GT Bay Area DGS 2014 Presentation Optimizing Storage Environments - B Scott

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Optimizing Your Storage

Virtualized Environme

Copyright 2014 Fusion-io, Inc. All rights reserved.

Blake Scott


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I/O Blender Alters Performance Reality

VMwarevSphere

akaThe Randomizer

Virtual Machines

64K Random Read/Write

Exchange

64K Sequential Read/Write

SQL Server


SharePoint


64K Sequential Writes


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Disks Are Not The Answer

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Mechanical limitations

More time seeking than R/W

Rotational latencies

Theres no fix

Platter

HDDs are Virtualization Krypton


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Storage Technology Choices

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Shared capacity Enables VM HA

Delivers highIOPS

Higher $/GB thtraditional arra

Optimizes storagefor specificworkloads

Leverages physicalstorage

infrastructure

Traditional SAN Software Defined Storage All-Flash Array


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Understanding the Storage Challenge

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VMs share storage resources

Creates contention VMs have unique storage

requirements

IOPS

Throughput

Latency

Capacity

Availability

15,000IOPS

4 TB 5 Lat


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Joys of Noisy Neighbors

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VMs can consume more storage

resources than expected Increases storage resource

contention

Usually has negative impact onother VMs

15,000IOPS

4 TB 5 Lat


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Storage Quality of Service

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Many storage systems enable

QoS maximums to limit IOPS orthroughput

Can be set on VMs, volumes orgroups of volumes

1K IOPS3K IOPS 2K IOPS 4K IOPS

QoS Maximums


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But QoS Maximums Dont Work

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Challenging to predict amount of

IOPS or throughput that VMsrequire

Maximum can throttle VMs whenstorage resources are availableto meet their demands

Lack business intelligence tomeet end-user needs 1K IOPS3K IOPS 2K IOPS 4K IOPS

QoS Maximums

Performance consumed

Performance needed, but not av


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Considerations for meeting your storage goal

Architecturematters

Priorities driveperformance

Not all dataneeds flash

P i iti d i N t ll d t


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Faster than SSDMax 5.2TB CapacityConsumes 0 drive bays

Faster than HDDMax 2.0TB CapacityConsumes 1 drive bay

SAS/SATA Flash PCIe Flash



Architecture Matters

Legacy Architecture PCIe Flash Integration Outperforms

Why Choose PCIe Fla

4x more read IOPS

10x more write IOPS

5x more Throughput

4x faster response (la

80x more endurance

Priorities drive Not all data


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High Priority

Low PriorityAll Data

All writes to disk drives

Wasteful capacity utilization

Controller bottleneck




All writes go to flash

Maximizes disk capacity utilization

Intelligence moves data between tiers

Legacy Architecture Datapath Extends Value of Flash



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Legacy Architecture Quality of Service policies ensure predict

Cannot manage performance

Equal access to a small % of flash

Contention leads to inconsistency

Policy managed performance

Ensure minimums are met

Adjustable in real-time

MissionCritical

BusinessCritical

Non-Critical

Unchanged

Performance

Spike

Impact

Equal access to resourcesleads to inconsistency



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Legacy Architecture Quality of Service policies ensure predict

Impact is shared equally

Inconsistency is amplifiedExpectations are not met

Prescribed resource distribution

Critical app performance sustained

Maintains business priorities

MissionCritical

BusinessCritical

Non-Critical

Unchanged

Slight

Change

Impact

Impact

Impact

Impact

Unplanned Event Unplanned Event

Real time datapath decisions foroptimal performance.






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Legacy Architecture Prioritized active caching for critical d

Consumes valuable performance

Pin-to-flash becomes less efficientWastes all-flash array investment

You choose what data gets flash

Keeps active data-set in flash

Cold, low priority data stay on disk

Low Priority

Cold blocks

Snapshots

Remote Copy

Clones

RAID Parity

Critical Application

Hot Data

Cold Data





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SupportDetails

Software updates included Hardware upgrades do not af

cost Proactive phone-home monito Single support contract White glove storage engineer

Offerings

7 day x 24 hour phone | Onsit 7 day x 24 hour phone | NBD 5 day x 9 hour phone suppo

Parts

Lowest support TCO in th

industry

Support contract for base unitfuture hardware upgrades whcontract

n5 Series Technical SpecificationsModel n5-200 n5-300 n5-500 n5-1000

Flash Capacity2.0 TB Flash (base)7.2 TB Flash (max)

2.6 TB Flash (base)7.8 TB Flash (max)



Disk Capacity (RAID6)

32 TB Raw (base) /22 TB Usable128 TB Raw (max) /88 TB Usable




Performance Rating

(IOPS)

150,000 IOPS *2.0 GB/sec

Throughput **

200,000 IOPS *2.4 GB/sec

Throughput **

225,000 IOPS *2.7 GB/sec

Throughput **

250,000 IOPS *3.0 GB/sec

Throughput **

RAM 96GB 192GB

Included Features

Quality of ServiceService LevelsDynamic Data PlacementData Protection (Snapshot and Replication)

