Convergence and Flash: Reinventing Storage (Again)

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1 Convergence and Flash: Reinventing Storage (Again) Dr. Allon Cohen VP Products and Business Development, Elastifile Santa Clara, CA 1

2 Two Forces Revolutionizing the Data Center Santa Clara, CA 2

3 Enterprise Data Center Evolution Phyiscal & Segmented Virtualized data-center Private Cloud Discrete networks Discrete Storage 1Gb Ethernet Compute virtualization Shared storage 10Gb ethernet Network virtualization Software defined networks 10Gb/40GbE Low Latency Santa Clara, CA 3

4 Storage Silos: There and Back Again Server Storage Silo s Virtualized Servers Virtual Server Storage Silo s Server Virtualization Software Defined Storage (First Attempts ) Centralized Storage System Santa Clara, CA 4

5 A Dichotomous Data Center High IOPS Application Storage Silo Virtual Server Storage Silo s All Flash Array Santa Clara, CA 5

6 Current Market Penetration Where Flash is Today External Box SAN ~5 Applications 200,000 IOPS /user Tier 0 Tier 1 Tier 2 Cached data Transactional Mission Critical Applications Business Critical Where Software defined storage is today Tier 3 Tier 4 Cold Files Active Archive Backup Disaster Recovery ~500 Applications 2,000 IOPS /user Santa Clara, CA 6

7 The Storage Manager Balancing Act Circa 2013 Flash HDD External Box Software Defined Fibre Channel Ethernet Block File/Object Santa Clara, CA 7

8 Can I Have Both? Software Defined TCO savings Flexibility Compute Resource Efficiency Elasticity Flash High Performance Lower Variance Ease of Implementation Easier sharing Santa Clara, CA 8

9 The Missing Link Santa Clara, CA 9

10 Data Management Approaches What we Had What I manage Storage Centric Storage System LUNs VM Centric VMs VM Volumes Who owns the data The External Array The Virtual Machine Capacity Management (Quota/ Provisioning) Performance Assurance (Quality of Service) The Bottom Line LUNs Servers Can Share Can t Scale Virtual Disks Virtual Machines Can Scale Can t Share Santa Clara, CA 10

11 Data Management Approaches What we Need What I manage Storage Centric VM Centric Data Centric Storage System LUNs VMs VM Volumes Data Files/Objects Users Who owns the data The External Array The Virtual Machine Capacity Management (Quota/ Provisioning) Performance Assurance (Quality of Service) The Bottom Line Applications/ Users LUNs Virtual Disks Applications/ Users Servers Virtual Machines Users/Data Can Share Can t Scale Can Scale Can t Share Can Scale Can Share Santa Clara, CA 11

12 Example 1 Data Centric Flash Tiering Boot Image Read Intensive High Resiliency -> 3-way - 3D flash Boot Image Log Data Temp Log Write Intensive High Resiliency -> 3-way - emlc Hypervisor Data Read/Write Intensive Medium Resiliency -> 2-way - emlc Temp Read/Write Low Resiliency -> 1-way - MLC Santa Clara, CA 12

13 Example 2 Shareable Data at Web Scale Parallel DW Node 1 Read\Write \db\data.mdf Parallel DW Node 2 Hypervisor Read/Write \db\data.mdf Read Only \db\data.mdf Analytics Node Hypervisor Hypervisor \db\ data.mdf Distributed file data Santa Clara, CA 13

14 Flash Market Penetration The old All Flash Zone External Box SAN Single Applications 200,000 IOPS /user Tier 0 Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Cached data Transactional Mission Critical Applications Business Critical Cold Files Active Archive Disaster Recovery Backup The new All Flash Zone Software Defined File/Object Hundreds of Applications Application aware provisioning ,000 IOPS /user Santa Clara, CA 14

15 Change Enablers Efficient Compute and Buses x86 Excellent IO Device per Host - Flash Data Aware Scale-out SW Good Device Abstraction - Virtualization High Speed Low Latency Network GbE Santa Clara, CA 15

16 Elastifile s Solution Distributed, Truly Scale-out File System & Object Store Converged & Software Only Flash/SSD Only High-Performance (Millions usable < 2ms) Cloud Scale, Software Only, All Flash, Scale-out File & Object Storage Services Santa Clara, CA 16

17 Thank You! Santa Clara, CA 17