Phobos a scale-out object store implementing tape library support
Channel: The Virtual Institute for I/O
Date: 2020-06-26

Presented by Patrice Lucas (CEA)

Phobos is an open source scale-out distributed object store providing access to multiple backends from flash and hard drives to tape libraries. Very large datasets can be efficiently managed on inexpensive storage media without giving up performance, scalability or fault-tolerance. Phobos is designed to offer several data layouts, such as mirroring or erasure coding. IOs through tape drives are optimized by dedicated resource scheduling policies. Developed at CEA, Phobos is in production since 2016 to manage the France Genomique multi-petabyte dataset at TGCC.