Was that our cue?  I'm not sure which Welcome thanks for joining us.  My name is Valentina Larry and I work for plum grid Plum grid is a software-defined company that has a solution for open stack and I work on the product management product marketing side of the house My name is Brian Thompson. I lead product management for rack spaces open-stack private cloud portfolio Where we've partnered with plum grid as well for more advanced stn capabilities within our private clouds So one of the interesting challenges that we have that kind of sets the stage for this is really those Barriers to adoption for enterprises customers of open-stack itself. What are those kind of key challenges? Oftentimes when we talk to customers, we kind of have to rebaseline and come to that realization that open-stack is not a product Right. It is a collection of loosely coupled open-source projects My best analogy is like imagine this amazing sea of Legos that they can all be snapped together And you can choose different Legos and put them together in different combinations to make what your open-stack cloud looks like But holy cow. It's immensely Complex if you look at Nova alone, right? There are eight different Virtualization drivers depending on my platform and what I want to use. There are over 700 unique configurable attributes of just the compute service Now I multiply that across all the different projects that I can include as part of my private cloud and all the different permutations and External drivers and components that go into it It can be a little overwhelming one of the things that we see is That the market itself the cloud market is continuing to evolve and it's out of this complexity in this barrier to entry That we see opportunity to help customers kind of get through this process I might talk about how massively complex it is for many organizations They can certainly try to take that challenge on themselves But there are many others they're looking for maybe a managed experience that kind of goes through that To build on my Lego analogy There's this context of I could build my own car. I can source the parts myself. I can read manuals I can figure out how to put this together Maybe I have that expertise in house Maybe that is a core competency for me and that makes a lot of sense But for a lot of organizations Maybe it doesn't and this is really just those those cloud components that we talk about How can I solve that and give you the easy button the on-star experience where I have somebody else kind of paving that way Like I talk about the complexities and barriers to adoption within broader open stack kind of across all these projects It's that open stack is hard. It's very complex. There's a scarcity of talent up there But there's a whole underlying component of complexity around networking specifically that creates a huge challenge for enterprises to adopt it Yeah, and you know to dig deeper on the network side One of the things that I hear from the users I work with and I've been part of the open-stock community for a very large number of years Is you know is that they sometimes, you know see the networking as a barrier to the adoption of a cloud solution Versus an enabler, which is what it should really be right? And you know part of this is you know something that you know Brian also hinted at which is the Organizational challenges that they face internally of not being able to adjust to the models of operating In all the different components obviously including the network where everything tends to be more automated on-demand streamlined Versus the more traditional model of okay. I need you know some network functionality. I'm going to open a ticket I'm gonna wait for someone to go and you know provision this network component for me and make it available So that my end user application can then go and consume it And so you know by talking again to users This is an example of a real customer that we were working with which is you know They were opening a very large number of tickets every time they needed to bring up an environment for an application You know 78 tickets. It's a huge number and it was taking them You know a certain number of months to be able to bring up this environment And they're certainly not the only one out there And so their goal clearly is to see how they can take these impediments and make it an enabler Where they can you know not only achieve you know compute on-demand and storage on-demand but also make the networking component Fully programmable and fully you know able to be created in a matter of few seconds Now you know probably or you know most of you are familiar with the networking project within OpenSack That it's aiming at providing networks as a service which is Neutron You know just for those of you that are just approaching the OpenSack space Neutron was a project that was introduced a little after the creation of OpenSack It was introduced with the fall some remits and the main goal for Neutron was from the get-go to enable Two personas the cloud operator as well as the tenant to both have the ability to create networks as a service You know before Neutron there was some very basic networking functionality that was kind of baked into overall OpenSack within Nova But that lacked the control in terms of features and functionalities and configurations and more advanced applications needed and Especially as we start moving OpenSack into enterprise territory You want to be able to not just deploy new cloud applications, but also take existing applications and move them into this cloud environment So obviously the network plays a key Plays a key role there right where you want to be able to give Control to the user of the cloud where they can go and create their networks are routing their IP space There are security policies and also make sure that the cloud operator can still enforce any type of common rule and services across the different tenant environments So a lot of progress has been made obviously in the OpenSack Our community around the networking piece But if you were here for this past four days and you sign in some of the network related sessions There's certainly a lot of challenges there are still there are still present and and some of these reside around kind of the architectural choices that were made at the beginning of you know the design phase of the networking component and some of these come from trying to match Some of those design decisions with the large scale and the production requirements of you know customers and users in the OpenSack community You know you you probably are familiar with the fact that there is a mixed bag of distributed functionalities and centralized functionalities and some constructs of high availability that can be you know matched to some of the components down there But it's not necessarily the most homogeneous design So one of the things that you know we see when we work with users that are approaching OpenSack And especially from an enterprise perspective is to help them You know map the traditional constructs of networking and the solutions that are used to build to this You know new model that is certainly you know more distributed more software base and as Brandon was mentioning There is you know on the networking side as well There is a very large number of choices and options that users can go through So what we're going to go through next is you know to show you how we jointly bring a solution to our users That helps simplify some of these you know architectural choices as well as organizational boundaries And you know speed up the adoption of a technology like OpenSack and enable them to consume More advanced functions like network as a service within their solution We'll raise for the click So to start with kind of sitting the theme for this and this has really been from a rack space perspective our Mantra around how do we solve this for customers? It's really we're making OpenSack simple How do we make this where you can consume OpenSack as opposed to being worried about operating it? How do we deliver it to you in a way with a reliable and predictable? Scale and feature and performance and availability that you can then spend your efforts innovating on top of how do you consume these? Services as opposed to trying to build them yourself or manage them yourself So it's really trying to deliver that as a fully managed service The way we do that And part of that key value proposition of our partnership with plum grid being able to bring together our operational expertise And the capabilities of the plum grid on S platform is really around How do we provide you that single point of contact for all of your OpenSack operations? There's no longer this I'm going to call a vendor X for this and vendor Y for this and troubleshoot this and Look up in Google for this. How do we solve that for you? How do we simplify that and allow you to consume it and spend your efforts innovating on top of OpenSack rather than trying to operate it? We have a tight integration with the plum grid on S service So this isn't just a logo on a slide our teams work together The plum grid team makes the upstream contributions into the open stack ansible project that we use to consume and deploy Our prescribed deployments and build out and operate private clouds We work with them very closely on a constant testing validation and certification process So that we know with each release of the rack space private cloud and with the ONS platform These are working tightly together and working in a predictable scalable repeatable fashion We have an a massive amount of expertise between our two organizations rack space Of course as that foremost operator of OpenSack technologies between our public cloud and obviously the number of private clouds That we continue to build out and operate for our customers and then bring in the in-depth expertise that the plum grid Team brings as part of that cohesive solution for our customers. We're able to really meet those needs And then that one support number again It's not a decoupled experience as customers are operating this as they're working through these challenges There's one number to call and we as a collective team are responding to that both with the same focus on Delivering customer outcomes. It's not again a decoupled experience. It's very important to our overall relationship So Brian spoke a little bit about, you know, the business value and certainly this is, you know One of the major drivers it was one of the major drivers for us as two companies to come together and bring to the OpenSack community a joint solution that it's tightly integrated but You know, obviously, there's also a lot of you know, interesting technical reasons that you know play a very important role to our Users as they go through the selection process and you know the decision process on how to go about adopting OpenSack You know, so just to kind of help you Get some ideas and navigate maybe your decision here You know I wanted to highlight a little more the technical aspect of the integration So Brian mentioned, you know Ansible and you know, obviously This plays a critical role in how easy it is for someone to get a deployment up and running Right. So the fact that you have these two solutions being fully automated through the same framework You know really helps someone to get started in a matter of, you know, a few hours now Let's be realistic. It's probably not gonna be minutes But it's gonna be a matter of few hours as long as your physical infrastructure is in place The two components can quickly come together And this is something that it's quite important I know how many of you have tried the pulling open stack I tried, you know, I've been trying since Folsom, Grizzly, Yavan and all of that and certainly has been getting easier and easier and easier But it's still, you know, especially if you if you are in an enterprise