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NexGen Storage
NexGen Overview
Founded in 2010
NexGen delivers next generation hybrid storage systems– Designed for affordable, high performance virtual infrastructure– Lowest combined $/IOPS AND $/GB– Storage QoS guarantees application performance
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Company Overview
“Enterprise customers are challenged to deliver the quality of service and performance required in many business critical applications.”
Jeff Janukowicz, IDCResearch Director for Solid-state
“Storage systems can be a major stumbling block to achieve best practice virtualization. Solid-state helps, but it’s the storage management software that really matters. ”
Neil Carson, Fusion-ioCTO
“NexGen Storage is lightning fast, I can actually work now.”
Jim GunnarsonIT Manager, KMK
SANs for virtualization
Enable production VMs• Simple scalability• All-inclusive features
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The next generation hybrid
NexGen hybridUnlocks solid-state potential• Designed for solid-state• Provision performance• Prioritize workloads
DiskSSDDisk SSD
Hybrid 1.0 All-SSD
2006 - 2008 2008 - today
Architectural RoadblocksLegacy hybrid: SAS/SATA backplane redesign
All-SSD: Expensive $/GB and data migration
Legacy hybrid AND all-SSD
Add incremental performance• Accelerate virtualization• Reduce capacity footprint
New Customer ProblemEveryone: Delivering consistent performance
NVME Work Group– “The goal is to enable the broad adoption of SSDs using the PCIe interface.” more
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The future of solid-state
EMC Press Release– “Putting Flash drives (SSD’s) into the storage array achieved… faster data access than 15K HDD.”– “Now, placing Flash technology on a PCIe card can accelerate performance up-to… 4000X faster data access than 15K
HDD.” more
Gary Kotzur, Distinguished Engineer, NGCS Storage Advanced Engineering, Dell– “PCIe versus SAS SSD: 4X to 5X more bandwidth, 3X to 6X more IOPs, 2X to 3X lower latency.” more– “SAS/SATA solid-state device performance can be limited by the latency and bottlenecks inherent in the driver stack.”– “Close proximity and direct connection to the processor provides an access mechanism with much lower latency.”
Dell Solid-State Solutions
Jim Handy, Director of Market Research, Objective Analysis– "Some companies are cobbling something together that combines an HBA or RAID controller with a couple of off-the
shelf SATA SSDs on the same board, that works and brings a lot of speed, but it isn't as good as PCIe SSD.“ more– The key to the higher performance of a PCIe SSD lies in the number of channels a vendor is able to run data through.
According to Handy, the fastest SATA-based SSD is Intel's 10-channel controller. Meanwhile, Fusion-io's PCIe SSD devices have 25 internal channels
NVMe Working Member List
Working Members
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Product overview
NexGen delivers iSCSI hybrid SANs
Purpose-built for QoS
integrated with disk
Enterprise, active-active architecture
Phased Data Reduction
Data Protection
Dynamic Data Placement
Service Levels
Quality of Service
ACCELERATE application workloads
CONTROL storage performance
GUARANTEE solid-state ROI
NexGen n5 Storage SystemsIOPS: 50,000 – 300,000
System Capacity*: 16 TB – 192 TB raw
PCIe Solid-state: 2X or 4X per n5
HDD: 16X NL SAS in 2X RAID6 sets
Rack Units: 3U (base units)
Software: Included, no add-ons
Connectivity: iSCSI
Data Ports: (4) 10GbE, (8) 1GbE
Mgmt Ports: (4) 1GbE
Support: Base unit covers all future expansions
*Data reduction improves utilization
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ACCELERATE: The need for speed
New, demanding workloadsVDI spikes will impact other workloads
Database consolidation needs extreme random I/O
Business intelligence/analytics require high throughput and high random I/O
"Storage performance remains the biggest obstacle to wide scale server virtualization deployments. Retrofitting old architectures won't work as a long term solution.”
