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My first german talk today so hopefully the human "just in time translation" has a less error state today ;-).

openATTIC with David Breitung.
it-novum
openATTIC

it-novum GmbH
Edelzeller Str. 44
36043 Fulda

The Two Faces Of Cloud

User View

• flexibility
• rapid deployment
• costs
• high availability

Producer View

• ...

What Defindes A Unified Storage

• high availability
• freedrom of used protocol
• storage efficiency
• centraliced management
• process integration
• scalable

High Availablility

• data mirroring
  • block based
  • file based
  • syncron
  • asyncron
• cluster failover
  • automatated
  • ...

Freedom Of Protocol

• NAS protocol
  • CIFS/SMB
  • NFS
  • AFP
• SAN protocol
  • iSCSI
  • Fibrechannel
  • FCoE
  • Infiniband

storage efficiency

• deduplication
• compression
• over commitment
• thin provisioning
• snapshotting

Centraliced Management

• administration
  • web frontend
  • command line tool
  • api
• openATTIC is a master/slave system
• minitoring (by using nagios, check itcockpit)
  • availability
  • ressources
  • performance

Process Integration

• automated backup process
  • intelligent backups by SnapApps (for consistent snapshots)
  • to backup a database in good health (consistent) state
• automated server deployment
  • request by user, helpdesk or api
  • ...
  • deployment
  • feedback
• Snapshotting
  • check snapshot
  • backup healthy snapshot

Scalable

• disc scaling
  • more controllers
  • more shelfs
  • more discs
• node scaling
  • openATTIC Hosts
  • other hosts

Costs

• benefits by freedom of choice for server choosing
• software and license cost
• running environment since a lot of tools are community driven

Why Open Source

• vendor lock
• security
• flexibility
• cost (...)
• innovation

OpenATTIC

• community edition
  • supported by community
  • basis functionality
  • open source
  • central web console
  • nas protocol
  • san protocol
  • deduplication
• enterprise edition

Costs

• benefits by freedom of choice for server choosing
• software and license cost
• running environment since a lot of tools are community driven

Basic Framework (Down To Up Layer)

• service and tools and vendor plugins
• backend
• core (deamon, python django based))
• frontend (XML RPC API, extJS)
• interfaces

Next Steps

• fibrechannel, fcoe
• more interfaces to vendors
• more snap apps
• content adressable storage (cas, hadoop)
• glusterFS
• object storeage planned in the far future