The time is now to begin or expand on your container strategy
Today, Veritas enters the container storage ecosystem with the announcement of a new open source software solution that allows customers to package applications in “containers” for portability as well as gain predictable and consistent performance, through policies.Read the announcement!Predictable performance with containerized applications
Its time containers prove their worth with stateful applications. The persistent storage for containers has to be as dynamic and mobile as the containerized applications themselves. The storage should be as predictable as traditional storage (SAN/NAS based) while being as agile as containers themselves.
Container Webinar This Week
The IT sphere is abuzz with excitement regarding microservices and containers. We certainly saw the interest in this hot trend at our recent Veritas Vision 2016 event in Las Vegas where John Willis (@botchagalupe) from Docker presented a very informative session. Practitioners worldwide are attracted by the promise containers hold for enabling their DevOps ambitions. My colleague, Chad Thibodeau (@cthibodeau2) will be helping present a webinar this week that will explain containers, implications for storage management and discuss key takeaways from DockerCon 2016 that was held in Seattle.
Veritas Storage Services for Containers: Pull & Run
NOTE: This is a tecnology preview demo In this demo I am going to show you how simple is to provide persistent storage for containers using Veritas Storage Services. This simplicity needs to be aligned to the agility provided by Docker to deploy new applications in seconds. Storage management cannot prevent that agility, and that needs to start with the deployment and configuration itself. With Veritas Storage Services for Containers, all the storage management enterprise capabilities are provided within a container format. This is what we call pull & run. Customers only need to pull the image from the repository and run it on their servers. This is just a two-step process, where the image, once it is run, will create a storage cluster with other images in order to provide resiliency and visibility of the data. When running Docker Swarm to start services, data locality is no longer an issue as Veritas Storage Services will automatically provide the access to the persistent data from any node. You can directly interact yourself with this new technical preview during our VISION 2016 Conference at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas by attending the Hands-on Lab Datacenters in a box via containerized applications, and learn not only how to provide persistent storage but how to create a Docker Swarm, how drain containers from nodes with independence of storage location and how to create resiliency configurations that survive node failures. Also attend the session where Chad Tibodeau and I will be talking about Veritas vision to confidently transition to containers and stop by the pod to see more demos and interact with new features. Hope to see you in Vegas. Safe travels! Watch de Demo Carlos & Chad.Docker Persistent Storage: From Laptop to the Cloud
Persistent Storage for Containers is just another service that should be available via Docker images. The same agility, control and portability that containers provide should be available when using storage, no matter that storage is your local disk drive at your laptop or your new shiny flash array.Say Goodbye to the Noisy Neighbor when Using Docker
One of the major challenges with any kind of virtualization is to have the ability to provide enough and consistent performance to the different applications that will be running. When Virtual Machines emerged, we started seeing problems at the storage layer termed as the Noisy Neighbor problem.What are your needs for persistent storage with Docker?
In a few days you will hear about a new version for our Docker Plug-in for InfoScale where we take advantage of new InfoScale 7.1 capabilities to provide quality of service and avoid the noisy neighbour problem. That means you will no longer have to worry about those uncontrolled applications that suddenly start affecting the performance of others.
Quality of Service - Maxiops SLA
Data centers today service multiple independent applications which share storage resources. Unless applications are completely isolated from one another, whenever they vie for a shared resource, contention occurs. Each of these applications often require predictable quality of service.
