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Storage Architecture and Data Services: The Real Flash Revolution

The All-Flash Array for theNext Generation Data Center

Jeramiah DooleyPrincipal Flash Architect

@jdooley_clt

Now Part of NetApp

What Are We Talking About Today?

• Consumption Models

• Architecture Matters…But Why?

• What Happened to Storage?

• The Big Question

• Are We There Yet?

Modern Infrastructure Consumption Models

Best of Breed Appliance

As a Service

Hyper Converged

Converged Infrastructure

Software on Commodity Hardware

Now Part of NetApp

The Infrastructure Consumption Continuum

SMB / Startups Large Enterprise Hyperscale / SP


Hyper ConvergedAs a Service



Ease of ImplementationEasier Harder

Degree of Vendor Lock-‐InMore Lock-‐In Less Lock-‐In

Implementation FlexibilityLess Flexible More Flexible

Cost EfficiencyAt Small Scale At Large Scale

SolidFire Consumption Models

Element Operating System


Agile Infrastructure


SF Series Appliances

As a Service

Scale-‐Out Infrastructure Agility

GuaranteedQuality of Service

Complete System Automation

In-‐Line Data Reduction

Self HealingHigh Availability


element

Flash V2 - All Flash Array

Flash V1 PCI FlashFlash for the Next Generation Data Center

Requirements constantly changingConsumes the most capital and time

Applying All-‐Flash in your Data Center

PerformanceLow

Performance and Capacity(Public / Private Cloud, IaaS)

High

Cheap and Deep [object / file](Backup / Archive / Video Streaming)

Performance at any cost(Transactional Processing / Trading Platforms)

# of Applications

Architecture Matters. But Why?

Photo Credit: http://www.storagereview.com/emc_vnx5200_review

Fuel Management is Everything

Data Services Are Expensive

New Tech, Same Problems

Operational CostsData Center Costs

Efficiency

What Happened to Storage?

VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESXi

Resource Pool

Physical Servers

New Tech, Same Problems

Operational CostsData Center Costs

Efficiency

…we could address any size pool of storage the business needed?

What If…

High performance storage systems designed for large scale infrastructure

Industry Leading Quality of Service (QoS)

Scale-Out Architecture• 4 – 100 nodes• 35TB – 3.4PB Usable Capacity• 200k – 7.5M Controllable IOPS

Simple all inclusive pricing model Direct Tier 3 Support

for every customer

Industry-standard hardware• 10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC

• Replication (synchronous / asynchronous)• Integrated cloud backup• Snapshots & clones• Global efficiencies• 256-bit encryption-at-Rest• Comprehensive logging• Cloud based monitoring• Secure multi-tenancy (VLAN support, volume access groups)• Simultaneous multiprotocol support (FC / iSCSI) • Deep integrations: VMware, OpenStack, CloudStack

All Inclusive Feature Set

Platform Building Blocks

2405 • 5 to 10TB effective capacity• 50,000 guaranteed IOPS

4805 • 10 to 20TB effective capacity

• 50,000 guaranteed IOPS


• 50,000 guaranteed IOPS


• 75,000 guaranteed IOPSSolidFire’s Effective capacity calculation accounts for Helix data protection, system overhead and global efficiencies including compression, deduplication and thin provisioning. SolidFire customers typically achieve an effective capacity

range of 5x to 10x the raw capacity depending on application workloads.

Scale-‐Out Wins

Performance

Capacity

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS

52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS

200,000 IOPS35 TB PERFORMANCE VIRTUALIZATION (IOPS)

CAPACITY VIRTUALIZATION (GB)CPU RESOURCES (CORES)

SYSTEM MEMORY (GB)

CAPACITY PERFORMANCE

CPU MEMORY

Building Blocks of ResourcesNODES

NON-DISRUPTIVE

GRANULAR

MIX NODES

SCALE OUT/IN

NO FORKLIFT UPGRADES

SOLIDFIRE CLUSTER 1 SOLIDFIRE CLUSTER 2 SOLIDFIRE CLUSTER 3

2405

Gen X

Element OS | S C A L E O U T

4805


CPU MEMORY


CPU MEMORY

How QoS Works

VOLUME

Per Volume QoS Settings

Burst 2,000Max 1,000Min 100

APP BEHAVIORBurst

Max

Min

MIXED WORKLOAD ENVIRONMENT

100 Min

200 Max

300 BurstVolume

3

1000 Min

1500 Max

2000 BurstVOLUME

2

100 Min

500 Max700 BurstVOLUME

1

Element OS | G U A R A N T E E D P E R F O R M A N C E

CLUSTER

Tech Fixed, What About Operations

Simplified Management

CUSTOM INTEGRATION INTERFACES PLUG-INS TOOLS

Self-service Portals

Homegrown Apps

User InterfaceActive IQ

PowerShellSDKs

VMware vCenterOpenStackCloudStack

Element OS | A U T O M A T E D M A N A G E M E N T

API

TIME YOUR BUSINESS

DESIGNInitial size (GB or IOPS)

INSTALLATION OPERATINGGB and IOPS required

Account Creation

SCALINGGB and IOPS needed

UPGRADEDESIGNInitial size (GB or IOPS)

Anticipated growth over lifecycle of array

IOPS required lifetime of product

Node size selection

RAID type, RAID grouping

Drive type (FC, NL, Flash)

Drive quantities and ratio

Cache requirements

Drive Sparing

Aggregate/CPG

MetaLUN and Bin file layout

INSTALLATIONBin File/RAID Layout

Aggregate/MetaLUN creation

Snapshot spare spacing

Vol0/quorum drive layout

Aggregate snapshot frequency

Snapshot growth limits

OPERATINGGB and IOPS required

Account Creation

Host to HBA assignment and tracking

Host initiator count limits

RAID type required

Primary Control Node assignment

IOPS limitation concerns

Snapshot growth policy

Thin Provisioning (or not)

Aggregate/CPG assignment

40% CPU limit considerations

SCALINGGB and IOPS needed

Drive Shelves required

Power/floor space restrictions

Control node limitations (CPU storage)

UPGRADEHBA compatibility list

CPU utilization on control nodes

Maintenance window

Mitigate risk during node outage

Internally Automated Storage System TasksOTHER VENDORS

Element OS | A U T O M A T E D M A N A G E M E N T

VDI Initiative

Dev/Test Initiative

Application

Start With One Project … Transform As You Go

NodesIT Projects Automation SOLIDFIRE


vCenter

Power-Shell

SPBM

vRealize

VDI Initiative

Database

Cloud Initiative

Application

Self-Service IT

Storage Isn’t Easy

Fuel the Software-‐Defined Data Center with SolidFire

INTEGRATION

SOLIDFIRE

AUTOMATION

BUSINESS VALUE

Automated Management

GuaranteedPerformance

Global EfficiencyScale-‐Out

Data Assurance

vCenter Plug-in PowerShell Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)

End UserComputing

Infrastructure Delivery

ApplicationDeployment

SIOC + QoS VAAI VASA

VM

SRM VVol

Virtualization Platform

Business Value

vRealizeSuite

Thank You

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