Paper Title: Managing Flash in OpenSDS for Cloud-Native Frameworks

Paper Abstract: Cloud-native frameworks are becoming a common way to deploy scalable micro-services. However, the framework must have a way to manage flash memory so it can assign it properly to individual tasks via containers. In the Linux Foundation OpenSDS project, a unified software-defined storage control plane does the job. It handles both on-premises and cloud-based micro-services. The control plane can manage both NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)-based storage. A case study illustrates the architecture for a Kubernetes-based application. The project plans to provide more extensive flash manageability in future years.

Paper Author: Steven Tan, VP & CTO Cloud Solution for Storage, Huawei

Author Bio: Steven Tan is VP/CTO Cloud Solution for Storage at Huawei, where he is responsible for solution technologies, architecture, and ecosystem for its family of storage products and cloud services. He is also a co-founder, and the chair of the Technical Steering Committee for the Linux Foundation OpenSDS Project, an industry wide open-source project focused on developing tools for software-defined storage (SDS). Before joining Huawei, he was VP Engineering at ProphetStor, a pioneer in SDS. He has also been CTO/co-founder at Cloudena, a developer of cloud-based desktop virtualization with object storage, and VP Engineering at CipherMax, where he led the development of SAN fabric security switches and directors. He is a regular speaker at major industry conferences, including Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, and OSCON. He earned a joint Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree from Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore.