#210 – Building SANs in the Cloud
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English - September 10, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, Chris and Martin discuss the merits of building virtual SANs in the public cloud. Vendors including Silk and Pure Storage now offer virtual storage “appliances” built from virtual instances and cloud storage. Why are these solutions necessary, when the public cloud providers have plenty of high-performance block and file storage offerings? The discussion […]
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This week, Chris and Martin discuss the merits of building virtual SANs in the public cloud. Vendors including Silk and Pure Storage now offer virtual storage “appliances” built from virtual instances and cloud storage. Why are these solutions necessary, when the public cloud providers have plenty of high-performance block and file storage offerings? The discussion looks at the why and how of these types of solutions as well as the implications and the lock-in they could represent.
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Timeline
00:00:00 – Intros00:04:00 – Silk and Pure Storage are two examples of cloud SANs00:05:55 – Why build a SAN with public cloud infrastructure?00:08:00 – Are affinity rules available for public cloud compute?00:09:45 – Cloud vendors used to recommend striping LUNs for performance00:11:00 – Are these solutions about fixing latency problems?00:12:10 – Two models – dedicated storage or HCI00:14:27 – Could the benefit for Cloud SANs be functionality?00:16:10 – We’ve gone back to 1999 – SAN Volume Controller00:22:50 – Could the CAS platforms have an advantage for SAN storage?00:25:00 – Pure Storage is already integrating Portworx into array automation00:27:20 – How do users calculate cost savings of Cloud SANs?00:32:00 – Cloud SANs could be all about saving on-premises costs00:32:30 – Wrap Up
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