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shaping tomorrow with you

ETERNUS DX The performance beast

Birgit Heinrich, Global Product Marketing

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Why Storage performance is important?

Response time of biz critical applications

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ERP (Enterprise Ressource Planning)

CRM (Customer relationship management)

If you don’t have enough performance

Can’t reach the agreed service levels

Silo solutions for dedicated applications

Need to invest in further disks or SSDs; but not really

utilized

Don’t gamble with service levels

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It‘s all about performance… about what?

What is performance?

Which are the important values?

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IOPS – The bigger the better

Input-Output Operations per Second

Wrongly considered as a major indicator of AFA performance

Indicates how many applications can be supported in parallel

Vendors are currently fighting at level of millions of IOPS

In real life customers request up to 200,000 IOPS

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Response time – the lower the better

The only value users will notice

If workload grows, response time increases

Time from request of data to receiving it

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How to proof performance?

Internal measurements

Hidden tuning

Secret load profile

Unproven vendor claims

Estimations

Marketing messages

Independent benchmarks

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Advantages of independent benchmarks

Comprehensible configurations

and reproducible results

Tuning in (pre-)defined areas

possible

Must be disclosed

Ensures customer can really

compare different storage

systems

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SPC – the storage benchmark

The Storage Performance Council (SPC) is a non-profit corporation founded to

define, standardize, and promote storage subsystem benchmarks as well as to

disseminate objective, verifiable performance data to the computer industry and

its customers.

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SPC-1 benchmark

Measures random access read/write performance

Access patterns of processing many complex transactions

Customer scenarios

Online Transactions (OLTP)

Database operations (e. g. Mail systems)

Real-time analytics

Designed to simulate business critical applications

I/O (per second)

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SPC-2 benchmark

Measures sequential access

Consists of distinct workload profiles

• Large file processing

• Large database queries

• Video on Demand

• Backup

Designed to show streaming performance

MB (per second)

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SPC-1 Benchmarks Metrics

SPC Benchmark-1™

Maximum I/O request throughput in SPC-1 IOPS™

Price/Performance in $/ SPC-1 IOPS™

• Different discounts per vendor

Response time at different workloads

• 10 – 100 % workload

Official Website SPC-1™: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1/#fujitsu_spc1

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SPC-1 IOPS and response time

Conclusion

ETERNUS DX S3 arrays deliver the best response times in the market – at least 20 % faster

Faster than dedicated AFA’s

Faster than systems deployed with more controller

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Official Website SPC-1™ does not have any segmentation. This is solely Fujitsu‘s view according how vendors position their arrays

Hardly any request for more than 200,000 IOPS

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Variable analysis

SPC benchmark summary (2016-01)

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Trend in the market

Decline in General Purpose Arrays

Increase in All Flash Arrays

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How Fujitsu differentiates

ETERNUS SF Storage Management

ETERNUS DX

Hybrid Storage

Systems

ETERNUS DX200 F

All-Flash Storage

System

Fujitsu's approach

Minimizing the speed gap between hybrid

systems and purpose-built flash arrays

Deriving a SSD optimized flash system from

standard hybrid design

Keeping one storage management stack

Benefit from low latency by far smaller costs

Advantages

Management compatibility with hybrid systems

Comprehensive high-availability, DR

and Quality-of-Service functionalities

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ETERNUS DX200F with full business continuity

The only All-flash array providing transparent failover!

Primary all flash storage

ETERNUS DX200F

Secondary all flash storage

ETERNUS DX200F

Mirroring of business critical data

via ETERNUS Storage Cluster

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The real life of all flash performance

Customer case

Leading manufacturer of electronic test,

measurement and communications equipment

HQ in Europe

Need for low latency for a business application

Benchmarked Netapp EF, XIO, Nimble, IBM Flash System

und ETERNUS DX200F

ETERNUS DX200F achieved the performance lead

at the best price level

Customer finally decided for the hybrid version ETERNUS DX200 S3

keeping the flexibility to mix disks and SSDs

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Is Dedup / Compression an overrated feature?

The story behind

A feature to make performance

affordable

But: Overhead costs performance

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What do you want?

Speed? Cost efficiency?

A combination is always a compromise

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Further information

Channel Partner Portal

Positionig Overview

• ETERNUS DX

• ETERNUS DX200F

Competitive Advantages

• ETERNUS DX

• ETERNUS DX200F

Benchmark information

Data is OUR Domain.

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