environment Used to enterprise grade solutions It's not necessarily something it's always there. So we, you know, collectively put a lot of effort around making the deployment model and automation as Simple and seamless as possible so that you can, you know, be up and running in a very little time And the fact that we bring the teams there to help you through the process should, you know Hopefully speed up the whole The whole, you know, again deployment time The second aspect is, you know, what we refer to as an enterprise grade Architecture and there's two primary components there that I want to highlight. The first one is the concept of high availability You know, I spent a lot of time Educating customers as a product evangelist around open stack open stack networking and, you know What are some of the architectural decisions that they have to make from the get-go and, you know Very often someone asks me can I start with just, you know, trunk default open stack and my answer is always sure go for it You know anything that you pick out there is going to work for a small deployment Now it's a very different discussion when you start looking at what's going to happen when you want to run a production workload on top Of that environment and that's where, you know The architectural decision of looking for something that provides a very strong high availability model And this is true both for the overall, you know, open stack framework and in particular for what concerns me the networking layer, right Which is which is what provides the, you know, underlying connectivity between workloads and Storage and all the components that you have in the environment It's of paramount importance, right? If you cannot tolerate a failure If, you know, there's any component that it's hard to make, you know Highly available that can be an impediment to, you know, successfully rolling out a new business So, you know from an enterprise great architecture perspective having a strong high available Strongly high available solution. It's something that it's very critical The second aspect of things kind of goes back to what I was mentioning Which is if you have five nodes anything will do right, but if you start looking at, you know Kind of the typical size of a cell which is maybe, you know 250 nodes to 500 and then you want to start looking at multi-cell solution You certainly need to start selecting solutions there that can scale to those numbers Can you know seamlessly scale to those numbers that are not gonna just fall apart because you want to add more compute power to it And so, you know, what we do joint ways to Make sure that we, you know, harden the code obviously to make an enterprise grade But also the look at this key architectural Components and make sure that they're tightly integrating the solution Built-in so that when it comes to you as a user you get those benefits The third aspect which is critical for an enterprise environment is the you know security framework, right? And there's a lot to it and I'm not gonna have the time to go through all the aspect of this But the first aspect is obviously that you're most likely building a multi-tenant solution If you were to have just a single tenant solution You probably wouldn't be looking at open stack and all that comes with it, right? So by definition whenever you have multiple tenants that are sharing the same infrastructure You want to be able to have a common share infrastructure so you can get the best from a you know utilization and cost perspective and You know operation on cost perspective as well But you want to make sure to you know be able to tightly Isolate workloads that belong to different applications or different users or different line of businesses And you you know you want to be able to apply Security strict security policies right at the boundary of each of those tenant environments And so that's something that you know we jointly Bring to the table and you know especially from a networking perspective One of the key tenants of our solution is to provide is strong No micro segmentation and multi-tenancy solution The other aspect of you know being an enterprise and deploying open stack Is to be able to audit this environment have all the logs you need to be compliant to whatever Compliance you have in your environment right so that's something that you know We keep as one of the key requirements for for the deployments we enable The last bullet for you know, it's really important and we're gonna talk a lot more about you know How we enable users to build their business on top of of this kind of joint platform, right? But the whole idea is that you know We want to speed up your you know rolling out a new business And this is the number one driver most you know most often for you to go and look at open stack, right? You want to bring your business you want to roll it out faster? You want to generate more revenue and there's all sort of impediment to this The first one is you know We obviously want to bring you the greatest and latest features as fast as we possibly could right? So this is one of the you know key Enablers for for you to to bring more value to your line of business We also want to make it very simple to you know upgrade and migrate from one existing environment to to another environment We want to make sure that we can help you bridge anything that it's pre-existing into this new Cloud deployment that you have and we want to help you design applications on top of this So we'll talk a little more about kind of the design phase of a project for us But that's where we can help you take an application and figure out exactly how you know You map the requirements of this maybe traditional enterprise application and ported to a cloud environment So there's clearly a lot more details there You know customers ask me you know to things like the balance is a service and You know my cross implementation all sort of things that we can do for them technically in this environment But you know I just kind of wanted to give you kind of four key points from a technical perspective that you can bring home together With the four business values that Brian identified earlier to kind of look at the you know the overall value of this joint solution All right So if we start to talk about kind of the collective offerings that we're providing I Touched on this from a open-stack private cloud practice area within rack space and our focus again is how do we? Simplify the way in which you can consume open stack Going back to those two big barriers to adoption Just general based on the user survey and other analyst feedback is the complexity of open stack It's really the networking layer and then that lack of talent that's out there We really focus on this delivering open stack as a service if you want to think of in that context But it's really delivering it as a fully managed service offering We focus on delivering a high available reliable platform We actually stand behind the availability of the open stack apis with a four nines SLA That is our focus on being able to operate as part of a scalable highly available control plane as part of our reference architecture In the way in which we deploy and manage those services We take this practice anywhere our customers need to be we have the ability to deploy and operate private clouds In any of our data centers in any of our customer facilities or third-party data centers And we even recently announced the ability to actually provide hardware Into third-party facilities as well so for customers are looking for that fully managed experience from the floor tiles to the top of rack switches We can now provide those services again based on that operating expertise in the way in which we deliver these services That comes from rack spaces DNA and our involvement in open sex since the beginning we have more operational expertise Operating just deploying operating open stack clouds both private and public than anybody else in the space by Multiple factors factor many if you will and then looking at this single platform Context how do I deliver you a mechanism that you can deploy virtualized workloads bare metal capabilities cloud or a container? Technologies all as part of that service. That's really the cloud vision and what we're trying to enable our customers so that again by delivering it to you as a managed service you can focus your efforts and Innovation on top of those clouds and as opposed to trying to figure out how to run them If we look at just a quick touch base on what our technology offering is within the open stack private cloud area We recently released our Liberty series if you will or the first of that Liberty series of our RPC product This is a prescribed deployment of open stack We kind of opened our segment as we're talking about the Lego design and all these different pieces of open stack That goes to the overall breadth of the projects with an open stack Not all projects are created equally many are in different stages of maturity and Informing and how they grow and where are the sharp edges? We actually work very closely with our customers to make sure that we are deploying those components of open stack That are very mature that we can stand behind and operate with that high availability SLA that we stand behind and where we've Developed that operational experience that we can operate that Confidently for our customers this sphere of projects and capabilities and features does continue to expand with each release As we continue to be very active in contributing upstream to open stack and then pulling in the benefits of that to our customers As we can continue to mature and advance these different projects But we are very prescriptive as to how we deploy those the same is true on the networking side of things We've been very deliberate in our partnership with plum grid Identifying somebody that can bring to the table those advanced SDN capabilities To meet those security use cases I can't say it as fast or as elegantly as she does but the concept of micro segmentation and multi-tenancy say that five times fast in Daria These are the capabilities that this partnership can bring to us so we can deliver that full comprehensive solution to our customers And do so again in a confident highly available highly reliable way I want to talk about yeah, so this is what plum grid brings to the table and says I mentioned earlier We are an SDN solution and we have You know, it's we're software only we have an overlay based model And what we do is we bring a very comprehensive networking offering to You know through our joint partnership with with rack space There's a few you know key functionality that we bring to the table here that I you know want to highlight for for the audience and You know the first one is obviously the fact that you know We bring the ability to the end user to create very rich virtual networks And this is not true just for the end user. It's true also for the cloud operator There's certainly some you know some functionality that are exposed through opensack Networking but we'll give some ideas later of some of the even more advanced use cases that might not be you know Something you can map as is to the opensack abstractions that we can satisfy with with this platform here The other aspect of this is obviously what I was mentioning earlier around Security and so one of the key functionality that we bring to the table is the ability to you know have this Microsegmented environments. I don't have time to explain, you know how it exactly works But we have this concept of virtual domains Which was like you know a lot of bubbles that you can associate to a user or an application And within these virtual domains you can first of all define kind of security policies right at the boundaries of the virtual domain And you also have the ability to define any type of an arbitrary network functionality