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Page 1: © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM Systems IBM and Business Partner use only. Not for use with customers DS5020 Disk System DS5300/DS5100 Enhancements Road show

© 2009 IBM Corporation IBM SystemsIBM and Business Partner use only. Not for use with customers

DS5020 Disk System

DS5300/DS5100 Enhancements

Road show presentation

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What’s Coming

• DS5020 Disk System

• DS5300 / DS5100 enhancements

Maximize productivity with lower costs

£€$¥£$¥$

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IBM Entry-Level And Midrange Storage Positioning

SMB / Entry-level Workgroup Department Data Center HPC

• SAS, iSCSI connectivity• DAS/shared DAS/IP SAN• Simple management• Snapshot replication

• iSCSI, FC connectivity• Shared DAS, small SAN• Simple management• Snapshot replication

• FC, iSCSI connectivity• Homogeneous SANs• Performance value• Configuration flexibility• Local/remote data

replication

• FC connectivity• Heterogeneous SANs• Highest performance• Configuration flexibility • Local/remote data

replication

• FC connectivity• System clusters• GPFS• Maximum bandwidth• Capacity density

DS3200, DS3300, DS3400• FC, SAS, iSCSI connectivity• SAS, SATA drives• Partitioning, FlashCopy, VolumeCopy

DS4700 ► DS5020, DS4800 ► DS5100• FC, iSCSI connectivity• FC, FDE, SATA drives• Partitioning, FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, ERM

DS5300 • FC, iSCSI connectivity• FC, FDE, SATA, SSD drives• Partitioning, FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, ERM

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DS5020 Disk System – Overview

• Four 8 Gbps FC interfaces

• Four additional optional interfaces• 8 Gbps FC or 1 Gbps iSCSI

• Up to 112 drives in EXP520• FC, FDE, SATA

• 2 or 4 GB of cache• Mirrored, battery-backed, destaged to flash

• Premium features:• Encryption, Partitioning (128), FlashCopy (8),

VolumeCopy, Enhanced Remote Mirroring (64)

• Investment protection• Feature key for migration of EXP810s

• 3 year, 9x5, NBD warranty

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Next-generation 8 Gbps FC interfaces provide future proofing investment protection and infrastructure simplification

DS5020 Value Propositions

4 Gbps FC Switches 8 Gbps FC Switches

• Seamless integration with existing 2 or 4Gb SANs, designed for 8Gb

DS4700

Up to 45% reduction in infrastructure costs

$

4 Gbps 8 Gbps

DS5020

vs.

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DS5020 Value Propositions

8 Gbps FC interfaces provide the bandwidth needed to satisfy the large aggregate workloads created by consolidation

Everything completes faster

• Datasets load faster

• Backup jobs complete faster

• Restores complete faster

• Remote mirrors synch faster

Crucial for mixed workloads

• Speed for transactional

• Bandwidth for sequential

8 Gbps FC delivers 2X

the bandwidth

of 4 Gbps

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Up to 57% reduction in infrastructure costs

DS5020 Value Propositions

Mixed host interfaces support (FC / iSCSI) enables SAN tiering

• Use interface best suited for the server and/or I/O type

• Acquisition and operational costs savings for secondary servers

Production servers on 8 Gbps FC SAN

Secondary servers on 1 Gbps IP SAN

$

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Performance Drives Productivity / Efficiencies

Improve productivity

• Linearly scalable performance to match growth and maintain SLAs

Simplify the infrastructure

• Relentless performance supports the concurrent workloads created and demanded by large consolidations

Lower acquisition, support and operational costs

• Efficient performance reduces the number of drives needed to meet demands

$

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DS5020 Value Propositions

Exceptional performance value ideal for growing environments

IOP

S

Drives

Linear Scalability

• Add drives = add IOPS

• Responsive for transactional apps

DS4700 vs. DS5020

Over 20% more IOPS per watt and 50% more MB/s per watt $

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One DS5020~ 3.9TB on 15K FC drives~ 21 TB on SATA II drives

• Up to 62% decreasein power / cooling

• Up to 63% reduction in rack space

DS5020 Value Propositions

Balanced performance designed for virtualization/consolidation

• Data warehousing

• Mixed workloads

• Consolidation

IOP

S

MB/s

Balanc

ed P

erfo

rman

ce

• Equally adept at IOPS and MB/s

• Required for mixed workloads

Four DS4300s~ 3.8TB on 10K FC drives~ 21 TB on SATA I drives

$

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DS5020 Value Propositions

Built-in efficiencies lower acquisition and operational costs

• Meet performance / capacity demands with minimum raw capacity

• 8 Gb/s FC interfaces• Half the number of channels / ports

• Exceptional per-drive performance• Up to 25% fewer drives

• Enclosure-based intermixing of FDE, FC and SATA drives• Up to 25% lower drive enclosure costs

