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Application Acceleration Data Optimization

Chris NicholsSr. SEM, Solid State Systems

Solid State Systems Group

The Next Generation of Performance

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Business Drivers


2000 2005 2010 2015+Response Time

Days Hours Minutes Seconds

Decision Making

Data Analysis Modeling and Predicting

Real-Time, Operational Analytics

Automated Decision Governance

Time is the New Business Currency

Real-TimeStrategic


More Data. Faster Data. Complex Data.

Volume (Capacity)• Continually Collect

as much data as possibleVelocity (Time)• Accelerate the writing &

reading of application workload dataVariety (Type) • Understand different

sources & formats together


MORE DATA

MANIPULATED FASTER

QUICKER DECISIONS

Rapid Time To Value Is Key In Today’s Competitive Climate


It’s time to Rethink


…Reports finish in ½ the time or less?

…Applications Deploy Faster with

less maintenance?

…More Data is analyzed in less

time?

…More Transactions are processed in an hour?

…Developers spend less time performance tuning applications?

… Batch Jobs Finish in ½ the time or less?

What happens if…


UCS Founding Principles

Cisco Unified Computing System 1.0

Servers

UCSNetwork / Storage Access

ApplicationCentric

OperationalSimplicity

Platform for

IT Innovation



Taking UCS to the Next Level

Servers

?UCSNetwork /

Storage Access

ApplicationCentricity


Platform for IT Innovation



Cisco UCS Introduces Flash Memory

Servers

Flash Memor

y


NEXT GEN UNIFIED COMPUTINGIntegrates Solid-State Memory Systems into UCS Fabric

UCS Invicta Series Solid-State Systems




Address new data velocity and scale

requirements

Integrate application acceleration into the computing domain


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Response Time

Flash Memory provides a Faster Time Zone for Applications

Slow Zone

Fast Zone

HDD

Flash

CPU


Flash Changes Everything


Trade-offs are Complex & Inefficient

Reference Architecture for 1,000 Desktops

1,000 Persistent Desktops will require:

< 10TB of capacity ~80K backend IOPS41 15K

HDDs

25 7.2K HDDs

3 Flash Drives

TOTAL IOPS: 114,950TOTAL CAPACITY: 63.2 TB

3 types of drives, 3 types of RAID


Simplify. Accelerate.

Example UCS Invicta LUN Diagram

Home Directory, XenApp & User Profiles

SnapshotsInfrastructure Virtual Desktops

Data Reduction Appliance for 1,000 Desktops12 TB Raw

TOTAL IOPS: 180,000

*50/50 read/write mix, refer to earlier slide “A Note on Numbers”


UCS InvictaAccelerate Applications across many Industries

Advertising

Aerospace

Automotive

Construction

Education

Finance

Government

Services

Retail

Real Estate

Manufacturing

Insurance

Hospitality

Healthcare


The Flash Market


Flash Changes The Performance Dynamics Of The Enterprise Storage Market

Storage Decisions

Tape Capacity Disk Performance Disk Flash Memory/SSDs

Backup and Archiving

Data optimization technologies (e.g. dedupe) are driving tape to disk transition.

All Flash Arrays

Capacity Optimized Performance Optimized

Hybrid Arrays

Caching SW PCIe Flash Cards/SSD

Enterprise Disk Arrays

PCIe card deployment will require advanced caching in combination with some form of capacity optimized disk array in order to replicate benefits of shared storage.

Most legacy storage vendors now support standard form factor SSDs within disk arrays as Tier-1 performance optimized capacity and could be considered “hybrid” arrays.

Mainstream “Disk”

Replacement

Performance Focused

Source: Lazard Capital Market Research


The Cisco UCS Invicta SeriesProduct Overview


Workload Acceleration

Fast I/O

High Bandwidth

Low Latency

Data Reduction

Eliminate Redundant Data

Efficient Storage Utilization

Data Center Efficiency

Reduce Energy Consumption

Reduce Floor Space Consumption

Reduce Management Overhead

The UCS InvictaConquers Three Business Objectives


Cisco UCS Invicta Series

Up to 1.2 Million IOPS*Up to 12 GBps* BandwidthUp to 240 TB Raw

UCS Invicta Appliance

UCS InvictaScaling System

Scalability

Modularity

Application Acceleration

Data Optimization

Multiple Workloads

Tuning-Free Performance

Shipping NOW

250,000 IOPS1.2 GBps BandwidthUp to 24 TB Raw

*Read IOPS, refer to earlier slide “A Note on Numbers”

*refer to earlier slide “A Note on Numbers”