that an application or a user wants to consume within it This coupled with the fact that we have a very unique data plane technology Which is open source and it's called iOviser that lives inside each and every compute node Gives us the ability to bring this very advanced networking offering Coupled with analytics and visibility inside the compute layer without the need for any agent or central component like network nodes That really come in the way of scale out and high availability and all the things that we were discussing earlier The other thing that we bring to the table is the fact that again thanks to this distributed model that we have We have a lot of understanding of what happens in the environment We can kind of monitor, you know everything all the workloads their interaction with the network and expose these informations centrally so that you can then act upon it and Operationalize your environment and that's obviously something that jointly It's really important for us when we enable a user to not only deploy something and then be like oh bye Bye have fun with that right but you know to you know continue throughout the entire life cycle of a cloud project So key, you know operational tools that help you Monitor and troubleshoot and proactively find issues at the network layer or something that we have put into you know to the product solution and You know the last thing that I want to you know mention is the kind of scalable Architecture and I'll show you what it looks like in a in a picture here Which is the fact that as I mentioned earlier, we don't need to have agents or central components So what we have here is we have this distributed component that lives inside Each of our of the compute nodes in an open stack deployment and that's built on you know Iovizer as I mentioned earlier and this is how we bring all the features and functionality. So as I was mentioning earlier This is a key Architectural principle that will help you scale from five nodes to 50 nodes to you know 500 nodes in a very seamless way and You know that couple with you know the visibility that we bring to the table and all the operational tools It really help you with you know not just building a small initial environment But you know scaling out and rolling all type of interesting applications on top of this So this is you know what the what it looks like you know Behind the curtains right and we didn't want to just be like oh trust us This is how the platform kind of comes together right we want to give you an idea of you know the moving parts But what we want to do next is you know after we took you to the Challenges and we took you through the value of the joint solution and how it works behind the covers It's to actually show you how we you know in a very concrete and practical way help a user Through the journey of adopting An open-stack environment. So how do we help someone? Build a private cloud right and what are some of the steps that we you know to get or go through and you know I just want to highlight Something here because it's really important You might think that a lot of the challenges that an organization encounters in adopting open-stack are technical challenges And while that's perfectly through there's also a whole lot that has to do with the internal you know organization structure and readiness to consume new technology and products And this is true from you know the engineering group that you know necessarily might not be able to build a new solution from scratch all the way to the operational team that might not be able to Be proficient from day zero in operating this such environment, right? And in I'm a technologist. I'm really passionate about everything that's new and You know can change and transform the world But I'm also you know very much aware of the you know barrier to adoption of new technologies, right? How long it takes to learn to unlearn for example, how to do traditional networking and learn how to do software And I find networks and you know on learn how to do traditional You know compute management and learn how to do you know out the provision compute on demand through open-stack, right? So what we want to show you here is how through a series of steps we can help organizations Start get started on their journey to private clouds, right? So yeah, I think to build on that. I think one of the key themes that we see are why do open-stack projects or initiatives fail? There's certainly the early stage of we failed to get it up and running There's certainly the I failed to operate it at scale. I couldn't upgrade it. I couldn't keep it running But oftentimes even if you can get through those two barriers as Valentina mentioned There's the organizational adoption of it in many cases. This is a brand new technology I have to teach these people how to consume these services in order for them to really get value out of it Like what's the ROI on me building this cloud if nobody's going to be able to use it? So it really is a journey. It isn't a turnkey here I've built this amazing snowflake cloud for you go on your way There's a bigger part to that between our two organizations again with that joint focus on the customer outcome We believe there's a number of steps along that way We invest upfront in helping and walking through our customer walking our customers through a very involved design and discovery session How do we help to understand and profile your use cases the workloads that you'll be running on this and oftentimes customers? Don't know what that is. That's fine. We can help model for general ones, but how do we start with these? Informed decisions around sizing and how will this grow and how will this scale? How do we make sure that we're setting you up to be successful with that cloud early on? That then can roll into the initial deployment, but it can't stop there You didn't need to go into from a training perspective How do we enable the different personas within your organization that need to understand how to use this technology to be successful? Obviously focusing on the cloud user Those developers and others that will be consuming these cloud resources. How do you make it easier for them to do so? How do you help make them effective in doing so so that you actually start to get usage on us right away? How do you help train an operator capability so that those key? Architects and others within your organization that need to understand how open stack works can have that appropriate baseline of functionality and As you start to look at the more advanced capabilities that you can leverage from the SDN layer How do I start to be able to consume these services and architect applications and how I'm going to roll out these different workloads? To take advantage of the security capabilities and scalability capabilities all the things that I want to add to my Way in which I'm going to consume these clouds that becomes a very important part of that journey and that experience to continue to build on that We have within rack space as I thump my microphone As well as with our partnership we have the ability to bring in additional services to help customers as they get up and running in this cloud How do I start to focus on those things on top of the cloud our enablement services group? How do you think about? Re-architecting applications or moving there's a great keynote earlier I think Jonathan kind of talked about this classification of Applications or workloads that people are moving to open stack you have that cloud hosted experience How my fork lifting or trying to move across one of the design considerations? I need to do to move those pets and make them successful in an open stack world I have the cloud optimized What are the tooling and automation and other things I can start to take advantage of within an open stack? Platform to help me advance those applications and make them more effective And then of course how do I start to architect for the true cloud native type of stateless horizontally scalable applications? Bringing those Resources to help customers make those transitions learn and embrace these technologies is a key part of making them successful But again, it can't stop there the ongoing operational experience is another key part to making these customers successful It's not enough just to install a cloud once How are you scaling it? How are you upgrading it? How are you managing it? You're going to design self-healing applications that take advantage of the API is the elasticity of a cloud But if the cloud itself isn't there, it doesn't matter So there's a heavy focus on that that operational experience which goes back to the constant Testing validation certification that we do jointly to make sure that collectively we can provide that highly available cloud That doesn't just meet your needs today We can continue to grow with you and scale with you and make sure that the lights are on and things are running as you expect It in a predictable way Yeah, and just to give an idea of You know one of the results of this kind of joint design We wanted to you know give you something that will be very tangible is one of the first steps that we do You know together with our customers is to come up with kind of two designs one is more of a logical design and that means that we take your applications and we start looking at you know Your specific use cases and I'll give some ideas later on what some of those are And you know come up with okay What does the virtual network look like what type of advanced applications and functionalities we need there? But the other one it's also to come up with what does your environment your physical environment look like and this might seem like a Three-wheel step, but it's actually something that it's quite important to help Again getting started in adopting these technologies So one of the components of what we usually you know bring to the table. It's you know some very detailed reference architectures around the deployment model and you know we try to As much as we possibly can come together to standardize on you know how you go about deploying this solution And you know bring you something that it's you know a validated design that you can follow and you know leverage in your environment That includes kind of the basic functionality as well as some of the advanced use cases that you might have in mind for your specific environment So it's not just a matter of obviously bringing together two products But it's you know kind of coming up with the entire set of Tools that are needed to you know get started with a real production deployment So kind of to wrap it all together and then I want to certainly leave a little time for Q&A here You know we wanted to show you the kind of so what so now you talked about all this you know great solutions and soft You know offerings and services, but I'm getting started in my journey. What can I do with this? So we wanted to you know get your thinking and get some thoughts going there and show you some of these cases that we see Around you know the concept of cloud in general right and this can be you know your private cloud environment It can be you know more hybrid offerings you're building But you know we wanted to give you some ideas of what are our users looking at you know private cloud for and you know Obviously there is the traditional infrastructure as a service, which I haven't even quite mentioned there Which is simply the ability to start creating this you know environments and you know provision the Self-service on-demand control to the end user, but there's all sort of interesting applications past being one of those that And are being commonly deployed within open-stack and private cloud environments, which are certainly driving some of the Advanced requirements, you know from an underlying platform perspective that we went through earlier on in the flow Other very good use case That