Steve Duplessie, ESGFounder and Senior Analyst
Higher VM density leads to storage sprawlAdding more disk drives means:– Excess capacity consumes more rack space
– Higher power and cooling expenses
– Higher maintenance costs
Higher maintenance costs consume budget
NexGen uses Fusion-io to accelerate workloadsSolid-state at computer bus speeds
HDD slots are not wasted on SSD means more capacity
Customers achieve 85% lower OPEX
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ACCELERATE: Faster AND lower cost
Active-active means resources aren’t idleRead/Write solid-state delivers high performance for all workloads
Active-Active for always-on performance
50% lower $/IOPS from more efficient resource utilization
“The high performance NexGen SAN requires only 3U of rack space compared to the 20U required for the previous SAN, improving power, cooling, and rack space efficiency by 85%.”
Kamran QamarIT Manager, WJ Deutsch
“NexGen’s raw performance along with QoS capabilities gave us the confidence that NexGen could not only handle the VDI workload spikes, but deliver consistent performance to other application workloads simultaneously.”
David BlaisdellIT Director, Colby-Sawyer College
Storage system performance is configured, not managedSystem performance defined by system configuration
All workloads contend for performance resources
System performance is always unpredictable
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CONTROL: The performance management gap
All workloads are treated equallyWhen one application spikes, all others are impacted
Low priority workloads impact high priority ones
Performance is a free-for-all
“Enterprise customers are challenged to deliver the quality of service and performance required in many business critical applications.”
Jeff Janukowicz, IDCResearch Director for Solid-state
Guarantee minimum levels of performance with QoSProvision performance just like capacity
Understand how much performance is available
Know exactly when to scale and by how much
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CONTROL: Take ioControl
Prioritize mission-critical workloads with Service LevelsDefine outcomes before they occur
Guarantee high priority applications get required performance
Eliminate user complaints with predictable application performance
“We liked the performance boost that comes with NexGen’s PCIe solid-state architecture. The QoS capabilities and the ability to allocate IOPS per volume was also a big selling point for us.”
Chris LuersenIT Admin, Whitely Penn
“A well-known competitor took 16U to provide the number of spindles I needed for just my VDI deployment. The name brand offered 7,500 IOPS for the same price as NexGen’s 100,000 IOPS. That’s over a 10x performance improvement for the same price.”
Brian MichalskiIT Admin, ROCORI School District
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ioControl: How it works
Capacity 250 GB 500 GB 900 GB
Performance 30,000 IOPS 20,000 IOPS 5,000 IOPS
GuaranteedMinimum
Performance
Non-CriticalFloor
Business-CriticalFloor
Mission-CriticalFloor
Quality of ServiceSet QoS based on each application’s need
TOTAL SYSTEM100,000 IOPS
REMAINING100,000 IOPS
5,000 IOPS
20,000 IOPS
30,000 IOPS
REMAINING70,000 IOPS
REMAINING50,000 IOPS
REMAINING45,000 IOPS
Business- Critical
Non-Critical
Mission- Critical
COMPONENT FAILURE!SYSTEM UPGRADE!REBUILD PROCESS!
Performance
Service LevelsPrioritized performance during degraded mode operation
Predictable PerformanceMission Critical and Business Critical applications performance maintained
Even during a VDI boot storm
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ioControl: In action
TM
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QoS manages all ioControl features
Data moves real-time between solid-state and disk
Data written is reduced w/out impacting performance
Dynamic Data Placement Phased Data Reduction
ioControl Quality of Service EngineTM
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GUARANTEE: Dealing with storage uncertainty
Is the architecture purpose-built for solid-state?Will it accommodate emerging solid-state standards?
Are you getting locked in to a dated design?
Most vendors can’t commit to solid-state performance levels.
Is your storage investment protected?Do you have the right features needed for future projects?
What type of components make up the system?
Are you exposed to rip and replace upgrades?
Can you scale performance and capacity independently?
