Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This week on the Tech on Tap podcast, we brought in Duncan Moore of the Storage Grid team to give us the latest on web scale 10.4.
Welcome to the Tech on Tap podcast with Justin Parise.
Hello and welcome to the Tech on Tap podcast. My name is Justin Parisi, and we are all in the studio today, except for Andrew, of course, naturally. Glenn is sitting next to me. Hi, Glenn. How are you doing, Justin? Doing great. Thanks for asking. You're looking at me like I'm not. Do I look pale? No, no, no. Maybe a little lighter than you were last week. I'm a little lighter in the shoes here.
Yeah, so last week we didn't have a podcast, and that's because I had an appendicitis incident where I had to get my appendix taken out, and I am less the man than I was when I went in. Well, you know, addition through subtraction.
They did the wrong procedure then. They did. They did.
Well, it's kind of funny. I was thinking about it. So they put you under, of course. Thank God. But they do it, and when you wake up, you wake up and your belly is shaved, and you've got this red paint on you, the iodine, and you feel like you just got out of the hangover. Like you're missing an organ, like Charlie the Unicorn. I could see that. Charlie.
Well, sir, we're glad that you made it through it in one piece. The listeners, we apologize for missing our episode. We're going to get back on the schedule and make up for it, though. And we've got a hot one today for you. We do. We're going to drop it like it's hot. We've got Duncan Moore in the studio today, and Duncan's going to tell us what he does here at NetApp.
Thanks for having me. This is Duncan Moore. I'm here out of our RTP facility at NetApp, been with NetApp going on 18 years now. And I lead the product management and tech marketing teams that build our object storage product, Storage Grid WebScale.
Excellent. And we actually haven't had Duncan in here, unfortunately, since episode 23, which is when we talked about Storage Grid WebScale 10.2. So we got a little catching up to do.
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Chapter 2: What are the significant changes introduced in StorageGRID 10.3?
10.4, though, which, again, we're sitting here on the, as far as you know, on the launch date. 10.4, we had one more way to deploy, and I think you can probably guess from all the poor attempts at foreshadowing, we can now deploy in bare metal in Docker containers.
Yeah!
So we're going out the door with RHEL and CentOS support. And I'm sure there will be more to follow.
Oh, RHEL and CentOS. So usually what we do is we just do RHEL. And they're like, all right, because it has support. But CentOS, we kind of say, good luck. Hey, I love the fact that you're listing. Yeah, absolutely. That you're calling that out. Because that's something that, I mean, customers do that math every time.
When you say RHEL, there's someone in the back of the room that thinks CentOS every single time. So to just come right out and do it, absolutely.
Yep. A lot of multi-tenant capabilities that we added in the 10.4 product. So I mentioned, hey, single AD domain in 10.3. Now we can do an AD domain per tenant in 10.4. And to make this even easier for our, you know, we have a lot of customers on this product that are service providers. To make it easier for them, we've added a tenant-level administrator role.
And it's that administrator, the tenant admin, that can configure the AD relationships and so on. We've already had a lot of good business with our service provider partners and customers, and this is just going to make it even easier for them to consume. Keystone support in OpenStack.
So we're supporting, we've always supported, or we've supported for a few versions, Storage Grid being deployed in an OpenStack environment, virtualized by KVM. We've also supported the Swift API, so that applications written to communicate via Swift can talk to Storage Grid. Now we've, I think we've tentatively completed OpenStack at this point with Keystone support.
Finished. Done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just love the visual there. We've completed OpenStack.
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Chapter 3: How does StorageGRID handle object versioning in 10.4?
Files are not dead, right? I mean, there's, you know, there's a lot of use cases that object isn't the answer. But the ones where it is, it's the only one. I mean, it's solving problems that you just can't solve any other way.
Yeah, maybe I'm overly bullish, whatever. But I've personally just looked at what the team's been able to do with Storage Grid. And I've long thought that our NetApp private storage play, we should be leading with Storage Grid, not ONTAP.
I'll go head to head with the big S3 any day of the week. So here's a customer plug. And these guys are externally referenceable. And I think there's stuff on NetApp.com. There's a company called ASE. They're a service provider out of Australia and growing rapidly. And they're a service provider that specializes in media.
And one of their use cases is they'll host in storage grid, you know, you as a media customer, your media asset repository. But then they do that in an NPS way. They do it in an Equinox data center direct connected to Amazon and take advantage of Amazon's elastic transcoding service and other media services against storage grid. So, I mean, that's NPS for storage grid, right?
And it's in production. It's been in production for over a year and serving multiple customers in the media industry. So I think that's a real use case.
Yeah.
It's just it's the you can't obviously you can't beat the flexibility and elasticity of the hyperscalers. But but when you have a large lake, right, when you've got a couple of petabytes under your belt and you're looking at how am I going to keep my hands around this for the next 50 years and make it useful, not just keep it, but be useful, be able to do things with it.
I just look at what Storage Grid can do and what the team's built over the past five years, and it's night and day as far as I'm concerned. It's head and shoulders above its competition inside the enterprise space. The only real competition it has is the Godfather. And even there, as I said, I'll go head to head. I don't care. Honestly, it's not even going to be competition in the future.
I mean, we're looking at Fabric Pools, right?
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Chapter 4: How does StorageGRID 10.4 enhance deployment options?
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On behalf of the entire Tech On Tap podcast team, I'd like to thank Duncan Moore for joining us today to talk about Storage Grid Web Scale 10.4. Thanks for listening. I'm full. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Duncan seems to have this effect on me. There's a lot of information. It happens, you know, when you live and breathe one of the fastest growing segments of the market. Absolutely.
I mean, you know, he's had a lot of good conversations. Oh, yeah. I need a Snickers. Are you turning into a diva? Maybe. I think you were already there.