Software-defined
storage. Redefined.
Introduction to Hedvig
Hedvig Executive Team
February, 2015
Data volumes
grow.
Substantially.
Every month.
App requirements
change.
Constantly.
Every day.
Users demand
new services.
Trends driving software-defined storage
Exponentially.
Every year.
Cloud can’t go
mainstream – yet.
NoSQL and big data
apps create islands of
storage in the data
center. There is no
viable storage platform
to consolidate these
environments.
History repeats
itself with big data
Protecting data is
manual and
expensive. Current
storage solutions don’t
properly incorporate
hybrid and public
cloud capabilities.
Disaster recovery
still doesn’t work
The storage problems of today
Today’s storage is
broken.
Infrastructure must be
self-provisioned. But
there isn’t an elastic,
scale-out storage
choice with the
necessary enterprisegrade features.
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As virtualization
becomes ubiquitous,
current SAN and NAS
solutions fall short.
Traditional storage and
virtualization suffer a
fundamental
impedance mismatch.
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Avinash brings 10 years of
experience in designing
and operating the world’s
largest, most successful
distributed systems to
the storage market.
Solution: A distributed systems approach
2012-present
2007-2011
2004-2007
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What Hedvig built
A commodity-based, distributed storage platform
with full enterprise-grade functionality.
> Scales to petabytes, all in software.
> Provides block, file, and object storage.
> Connects to any compute, runs in any cloud.
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Hedvig redefines storage in seven ways
Scale-out seamlessly with x86 or ARM
Consolidate all protocols in one platform
Support hyperconverged and hyperscale
Run agnostic to any hypervisor or container
Provide hybrid-aware DR, across any public cloud
Provision storage with unprecedented flexibility and speed
Make enterprise-grade storage features fundamental primitives
Hedvig Controller
Hedvig Virtual Disk
Forms elastic cluster using any commodity
server, array, or cloud storage
Presents block, file, or object via a VM or
Docker container in vSphere, Hyper-V, & KVM
Provides scalable abstraction layer for granular
provisioning of enterprise storage functions
The Hedvig architecture
Hedvig Cluster Node
VM
VM
VM
VM
NFS
VM
VM
VM
S3, Swift
DC2
How Hedvig works
VM
VM
iSCSI
Hedvig cluster
DC1
Cloud3
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Cluster autotiers & autobalances
across racks, datacenters, & clouds
Cluster automatically distributes
& replicates data throughout nodes
Controller captures guest I/O &
communicates to underlying cluster
Virtual disk presents block, file, &
object storage to Controllers, guests
Admin provisions virtual disk &
scripts or applies storage policies
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Start small and scale to
thousands of nodes.
Deploy secure private clouds in
hours.
Simplify hybrid clouds with
integration of popular cloud and
orchestration stacks.
Manage VM-centric operations
centrally to reduce OPEX.
Cloud
•  Enable virtualization of Hadoop
and NoSQL to eliminate islands
of storage.
•  Start small and scale
incrementally to TBs/day ingest
rates.
•  Simplify deployment to just a
matter of hours.
Big data
Hedvig focuses on three primary use cases
Virtualization
•  Deliver predictable performance
at scale.
•  Support multiple hypervisors
(ESX, KVM and Hyper-V).
•  Reduce CAPEX and OPEX
significantly by replacing.
multiple, proprietary appliances
with commodity infrastructure.
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Protocol
consolidation
Deployment
flexibility
Full
storage
stack
Monolithic arrays
Hedvig is a superset of current solutions
Virtual SANs
Current SDS
Hyperconverged
Thank you!
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