• Seamless, online, “pay-as-you-grow” scalability as requirements change

$

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99.999% availability

DS5020 Value Propositions

Field-proven technology protects data and delivers it when needed

• Fully-redundant I/O path from host to drives with automated failover

• Proactive drive health monitoring identifies problem drives before they cause problems

• Media scan with automated parity correction

• Self-encrypting drives secure data throughout the drive’s lifecycle

• Hardware-assist RAID 6

• Embedded loop switches for enable advanced diagnostics

• Extensive diagnostic data capture and statistics collection

• Data cache is battery backed, mirrored, destaged on power loss

• Global Hot Spares• Health check, rebuild options

=Productivity

$

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Platform for future product transformation

DS5020 Value Propositions

• Advanced replication• Continuous snapshots• Internal mirroring• Immediate clones

• Solid State Drives (SSD)

• Virtualization• Thin provisioning• Storage pooling

$• Product refresh

will add new functionality and increased efficiencies

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256

DS530062,243 SPC-1 IOPS@ 256 drives (~ 14ms)

DS4800

45,015 SPC-1 IOPS @ 224 drives (~ 15 ms)

DS5020

26,090 SPC-1 IOPS @ 80 drives (~ 10 ms)

DS4700

17,195 SPC-1 IOPS @ 64 drives (~ 26 ms)

SPC-1 IOPS Performance

80

40K

20K

60K

Response time at 100% workload. Max allowed is 30 ms.

Drives

IOP

S

50% performance gain20% more IOPS per drive

60% response time decrease

DS5020DS5020vs. DS4700vs. DS4700

Results not released

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DS53005,631 SPC-2 MB/s@ 128 drives

DS4800

1,381 SPC-2 MB/s @ 60 drives

DS5020

1,247 SPC-2 MB/s @ 30 drives

DS4700

823 SPC-2 MB/s @ 30 drives

SPC-2 MB/s Performance

6030

2K

5K

128Drives

MB

/s

50% throughput increaseDS5020DS5020vs. DS4700vs. DS4700

Results not released

Results not released

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DS5020 / DS4700 Specification Comparison

Dual-controller system (unless noted) D S 4 7 0 0 D S 5 0 2 0

Host interfaces optionsFour 4 Gb/s FC; or

Eight 4 Gb/s FCFour 8 Gb/s FC; or Eight 8 Gb/s FC; or

Four 8 Gb/s FC & four 1 Gb/s iSCSI

Redundant drive channels Four 4 Gb/s Four 4 Gb/s

Max drives 112 FC/SATA 112 FC/FDE/SATA

RAID Processor Intel xScale 667MHz 80% Intel xScale 1.2 GHx

Bus Technology PCI-X (1GB/s) PCI-Express x8 (4 GB/s)

Internal controller bandwidth

2 GB/s300%

8 GB/s

Cache memory (min/max) 2 GB / 4 GB 2 GB / 4 GB

Cache IOPS 120,000 IOPS 67% 200,000 IOPS

Disk Read IOPS 40,000 IOPS 25% 50,000 IOPS

Disk Read MB/s 980 MB/s 60% 1,600 MB/s

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DS5020 Advantages Over DS4700

• Improved performance – efficiency, scalability, bandwidth• 20% more SPC-1 IOPS per drive• 50% more SPC-1 IOPS at 25% higher drive count• 50% more SPC-2 MB/s

• Next-generation host ports and multi-protocol support• Backwards and forwards investment protection with 8 Gbps FC• Tiered SAN with FC/iSCSI intermix

• Improved data security / protection• Self-encrypting drives. Cache destage to flash.

• Platform for future transformation• SSDs, thin provisioning, pooling, continuous snapshots, etc.

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DS5300 / DS5100 New Features

• Solid State Drives

• 1 Gbps iSCSI host card

• EXP5060 high-density enclosure

• 32 and 64 GB cache options

• 448 drives on DS5100

• IBM i native host attach

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Solid State Drives

• STEC Zeus-IOPS FC SSD• 73 GB capacity• Recognized leader for external storage• Meet our enterprise drive requirements

• SSD benefits• Increased small-block I/O performance – up to 80X• Lower power usage – up to 80% decrease • Dramatic reduction in system space for equivalent I/O

$

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DS5300 / DS5100 SSD Implementation

• Up to 20 SSDs• Enough to meet most requirements

• Support for intermixing with other drive types within enclosure• Optimal enclosure utilization reduces costs• Optimal drive loop utilization to maximize performance

• Best practices are to spread across drive enclosures / loops• Eight loop pairs enable efficient SSD utilization

without over-saturating backend

$

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iSCSI Host Card

• Dual-ported 1 Gbps iSCSI host card• Feature code: 2060

• IOPS < 10% performance drop compared to FC• 98,000 IOPS* random disk reads. 23,000 IOPS* random disk writes.

