How to Create a Two Tier Data Center

with All-Flash and Object Storage

In this webinar you will learn:

● Two Tiers - A More Practical Strategy for Data Placement

● What the Two Tier Data Center Needs From an All-Flash Array

● What the Two Tier Data Center Needs From an Object Storage System

● How to Move Data Between the Two Tiers

For audio playback and Q&A go to:

http://bit.ly/2TierFlash

Our Speakers

Rob Commins, Sr. Director of Commercial & Enterprise Brand Marketing at Western Digital

George Crump, Founder and Lead Analyst of Storage Switzerland

Stefaan Vervaet, Sr. Director Strategic Alliances & Market Development at Western Digital

Level Set - The Data

Reality

● Active data is more active than ever

(10%-15%)

● Dormant data is larger than ever

(85%-90%)

● But when dormant data becomes

active again, no one wants to wait, no

matter how long it has been dormant

The Data Management

Conundrum

● Leave all data on primary and just

keep buying more primary

● Count on the backup process to be

your archive

● Create a data management strategy

○ Data movement

○ Data placement

Why Data Management

Falls Short

● The data movement strategy is too

elaborate

● The data management process

requires too many parts

● Key is to simplify

○ Don’t over think data movement

○ Establish two storage tier data

center

Creating Tier 1

● All-Flash to handle active and near

active data

● What is near-active data?

○ Anything with a reasonable

chance of being recalled

○ All data accessed within the

last 1-2 years

Creating Tier 2

● Object Storage or High

Capacity NAS

● Designed for unstructured

data storage and long term

retention

● Optimized for endurance and

economics

How to Move Data Between Tiers

● All-Flash tier manages itself with built in data placement

software that moves data between tiers of even to an HD tier

● Data movement to object or high capacity NAS is low

pressure

○ Can be either manual or automated

○ Manual is less complicated on movement and more

durable through changes

○ Automated is more seamless on recalls

■ but less durable and more complex to set up

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Data Center Systems

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Accelerating the Speed of Business

& Disrupting the Economics of Data

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From the Clean Room to the Cloud …

Vertical Integration

Storage Platforms

NVMe, All-Flash & Hybrid Arrays

Systems & Software

Enterprise & Cloud Storage

Storage Devices

NVMe, SSD, HDD

Components

NAND, Disk, Head

Vertical Innovation

StorageDevices

NVMe, All-Flash & Hybrid Arrays

Systems & Software

NVMe, SSD, HDD

Storage Platforms

Design &Optimization

Enterprise & Cloud Storage

Massive Economies of Scale

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Client Solutions

Client Devices

Data CenterDevices

Data Center Systems

Broadest Storage Leadership and Family of Brands

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Diverse and Connected Data TypesNew demands and challenges in storing, protecting and accessing data

Fast Data

High Performance

Big Data

High Capacity

Transaction Processing

Simulation & Modeling

SmartMachines

Insight

Prediction

Prescription

BatchAnalytics

Real-timeAnalytics

ArtificialIntelligence

MachineLearning

DataAggregation

Modeling

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Our MissionEnabling Customers to Transform their Business

Real-timeAnalytics

ArtificialIntelligence

MachineLearning

DataAggregation

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Disrupting the Economics of Data

Accelerating the Speed of BusinessBatch

Analytics

Modeling

Fast DataBig Data

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MULTI-TIERED FLASH ARRAYS

HD2040HD208

0

Tegile Product Portfolio

HYBRIDARRAYS

T4100 T4200T4x30 T4x60

ALL-FLASH ARRAYS

T4500 T4600T4700 T4800

NVMe ARRAYS

N5200 N5800

CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

IntelliStack

INTELLICARE

CLOUDMANAGEMENT

INTELLIFLASH

OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

Density Performance ManageabilityDurabilityCapacity Integrity

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Run Every Workload @ the Speed of Memory

Performance Tier

Capacity Tier

▪ Get the affordable capacity you need for your business-critical applications

▪ Get the high IOPS and low latency you need for your top-tier applications

NVDIMM

FlashMemory

Dense Flash orHDD

100s of Microsecond Response Times

10x-20x FASTERTHAN LEGACY STORAGE

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Fast Data Acceleration

60% FLASH30% FLASH

10% FLASH 100% FLASH

FAST D

ATA

ONE Operating System | ONE Feature Set | ONE User Experience

WA

RM

DA

TA

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IntelliFlash™ Operating SystemDelivering Comprehensive Data Management

Inline CompressionInstant Snapshots

Instant Clones AsynchronousReplication

Inline Deduplication & Compaction

EncryptionEnd-to-end Data Integrity Metadata Acceleration

Automated Data Placement

Multi-Parity RAID

Thin ProvisioningPer-VM

ManagementHigh Availability

Multiprotocol Data Access

Storage Pooling

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Our MissionEnabling Customers to Transform their Business

Real-timeAnalytics

ArtificialIntelligence

MachineLearning

DataAggregation

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Disrupting the Economics of Data

Accelerating the Speed of BusinessBatch

Analytics

Modeling

Fast DataBig Data

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Big Data is Driving Digital Transformation

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Workload

Scalability

Performance

Cost

Data Protection

Accessibility

Manageability

Metadata

Transactional/DBsIOPs/Latency

Best

$$ - $$$

RAID-based

DedicatedFC/SAS/iSCSI

None

VM/Backup/HPCBandwidth

Better

$$ - $$$

RAID-based

LAN - Ethernet

Limited - Fixed

UnstructuredStream/Throughput

No LimitsGlobal Namespace

Good

$

Erasure Coding

Cloud - API

(123)

Extensive - Flexible

FILE OBJECTBLOCK

Why Object Storage for Big Data?

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Top 4 Reasons Companies Look at Object Storage *

Support for Cloud workloads

Have new apps using object storage APIs

To reduce overall Storage TCO

53%

45%

40%

Have Analytics Initiatives using large datasets

44%

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How We Are Changing the Economics

Unique ability to innovate and integrate

from the device to the system level

80% lower cost than traditional Storage*

10% lower cost than tape (using replication)*

90% lower management overhead*

ActiveScale helps get more VALUE from data

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Scale-out System

Software

Dynamic Data

Placement

Dense4U98

Enclosure

10TBHelioSeal®

HDDs

Management + Analytics

Systems

Value Greater Than Sum of Parts

Vertical Innovation

Creating Unique Value in Systems

* See recent WDC MAMR announcement, Product is not available today.

Devices

Components

Platforms

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Facilitating Data Forever…

ActiveScaleDynamic Data Placement

No pre-assigned locations

✓ No data rebalancing when scaling capacity up and/or out

✓ Assimilate new generations of technology – no data left behind

▪ e.g. Higher density HDDs, Faster storage servers

✓ Protects data two ways for long-term preservation

▪ High durability – advanced erasure coding – BitSpread® (Up to 17 x 9s)

▪ Data integrity – background integrity checks – BitDynamics™

✓ Versioning: Store and recover every version of every object

✓ Simplified management & analytics @ petabyte scale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWDLYJ-8nNU

Dynamically place data across the entire ActiveScale infrastructure

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ActiveScale Object Storage

ManageabilityDensity & Capacity Durability & Integrity

Scale as data grows720TB to over 52PB (see above)

High density low power footprint

HelioSeal® technology

Self protecting & healingManage more PB / admin

No ad hoc drive replacement

Cloud-based analytics

Facilitates data-forever

Up to 17 nines Immediate consistency

Site-level fault tolerance

Encryption at rest and in motion

Modularfor Sub-Petabyte footprint

and fast growth

Integratedfor Petabyte-scale and

fast growth

ActiveScale P100 System

ActiveScale X100 System

Performance

Up to 6GB/s throughputScales linearly

60Gb/s client connectivity

One GB is equal to one billion bytes, one TB equals 1,000 GB and one PB equals 1,000 TB when referring to storage capacity. Usable capacity will vary from the raw capacity due to object storage methodologies and other factors.

Minimum building block 720TB (raw)

Incremental building block 720TB (raw)

Scales out to to multiple PB

Minimum building block 840TB (raw)

Fully populated rack 5.88PB (raw)

Scales out to >52PB (raw) in a single namespace

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Get Predictive Analytics in the Cloud

BIG DATAANALYTICS

ARRAYTELEMETRY

AUTOMATED REMEDIATION

MACHINE LEARNING& MODELING

SELF-SERVICE PORTAL

GLOBAL MONITORING

PREDICT & PREVENT ISSUES

MODEL & RECOMMEND

✓

Thank you!

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How to Create a Two Tier Data Center

with All-Flash and Object Storage

For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:

http://bit.ly/2TierFlash