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The Smarter Storage Approach
The FlashSystem 900 and V9000
Joe Krotz
IBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems
January 2016
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
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Think it.Strategize how to use IBM cloud enabled storage solutions to drive revenue growth and efficiencies.
Build it.IBM storage is built from the ground up to integrate and run your private or hybrid cloud.
Tap into it.Utilize IBM cloud services delivered from IBM SmartCloud.
Software defined Hardware optimized Massively scalable
*Calculations by IBM based on Gartner Report: Market Share
Analysis: SSDs and Solid-State Arrays, Worldwide, 2013
**Source: IDC, 2014
Shipped more capacity in 2014 than the two closest competitors combined**
Global market acceptance#1 with 25% market share
Clear leadership position44% greater revenue than next closest competitor*
IBM Ranked #1 for Flash Storage(SSA) Market Share, Worldwide based on revenue for 2013 and shipment data for 2014
What have we achieved?
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Introducing IBM FlashCoreIBM uses tools and technologies to drive a robust solution…
Industry Standard Interface Technology
Powered by IBM FlashCore Technology
IBM MicroLatency Module
Hardware Accelerated I/O
Advanced Flash Management
Industry Standard Chip TechnologyIBM Enhanced
Micron Technology
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
IBM MicroLatency Module SSDIBM MicroLatency Module vs SSD
CUSTOM
Requires hardware engineering
FAST
Designed for low latency
RELIABLE
Innovative flash management
COMMODITY
No hardware skills needed
SLOW
Designed for low cost
FALLIBLE
More single points of failure
Better Performance Better Reliability Better Density Lower $/IOPS
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
FlashCore vs. the Competition
• Commodity SSDs
• Most likely using open source OS, open source SCSI layer, and off-the-shelf interfaces
• Many use software RAID which cripples RAID 5 performance
• Hard to add storage services without killing performance
• Most likely from marketing focused vendors
• IBM MicroLatency Module
• Hardware accelerated I/O (no software in the datapath)
• Two-dimensional flash RAID
• Advanced Flash Management
• Most likely from engineering focused vendors
The CompetitionIBM FlashCore technology
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Extreme Performance with IBM MicroLatency
Enable business to unleash the power of performance, scale, and insight with microsecond response times for applications to drive services and products to market fast
• Faster decision making
• Increase revenue
• Accelerate cost savings
• Eliminate wait time
• Scale performance with capacity
1 microsecond : 1 second :: 1 second : 11.5 days
Cut IO Wait Time
80%+ LatencyUnder100Microseconds
The value of performance
3XIncrease IOPS
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
• IBM MicroLatency with up to 1.1 million IOPS
• 40% greater capacity compared to previous generation
• IBM FlashCore technology, our secret sauce
Technical collaboration with Micron Technology – flash chips
• IBM enhanced flash technology
• MLC NAND flash offering and Flash Wear Guarantee
Improved integration with VMware
‘Neighborhood’ management in GUI
Performance at-a-glance
IBM’s Tier-0 All-Flash offering
IBM FlashSystem 900The next generation in our lowest latency offering Announcement: February 19
General availability: March 20
Minimum latency
Write 90 µs
Read 155 µs
Maximum IOPS 4 KB
Read (100%, random) 1,100,000
Read/write (70%/30%, random) 800,000
Write (100%, random) 600,000
Maximum bandwidth 256 KB
Read (100%, sequential) 10 GB/s
Write (100%, sequential) 4.5 GB/s
Module type 1.2 TB 2.9 TB 5.7 TB
Modules 4 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12
RAID 5 capacity 2.4 4.8 7.2 9.6 12 11.6 17.4 23.2 29.0 22.8 34.2 45.6 57.0
Raw Capacity 7.1 10.7 14.2 17.8 21.4 26.3 35.1 43.9 52.7 52.7 70.3 87.9 105.5
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
FlashSystem data protection schemaImproving Availability and Serviceability
• Two-dimensional Flash RAID• IBM Variable Stripe RAIDTM
• Higher resilience• Higher storage efficiency• Higher rebuild performance• Lower set uptime
• System-level RAID 5
•Non-disruptive (concurrent) code load
•Management features• Call home• Detailed logging• Remote power on
• Fully redundant and hot-swappable components
– Flash modules– I/O interfaces– RAID controllers– Management controllers– Power supplies– Batteries– Fan modules
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Form Factor SSD• Flash failure = Disk failure• Requires top-level RAID• Relatively frequent hot-swaps
Enterprise Flash Drive or Memory Module• Flash failure = Degraded state within module• Performance impact on RAID set• Hot-swap to resolve
FlashSystem with Variable Stripe RAID• Preserves Flash life• Preserves performance• Re-parity data in microseconds
Parity
Parity
No Parity
Less maintenance touches while still preserving the life, protection, and performance of the Day-1 experience
Value of Variable Stripe RAIDTM
IBM Variable Stripe RAID(VSR)
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
IBM Variable Stripe RAID (VSR)
• Patented Variable Stripe RAID allows RAID stripe sizes to vary
• If one die fails in a ten-chip stripe, only the failed die is bypassed, then data is restriped across the remaining nine chips
• VSR reduces maintenance intervals caused by flash failures
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The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
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Two-dimensional RAID• IBM Variable Stripe RAID™ is 1st level
of protection (module-level)
• System-level RAID protects against flash controller failure (abrupt module failure)
• RAID 5 across modules, hot swappable from front of chassis
• Two independent crossbar (XBAR) controllers
• Interface controllers stripe across XBARs
• Granular capacities configurable with 2, 4, 8 or 12 flash modules
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
IBM MicroLatency Modules (12)
RAID Controllers (2)
Battery Packs (2)
Power Supplies (2)
Fan Packs (4)
Interface Modules (4)
Management Modules (2)
Canisters (2)
IBM FlashSystem 900 components
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
• Fully redundant and has
no single point of failure
• Data path is entirely independent
of the control path
Maximize Business UptimeCanister-1 Canister-2
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IBM FlashSystem tier-0 availability Concurrent Code Load (CCL) and Maintenance
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Protecting business’s most valuable asset
IBM FlashSystem tier-0 built-in encryption
• Industry standard AES-XTS 256 required by most leading compliance regulations such as HIPAA and FIPS
• Data-at-rest design
• Local key management
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
• Modern design
• Icon-based navigation, informative graphics, and visualizations
• Industry award winning interface
• CLI output for administrative tasks
• Reduce complexity
• Improve efficiency and productivity
• Neighborhood Management
• 300 days of performance history
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Easy to use GUI for management!