“The problem of too much choice has started to appear in the disk storage market, especially when customers need to purchase primary storage arrays.”
Valdis Filks, Stanley ZaffosGartner, Inc. , September 2011, “How Much and What Type of Disk Storage Do IT Departments Need?”
Ready for the next generation of solid-state todayDesigned for PCIe solid-state
No re-architecture required
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GUARANTEE: NexGen’s approach
Guaranteed faster performance3X more performance per rack U than any other hybrid
If not, NexGen pays for a performance upgrade
Guaranteed investment protectionScale capacity and performance independently
No rip and replace upgrades
Enterprise-class components “The QoS feature guarantees IOPS to volumes based on the importance to our business. When we added in their performance in a virtualized environment and the extremely clean and efficient UI, we made the decision to go with the N5 storage system.
Kevin SmithDirector Systems Administration, IHM
“NexGen’s use of PCIe solid-state has optimized their implementation. During our evaluation, we were also impress with the ability to guarantee performance of our priority applications with QoS.”
Jim GunnarsonIT Manager, KMK
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The NexGen hybrid…
NexGen hybrid Legacy hybrid All-SSD
Fusion-io (PCIe based SSD) SAS/SATA bottlenecks
Affordable entry price $100,000s
Active-active 50% idle (some)
Read/write solid-state Read-only Provision & prioritize performance Workload contention
Guarantee performance Uncertainty
Seamless capacity upgrades Forced to buy performance
Seamless performance upgrades Rip-and-replace solid state
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NexGen n5 Storage Systems
n5 Series
Models: n5-50, n5-100, n5-150
Solid-state Capacity: 730 GB - 4,800 GB
Raw Capacity: 16 TB -192 TB (RAID 6)
Performance Rating: 50,000 – 300,000 IOPS
Scalability Performance packs; 730 GB, 1,570 GB, 2,400 GBCapacity packs; 16 TB, 48 TB
Storage Processors: Dual Active-Active
RAM: 48 - 96 GB
Network Interfaces: Data: (4) 10GbE iSCSI + (8) 1 GbE iSCSI Management: (4) 1GbE HTTP
Hardware Availability:
Redundant Storage ProcessorsRedundant FansRedundant Power SuppliesRedundant Network ConnectionsDual Port SAS drives
Included Features
Quality of Service
Service Levels
Dynamic Data Placement
Phased Data Reduction
Data Protection
Support
Features: • Software updates• All future hardware upgrades included• Proactive phone-home monitoring• Single support contract• White glove storage engineer service
Offerings: • 7 day x 24 hour phone support with onsite parts
• 7 day x 24 hour phone support with next business day parts
• 5 day x 9 hour phone support with next business day parts
The lowest support TCO in the industryAs low as 1% of MSRP per year
Support contract for base unit covers all future hardware upgrades
TM
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Customers
Health Care/SLEDManufacturing Services Cloud ProvidersConsumer/Media
Fed/Energy
Industry Analysts
Editor’s Choice Award Cloud Storage Virtualization Review
Chosen over:Nimble StorageTegileWhiptailPure Storage
Endorsed by both analysts and customers
Enterprise Storage Product of the Year SearchStorage.com
Chosen over:Nimble StorageTintriPure StorageWhiptailEMCNetApp
On ROI“The lowest $/IOPS and $/GB on the market to date.”
James Gunnarson Systems Administrator, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL VMworld Blog 1/31/2013
On Control“The QoS feature guarantees IOPS to volumes based
on their importance to our business”Kevin Smith
Director of IT, Institute for Health MetricsNexGen Case Study Blog 12/31/2012
NexGen Customers
On performance“We liked the performance boost that comes with
NexGen’s PCIe solid-state architecture”Chris Luersen
IT Administrator, Whitley PennNexGen Case Study Blog 12/20/2012
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Introducing ioControl 2.1
End-to-end virtual infrastructure quality of service with world-class performance intelligence, storage QoS for VMware data stores, and efficiency reports.
