indexes to recover No need to recover file data from T3 after a T1 or T2 storage failure
37. Installation Demo www.nexustorage.com
38. Nexfs Sample Use Cases www.nexustorage.com
39. Sample Nexfs Use Cases Nexfs Use Cases www.nexustorage.com
40. Nexfs Use Cases Nexfs for File & Archive www.nexustorage.com Transparent Data lifecycle migrations Files and Data stays within Nexfs (no Third Parties) Access remains over standard file and block protocols No stub files or ‘links’ Protect active files and data in Tier3 Fast retrieval of Tier3 Data Quickly protect and Tier Logs Moves warm and cold data within an active file/CRM Reduce primary and secondary storage costs
41. www.nexustorage.com Virtual Desktops – on campus or remote education Student Records Students Learning Data Recorded Lessons Streaming Online Library Nexfs for Education Nexfs Use Cases
42. www.nexustorage.com Edit large media files stored in Cloud and Object Archive Media Only edits retransferred to Cloud Media Streaming Stream Live Recordings to Cloud Storage Nexfs for Media & Entertainment Nexfs Use Cases
43. www.nexustorage.com Run Test VMs from Object and Cloud Storage Run from Cloned Gold Images for Test and Development Environments Automate Provisioning Store Test Results Archive Builds Nexfs for Test & Development Nexfs Use Cases
44. www.nexustorage.com Digital Evidence Vaults Direct Access to Archived Evidence while retaining original integrity Archive Present and Old Case data Store and Archive Video, Interviews etc Nexfs for Legal & Law Nexfs Use Cases
45. Block on Object and Demo www.nexustorage.com
46. Block on Object Nexfs Solution www.nexustorage.com • Direct, iSCSI & NFS • VM Storage • OS Storage • Windows NTFS • Disk Image Archiving • Structured data
47. Block on Object www.nexustorage.com Most other Cloud and Object archiving solutions: ✘ Move complete files to and from Cloud and Object storage ✘ Have long client wait times during archived data retrieval ✘ Move archived data back to primary storage ✘ Must re-upload complete files to Cloud/Object storage even for small changes
48. Block on Object www.nexustorage.com ü Breaks files into and moves small data-chunks ü Faster client access times to archived data-chunks ü Does not need to migrate read data-chunks back to primary storage ü Only needs to upload changed file data-chunks to Cloud/Object storage Nexfs Performance Cloud and Object Storage
49. Block on Object Nexustorage Solution www.nexustorage.com $$$$ $$
50. Windows Boot from Object Demo www.nexustorage.com
51. Nexfs Road Map www.nexustorage.com
52. Confidential and Proprietary www.nexustorage.com ü Nexfs Management GUI ü SmartProtect to secondary Cloud/Object storage location ü SmartBackup ü SmartGuard (Ransom Attack Protection) ü SmartClone ü SmartIntegrityAssure ü Direct read-only access of files fully replicated to Cloud/Object storage ü Horizontal Scale-out Nexfs Road Map
53. Questions? www.nexustorage.com