we see from joint customers is the e-commerce use case where we have You know businesses that are driving Revenue through a website right where I go and can you know purchase something and you know They're actually bringing in all sort of interesting requirements obviously upscale obviously of security right I'm making a Transaction with my credit card, so I need to make sure that the environment it's Isolated and it's auditable and all the things that I'm expecting from from an online platform Another great example, it's you know companies. They're looking at Streamlining functions like communication communication as a service moving from you know provisioning of physical equipment To provisioning something that can be consumed as a software model There's obviously a lot more that can be built on top of these environment right and by no means This is an exhaustive voice, but we wanted to you know kind of wrap it up and show you some of the potential use cases that you can Start thinking about once you have a ready to deploy managed solution for your private cloud environment And I think with this we wanted to thank you for coming here and open the floor for any question or comment or Additional thoughts we do have a few moments that there are microphones out if anybody has any questions We'd be happy to answer on All right. Thanks for coming. Oh You have a question, please RPC sure I saw the components that you deployed with our PC 12. How are you deploying? Swift are you doing on the controllers or can you also have it deployed on an HA proxy and separate sure? Yeah, so we kind of advanced through it and I didn't show kind of our full reference architecture But within RPC, which is our affection name for rack space private cloud We actually deploy all the open stack services in LXC containers on a control plane Our starting position is a four node control plane that run all the open stack services With Swift depending on the size or scale of the Swift cluster This is where that Modular capability of deploying those services in the containers can help us scale out to be very large We can run the Swift proxy services in containers on the existing control plane Or depending on the size or scale of that environment for a very large Swift cluster Typically, we will add additional infrastructure nodes and dedicate to the Swift proxy service So it's really just tuning for what are the expected input output type of workload in the scale that you're running But it's part of that control plane. We can scale it as big as we need it to be Yeah, for performance oftentimes we will break out the Swift proxy services onto dedicated nodes Correct. Yeah, we deployed the Swift proxy services into LXC containers Can you just come to the mic? Sorry. Otherwise, it's not gonna be in the record. I'm failing to restate the question Diversion RPC 11 did it use LXC containers? We've been using the LXC containers our deployment methodology since our ice house release RPC v9 Okay, and do you have are you working on the talk it right now? And do you have any idea when you might release I do yes and yes, so We obviously there's a component that comes to our release schedule right which is tied to as We can enable our support teams and kind of fully deliver that solution as we can continue the integration and certification of our partner plugins Such as the plum grid that kind of leads into that our team We recently announced our Liberty series that we released it came later in the calendar than we would have ideally done So but we've been working on a lot of other things as well Going forward with our mataka release and then as we get into a regular cadence following the community going forward will come much quicker So the mataka series or v-13 will be coming later this summer But you'll see us close the gap a little bit to where we've been as we also want to stay very close to the community from an overall vulnerabilities support and work that comes from that Please use the mic Thank you. So currently we use both rack space public cloud and private cloud So do you have any reference architectures spanning both these two with open stack? Ah, so It's a good scenario. So again to kind of restate the The hybrid experience if I'm kind of maybe jumping ahead the look for of something that's consuming both private cloud and public cloud capabilities so From a connectivity perspective rack space has a suite of products that allow you if you're running a private cloud within our data Centers to connect and extend to our public cloud. We call rack connect We are as an engineering team to kind of give you a little bit look underneath the covers within rack space We've actually brought our pride our private and public cloud engineering teams together They're now very focused on a lot of pure upstream development and how we actually bring those platforms even closer together So beyond the I have common API frameworks and there's certainly orchestration and tooling that can leverage across both So we've helped customers with kind of cloud bursting scenarios, and I don't mean the meteorological term Actual workload kind of bursting But you'll see over time as we bring these platforms even closer and closer together Our public cloud has kind of been an area where we can continue to advance and innovate and our private cloud where we've been bringing in those Hardened services that we can operate at scale for production workloads. You'll see those start to come even closer and closer together other questions Are we standing between you guys and beer? The question is are we the only company operating a public upside cloud? I don't believe that's true I believe there are several I Think even the keynote and I'm gonna fail to mention the names because I don't remember but there are a handful now Other questions Great. Well, Valentine. I will certainly be around if anybody else has any one-on-one questions, but we certainly appreciate your time Thank you. Thank you


Okay, so this is just the carry-on because I worked out that the other boost converter was a exacting pre-lame You're putting that a little bit of power really And this seems to work okay. I've just been I just wired up this little slayer Cool and I had my power supply plugged in to the same Circuit as what everything else is on including the computer over there and When I got up to about 30 volts It was making a horrible noise across my speakers, and I didn't want to risk Being a problem to my computer while it's on or anything else like that And so what I did was I connected against the To the different ring coming from downstairs and I connected into that and put it back on again It doesn't happen. So that's good Something that's worth taking notes off maybe if you do get problems So okay So at the minute is it's powered on by the Xbox. It's going straight into the boost And then into here, and this is set for zero volts, but I can turn it up here turn it on Hit that set button click across we go into volts Minutes half a watt nine volts We got isolation over there look a bit of a mess LEDs on No breakout breakouts just started Breakouts just Okay, well we got we've got 27 volts got 42 watts one and a half amps 30 volts 60 watts Very careful of the amps and we go be careful of voltage So here we are we're a hundred watts 110 watts Need three amps at 40 volts And I don't know if that can pick up as in detail Turn it up. See how far we can take it So 140 watts 3.2 amps 44 volts And I'm just gonna back that off before oh look I Did notice that happened before All the noise as well I'm just gonna Disconnect the power and when it did that before and I turned it back on again It works fine Turn it back on back in again. There we go. We're booting back up It all seems to be okay. I'm pretty sure my circuit's okay. So we just turn it back on again I Hit the volts Oscillation over there. It's always nice to see Should I a little bit of break out in a second? Oh no got no LED on There we go I don't know if it's because I was too close to it, you know, because I'm actually touching this thing So we'll see how far we can take this up. That's 140 watts. Oh so far so good Just turn that power off. Okay, it's up. I can do that. Is there anything? Turn that back on again Oscillation yet straight in Okay, so we've now got the screen it's gonna like that. So I'm gonna just back it all the way off Turn on the side with the power. I'm sort of pretty confident that it's It's gonna work again just because for the last couple of times it has worked Let's see what happens Okay, it's rebooted a little high-pitched squeal it first came on Oscillation Straight to 55 watts I should do a temperature About a hundred watts, so yeah 102 watts. Yeah, that's quite nice Pink in a hundred and forty eight, but then that power supply This power supply is I think about 175 tops and I'm limited because I've not got this turned up full blast. I think that's on that's on 49. I can turn it up to I suppose I go to oven Turn it was a 50 on the input Well, just below 60 would do it because I can't go to 60 And I'm not yet to just squeeze a couple more watts of power Okay, so that's 58 58 on the input. I hope you can see that Turn it back on again. It's still gonna be coming on zero Okay, so that's 50 watts So 100 watts 110 Okay, that's some squealing That's the most I can get out of it 150 That could be a little bit down to the power supply was a little bit of squealing there, but the nice thing about it look as even though this is uh You know, it's it's been interfered with a couple of times and it's um Shut itself down. It didn't do anything crazy. It didn't like just open full power or anything to the circuit It cut the circuit off, which is uh, you couldn't really ask for more So so far so good. That's a that's a good good little test. I think it's damn close to the circuit It's open There'll be a nice bit of radiation, you know in this area here because if I were to get a light bulb I'm pretty sure that we'd have some Nice uh nice effects. So Let me just um put a top cap on it and see what we can do with a screwdriver pulling off a bit of plasma And see how it holds up to that because that's really I think when it's going to be spiking and Cutting it out the most and that's when it's probably gonna kill it. So I see what happened. Okay, so Uh, what have I done anything? No, nothing. I just re-plugged it back in again. So we got some power there I got power Yeah We got power here Uh, we're still on that It doesn't say 50 volts, doesn't it? 58 volts. Pretty sure that says 58 volts there, yeah And so let's switch it on. I put a little pin on top for a breakout I say a little pin. It's a big old pin. Uh, right Okay, got some oscillation over there. It's always good to see No breakout just yet. It's gonna pop itself out. So I'm gonna try and help this one Nope, I've been doing nothing really special That's about 30 volts 58 watts Let's turn it up. Let's go to 40 volts Well, that's 130 watts. That's quite a bit. That looks pretty actually Quite pretty. That's 135 watts That's quite a high About a high pitch of noise 445 watts 40 volts 3.37 amps Well, it hasn't died and you got to see um, a couple of Examples of what can happen to it, you know when you're doing this sort of thing, but that's not going too bad Now I didn't put my single core on As you can tell as you can see I've got the double that's two turns on that one But as we can only seem to get 40 volts Well, you know the hundred and sort of 45 watts. I can't see it's getting any more than that and I'm pretty sure that this Power supply is 175 watts But you know we're going to lose some power in this boost and down so that probably Doesn't seem too far off it. Maybe what we might lose in between the boost and the book and This being uh As efficient to the the full amount of wattage I don't know But I'm just chatting but it's nice as it didn't break and that was what I was trying to find out Whether I was going to be able to like sit and play with this coil And whether I was going to have a problem with this just dying on me or just going weird every two seconds But as you can see yourselves It doesn't do too bad at all It doesn't do too bad at all. So I'm going to give that my thumbs up now. I'm going to that's it I'm quite impressed with that. The only thing I haven't done is I have to look at like ripple noise or anything like that But I can do that in another one But so far so blooming good I just thought I'd add this little bit to the video And I got a strip strip lamp there a strip lamp there There's this ring lamp thing And I got a bowl I'll put a 10 milli card 80 volt pasta really but it's gonna make much of a difference I think everything's a bit too fine to tell you know one of these things I work so it doesn't really They've got power in Output That's strip lamps already I'll be on 60 volts. Okay, let's turn it off a bit You get like about five seconds before this a little bit break out 21 volts. I think that's a good bulb I don't want to break it I think it's 100 watt bulb I use for current limiting Oh, I just missed that then I just saw it go up It'd be nice to have one of those plasma balls They look really nice. I've seen them pretty bright. A fair bit of radiation That's at 50 watts 26 volts Quick little look on temperature A little bit warmth there a little bit less warmth there. The fan wasn't kicking in or anything But yeah, that's a little bit warm, but they expect that Okay, that's it. Just to try the end of the video. I don't want it to be too long. It's gonna be too long anyway