World-class performance intelligence• Block size, queue depth, system response time• Per volume, QoS policy, service level• Block size and latency histograms
Storage QoS for VMware data stores• Managed in VMware vCenter• QoS policy and provisioning• Data store to virtual machine mapping
Dashboard efficiency reports• Enhanced capacity reporting• I/O efficiency, SSD usage• View I/O from each tier
Additional Features
• QoS managed snapshots
• Phone home support
• Improved performance
• Windows CLI
• 770 GB, 1.2 TB perf packs
• 48 TB capacity packs
TM
Spend less on storageLowest combined $/IOPS & $/GB
Avoid rip and replace upgrades
85% lower OPEX
Guarantee datastore performanceProvision datastore performance with QoS
Prioritize datastore performance with Service Levels
Happy, satisfied end users
Eliminate storage sprawl5X more performance in 80% less rack space
100s of TB’s in less than 12U
Best-in-class VM density
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Virtualize more with NexGen
"Our virtual machines are running much better sitting on the NexGen SAN. Microsoft Exchange is much faster and more responsive. I've also reduced my backup window from 5 hours down to 1.5 hours.
Eli JaramilloIT Manager, Granada Hills Charter Schools
Consolidate virtual and physical infrastructure with QoS.
Improve the desktop experience81% faster client boot operations
Solid-state performance for reads AND writes
End users prefer VDI on NexGen over PC/laptops
Reduce storage cost per user30X more IOPS per rack U
Lowest $/desktop for 100s - 1,000s of desktops
$28 storage cost per desktop
Avoid VDI storage silosProvision performance for boot storms/virus scans
Eliminate impacts on other applications
Consolidate VDI with other applications
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Justify VDI with NexGen
“NexGen’s raw performance along with QoS capabilities gave us the confidence that NexGen could not only handle the VDI workload spikes, but deliver consistent performance to other application workloads simultaneously.”
David BlaisdellIT Director, Colby-Sawyer College
Run VDI on the same SAN as mission-critical apps with QoS.
Accelerate database applicationsPCI-e solid-state delivers 22X more IO than SSD drives
Solid-state on the PCIe bus means 50% less latency
Reduce processing time for reports
Control impact on other workloadsPrioritize each database with Service Levels
Consolidate mixed workloads with confidence
Simplify infrastructure management
Guarantee end user satisfactionAlways online and accessible
Consistent end user experience
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Streamline business intelligence with NexGen
“The high performance NexGen SAN requires only 3U of rack space compared to the 20U required for the previous SAN, improving power, cooling, and rack space efficiency by 85%.”
Kamran QamarIT Manager, WJ Deutsch
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The NexGen hybrid
ACCELERATE application workloads
CONTROL storage performance
GUARANTEE solid-state ROI
Virtualize more
Justify VDIStreamline Business Intelligence
THANK YOUQuestions?
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Modern Data Protection For Virtual Infrastructure
Ari Saperstein, VCP, MCITP, VMTSP
Senior Systems Engineer, NYC [email protected]
Twitter: @arisaperstein
It’s not about backup, it’s about recoveryBackup is easy, recovery is hard
Backup Features
Agentless De-Duplication and Compression Change Block Tracking (CBT) Microsoft VSS Linux Pre-freeze/Post-Thaw scripts Traditional & Reverse-Incremental Backups Enterprise Scalability Real-Time & Historical Job Monitoring E-mail & SNMP Job Notification
vPower NFS
Recovery Features
Instant VM Recovery SureBackup Verification Virtual Labs Item Level Recovery Explorer for SAN Snapshot Instant File-Level Restore
Replication
SSL Encryption WAN Acceleration Re-IP and Network Re-map VM’s at DR ready for Power-On Storage Agnostic Failback
Veeam Cloud Edition
Copy backups to the Cloud
Thank You
Ari SapersteinSenior Systems Engineer, NYC MetroVeeam [email protected]: @arisaperstein
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