ZEBRA, ZAMBONI, ZEN & THE ART OF ZFS Maureen Chew Staff - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ZEBRA, ZAMBONI, ZEN & THE ART OF ZFS Maureen Chew Staff Engineer Sun Microsystems maureen.chew@sun.com SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Agenda • What’s with all the ZZZZ’s? • Zebra • Zamboni > Data Integrity > Reliability > Performance • Case Study – Solaris ZFS & Containers in use at the CDC • Zen SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

What's with all the ZZZZ's? • Zebra – known for its stripes, ZFS is a volume manager and includes striping capabilities • Zamboni – frees the rink of all the bumps, lumps and other irregularities that can cause disastrous crashes in the data management arena • Zen – ...enlightenment upon means of direct & intuitive insight..... • Solaris 10 ZFS brings the Zen to IT data management SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Agenda • What’s with all the ZZZZ’s? • Zebra • Zamboni > Data Integrity > Reliability > Performance • Case Study – Solaris ZFS & Containers in use at the CDC SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Zebra stripes • Raid 0, 1, Z (like Raid 5) • Easy combinations > Mirrored stripes > Concatenated RaidZ virtual devices SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Zebra Stripes • Can create 1 or more file systems in a pool • File systems > As easy as a directory > Can have individual quotas > Can be snapshot'ed, cloned > Can be archived/re-created > Share the same pool of storage resources which can accommodate dynamic changes in size without distruption to service. SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Agenda • What’s with all the ZZZZ’s? • Zebra • Zamboni > Data Integrity > Reliability > Performance • Case Study – Solaris ZFS & Containers in use at the CDC SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Zamboni – Data Integrity • All data protected by 256 bit checksums • Data consistency maintained at all times, no need for fsck(1M) > Data written to new disk blocks prior to pointers being updated. > No need for fsck • Zpool scrub SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

ZFS Reliability – Try this at Home! • Geek (ie: cheap & weird) redundant storage device • 3 USB hubs, 12 memory sticks • 1 command, voila, a highly available, ready- to-use ZFS file system 10 minute humor alert: Check out the virtues of ZFS at: http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/csi_munich_how_to_save SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

ZFS Reliability – RAID-Z at Work! • 4 sticks removed • 1/3 of storage vanished • Volume takes a licking, but keeps on ticking! SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

ZFS Reliability – RAID-Z at Work! Zpool(1) status shows degraded volume, but no data errors scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM saspool ONLINE 0 0 0 pool: saspool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM saspool ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 DEGRADED 0 56 0 cannot open c9t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c3t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c8t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 DEGRADED 0 26 0 cannot open c13t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c10t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 DEGRADED 0 4 0 cannot open c6t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c15t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c12t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 DEGRADED 0 52 0 cannot open c18t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c5t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t0d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Performance • A dozen SAS programs Cumulative Performance Results run on Sun Fire X4600 05:24:00 04:48:00 • ZFS vs. UFS, Linux 04:12:00 EXT3 on similar system 03:36:00 Total Time UFS • ZFS performance* 03:00:00 ZFS EXT3 02:24:00 > ZFS: ~3.5 hrs 01:48:00 > UFS: ~4.0 hrs 01:12:00 > Linux EXT3: ~4.5 hrs 00:36:00 00:00:00 Solaris 10 UFS/ZFS, Linux EXT3 * your mileage may vary SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Agenda • What’s with all the ZZZZ’s? • Zebra • Zamboni > Data Integrity > Reliability > Performance • Case Study – Solaris ZFS & Containers in use at the CDC SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Case Study • World Health Concerns at the Center for Disease Control – CDC • Solaris 10 – ZFS & Containers in Action • Anantha Srirama, Unisys/Nidhi Consulting, BioSense Infrastructure Architect faced daunting challenges... SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Challenges • Nightly update from SQL server to SAS SPD Server • SPD Server not available during update phase • Nightly maintenance window for updates shrinks as data volume grows • SPD Server data replication > Cannot have duplicate SPD Server domains on same system; solution would be: > Costly > Complicated > Time consuming SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Solution – Simple and Ingenious Solaris 10 Containers and Clones E2900 running Solaris 10 Update 3 SunFire SunFire E2900 E2900 Global Zone Local Zone S S (Virtual) un un Read/Write Read SPD Server Data SPD Server Data Read/Write Read/Write ZFS Filesystem ZFS Filesystem (Virtual) SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Solution – Simple and Ingenious! • Clone the SPD Server file systems • Marry the clone to a Solaris Container • Create appropriate SAS metadata librefs/access templates for: > Live SPD Server in global zone which only a few SAS programmers can access/update > Cloned SPD Server is Container which all authorized users can access • Happy users, admins happy, updates can take as long as needed SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Solution – Simple and Ingenious Solaris 10 Containers and Clones E2900 running Solaris 10 Update 3 1 2 SunFire SunFire E2900 E2900 Global Zone Local Zone Daily update Shutdown Zone S S (Virtual) un un jobs complete 4 Startup Zone 3 Read/Write Read ZFS Clone Destroy Create SPD Server Data SPD Server Data Read/Write Read/Write ZFS Filesystem ZFS Filesystem (Virtual) SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Where's the WOW WOW ? ? • Concept to deployment – 4 hours • No incremental cost • Happy users, IT management, system admins > Oxymoron • Instead of “Sleepless in Seattle”, Anantha is “Asleep in Atlanta” > No worries at night that the update won't be finished in time for the next morning SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

Zen • ... enlightement but means of direct and intuitive insight > Cost > Flexibility > Reliability > Lack of Complexity > High Performance Solaris ZFS SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007

ZEBRA, ZAMBONI, ZEN & THE ART OF ZFS Maureen Chew Staff Engineer Sun Microsystems maureen.chew@sun.com SAS Global Forum 2007, Orlando, FL, paper 198-2007