Mr Swe Aung1, Dr Shahaan Ayyub
1Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) provides a flexible framework for colocating compute and storage components for Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers. An HCI implementation tightly packs CPUs and block storage, providing lower operational and financial costs by leveraging low utilisation of the CPU cores in cloud environments. We experienced faster disk performance than the traditional network share filesystems such as NFS. We consolidated fast local disks on the hypervisors as part of the larger Ceph storage pool to optimise storage utilisation. This also resulted in lesser rack space and fewer dedicated storage servers in the infrastructure. In this presentation, we will discuss how our HCI based IaaS setup benefited Monash Research Cloud in devising a more reliable and low operational overhead.
Biography:
Swe Aung
Swe Win Aung has been working for Monash eResearch Centre for over 10 years. Swe delivers computing resources to researchers and provides innovative computing and storage infrastructures which underpins various research platforms in Monash such as Research Cloud, HPC, ASPREE, SeRP, ACEMID, Bioinformatics and etc.
Dr. Shahaan Ayyub
Dr.Shahaan Ayyub has more than 6 years of experience in developing and operating Nectar Cloud infrastructure, including architecting bespoke PaaS solutions for researchers. He has also worked for 4 years on developing and administering a Hybrid High-Performance Computing platform. His PhD thesis involved developing computational models, scheduling algorithms and simulators for distributed (Grid Computing) platforms.