Open Stack

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Thiago Moraes
<thiago.camposmoraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm new on the list and I'm currently considering Openstack to solve a data
> distribution problem. Right now, there's a server which contains very large
> files (usual files have 30GB or even more). This server is accessed by LAN
> and over the internet but, of course, it's difficult to do this without
> local connection.
>
> My idea to solve this problem is to deploy new servers on the places which
> access data more often in an such a way that they get a local copy of the
> most accessed part of data by then. In my head, I consider that there will
> be N different clouds, one at my location and the others spread on another
> networks. Then, these new clouds would download and store parts of the data
> (entire files) so that they can be accessed through their own LAN.
>

It sounds like you are looking for the functionality that Zones (aim
to?) provide.

Take a look at:

http://wiki.openstack.org/MultiClusterZones


> Is Openstack suitable in this environment? Anyone would recommend another
> solution?
>

Have you also looked at SheepDog, Hadoop or HC2? All of these seem to
have some OpenStack integration points as well.

Some links to look into:
http://wiki.openstack.org/SheepdogSupport
http://doubleclix.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/hadoop-2-0-openstack-pbj/
http://www.quora.com/What-features-differentiate-HDFS-and-OpenStack-Object-Storage


Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Todd

> PS: I know the file size limitations of 5GB. I just need that all parts of a
> file to be in the same local area network so that a blazingly fast Internet
> connection is not required all the time.
>
> thanks,
>
>
> Thiago Moraes - EnC 07 - UFSCar
>
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