Replicated SDS with DRBD & LINSTOR An Open Source SDS for the automated management of storage clust…
Channel: FOSDEM
Date: 2019-02-11

Replicated SDS with DRBD & LINSTOR An Open Source SDS for the automated management of storage clusters
by Robert Altnoeder

At: FOSDEM 2019
https://video.fosdem.org/2019/H.1308/replicated_sds_drbd_linstor.webm


Presentation of the LINSTOR SDS system, which automates the management of different types of block storage volumes on a cluster of storage servers, with a focus on replicated storage for high availability and disaster recovery. 

Focus on architecture &amp; implementation of the system, integration with other software and the development process. 

Intended audience: 


Operators, Architects, Developers of cloud &amp; virtualization environments
Operators of systems based on software defined storage
Operators of OpenStack, OpenNebula, Proxmox virtualization platforms
Operators of Kubernetes/Docker containerization

Focus of the lecture &amp; discussion: 


Existing storage technologies, focus on Linux: block devices in general, device mapper/LVM, ZFS, DRBD, dmcrypt, etc.
Challenges of automating storage management (allocation/modification (resizing, ...)/deallocation of volumes)
Challenges of managing clusters (parallelization, networking, ...)
Our solutions - how the system works, protocols involved, security model, configuration persistence, transaction safety, etc.
Some interesting implementation details
How the development team works - methods, processes, project management, the tools that we like to use



Room: H.1308 (Rolin)
Scheduled start: 2019-02-02 18:15:00+01