So we're getting ready here to do a free NAS build. I have here six Western Digital Red NAS drives, the six terabyte variety, six of those. I have 32 gigs of RAM, gigabyte motherboard and an AMD FX processor and an EVGA power supply. Now all this is going into a custom free NAS build for a client that has some large storage needs and we're gonna kind of walk you through the process. Now, some of you are already gonna start the debate and you can find plenty of articles on this. I go, but Tom, I think that's not ECC memory. You are correct, it is not ECC memory. I have been using non-ECC for a long time. There is plenty of information, including from the guys from the free NAS project and from other people in the industry that you do not have to use ECC memory. Also, this is gonna be running free NAS which is based on ZFS VBSD. So we'll be covering some of that, how we configure it, how we set it up and how we integrate it into their network. And so I'm gonna give you the whole build process here and then some of the software setup process, kind of walk you through building a nice, large rate array to store all your stuff because we're producing data at just an amazing amount now and if you don't have it stored somewhere redundantly, you know, even if it's just on a local server, you do not have a proper backup and the problem is just storing in the cloud can be rather difficult. So even for this client, this server, once it's built, we're taking their older array server which is gonna be a ready gear, and the ready gear, the net gear NAS box and we're gonna be upgrading that because we're gonna have the files copying back and forth between them so they have two copies of all the data on site and then their third backup is going to be offsite. Now the problem with that is it's downtime. So in worst case scenario, if one of these servers goes down, we're gonna be able to pull it back up. Ideally this is gonna be their primary server, we'll have a local copy of the backup. In the event that both go down, we have a cloud backup, the downside of that is pulling that much data takes a little while so it'll either be mailing back a hard drive but everything's just creating layers of redundancy and that's kinda what this project is about in terms of for the client, in terms of for you guys, this is about building and everything for a free NAS box. So if you wanna build one at home, you wanna build one for your company, this'll get you started and kinda get you the idea of how to work with free NAS. So let's get started. So the box has been built. It's assembled, it's tested, and it works really well. So we went with a RAID Z2 with all these six terabyte hard drives. We went with the, as I showed at the beginning, the Western Digital Red NAS drives. They're really low wattage and letting this thing run for 24 hours and dumping over a terabyte of half a data, deleting it and putting it back on there a couple times to really make sure there wasn't any problems. It didn't have any issues. This worked really well. The drives really never got above about 34, 35 at their hottest under full load. Now that's important. Now these docks right here, and that's why I got this here from Kingwin, this dock system is really cool. It's compatible with SAS and CEDA and these are just a pretty slick system. So it almost tries you in Nintendo cartridge when you pull these in and out and I'll show you that in a second here. We went with the Gigabyte motherboard and this is one of their ultra durable motherboards. Now this system is really for storage for our client. It's about having readily available archival videos that they have. They do civil engineering work. So they have lots of things they need to access, lots of little files, pictures when they had things taken apart like sewer systems or other picture large scale city projects. So all that documentation, if there's an emergency they need to be able to get to it pretty easily and they wanted to have something like online all the time they can't archive it and try to pull it off somewhere else. And that's where this system comes in. So all six drives, you know as I said 36 terabytes worth of drives when you put that in a RAID Z2 configuration you come down to about 22 terabytes of usable drive space on FreeNAS. And the reason it was Z2 is you have an issue with RAID where okay I have at least one redundant drive. It doesn't seem statistically like you two drives that fail except this is the part you have to think about. If one drive fails you have to rebuild it off of the data on the other drives. The stress of the rebuild could cause another drive to fail and then the whole RAID RAID collapses at that point. RAID Z2 it requires two drives to fail before the RAID RAID collapses. So while one's being rebuilt if another one were to fail there's enough data put there. Now you can go even further with RAID Z3 and reduces the amount of usable but we didn't need to go all the way there. RAID Z2, two drive failures and we're good. You know, we can survive that on here. Now the processor we want is the AMD FX8320E. That's the low wattage model because it just doesn't need a lot of horsepower. Now we did go with 32 gigs of RAM and the reason for that is with the RAM you want enough RAM. Roughly you have a gigabyte of RAM for each terabyte of hard drive space and that it's a rough rule of thumb you can get away with it being a little bit lower but what it creates is it loads all the tables in FreeNAS. The entirety of the drive and has it more accessible. So it's not just like caching but it's more of, hey here's an index of where all the things are and you start talking about 50, 60,000 files on the drive you want good fast access to that and FreeNAS can facilitate that.  When you first turn it on there's really nothing going on you'll see the RAM usage is low. As soon as you start copying files to it or from it it starts rising right up and it'll just eat up all the memory available to it. The FreeNAS uses ZFS. ZFS is a COW copy on write file system or COW as they call it. That is really, really fault tolerant and the way ZFS is designed it's just an amazing system. You can, matter of fact I'm gonna plug Michael Lucas I've met the guy I've been to his talks he wrote the book matter of fact two books on how ZFS works a great in depth you can learn about the resilient nature of the ZFS file system and I've even talked to engineers that worked at Ubuntu and they're like they like it some of their backend stuff does run on it because you can literally just shut it off. Like they don't have to worry about it right committing they can actually pull them out and just say, you know, boom and it's amazing it recovers perfectly fine. The we've had power failures at other places in our own ZFS and it's never once had it have a problem and we've replaced drives and rebuilt the RAID arrays in them. It's just can't say enough good things about it and that's really what matters is having a really good reliability on this. Now it's also with FreeNAS if you wanted to build something high performance and maybe sometime I'll get around the building one like this, you can set SSDs in front of these because these are only 5400 RPM drives you can put and you highly recommend putting these in a RAID array you can put basically caching drives in front of the other drives so that gives it a high speed spot to write and you can actually build a separate array of them and those ones you would have that would write back there. Now the risk of course would be if in the power failure and your cache drives haven't flushed out that's also why you would want them to be RAID but those are real specific high end configurations. For this one like I said we just went with those in the storage. Now the other thing we did and I'm gonna show you in the back here is we went with dual USB so these USB thumb drives when you install them you're running through the install you select both of the thumb drives for the install and then automatically goes okay you must want these in a mirror and it mirrors them for you so I can remove either one of them and it will still boot. Now if one of them fails, same thing it still boots up. Now I always recommend back up and download the configuration file which Freedance is really easy to set back up so if we ever had a problem we could just replace the board it doesn't care it's not particular about hardware like Windows is you can take the drives out as long as you have all the drives or at least enough of them you can rebuild the pool in another Freedance machine and it'll bring them all back in but also not having to worry about the thumb drives if one goes bad, alert comes up it says hey I can't find one of them and we've tested this it boots with either one individually but then it tells you that there's a re-syncing issue but then you plug them both back in and it re-syncs them in a way you go so it works really well for having that for redundancy and they're so inexpensive I mean these things are 10 bucks a piece so for 10 extra dollars you can have redundant mirrored RAID 1 thumb drives in there so let's get into the dock and kind of show you how that works too now they have this tiny little key and I know it's really small and it allows you to lock the drives so you can keep people from pulling it out but it's just mostly to keep you from accidentally ejecting the drive it doesn't really provide a lot of security in there so it's twist, you know, turn this way I bet you could probably put a pair of pliers and just, you know, put it in there's nothing real special about it so that comes there now the drives themselves slide out and it's really slick now you have, when you set them here you feel like I should be able to push it in but you don't have to you slowly close the dock and they snap in now I also feel like if there's a problem with the drive you can blow on it like a Nintendo cartridge because that's what it feels like to me when it goes in and out it's like, hey look, a Nintendo cartridge but this dock is nice I mean this is completely tool-less really it's tool-less I can take the drives in and out I can just slide the drive out here I can open a box for another one and yeah, you open a box and away you go now the way we lumber the drives to keep it