George Crump wrote introductionary blog post about scale-out storage - which provides data centers the ability to create infrastructures that can scale to meet the capacity demands of hyper-scale environments. He focuses on the challenge involving storage scale in docker environments.
The problem is that most scale-out architectures, whether they are dedicated to storage or share CPU with application and services, are hard set to the amount of CPU power they will use per node.
Project Longhorn
Storage compute challenge in hyperconverged architectures is more obvious in container environment with potentially thousands of new instances. Project Longhorn is a block storage system. It essentially containerizes each block storage volume into a dedicated controller, and runs each controller on the same host the storage is consumed.
Project Longhorn is 100% open source software. It takes data protection very seriously - and it is not just for docker. How? Read more …
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