Solution Overview; Introduction; Audience; Purpose Of This Document - Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Design Manual

Solution Overview

Solution Overview

Introduction

Object storage is a highly scalable system for organizing and storing data objects. Object storage does not use a
file system structure, instead it ingests data as objects with unique keys into a flat directory structure and the
metadata is stored with the objects instead of hierarchical journal or tree. Search and retrieval is performed using
RESTful API's, which uses HTTP verbs such as GETs and PUTs. Most of the newly generated data, about 60 to
80 percent, is unstructured today and new approaches using x86 servers are proving to be more cost effective,
providing storage that can be expanded as easily as your data grows. Scale-out Object storage is the newest
cost effective approach for handling large amounts of data in the Petabyte and Exabyte range.
The Cloudian HyperStore is a Software-Defined Storage software that is designed to create unbounded scale-out
storage systems that accommodates Petabyte scale data from multiple applications and use-cases, including
both object and file based applications
Together with Cisco UCS, Cloudian Hyperstore can deliver a fully enterprise-ready solution that can manage dif-
ferent workloads and still remain flexible. The Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server is an excellent platform to use with
the main types of Object and File workloads, such as capacity-optimized and performance-optimized workloads. It
is best suited for sequential access, as opposed to random access to unstructured data, and to whatever data size.
It is essentially designed for Applications, not direct end-users.
This document describes the architecture and design procedures of Cloudian Hyperstore software on Cisco UCS
S3260 M5 servers along with Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack-Mount servers for load balancing.

Audience

The audience for this document includes, but is not limited to, sales engineers, field consultants, professional
services, IT managers, partner engineers, IT architects, and customers who want to take advantage of an
infrastructure that is built to deliver IT efficiency and enable IT innovation. The reader of this document is expected
to have the necessary training and background to install and configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Cisco Unified
Computing System, Cisco Nexus and Cisco UCS Manager, as well as a high-level understanding of Cloudian
Hyperstore Software and its components. External references are provided where applicable and it is
recommended that the reader be familiar with these documents.
Readers are also expected to be familiar with the infrastructure, network and security policies of the customer
installation.

Purpose of this Document

This document describes the steps required to design Cloudian HyperStore 7.1.2 on Cisco UCS platform. It
discusses design choices and best practices using this shared infrastructure platform.

Solution Summary

This solution is focused on Cloudian HyperStore Cluster on Red Hat Linux 7 on Cisco Unified Computing System.
The advantages of Cisco UCS and Cloudian HyperStore combine to deliver an object storage solution that is
simple to install, scalable and high performance. The configuration uses the following components for the
deployment:
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