Easily integrated into any environment• 2U Chassis
• Less power utilization than a hair dryer!
• 8Gb or 16Gb Fibre Channel
• 10Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• 40Gb InfiniBand
• 10Gb iSCSI
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
IBM FlashSystem V9000
IBM introduces a fully integrated, flexible, feature rich all-flash storage system
Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 1 storage
Announcement: February 19
General availability: April 24
• Scalable all-flash architecture accelerates applications and entire
infrastructures
• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS with IBM MicroLatency
• Up to 57 TB usable (285 TB effective capacity) in only 6U and scales to 456
TB usable (2.28 PB effective capacity) in only 34U
• New licensing structure to simplify ordering and planning for External Data
Virtualization, Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, and Real-time Compression
• FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee
Scalable Performance Agile IntegrationEnduring Economics
Powered by IBM FlashCore™ Technology
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
• Scalable to 2.2 PB effective capacity• Flash for less than the cost of disk with
IBM Real-time Compression• Low power and cooling requirements• Virtualize storage• Flash wear warranty• Infrastructure continuity with space
efficient snapshots, cloning and replication
• Fully integrated system management• Application-aware data services• AES, data at rest encryption• Tier or mirror to existing storage• Mixed workload consolidation• Non-disruptive data migrations• Concurrent code load
• Scale-up or scale-out, independently• Scalable to 2.5 million IOPS• Scalable to 19.2 GB/s bandwidth• Sustained IBM MicroLatency™• Quality of Service
FlashSystem V9000: paradigm shift in enterprise storage Dimensions of Value
Scalable Performance
AgileIntegration
EnduringEconomics
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
FlashSystem V9000 makes applications fasterScalable Performance
Scalable Performance
CPU Utilization
& App. Efficiency
4%
Total Application
Processing Time
5,200μs (5.2ms)
5,000μs (5ms)
200μs (.2ms)
Application Processing Time
Time Waiting for I/0(Waiting for Array)
Time Processing Data(Server CPU)
Disk/Hybrid
SW-Based SSD
HW-Based
Solutions
CPU Utilization
& App. Efficiency
50%
Total Application
Processing Time
400μs (.4ms)
200μs (.2ms)
200μs (.2ms)
What will you do with
the Extra Time?
