Sunday 15 September 2019

Miscellaneous - My reference
  •  Deduplication Compression Erasure Coding
    • Deduplication - fingerprints using sha-1
    • Compression - lz4(inline) lz4ha(postprocess)
    • EC - generally post process. Logic built inside the system initiates migration from RF2/RF3 to EC.
      • For frequently access data avoid deduplication and compression as both of them are resource intensive
      • VDI workload and backup good for dedupliaction
      • regular files good for compression
      • CAD files bad for compression
      •  High IO requirement do not use EC.
    • For EC minimum 4 nodes. vSAN implemented only in All-Flash  Nutanix is implemented with hybrid as well.  Same is true with compression and deduplication.
    • For large block say 16KB(Nutanix) it is less resource intensive to perform deduplication than 4KB (like solidfire and NetApp)
  • RF2-FTT1 2 copies of data is maintained  and 3 copies of metadata and configuration is maintained. Can withstand 1 disk or node failure.
  • RF3-FTT3 3 copies of data is maintained and 5 copies of metadata and configuration is mainatained. Can withstand 2 disk or 2 node failure. (For nutanix with RF3 storage container can be Replication factor of 2 or Replication factor of 3. No RF changes to EC enabled storage container)
  • FTT 1 Raid 1 - minimum 3 nodes
  • EC Raid 5 - minimum 4 nodes 
  • ESXi and NTNX boot partition remain unencrypted. SEDs support encrypting individual disk partitions selectively using the “BAND” feature (a range of blocks).

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