Abstract

GARCIA PERELLADA, Lilia R.; GARCIA DIAZ, David; DIAZ CRESPO, Arturo N.  and  GAROFALO HERNANDEZ, Alain A.. Free and Open Source Software Defined Storage Solutions. EAC [online]. 2021, vol.42, n.1, pp. 58-73.  Epub May 17, 2021. ISSN 1815-5928.

The design of storage systems based on solutions defined by software and hardware Commercial Off-The-Shelf is currently a trend; therefore, the selection of the software solution is a key task for the project success. However, this process today can be complex and / or superficial, due to the differences in the academic and industrial fields regarding their preferences, criteria, selection procedures and evaluation tests of these solutions. This scenario is exacerbated for free and open source software solutions, and for entities with limited budgets, since most of the internationally renowned consultants only include proprietary solutions in their reports, or a payment is needed to access the published analyzes. Given the problematic situation, the present work identifies and proposes a characterization of the main free and open source storage defined software solutions for small and medium enterprises. The proposal constitutes a tool that speeds up and facilitates the process of designing storage systems. It impacts in the reduction of the design time, as well as in the projects’ capital investments and in the operating expenses once the storage systems are in operation.

Keywords : storage systems; design; characterization; SDS; Ceph; GlusterFS; FreeNAS.

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