Hi Dawn, Not a stupid question at all, a very relevant question. Storage disaggregation is one of THE key use cases we have built Crail for. The goal is to enable existing data processing platforms frameworks to perform efficiently on remote storage (remote as seen from the compute nodes). This is not straight forward because most frameworks like hadoop, spark, etc.., have been designed explicitly to take advantage of local storage. In Crail, due to the low-latency high-throughput data access, storage disaggregation becomes feasible even for such frameworks.
In terms of configuration there is nothing in particular that needs to be done, except that Crail permits you to put the storage nodes remote to the compute nodes. Both the NVMf and DRAM/RDMA tier are suitable for this. With regard to NVMf, there are storage enclosure that pack plenty of flash into a single box and export an NVMf interface, these boxes can also be used out-of-the box with the Crail NVMf tier. -Patrick On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Dawn Shepherd <dawnshepherd0...@icloud.com> wrote: > How about Crail's ability to support disaggregated storage? I will be > grateful if someone can tell me the detail. Thank you.