simple there's six data ports and they refer to as 88-0 through 88-5 so we just started at zero at the top put the five at the bottom and we know which one so Freenast identifies a drive as bad we know exactly which one it is and we can find it in the dock now these docks are hot-swappable as well and you can do that without restarting the machine now another neat thing about the way Freenast works is this doesn't matter we can take the drives and we're gonna do a little rearrangement here shuffle them and Freenast just goes, okay they're all part of the same array so it doesn't have any issues it's not even even an error when it comes up with this it finds all the partitions it has the configuration file so swapping the drives, no big deal and if you gotta swap one out as long as it's the same equivalent size you can add it right back in the pool it rebuilds now only time you're gonna have a problem with that if you go with a drive smaller you're not gonna rebuild and I highly recommend going with all the same drives now in our consideration with Freenast when you're ordering these drives don't order them from all the same vendor at the same time the problem you run into is let's say there was a bad batch of drives and the vendors large scale you know New Age, Amazon wherever you're getting them from Micro Center they order batches at a time so if you have an entire large batch of drives and they were all bad that vendor may have an entire pile of them all bad but when you order from different vendors and different pools you'll find that the drives take they're different slightly different build dates so statistically and this is just a guessing game of course statistically less likely to fail so maybe on a certain day they had a bad run but that run went to one company and another run that was good went to another company from a different day and by mixing them up from different vendors unfortunately you always get the best price but with all that price matching we will get a good deal and now we have a variety of manufacturer dates speaking of which something we found interesting when looking at the drives even with different vendors most of these drives were let's see 2016, November and I think some of them were in October so these kind of sit around for a little while because this is June and like we literally I mean they just came in the other day so this is June 2017 so these drives have been sitting around for four or five months so we've been noticing that in some of the drives we think just some of the larger ones like the six terabyte they take a little while before they you know ship them out so that was kind of it for the build I can go in briefie cover to software and just kind of show you how you can figure the rate in there it's pretty straightforward I've done I think some videos on this before but I'll give you the rundown of it real quick and show you how you set up the array for RAID Z2 it's really easy alright so I'm in virtual box and the reason for that is to show you the install and do a clean, clear screen capture we're going to just run through the installer process here it's exactly the same on the desktop the only thing different we did on the desktop was we copied it to a USB drive to install it to the dual USB drives we could just as easily rip the ISO into a CD and boot it off a CD and do it either way it works virtual box doesn't support USB bootables so we just took the ISO and attached the ISO to one of the controllers and these are my FreeNAS Boot1 Boot2 and we're going to show you how to set up a RAID during install I like to make my installs really clean and capturing it this way looks way better than a camera or my shoulder and you're trying to read what's on the screen but once I go through the install then we'll jump over to the physical actual build and I'll walk you through how to set up the RAID array inside of there because that's all done through the web interface so let's get started now you never really want to install FreeNAS other than for testing purposes inside of a virtual machine like this it really wants direct access to the hardware just a little side note there for people wondering if, hey, should I run this in a virtualized environment not the most ideal you want FreeNAS to have bold direct access now this is actually nice because you can install or upgrade reboot system shutdown this is your standard menu installer but this is also for recovering a FreeNAS never had to do it I've never had one crash so bad that I couldn't just do this but, you know, select one or more drives where FreeNAS should be installed use the arrow keys now this is what I was talking about to select RAID there's no real configuration you need to do if you select two devices those devices become the rated devices as simple as that now they're all labeled in here ADA0 and ADA1 I believe in FreeNAS they're DA0 and DA1 which that is referring to the USBs in this case because they're all connected to the PCI bus now you can install FreeNAS to a hard drive but why would you? that's kind of a waste of hard drive you could use an older hard drive because you have it but then that's not as reliable go spend a few dollars on the USB and get two of them because, well, we've got these on sale for $6 each it just makes a lot more sense this will cause all ADA to be erased it's just letting you know yep we get to set a password I love when companies don't have default passwords on things when on installs because, well, people go I'll just leave it at default and no, that's a problem and then someone hacks you later because you left everything at default you have to use a password you can boot via UFI or BIOS depending on the motherboard setup I'm going to do BIOS I don't think VirtualBox says UFI very well not real sure on that never really tried now it's going to run through the installer and I'll fast forward through all this and that's it, completed installs relatively fast we're going to shut down so we can remove the CD and then you reboot FreeNAS just going to do normal boot up and I feel like waiting for the seconds to count down and now that's it so from here you can configure the network interfaces if you need to set it as static and things like that setup default routes VLAN interface link aggregation you can start getting into all the features here or do a reset the root password because somehow you forgot what she set it to and or just go right to the HTTP the address and get started with FreeNAS so it's kind of a nice thing is it tells you what IP address it got so you don't got to go digging for it but pretty much after this if you remember the password you set you can simply go to the IP address log in as a route in the password you set and get started with FreeNAS and that's where we're going to start now is we're actually go into the production machine and show you how we have it configured now before we switch over to the production machine now that we've run through the install I'm going to show you what it looks like to run the wizard now I don't usually run it but if you're just getting started it's a quick way to get a couple shares enabled in FreeNAS so we'll go ahead and set it to Detroit next now call pull name, we'll call it TestTank now automatic pick reasonable defaults good reliability under virtualization backups media RAID Z1 or logs RAID 0 which means just put all of them together now the wizard does a pretty good job I believe automatically it will probably pick a standard RAID Z2 for this one or a RAID Z1 for medium reliability and more storage now this is all about how many drives out of the pool can fail before there's a problem so we'll go ahead and just hit next and yes and just show you what the wizard does we're skipping active directory for this we'll call share name is our share test we're going to hit allow guest ownership if I added users we'll see they can have all the permissions and add next council messages I do like this on this is a show them in the footer down here so we'll go ahead and we're not gonna set up email right now confirm and with that it created the TestTank the share test and it's already turned on things like the if you go to services it already turned on SMB it also creates a window share with the same name all right so we're on the production machine it's all set up and configured so the first thing we want to do is switch it to HTTPS I don't care if it's your own internal network you feel it's a trusted network you I really recommend encrypting everything just have it I'll be in the habit of doing it it's a good security habit we're over here to a CA we have to create an internal CA so it's gonna give us you know the error but no big deal there we'll run through it real quick all right so now we have an internal CA now we can go create a certificate create internal search all right now we have our own internal certificate I'm gonna go back over here HTTPS and choose internal search hit save all right so now we have our you know course error because it's an internally sound certificate but you know like I said security that's important so having a certain error keeps it from passing everything through clear text so let's go to the boot and this is what I was talking about how you can see the default install reboot boot volume condition healthy now this is where you'll get an error if you have a problem like say when I show there was two thumb drives in this I keeps the status on there and it'll do a little alert and tell you the status of these go to advanced the things I like to turn on is you can turn off actually by default it's on this council menu like so if you didn't want anyone to walk up to the machine generally when we're putting these machines in there's no keyboard or mouse attached to them only in emergency cases show council messages in the footer I like this feature quite a bit it's just going to put everything at the bottom there enable auto tune this is a cool little feature not the auto tune music but what it does is it's going to have all the system tunables which are not populated by default it'll choose all the optimal configurations for this now I've never had a problem with it I'm always turning it on all the system tunables but if you do have problems turn that off there's not much it found in here it says generated by auto tune remember if it generates a couple more and reboot or not I always just turn it on in case there's anything I need to do or it needs to do in there updates by default already checked for being able to check there leave it at the stable don't accidentally choose this because if you choose a higher up it may not roll back properly matter of fact very likely it won't so there's kind of the basics for getting it set up now let's get to the important part the storage array so there's nothing in here know that nothing in the volume manager and you can see some deaths I don't know entries as we have none set up yet so we better in uh... we can import a volume if you were doing this and load and bring in other ones or you know the volume manager and let's set this up so this is here's our six drives and this is the system right here you can simply choose how you want the drives to be laid out so we go to raid z three we have a capacity of only sixteen gigs so yeah I'm sorry sixteen terabytes raid z would give us twenty seven terabytes but if any one drive fail that's it second try fails your loss raid z two gives us the twenty one point eighty two terabytes so we'll actually just call this drive uncreatively twenty one terabytes there's an encryption option give you a warning please read this you must back up the key you don't not back up the key and your thumb drives fail you are not getting back whatever's on that volume now I highly recommend encrypting the volume is one of the real reasons you encrypt it it's not you know just because you have personal stuff on there but a lot of people