UCS Invicta ApplianceShipping

UCS Invicta Appliance

Mode Application Acceleration

Data Reduction

Throughput (GBps) 1.2 1.2

100% Read IOPS 220,000 250,000

Blended IOPS (50%read/50%write) 205,000 180,000

100% Write IOPS 200,000 120,000

Latency (Microseconds) <100 <100

Size 2 RU 2 RU

Max Capacity (TB) 24 TB Raw 64 TB**

**Effective Capacity


UCS Invicta Scaling SystemFCS April

Scaling System Routers

Manages connectivity between Hosts and Scaling System Nodes

Supports combination of Acceleration and Data Reduction Nodes

Max System Capacity with 10 Scaling Nodes• 240 TB RAW• 640 TB Effective

Scaling System Nodes

Application Acceleration Mode orData Reduction Mode

Application Acceleration Mode • 3TB-24TB RAW Capacity per node

Data Reduction Mode• 25TB-64TB Effective Capacity per

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UCS Invicta Scaling System Architecture

UP TO 10

UP TO 6

Point to Point Switched

Scaling System Routers

Scaling System Fabric

Scaling System Nodes

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Flexible Replication Options

Appliances to Scaling Array Scaling Array to Scaling Array

Appliance to Appliance Appliance to Open Target

Linux/Windows


The UCS Invicta SeriesInvicta OS


Media optimization

Flash Cell Mechanical Hard Drive


Invicta OS Eliminates Trade-Offs

Data Persistence

Fastest Performan

ce

Highest Protection

Write Protection Buffer

Block Translation Layer

RAID Layer

Flash Media


Invicta OS Streamlines the Write process

Receive• Data blocks of

Various size arrive from Hosts from network interconnects

Protect• Data Blocks are

stored in the power loss buffer and passed onto the Block Translation Layer (BTL)

Optimize• The Block Translation

Layer Aggregates and sizes Data Blocks for the RAID Layer and Flash Media

• Hash tags are created for each block

Commit • BTL Optimized Data

is flushed across the RAID stripe and Flash erase blocks concurrently


Inbound data blocks

Invicta OS Optimization = High Performance

Cache

Block Translation Layer Optimize

Inbound data blocks

Write Write

Fill


Invicta OS Fast & Efficient Writing Flash Optimization & Data Protection


UCS Next Gen



Unified Computing System 2.0Operational Velocity & Application Velocity

Servers

Flash Memor

y


NEXT GEN UNIFIED COMPUTINGIntegration of Solid-State Memory Systems into the UCS Fabric

UCS Invicta Series Solid-State Systems




Address new data velocity and scale

requirements

Integrate application acceleration into the computing domain


Mixed DensityRacks/Blades

UCS Central - UCS Manager - UCS Director

Fabric Interconnects

Batch, Data LoadsPerformance Nodes

Routers

Stateless UCS Servers with Virtualized

Adapters

Workload Acceleration and Data Reduction

Nodes

Virtual Desktops

Email

Data Reduction Nodes

OLTP

Analytics

• High I/O Performance with Flash • Multi-tenant / Multi-Workload: big data and

relational DB on one platform• (Re)Allocate pooled resources rapidly for real-

time decision making

UCS Managing Resources in a Unified Fabric


Managed by UCS Director


UCS Director

UCS Director Simplify Infrastructure Management

Manual processes require days

or weeks to deploy resources; increases operating costs

Data center teams stay in rigid

silos, with complex hand-offs between domains and teams

Static resource allocation results in under-utilization of

resources and inefficiency

Reduces resource deployment from weeks to minutes

Allows IT teams to work together; encourages teamwork resulting in competitive innovationDelivers unified automation and management for optimum utilization and efficiencies


UCS Director Enables an Open UCS Architecture

Compute

• UCS B and C Series

CIM-C for XML interface

• HP, Dell server support

Network

• Cisco network support

• Brocade Support

• F5 Support

Storage

• UCS Invicta Series

• NetApp FlexPod Data Center, FlexPod Express

• 7-mode and cluster mode

• EMC VMAX, VNX and VNX2

• VCE Vblock

Hypervisor

• VMware • Hyper-V

• Scales to large data centers (50,000 virtual machines)• Software Developer Kit for partners and vendors • Heterogeneous support of infrastructure devices • Single pane of glass to manage physical, virtual and bare

metal


Cisco Management From Data Center to Cloud

Manages multiple UCS

Domains

Manages ACI Fabric

UCS CENTRAL

UCS DIRECTOR Centralized infrastructure control point for data center

APIC

INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION FOR CLOUD Private Cloud, PaaS (DevOps), Hybrid Cloud

Manages UCS, heterogeneous data

centers and converged infrastructure

Manages Single UCS domain

UCS MANAGER


Bringing Flash Memory into the UCS Architecture

UCS Invicta Series

ApplianceScaling System Storage Blade

Invicta OS

V5.x•De-Duplication

•UCS Director Support

•FCoE

Hardware

C Series•Flash Memory

B Series •Flash Memory

Management

UCS DirectorUCS Manager

Network

VICFabric Interconnect

UCS B/C UCS Invicta

SAN/LAN2014-2015 Major Integration Steps

Items in green are completed or in progress


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