Available On Demand: How will NVMe Change Flash Storage?

Join us as we explain:

1. What is NVMe?

2. Why NVMe Flash is superior to SAS/SATA Flash

3. Why NVMe Flash is superior to proprietary PCIe Flash

4. How to get started with NVMe

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Our Speakers

Ilya Cherkasov is Product Manager at OCZ Storage Solutions. He has a strong background in SSD performance characteristics and in SSD architectures. He is well-versed with both SATA and PCIe SSDs and has been instrumental in conducting performance analysis and testing at OCZ. As the Z-Drive 6000 Series product manager, he works directly with customers regarding product issues, competitive analysis, technical collateral, internal product alignment and cross-communications. He will be covering the benefits of NVMe and OCZ’s Z-Drive 6000 Series capabilities and benefits in this webinar.

George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:

http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

OCZ Storage Solutions is……a leading solid-state storage provider that addresses client and enterprise storage challenges

…a Toshiba Group Company

…a fully-integrated technology company whose sole mission is to deliver best-in-class SSDs

» PROVEN IN-HOUSE TECHNOLOGY Multiple award winning product generations feature proprietary controller/firmware

» BROAD MARKET EXPOSURE100s of reseller, distribution, enterprise & OEM customers

» GLOBAL BRAND RECOGNITION1000s of rave product reviews from around the world

OCZ delivers intelligent and optimized approaches to how your data is captured, stored, accessed, analyzed and leveraged in today’s data-driven era.

Polling QuestionWhat Are You Looking For Next From Flash?

A) Higher Performance

B) Consistent Performance

C) Lower Latency

D) Greater Density

E) Reduced Costs

Polling QuestionWhat Are You Looking For Next From Flash?

The State Of Flash Storage• Phase 1 - 2010: Flash Performance Problem

Solver

• Phase 2 - 2014: Flash As General Purpose Storage

• Phase 3 - 2016: Flash Focuses on Interconnect Architectures (High Performance Networks, Memory Bus, NVMe)

The Flash Challenges• Performance Euphoria is Over

• Phase 1 and 2 were competing against HDD (most success stories tell how much faster the new flash array is than the old HDD array)

• Next Generation is competing against Phase 1 and Phase 2 flash

How Can Flash Performance Improve?

• Increase Predictability

• Decrease Latency

Addressing Predictability• Increase Over-Provisioning

Ratios (Expensive)

• Increase Flash Controller Performance (Hard)

• Give Storage Systems or Operating Systems Control (garbage collection on-demand)

Addressing Latency

• The connection between CPU and Flash (network) is the biggest cause of latency

Addressing Latency

• Solutions have appeared to reduce

PCIe Flash (proprietary drivers that circumvent OS, have OS specialties)

Memory Bus Flash (requires new motherboard and ROM Bios)

Enter NVMe...

What Is NVMe?• NVM Express

Universal Software Designed for PCIe Flash

Works on Current Hardware

Improves Performance vs. SAS/SATA

How Are Vendors Adopting NVMe?

• Step 1Adherence to

Standard

• Step 2Innovating within

the Standard

Introducing the OCZ NVM Express™ Z-Drive 6000 SSD Series

The Future of Enterprise Storage is Here.CONFIDENTIAL

Data Succeeds Closer to the Application• PCIe physical interface, NVMe

software stack

• NVMe provides the maximum benefit for flash

• Obviates the need for layers of translation and context switches

• Optimizes applications access to flash – more like memory than storage

• Maintains block device representation of flash for application compatibility

• Broad compatibility with existing and nextgen PCIe infrastructure

Application Layer

Flash Media

Flash Controller

SATA Controller

SATA Driver

Software RAID

Dis

tanc

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A

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n Latency

Flash Media

NVMe Driver

Dis

tan

ce

Latency

DATA DATA

CONFIDENTIAL

Why Choose NVMe?

• Optimal I/O handling for virtual machines

• Multiple queues

• Each up to 64k outstanding commands

Scalable Queues

3

CONFIDENTIAL

• Optimized SW stack reduces latency, caters to multi-core environment

• Focus on parallelism, performance, and low power operation

Parallelism and

Concurrency

• Commands can be assigned different priorities

• Admin commands are high priority to help manage SLAs

Command Arbitration

>_

• Three required I/O commands

• Optimized data placement resulting in smart wear leveling & garbage collection

Data Management

Z-Drive 6000 Series Highlights

CONFIDENTIAL

PCI Express Gen 3.0

x4

800GB, 1.6TBand

3.2TB

2.5” x 15mmHHHL

1 – 3 DWPD

PHYS

ICAL

PERFORMANCE

2900 MB/sSeq. Read

1900 MB/sSeq. Write

700K IOPSRandom

Read

160K IOPSRandom

Write

Z-Drive 6000 Series Summary

Z-Drive 6000 offers tight latency and performance envelopes

High data availability with no compromises in performance or latency

High throughput and low latency by residing closest to the CPU and memory

Positioning

Alleviates I/O bottlenecks in latency-sensitive mission-critical applications

Affinity for random read workloads but offers solid performance in random write workloads

Superior scaling under lighter loads, which is beneficial in bursty environments

Benefits

Packs Incredible Speed and NVMe Goodness into SFF U.2 and AIC MD2 Form Factors

CONFIDENTIAL

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