do but it's if you send those drives back where's the data going I know granted one drive fails they've only got enough data to maybe reassemble something but it's not worth the risk this way if a drive fails and you send it back there's no worry the drives encrypted and without that key they're not getting it so I highly recommend encryption but we're gonna show you how to back it up I highly recommend backing up the encryption key it's not hard to do but please store it in a safe place store it offline keep it somewhere wherever you need to keep it to make sure that you know if something happens you can get those drives back up and running if not you lose the key that's it now the volume is created these are just some of the council notifications that show up these are some of these show up on the council itself as well uh... whenever you create a volume so there's any errors you can look for me here this is also why I like the council being in a really accessible you just click this at the bottom and away you go so we can see it's uh... twenty one terabytes the raid z2 configuration so they're all in one large pool now designed a free nas I can't just add to this pool I can't just say let me throw another drive in and rebuild it it'll just add more magically there are a couple different uh... raid systems out there seen it have different options like that I think drobo has some uh... specialized raid system I'm very confident in the zfs file system a very confident in how it handles everything and so I'm fine with the fact that I can't expand it generally when I'm I build these I build out all the drives I'm going to put into a system and it's going to run for years until it's time to replace or upgrade that system now you can add this is just one set if you have like three more this is what we did in our machine we put in the four drives later we added a few more we have more expansion or you can get a card like a PCI card add more drives so you can add another volume you just can't change the existing by but easy solution copy everything from the original volume to the new one then remove it and now you can have the same system later on swap out bigger hard drives to it now this also is where you would replace a desk at a desk take a desk out of the pool uh... pretty straightforward if you had an extra disk you'll actually see an error on it would be offline you hit replace you would choose from the free pool i've got a separate video on how to swap out one of the uh... drives if they go bad so back over here storage now the next thing we're gonna do here is this is where we start setting up each one of the volumes now the way this company set up they have just one big share drive for the engineering team and that's who's going to be doing this so will this create one data set now we don't want to create a zeval that's different in the kind of special use which i won't get into for the most part you just want to be able to create data sets and will call it uh... shared drive shared drive and we're going to go ahead and add the data set now not going to be included in this video i'll do this as a separate video of the other they're going to be doing this with active directory integration so i'll do a whole separate videos of the i think they're that might be worthy of just a separate video in plus i don't have an active director to hook it up to you it's still at my office in testing here uh... part of the testing we do this is important to us because you don't realize your problems to start loading data i don't want to load the customer data and then learn a problem so we load test these and just find all kinds of stuff to put on there i've actually already went through one load test and then we actually just reset it again for the video uh... to make sure everything was good on this but load testing the machine is really really important so we dumped about four terabytes of data over to this drive destroyed it as in detached the array reset it then went and did it again and did it again so it's went through several uh... since we built it it's actually now been through a couple load tests and there was an error here we think we had a cdc cable loose unplugged plug it back in the error went away i did do some research and someone else had pointed out an error with these tries but there an error days it was one crc error so but we still keep an eye on everything to make sure it works all the distills show healthy and no issues at all alright so we have the drive set up they're configured and i had brought up making sure that you back everything up this is where you can get the keys now you can uh... rekey it and i think every time you add a uh... drive to the pool i think it automatically wants to rekey from not mistake and another video on that what we're gonna do right now is download the key because the key itself is not stored in the backup config so you have the backup config but you want to get this g l i dot key file it's really important to keep this dot key file there's really not much in this file either it's a very small little file keep it for the client because it will save you if ever everything happens this key g l l g l i key is stored within the usb drives if for some reason even though they're mirrored they fry the usb bus fries you're like oh cool i'm just gonna rebuild the box and import the volume you won't import the volume at all if you don't have that key even if you have the backup config so we go here to system general and we save the config here key is not in here just all the settings for free naster in here so you could end up in a lot of trouble you're like oh i don't have it well you have twenty one terabytes of encrypted information at that point if you didn't have it so just a side note make sure you back up that key and a backup of this storm in a safe place once you have this thing up and running go okay i got it configured and i'm gonna put my important things on it uh... do that configuration on there maybe next time i'll get in more in depth if there's some interest in how to set the shares and things like that it's not too hard to do uh... but thanks for watching if you like the content here like like and subscribe uh... if you have questions about the pre-nast bill reach out to me and uh... will cover any more questions or give you a more in-depth video on certain things on free nast thanks for watching


Hi friends today. We're going to be doing another dupes video. This is cheaper and better This is high-end or luxury makeup that I replaced with drugstore makeup, and I have so much fun doing this So if you're new to my channel, thank you so much for stopping by I hope that you do decide to stay a while and Subscribe don't forget to hit the bell icon also so that you can be notified of any future videos that I upload Immediately when I do upload them and if you've been here for a while again Thank you so much for being a part of my youtube family and everyone Would you please just take a second and give the video that thumbs up it does help my video out so very much to get generated more And I do appreciate it very much So let's get into that drugstore dupes right now I am super excited about this because I think this might be my best dupes video so far I don't know. I've had so many and I will link a playlist down in the description box I'd love doing this and I specifically buy high-end makeup just so that I can dup it for you guys because I feel like a Lot of these products. They are easily dupable at the drugstore now granted There are some that are just really really good products And you don't necessarily want to go out and look for them at the drugstore But I would tell you that if they were and I feel like paying Like $50 versus $10 for something is a huge difference for most of us, especially in the times that we live in So what I'm gonna start with is one that I was really surprised by because I didn't expect this at all And it is from Becca and this is called the anti-fatigue under eye primer And I think this is a really nice product. I have had a little bit of a problem using this I'll just tell you guys that right off the bat when you put your finger in this If it's very siliconey, you can feel this dimethicone or the silicone in it. So it has that slip I don't really find that it has the anti-fatigue or you know deep puffs or whatever that you're kind of talking about But it does have a nice slip to it So if you're gonna use it underneath your eyes or if you already love it You know that you need a very small amount So just kind of pat your finger in there and really lightly dab underneath your eyes So I have found that on winter months. This is great I don't necessarily use this in the summer months Because it just kind of makes things as I get my hot flashes and I'm really really warm and I sweat Kind of makes things crease a little bit more But in the winter, I do love it, but it's an expensive little number. It's like 30 something dollars for this So the other day I was perusing Ulta and I thought Oh my goodness. So this one is from jcat beauty. This is the eye assurance Anti-fatigue under eye priming corrector or primer And this one you guys is Really exactly like it. I mean, I'm sticking my fingers in here. It does actually feel just a little bit more of that slip So it almost feels like it just isn't quite as dry as the Becca one is if that makes sense But at the same time you guys this is this is an identical product I mean look at the color that they chose. Look at the Becca one. I mean, uh-huh The the green doesn't show up just so you know, it doesn't show up. It goes on very clear Here's my fingers and I can't swatch it for you. There's nothing on there That would show up. It's very clear But you guys if you've been wanting to try this and you're like, I can't afford the big bucks Then try this jcat one because for real you guys, it's really truly just the exact same product So I just found that one and I was like, yay, that's so cool The next one I happened to cross very much by accident.  It just really looks gorgeous on the skin and basically It is a very sheer almost a hydrating product when you put it on You could use it, you know on top of your cheeks if you want to as your makeup You know as your highlighter for your makeup But mostly this is used as a primer or something that makes your skin look very dewy and very Luminous this is a little travel size or trial size that I got of the new physicians formula spotlight primer Same exact theory Although I feel like this one is probably just I can't get a tiny amount of that out This one is probably just a tiny bit more luminous than the other one And they all they both look really luminous and one's right here you guys I kind of put the becker one right here and then this one right here is the physicians formula I really like it you guys. I think it's a really great product But again, you know what I think that they are exact I mean, I don't think that this one is better than this one. They dry down the same way They feel very hydrating the same way each one does you don't need as much as the pump puts out That's one thing both of these kind of have the drawback is I feel like you could use like a half a pump So keep that in mind as you're pumping it out. You don't need a full pump I don't anyway need a full pump of it But I really like this and I really liked that physicians formula duped it and I feel like they got it spot on Now the loryalumiglossian is the one that I showed last for this one And I do really like the loryal one But this one gives you another choice in case you hadn't picked that other one up seems like everybody's finally hit that bandwagon So I think that's great. Okay, you guys. I finally did it I finally bit the bullet and I got the charlotte tailberry airbrushed flawless finish setting powder Okay, it is an extremely fine powder you guys. I can see what