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Maximum Performance Scaled Out (100% Read, 4 Building Blocks) *
Latency (4K) 200µs
IOPS (4K) 2,520,000
Bandwidth (128K) 19.2 GB/s
Maximum Performance Scalable Build Block (100% Read, Cache Miss)
Latency (4K) 200µs
IOPS (4K) 630,000
Bandwidth (128K) 6.2 GB/s
Maximum Performance
Fixed Build Block (100% Read, Cache Miss)
Latency (4K) 200µs
IOPS (4K) 526,000
Bandwidth (128K) 6.2 GB/s
Two-dimensional scalingScalable Performance
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Scalable Performance
FlashSystem V9000 options for deploymentScalable Performance
• Great for multiple mixed
workloads that drive huge I/O
• Scale out for more all flash
capacity, IOPS and bandwidth
• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs
• Up to 228 TB usable, 1.1 PB
Effective
Mixed Workload Accelerator
• Great for large data sets with
big I/O requirements and
needing storage services
• Scale up for more all flash
capacity
• Up to 630K IOPS, 200µs
• Up to 285 TB usable, 1.4 PB
Effective
Application Accelerator
• Great for Tier 1 disk replacement
• Scale up and out for more processing, more capacity and more I/O
• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs• Up to 456 TB usable, 2.2
PB Effective
Public or Private Cloud
• Great for data centers with
heterogeneous storage
• Extends core feature set to
other storage arrays
• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs
• Up to 3 Exabytes virtualized
Virtualized Data Center
• Great for database and VDI
workloads
• Accelerate, migrate, tier,
clone, snapshot, replicate,
compress existing storage
• Up to 630K IOPS, 200µs
• Up to 57 TB usable, 285 TB
effective
Small Data Center
Scalable Performance
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
Quality of Service (QoS)Scalable Performance
• Help alleviate performance contention
• Give your application the performance it needs
• Ability to cap IOPS performance on a per volume basis
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Scalable Performance
• Improve workforce productivity
• Simplify management
• Single name space
Fully integrated system managementAgile Integration
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Scalable Performance
Flexible volumesAgile Integration
• Generic – fully allocated
• Thin-Provision – space consumed on-demand
• Mirror – two copies of volume• Migrate between pools or change
volume type
• Preferred read mirror between flash and legacy storage (all reads from flash)
• Thin mirror – a mirror with copies being thin
• Compressed – volumes utilizing Real-time Compression
AgileIntegration
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Non-disruptive data migrationsAgile Integration
Non-disruptive data migration
• Maintain concurrent I/O access
• Externally virtualize the existing storage system
• Move data off older storage onto flash storage
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
AgileIntegration
Mixed workload consolidationAgile Integration
Performance Scaling
Strong MixedR/W Performance
Quality of ServiceAutomatic Tiering
Capacity Scaling
ERP / SCM Transaction Big Data Virtualization Cloud
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
AgileIntegration
FlashSystem + VMWare®: an ideal fitAgile Integration
• Redefine Tier 1 performance for workloads with diverse I/O patterns
• Optimize your data tier with thin provisioning, snapshots, and real-time compression
Area Integration Value
Management vCenter plug-in • Storage visibility• Self-service provisioning with controlled delegation
BusinessContinuity
SRA for SiteRecovery Manager
• Automated Storage and Host •Failover•Failover testing •Failback
Performance VAAI • Hardware accelerated VM copy/migration• Hardware accelerated VM initiation• Accelerate VMFS (no SCSI reservation)
Driving efficiency, performance, flexibility
& scale in virtualized environments
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
AgileIntegration
Flash for less than the cost of Tier 1 diskEnduring Economics
Database Office Files CAD/CAMGeoseismicVirtualServers
JPEG/ZIP
80% 30% 5% 50% 72% 70%Compression Rate
Traditional
Storage
Average of65% Compression!
Real-time Compression Efficient
Half the Data Storage!
Real-time Compression, for active and inactive dataEnduring
Economics
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Storage virtualizationEnduring Economics
Preserve your existinginvestment in storage
ManageTierProtectCompress with Real-time Compression
Optimized performance at lower overall costIBM Easy Tier® flash storage management
Thin Provisioning
More productive use of available storage
Across all supported host platformsWithout thin provisioning, pre-allocated
space is reserved whether the
application uses it or not.
With thin provisioning, applications can
grow dynamically, but only consume space
they are actually using.
Dynamic
growth
Busiest data extents are identified and automatically relocated to highest performing Solid-state Disks
Remaining data extents can take advantage of higher capacity, price optimized disksHot-spots due to poor data layout. Optimized performance and throughput.
AutomaticRelocation
SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs
IBM Easy Tier SSD Management
Mirror data off-site
Synchronously over Metro distances.
Asynchronously over Global distances.
Application-level consistency groups.Network
Flash FlashHDDs HDDs
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
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EnduringEconomics
Metro Mirror – Synchronous
–Updates are committed to both sites before acknowledged to server
–Supported up to 300 km, adds additional latency to hosts
Global Mirror – Asynchronous
–Server update acknowledged in parallel to update to remote site
–Supported up to 80ms of round-trip latency, distance dependent upon network quality
FlashCopy Options
• Full or “thick”
• Thin nocopy
• Incremental
• Cascading
• Multi-target
• Consistency groups
• Reverse
Infrastructure continuityEnduring Economics
• Snapshot – Instant space-efficient, thin provisioned copy, capture state of volume before a change
• Clone – Creates a complete one-time replica of source, testing data or attaching to other servers
• Backup – Complete point in time replica that can be incrementally refreshed
Full set of disaster recovery tools:
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
EnduringEconomics
IBM FlashSystem tier 1 guarantee
Performance: IBM MicroLatency Flash Modules provide world class performance!
Endurance: Flash memory will be covered for read/write endurance as long as you are under warranty or maintenance.
7 year 24 x 7 Support: Up to 7 years support available with optional price protection and flash media retention offerings.
Peace of Mind: No Charge, Complimentary IBM services for all Tier 1 opportunities: 40 hours for 228+ TB solutions up to 556 TB, or 80 hours for 556+ TB solutions, Lab Services delivery in 2015.
IBM FlashSystem – GUARANTEED!!! http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
Data Reduction: The eligible machine, using compression, will achieve a system level storage efficiency savings rate of at least 3:1, based on Comprestimator performance modeling results, within the guarantee period.
The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions
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Your consultant can offer time-tested methods tohelp you prevent outagesand use IBM support moreeffectively
Scalable Performance
AgileIntegration
EnduringEconomics
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