Скачать или смотреть 2015 OpenStack Summit Tokyo - Zhipeng Huang – Storage is not virtualized enough

With the cloud computing becomes more and more dominating, we see traditional technologies adapt themselves to the cloud concept and paradigm. For example in telecommunication world, SDN and NFV have been driving the tide, turning traditional black-box backed complex network functions into app like virtual network functions (VNFs) that could be deployed and scheduled with agility and scalability, just like any other cloud applications.

We envision the storage industry is facing the same inevitable trend, and for cloud storage to be really scalable and agile, the current level of virtualization is not enough. In this talk we will present in order to provide virtual storage functions, besides necessary modifications at the data plane level which leverages concepts like server-san, OpenStack storage components (Cinder, Manila, Swift) need to be enhanced with better support on ephemeral storage, high speed medium (NVMe SSD or NVDIMM) and robust scheduling mechanism that enables user to pick n choose what they need.