everybody's talking about. It's super duper creamy It's super fine. The hype is real you guys. I do feel like that is the case here This dupe is not my dupe just so you guys know, but I felt like because it is such a popular product It's such a cult favorite that I wanted to share this dupe with you This actually comes from jessica brawn and she's the one that actually said this in the beginning I thought that the flower beauty would be a nice dupe for it or had been told that it would have been nice dupe for it And I still kind of feel like that. So keep that one in mind the flower beauty light illusion is a good dupe for it So jessica brawn, she's the one that talked about the number seven lift and illuminate Pressed powder and I really do think she hit it you guys Because this powder is such a nice soft powder. It's not quite as buttery as the charlotte tailberry is But it's really darn close you guys And I think that it's one of those ones that you could be very happy with if you chose this Instead of the charlotte tailberry and I'm also going to show you what ounce for ounce It works out to be because the charlotte tailberry has hardly anything in here now Granted the packaging isn't the same, but I'm telling you that this packaging I feel like is a little bit nicer than the charlotte tailberry I don't know. It just feels a little weightier, but some people really like this gold packaging as well So honestly you guys I think that you can really save a lot of money with this one that jessica's talked about in her video All right, so for a long time My very favorite eyeliner that was a felt tip pan was cap on d trooper And I've kind of gone over to stila. I like stila's a lot You can get them Usually you can get them on the alt is 21 days of beauty for half off And my black one had more had gone out and I had a ton of other Black ones that were drugstore. So I kind of picked up this brown one to see, you know, if I liked it as well I love this pin Let me show you the pin see how fine that little tip is And really that's what I need to go such a tight line across my upper mascara line or my upper eyelashes there And it does it gives the teeniest tiniest line Hopefully you guys can see that it gives just such a tiny line It doesn't like drip out or anything like that and I love that about it But you guys recently elf and it says it's new on their website So i'm just going by that if if it's been out for a while I apologize, but recently elf came out with theirs in a waterproof formula And that's what I love about the stila is it really is very long lasting stays on your eyes forever Well, this elf one does just about the same thing you guys and that one is going to look a little thicker and a little bit wider because this one is a brand new and the stila's one is A little bit like about a year old or so But anyway, I feel like the two of these and the way they perform on my eyes are exactly the same But I think this one is like six dollars whereas this one is 20 something So I feel like this is a huge dupe that is so good So if you're looking for something to kind of step into And wanting the same great quality as the stila one I really feel like the elf one has duped it out and it's really really a good one I'm wearing it on my eyes today. So we're going to talk about this product right here, which is benefits roller lash This is a great mascara for lifting separating and keeping your curl And that's what this really was designed for at the beginning when they first brought this out was really keeping that curl nice And I like this mascara a lot now I can't wear this on my bottom lashes because it does have a tendency to smudge just a tiny bit But I do like the way that it makes my top lashes look and I like that it separates it gives that curl That really helps them stay up all day and I really like that about it But I think that I like my Maybelline lash sensational better now. This is in the waterproof formula So if I put this on my bottom lashes, this does not smudge all over and as you can see it does basically have that same curled Um wand to it, which I do like that wand I feel like you can get it down in the corners really good on both of them And I feel like this gives the same properties as far as keeping that curl during the day Lifting separating and you can get quite a good length out of it as well The nice thing about this one is that it does come in the waterproof formula And I don't have to worry about any smudging or anything during these hot summer months So in my mind, even though it does the same thing as far as these two goes This one wins out because there's no smudging And I will say that this has to have some sort of a waterproof eye makeup remover Sephora has a really good one. My favorite one is by good molecules It's their balm and I also love the hot alaba, which I'll try to list all those below So you have some options for a waterproof remover, but this is so good. You guys I really love it and I feel like absolute dupe a little bit ago cover FX is no longer affiliated with sephora So they had everything half off when everything opened back up. And so I just happened upon a sephora I just did the right time and I got tons of things that were half off and I was like, this is cool So they have a corrector and it is in a stick formula right there. And this is the peach They had several different colors, but because I use peach the most I wanted to give this a try This is a very soft product as far as putting down that peach. It just puts it down in a balm like manner It's almost like a lipstick cream almost maybe almost like a satin But it goes down really easy on there and I really like it It does a really good job of covering those really back dark circles before I put on my concealer Just really really like this a lot and I did fall in love with it But I realized that I can't use that all the time and the other thing is is that during the summer months It has a tendency to be a little bit slippery And so I don't know if I like it as much during the summer months as I did when it wasn't so hot But you guys I've talked about this on my channel before and I feel like not only is this a dupe in color But it's a dupe in formula, but I think it's a step above and I'll tell you why Because when you use this you're getting the same color as the cover FX one This is a little bit thinner of a formula So what you're going to get is you're going to get something that will set down and not mix with your concealer So I put this on in a very I actually put them both on in a very thin Coat across my under eyes and I tap it out and then I let it set But I find that once I go in with my concealer the LA girl one Let me turn that around the LA girl one has completely sat down Whereas the cover FX one it might Just kind of mix with the concealer a little bit. So I actually don't think this is a dupe I actually think this is better than the cover FX one even though I like that and I like the emollience of it I feel like because this one sits down. I don't have any problems with it through the day increasing So I actually feel like this is better than this one. And then speaking of concealer So many of you myself included love the Too Faced Born This Way multi sculpting concealer I really do like this stuff you guys and I love how much they give you But I decided a while ago that Too Faced wasn't a company that I really could appreciate like I used to so I actually kind of Stopped buying from them and I'm really sad because this is one that I feel like is Just such a great concealer for mature eyes as far as a higher end concealer And you do get a lot in here and I really appreciate that about it too. So it's got a huge doe foot applicator, which I think is great And like I said, it does have a lot of product in here However, I have been looking for a dupe for it for a long time And I think I finally came up with trying all of my other concealers and seeing if I could find a dupe And that is with the elf camo concealer You guys this is such a dang good concealer And I actually put it in my top five at the drugstore concealers The doe foot applicator is a little bit bigger and I think that this one performs exactly like it I have this one on this side this one on this side and Honestly, you guys it wears the same throughout the day. It does really well with mature eyes It doesn't do a lot of creasing and if you give it a few minutes before you actually go in with powder You're going to like it a little bit better because it's going to sit down even more And it's hydrating too and I think that might be what this one is It's just a tiny bit creamier without being too drying and I love the elf for that So if you guys have wondered about this, but you couldn't step into this price tag Try the elf camo concealer. I really love it. This is the hydrating one by the way I want to make sure I say that because it definitely is different than the original formula And this is definitely different than tart shape tape. So that original one is actually just list this here Why don't I do that the original one for tart shape tape? If you guys have used that you love it the elf camo concealer dupes that one But this one is going to dupe the two faced one in the hydrating formula So another one that I just thought was a really really great dupe. Okay, this one is the last one But it's probably the one I'm super excited about because I didn't even have to search for it. It was like it was just there I recently picked up a lipstick from buxom and this is their let's see What is this called rock star and it is this beautiful plumbing purple color Rich formula that I think is so great. I don't have anywhere to put it rich formula that I think is so pretty On the skin for anybody that loves cool toned lipsticks. It's like a kind of a fuchsia Mauve pink color so very very cool toned But I think that anybody has a neutral tone You could definitely wear it and if you're somebody that loves like purpley toned mauve tone lipsticks You can definitely do this. I love the the texture of it. It's super creamy super buttery I feel like it just was absolutely gorgeous when I first put it on I put it on and I looked at my husband. I said, I know it the dupus for this immediately Duped in color and texture and the way it wears you guys all three of those and this is the Maybelline ellipse sensational and this is on the mauve. I have worn on the mauve forever And I was looking at this and I'm like no way this can't be a dupe for it I put it on there and I'm like, holy slowly. It is a dupe for it I was so excited about that you guys it is Just the texture of it. It wears the same way It's a cream lipstick the same way and I just think they're so pretty and I love both of them But I was excited to be able to bring you that the Maybelline is exactly the same I know that once it gets on your lips, there's no way to tell a difference in either one of them This might be a little bit more saturated with its color. I don't know probably not But I do love that I found that and I was so excited to be able to share it with you guys It was one of those ones that I was like, yes, I found a really really good dupe So definitely love both of those but think that the Maybelline if you can't afford a Buxom lipstick because they can get pricey is really good. So that is it for today's video That's my cheaper and better things that I found at the drugstore that replaced my high-end products And I hope that you did like it and again, please don't forget to give this This video a thumbs up so that it can help my video. I do appreciate you helping out my channel so very much You guys, I hope you're all doing well. I hope everybody is staying in and staying healthy It's very warmer. I am and it's supposed to get warmer And I hope that everybody's staying safe. Stay sanitized. Stay hydrated And I will catch you guys all in my very next video. Love you much. Bye. Bye