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Why Host Based Flash is critical for SLAs in Mission Critical Datacenters
Ryan Jancaitis – Product Management
Arun Balakrishnan – Product Marketing
Mike Reynolds – Product Marketing
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Agenda
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Market Trends & Analysis on Flash
Symantec focus on In-Server Flash
Summary
Processing Power
• Client sprawl strains shared storage infrastructure
• Concurrent & blended IOs aggravate the I/O bottleneck
• 8% of all data requires low latency, high IOPS
• NextGen applications are designed for low latency
Data Processing Challenges – Data centers need to evolve
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Substantial Data Growth
• Data is increasingly more decentralized/compressed/deduped
• Tiering data is a focal point
• Big Data analytics require temporary data moves
• Network latency is no longer acceptable
Mixed Workloads
• Tier 1 I/O competes with Dev and Test workloads
• Majority of start-up market is focused on virtualization acceleration
• Increase in virtual storage appliances adoption
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HDD
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Flash storage solutions provide significant improvements over current technologies
Fibre channel SAN (7 ms)
FAST FASTER FASTEST
SSD Arrays (0.1 ms)
PCIe Flash (25 µs)
• Moves active data closer to the CPU
• Increased server consolidation
• 5-10x increase in per machine VM density
• Spike-free low latency and balanced read/write performance
• Consumes 80% less space and power than HDD performance storage
• 15,000 RPM disk provides only ~150 random IOPS
• High access time delays
• Increased failure rates due to moving parts and wear and tear.
In-server Flash poses new challenges for enterprises
Challenges • Expensive • Cache coherency • Cache hinting • Shared resources • Functional coordination
Hypervisor
VM VM
App App App App
Hypervisor
VM VM
App App App App
Hypervisor
VM VM
App App App App
Cache
Benefits • High performance • Improved server utilization • Virtualize backend storage
Storage array
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• Traditional Data
Centers Rally
• Data Efficiency
Management Software
• Support and Services
• Progressive Data
Centers Lead
• Inexpensive Solutions
• PCIe SSD, PC SSD,
and SSD Appliances
Data Center customer deployment trends
44%
56%
2012 SSD Shipments 5.99M Units
Progressive
Traditional
32%
68%
2016 SSD Shipments 18.01M Units
Progressive
Traditional
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1 Source: Gartner Data Center conference, Dec 2012
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Business value of in-Server Flash: Leverage commodity storage in backend
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FC
…
$/GB
$$
$/IOPs
$$$$$
IOPs Today
c
IOP Futures
Without in-server Flash --> High Cost, low performance
FC/IB
…
$/GB
$$
$/IOPs
$$
IOPs Today
c
IOP Futures
Symantec Stack
Tier 2/3
High Density
With software + Server Flash + Cheap SAN Storage
Oracle 11gR2 1.4 TB Data Files
2000 Warehouses 100 Users
Management software + Best-in-class hardware: Managed Performance
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512GB
80 Cores
Data Volumes: 8k 3-way Stripe
3700 Series 800 GB
Redo Logs: 4k
Storage Foundation 4.5x SAN performance
20% SAN Cost*
* Pro-rated cost for EMC VMAX 20K using 1/5th of Available Capacity
But… What about redundancy? What about high availability? What happens if hardware fails?
Data Volume: 8k 3-Way
Stripe/Mirror
Redo Logs: 4k Mirrored
Management software + Best-in-class hardware: Managed Performance
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IB
Cluster File System
Oracle 11gR2 1.4 TB Data Files
2000 Warehouses 100 Users
With… Full Data Redundancy Fast-failover capabilities Disaster Recovery App/Server Administrator Control
4x SAN performance
22% SAN Cost*
* Pro-rated cost for EMC VMAX 20K using 1/5th of Available Capacity
Oracle Exadata
Large financial replaces Exadata with Cluster File System and Violin Memory array
Veritas Cluster File System and Violin V3000
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• Storage Saturation
• No flexibility
• Oracle Exadata acquisition costs
• HA/DR overhead
• Expensive snapshots
• Not optimized for Online transaction processing (OLTP)
• 2x performance improvement
• 66% cost reduction
• No SSD saturation
• No HA/DR overhead
• Space-optimized, cost-effective snapshots
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