Rexray is a container storage orchestration engine enabling persistence for cloud native workloads rexrayrexray. By default, each node gets installed with dell emc scaleio software. So there should be a proper way to configure rex ray with multiple storages scaleio and isilon. Rexray is a container storage orchestration engine enabling persistence for cloud. Realize the power of containers with scaleio and rexray software for storage and infrastructure kendrick coleman and brian dean dell. Entitled rexray, it has grown to become the first stable, working. Reading through this document, it didnt seem to me that rex ray supports multiple storage configuration. Realize the power of containers with scaleio and rexray. Configuration happens automatically to have a fully redundant scaleio. New rexray enhancementsemc code also announced rexray 0. Original idea of this code is based on code by dellemc description. New emc code projects broaden emcs open source contributions emc continues forward momentum in open source, introducing polly for storage. With rexray, dell backs the container storage interface spec.
Each environment quickstart has key pieces of software that allow handson experience with rex ray and popular container technologies such as docker, mesos with marathon, and kubernetes in conjunction with different storage platforms like dell emc scaleio and amazon elastic block store along with the container storage interface. The isilon driver registers a storage driver named isilon with the libstorage service registry and is used to connect and manage isilon nas storage. How container schedulers and softwaredefined storage will. Software based storage like dell emc scaleio, combined with rex ray, gives users the freedom to support docker, mesos, and kubernetes environments with enterpriseclass, persistent storage. The reference architecture combines dell emcs scaleio ready nodes the combination of scaleio softwaredefined block storage and dell poweredge servers. This would be useful if you are deploying the rex ray binary on a host that does not. Entry and midrange storage enterprise storage allflash storage software defined storage storage management and. Persistent applications with rexray and scaleio using. Also you can try docker volume plugin rex ray under the scaleio environment. However, in rex ray faq page, they clearly state that rex ray supports multiple storage configuration like below. Emc also announced a new release of its rexray storage orchestration engine.
One solution that works really well with rex ray is dell emcs scaleio software defined block storage. We have developed an environment to showcase persistent applications using scaleio, rexray and docker. Dell emc and mesosphere publish reference architecture for. Create a volume the following example illustrates creating a volume. Rexray is an open source project driven by emc code that delivers persistent storage access for. Reference architecture deploy enterprise dcos with scaleio and rex ray and rex ray enables enterprise customers it and digital business transformation through trusted hybrid cloud and bigdata solutions, built upon a modern data center infrastructure incorporates industryleading. For the purposes of the examples the ebs plugin will be demonstrated, but each example would work for any of the plugins above. As all things in the world of technology and software, things dont always go as planned. When rexray implements multidomainpool capabilities, this code will. Organizations are using containers to revolutionize and accelerate application deployment but often struggle with persistent applications. Rex ray acts as the glue between the container platform and scaleio a software defined storage solution that provides block level storage services on commodity hardware.
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