Storage Processors Dual Active-Active

Network Interfaces Data: (4) 1/10GbE SFP+, iSCSI / Management: (4) 1GbE RJ45, http, https

Hardware Availability Redundant Storage Processors, Fans, Power Supplies and Network ConnectionsDual Port SAS drives


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Flash First Architecture and Data Path

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High Priori

Low Priorit

PCIe-attached flash removes bottlenecks Up to 40x faster

PCIe maximizes performance and capaci Flash used for all writes, and for read cac

Fusion ioControl HybridPCIe Integrated Flash

SSD

PCIe-attached Flash

CPU SAS Controller

CPU PCIe-attached flash

SSD


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Performance Benefits

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VMs Per System64K Block Size

Concurrent Desktop BootsRead Workloads

Run 3x More

Virtual Machines

Boot 4.5x More

Concurrent Desktops

Other Hybrids Fusion-io Other Hybrids Fusion-io

Internal Testing Results Versus Other Hybrids

3x 4.5x

Scalability has Priorities drive Not all daArchitect re Matters


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yevolved performance needs fla


Legacy Architecture Host-based read cache for low latency

Network becomes bottleneck

Data stranded on serversFlash underutilized

All writes are accelerated by flash

Reads cached at host and array

Eliminate server as SPOF

StrandedData

Network isBottleneck

CriticalApp

Server

CriticalApp

Server

S o f t w a r e


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Prioritize workloads bas

on business requiremen Set minimum performan

targets to maintain SLA

Minimums allow VMs to

outperform their target ifresources are available

Guarantee mission criticapplication performanceresources

Manage Flash with Storage Quality of Service

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Mission Critical

50,000 IOPS

500 MB/s

10 ms

Business Critical High

20,000 IOPS

250 MB/s

20 ms

Business Critical Low

10,000 IOPS

100 MB/s

40 ms

Non Critical High

5,000 IOPS

50 MB/s

100 ms

Non Critical Low

1,000 IOPS

25 MB/s

250 ms

Storage QoS Policy Minimum Performance Levels


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ioControl: Manage VDI boot storms

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PerformanceLevelsMaintained

ControlledPerformanceImpact

VDI BootStorm


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Zero Footprint Performance Scalability

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Affordable flash performance

Shared flash for reads andwrites

High capacity for maximumconsolidation

Some data requires even low

read latency Scale performance to

server/host

Remove storage networklatency

ioControl Hybrid

ServerCache

Server/Host

ServerCache

NetworkUser

ESG Lab Validation Report


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ESG Lab Validation ReportOptimizing SQL Server Clusters with End-to-end Flash Hybrid Storage

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ioControl and ioContro

SPX provide organizatiowith the benefits of flashmixed with traditional diin a cost-effective, end-tend hybrid solution at a

price point that is hard tbeat.

-Enterprise Strategy G


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ioControl SPX Advantage: 5x More VMs

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For details, go to:

http://www.fusionio.com/blog/ioControlSPX-performance-testing/http://get.fusionio.com/iocontrol-tolly-white-paper

Comparable Pricing (within 20%)

Identical Footprint

Conventional Hybrid(NVM+SSD+Disk)

ioControl n5-100(PCIe+Disk)

ioControl n5-SPX(Server Cache+PCIe+Disk)

2.7x more IOPS

vs. ConventionalHybrid

4.6x more IOPS

vs. ConventionalHybrid

2.7xMore IOPS

4.6xMore IOPS

Virtual Machine Workload
http://www.google.com/http://www.fusionio.com/blog/ioControlSPX-performance-testing/http://www.fusionio.com/blog/ioControlSPX-performance-testing/http://get.fusionio.com/iocontrol-tolly-white-paperhttp://get.fusionio.com/iocontrol-tolly-white-paperhttp://www.fusionio.com/blog/ioControlSPX-performance-testing/http://www.google.com/


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End-to-End Scalability Options

Max Host Acceleration Lowest latency with read cache Off-load hybrid performance

Max Shared Performance Add two more flash devices Double shared performance

Max Capacity Up to 3 additional disk sh 192TB maximum capaci

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Hybrid CapacityHybrid PerformanceHost Performance

Server Cache ioControl n5

ioControl n5

E d E d D l M h d


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End-to-End Deployment Methods

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Shared Performance Fully redundant Low latency for many apps

Broadest flash utilization

Max Acceleration Host acceleration Lowest latency

Reliability

Acceleration Improve shared performance Reduce latency

Max interoperability

Server SoftwareServer FlashFlash Appliances

PX600 and SX300

M I f ti


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More Information

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Whitepapers

Case studies Best practice guides

Recorded presentations

Blog

http://fusionio.com/iocontrol
http://fusionio.com/iocontrolhttp://fusionio.com/iocontrol


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