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VNX with MCx™Denis Vilfort, Chief Evangelist
FORUM 2014
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DB TIERAPP TIER
DATA FLOW REFLECTS BUSINESS FLOW
FOLLOW THE DATA…
WEB TIERLaptopsTabletsSmartphones
Smart Devices
People & Events
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DB TIERAPP TIER
POS (POINT OF SALES) EXAMPLE
FOLLOW THE DATA…
WEB TIERLaptopsTabletsSmartphones
Smart Devices
People & Events
Point of Sales48 Byte Event
20 Transactions
3,413 X Footprint 160 Kbytes Random
Reads & Writes
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A LITTLE STORAGE HISTORY…
1877 1956
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THE TROUBLE WITH DISK DRIVES…Access D
ensity (
Hig
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is B
ett
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1985 1990 1995 2005 20152010
ACCESS DENSITY (IOPS/GB)
2000
15K HDDs
1
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NL HDDs FLASH SSDs
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PICKING THE RIGHT PLATFORM
99.9999%
AVAILABILITY YES
NO
< 1 mS
RESPONSE TIME
REDUNDANT
DATA
ALL FLASH
NO
YESYES
NO
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Flash Optimized Array with HDD Tiering for Large
Cost-Effective Capacity
FLASH OPTIMIZED
2013
Array Designed for Flash Only but with Limited Capacity
and No Tiering
FLASH ONLY
2011
DESIGN CENTERS SHIFT FROM “FLASH AS AN ADD-ON” TO “FLASH OPTIMIZED”
THE EVOLUTION OF FLASH IN ARRAYS
SSDs added to a Traditional Array Boosting Performance and
Lowering Footprint
FLASH CAPABLE
2008
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34K IOPSper
1CPU Core
275K IOPSper
1 8-Core CPU Socket
FLASH DRIVES CORE SCALING
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NEW FLASH OPTIMIZED CORE SCALING
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RE32 CORES
1.1M IOPS
600 TBs of FLASH
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CLEAN-SHEET DESIGN
UNLEASHING THE POWER OF FLASH
SP A SP B
32 LANES CMI
32CPU
CORES
160LANES
PCIE G3
1500SSDs or
HDDs
SAS 2.0SAS 2.0
FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS
& CIFS
22PCIE
IO SLOTS
FC, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS & CIFS
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Dynamic Multicore Optimization
0 %
10 %
20 %
30 %
40 %
50 %
60 %
70 %
80 %
90 %
100 %
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Co
re U
tilizati
on
Core Number
Static Core Utilization
BREAKTHROUGH MIDRANGE INNOVATION!
RAID I/O DRAM Cache FAST Cache Data Services Management Available
0 %
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FILEBLOCK
MCX™ MULTICORE OPTIMIZATION
Back-End IO
Front End IO
Fibre Cannel iSCSI CIFS NFS pNFS FTP
SAS 2.0
Multicore DRAM Cache
Multicore RAID
Multicore FAST Cache
Load
Bala
nced C
MI
Active/A
ctive
FAST
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THE MCx™ EFFECT
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MCx™ Dual Controller Comparison
VNX2 - LOW LATENCY AT SCALE
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- 200 000 400 000 600 000 800 000 1 000 000
Response T
ime
IOPS
Vendor I
Vendor N
Vendor O
Vendor H
70% FASTER
4X MORE
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NFS File Serving
Source: www.spec.org SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3
VNX2 - FASTER FILES AT LOWER COST
Vendor I
16-Node Cluster
Vendor N
8-Node Cluster
Vendor ODual Node
Vendor D
4+4 Node Cluster
160% FASTER
3X MORE
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INDUSTRY REVOLUTIONIZING PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY
VNX2 DELIVERES!
580,796NFS IOPS
735,193Oracle and SQL Server
IOPS
6,600VMs
File Database VMs
Note: NFS based on SPECsfs2008, RDBMS is 8K IO size. Both on CLASSIC LUNs. VMs is based on a VM footprint of 50 IOPS by 100GB on THIN Pool LUNs. All three are SSD based tests.
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ALL FLASH ARRAY
LOWEST ALL-FLASHENTRY PRICE
BEST ALL-FLASHDENSITY IN THE MARKET
CONSISTENTPERFORMANCE ANDLOW LATENCY
VNX-F
AVAILABLE from the Industry Leader in Flash
THE NEW EMC
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BUILT FOR PRICE, DENSITY, AND SPEED
VNX-F - ALL FLASH ARRAY
172TBUP TO
Usable Capacity*
400KUP TO
IOPs
$5/GB w/o Data Reductions
Configurations less than
NEW with the VNX-F7000
120 Drive3U Enclosure &1.6TB SSDs*
VNX-F5000VNX-F7000
*Q1 2015
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VIRTUALIZED DATA CENTER
1000’s of Virtual Machines
Storage System
Must Deliver
the Needed Mix of
CAPACITY and
TRANSACTIONS
THE VM FOOTPRINT
$
SIZING UP THE RIGHT STORAGE BUDGET
VIRTUAL MACHINE AGGREGATION
VM Capacity Budget
VM
Tra
nsaction B
udget
Per VM Footprint
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VIRTUALIZED DATA CENTER
1000’s of Virtual Machines
Storage System
Must Deliver
the Needed Mix of
CAPACITY and
TRANSACTIONS
THE LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS
THE VM FOOTPRINT
$VM Capacity Budget
VM
Tra
nsaction B
udget
Per VM Footprint
At Any Given Time, Only aSmall Percentage of Data Is Active
DATA is HIGHLY SKEWED
5% of Data is
Doing 95% of the IO
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CUT COST WITH HYBRIDS
PERFORMANCE CAPACITY
INACTIVE DATA
ACTIVE DATA
FAST Dynamically And Automatically
Optimizes Storage Pools Based On Actual Data Activity
10% FLASH 90% DISK
Two-Tier VNX2 at Scale
$1.49/GB
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A VNX2 PLATFORM FOR ANY SIZEMULTICORE & FLASH OPTIMIZED FOR TODAY’S VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
SIMPLE. EFFICIENT. POWERFUL. PROTECTED.
VNX5400 VNX5600 VNX5800 VNX7600 VNX8000VNX5200
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600
900
1200
1800
2900
6600
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000
VMs PER VNX SYSTEM
VNX8000
VNX7600
VNX5800
VNX5600
VNX5400
VNX5200
Note: Based on VM Footprint of 50 IOPS by 100GB and THIN VNX LUNs
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Systems Shipped
>103,000
>67%Shipped* W/ Flash
>736Customers w/ PB+
>5,470PBs Shipped
>357KSSDs Shipped
Flash penetration on eligible systems only: VNX 5200&up* VNX2 systems
VNX – SOLID MARKET ADOPTION
SOLD EVERY 20 Minutes!
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VNX with MCx™Denis Vilfort, Chief Evangelist
FORUM 2014