• MB/s ~ 85% performance drop compared to FC • 920 MB/s sustained disk reads. 640 MB/s sustained disk writes

• Support for intermixing host cards**

1 Gbps iSCSI

4 Gbps FC4 Gbps FC

8 Gbps FC

8 Gbps FC

1 Gbps iSCSI

* Testing with 256 drives. ** Controller must have matching host card combinations

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iSCSI HIC Benefits / Positioning

• Intermix host cards for tiered SANs• Acquisition and operational costs

savings for secondary servers

Up to 57% reduction in infrastructure costs

Production servers on 8 Gbps FC SAN

Secondary servers on 1 Gbps IP SAN

$

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EXP5060 Expansion Unit

• High-density enclosure supporting up to 60 3.5” SATA drives• Just 4U in height and fits standard 19” rack• Up to 60 TB capacity with 1 TB SATA drives• 5 horizontal drawers with 12 drives per drawer

• Drives remain online when drawer is extended for service

• Supported by DS5100 and DS5300 controllers• Support for intermixing EXP5000s and EXP5060s (448 drive max)• Configurations up to 480 drives using only EXP5060s

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EXP5060 Enclosure Benefits

• “Significantly reduced operational costs for capacity-intensive applications• High efficiency power

supplies, variable speed cooling fans enable significant energy savings / cooling requirements (about 35%)

• High density enclosure reduces footprint by 60%, or increases drives per U by 180%

DS5300 with 25 EXP5000’s (400 drives)

= 79U (2 racks)

DS5300 with 8 EXP5060’s (480 drives)

= 36U (1 rack)$

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New Features By Disk System

Feature DS5300 DS5100 DS4800 DS5020 DS4700

8 Gbps FC host

1 Gbps iSCSI host

Self-encrypting drives

SSDs Future

EXP5060

IBM i support

Designed for future transformation

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Dates

• Announce: Aug 25• GA: Sept 4

• DS5020 disk system (1814-20A)• EXP520 expansion unit (1814-52A)

• Announce: Oct 6• GA: Oct 16

DS5300 / DS5100 enhancements• SSD• 1 Gbps iSCSI host card• 32/64 GB cache• 448 drives on DS5100 (feature key)• IBM i native host attach kit (homogeneous servers)

• Announce: Oct 20• GA: Nov 20

• EXP5060 expansion unit (1818-G1A)

• Announce: Oct 20• GA: Dec 4

• IBM i native host attach kit (heterogeneous servers)(DS5300/DS5100 only)

• 600 GB FC / FDE drives

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DS5000 Family

DS5300 DS5100 DS5020

Field replaceable host cards & cache

Yes Yes No

Drive enclosureEXP5000EXP5060

EXP5000EXP5060

EXP520

EXP810 support Yes YesYes, with feature code

Warranty1 Year, 24x7,

4 hour response*1 Year, 24x7,

4 hour response*3 Year, 9x5,NBD response

Install CE* CE* User

* varies by GEO

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Summary

• New DS5020 disk system provide midrange customer with the performance, reliability, and robust functionality enterprise customers are accustomed to – at an affordable price.

• The DS5300 / DS5100 continue to deliver new product features and functionality, creating extended value

• The DS5000 series as a whole excels at meeting the demanding requirements of consolidation/virtualization and performance-sensitive applications, while providing built-in efficiencies to help lower acquisition and operational costs

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QUESTIONS

?

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Call to Action• Take advantage of the “Loyalty Program” to help move customers from

DS4300/DS4700’s to DS5020! (free move of copy svcs licenses as investment protection) – remember we have sold more than 60,000 of the DS4300/4700’s!

• Go after CX4-120 and EVA4400

• Go after NetApp on a price /performance basis (i.e.- how much is easy application integration worth)

• Utilize the portal for information as well as Partnerworld and SSI (IBMers)• DSSERIES Portal

• http://ibmdsseries.com/• Partnerworld DS5000

• https://www-304.ibm.com/usrsrvc/account/userservices/jsp/login.jsp?persistPage=true• IBM SSI Site

• https://w3-03.sso.ibm.com/sales/support/ShowDoc.wss?docid=Q146506O54930M35&infotype=SK&infosubtype=S0&node=doctype,S0|doctype,SKT|brands,B5000|clientset,IA|geography,AMR|industries,&appname=CC_CFSS

• Utilize TCOnow tool as well as the Iceberg pricing tool to show our superiority from a TCOnow/TCA perspective

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Notes:Performance is in Internal Throughput Rate (ITR) ratio based on measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks in a controlled environment. The actual throughput that any user will experience will vary depending upon considerations such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user's job stream, the I/O

configuration, the storage configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve throughput improvements equivalent to the performance ratios stated here.

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