This document discusses storage solutions for container-based and cloud native applications. It describes how ScaleIO provides storage that supports cloud native workloads in private clouds by being software-based, efficiently interoperating with container orchestrators, and scaling multidimensionally. The document also notes that storage services need to be portable, focus on software and interoperability rather than data plane abstraction, and support common functions like snapshots and replication. It concludes by advertising a demo of using REX-Ray and ScaleIO with Docker, Mesos and Kubernetes.

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There is no such thing as a
stateless architecture.
Applications need data.

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Yes, applications need data
Lots of different types of persistent services to consider
Files Blocks
Documents
Logstreams
Time Series
Media and Streaming
Modern or Traditional
Applications
Storage
Services
Other
Persistence
Services
Objects

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Use services from any cloud
True portability of applications requires interoperability
My Cloud Public Cloud
Universal Network and Storage Interfaces
Container Orchestrators
..and interoperating with
cloud services
..with your preferred CO
Running Docker Container Images
..with or without
virtualization
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Sessions
No teleportation here.

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Storage with persistent applications
Cloud Native thinking…
Use available
storage features
Plan for failures
and transience
Interoperate
and orchestrate
A cloud operating model supporting your applications.

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Cloud Native Storage

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Storage is easy when abstracted by a hypervisor
Everything is software defined with virtualized infrastructure
Physical Servers
Hypervisor/IaaS
You get software defined storage
from any storage platformCompute Network Storage
Shared storage (FC/iSCSINFS)
Provided through hyper-converged storage
Data-plane abstraction makes it
easy to connect storage to VMs.
OR/AND
VM
Abstracted by a hypervisor for VMs
With many
heterogeneous
servers and storage
Maybe this is the right answer for you.
DATA
FLOW

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Cloud Native thinking applied..
Be portable, focus on software and interoperability instead of data-plane abstraction
Container Orchestrators
Container OSs
Storage resources
are interoperable
Private Cloud Storage
Service
Cloud Native Storage
Compute Network Storage
DATA FLOW

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Storage for containers in a cloud operating
model
Any Cloud
Positives Negatives
Deployed and managed as software Has hardware-defined qualities
Interoperates with container orchestrators and
runtimes
Complex availability
Exposes common parameters, ie. Type, Size,
IOPS, Encryption
Complex deployment
RBAC Slow orchestration
Snapshots/Replication Only scale-up

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Cloud Native Storage
ScaleIO provides storage built to support Cloud Native workloads in Private Clouds
• Freedom and flexibility from deploying as a software-based
platform
• Efficient interoperability with container orchestrators
• Docker and Mesos with REX-Ray Volume Plugin
• Kubernetes ScaleIO Volume Plugin
• Simple availability configuration (inherent multi-path)
• Scales multi-dimensionally (up and out)
• Supports data services (snapshots, replication)
• Common abstractions of core capabilities (size, volume type)

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