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1 Server-Side Storage Intelligence with PernixData & Veeam

2 PernixData Presenter Todd Mace - Systems vexpert VCP5, MCSE, MCT / todd@pernixdata.com Personal Blog:

3 Presenter Luca Dell Oca EMEA Evangelist at Veeam vexpert VCAP5-DCD, CISSP Personal Blog:

4 Who Are We? Founded Feb by virtualization experts Poojan Kumar, CEO (Exadata co-founder, head VMware data group) Satyam Vaghani, CTO (VMware Storage CTO, VMFS Creator) Strong virtualization and storage experience VMware, NetApp, Data Domain, EMC, Quantum, Oracle, HDS, IBM... Top tier investors Lightspeed and Kleiner Perkins, others ($57+ million raised to date) Industry luminaries as advisors Mark Leslie, John Thompson & Lane Bess

5 What If, Just By Loading Software 8400 VM Observed IOPS Before After Application performance increased significantly 1400 VM Observed Latency (ms) User experience improved dramatically 0

6 Hard problems remain unsolved Maximize flash s reach to every data center Remove moving parts to let fast media really shine Storage performance that scales like servers Application-centric storage, not infrastructure-centric storage Is application-centric storage a storage system or a storage hypervisor? Critical piece of SDDC design

7 Hypervisor Advantage I/O blender: Fairness inside the hypervisor VM ESXi Host VM VM ESXi Host VM Exit = Loss of application identity QOS, Resource Management Switch Switch Storage Array

8 PernixData FVP clustered Platform

9 Future proof scale out architecture Non disruptive performance scale out Linked Compute + Storage performance growth Future proof: new tech instantly usable

10 New Storage Performance Design North Active I/O West East Data Services DATA-AT-REST TIER (Capacity) South Decouple Storage Performance from Capacity with PernixData FVP Software

11 FVP Software and Hardware Requirements Software FVP Host Extension (VMware PVSP) vsphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 FVP Management Server Windows 2008 or bit FVP Plugin for vsphere Client Hardware PCIe or SSD Server-Side Flash o o Non-RAID, JBOD preferred Logical RAID 0 if JBOD not available Available RAM Any Storage Platform FC, iscsi and FCoE, NFS are all supported

12 Clustered Platform Networking In Depth FVP WB Protection Networking Built-in to FVP and is seamless vmotion VMkernel port used by default Dedicated VMKernel port can be used VM I/O Host Peering ESXi Host {0,1,2 replica s} Fault domains are setup by FVP Management Server for write-back replicas Replica data Write-back peers are visible in UI SSD vmotion network ESXi Host PCIe card FVP Cluster Write I/O Storage System

13 Clustered Platform Remote Flash Access vmotion/ha Restart On Request Access Remote blocks are accessed as needed No Pre vmotion Warming required No replication of entire flash footprint needed. Used for Write-Through or Write-Back s VM vmotion2 VM Remote s flah2 footprint ESXi2Host Remote2fla access h2 Read Data 1 4 ESXi2Host Flash 2 3 Flash 4 FVP Flash Cluster Locals flah2 footprint

14 Distributed Fault Tolerant Memory Historic point: FVP fault tolerance makes volatile memory part of storage for the first time ever Timing: Recent chipset advances make it right for most workloads Other facts about FVP with DFTM: Supports all FVP features and workloads 1TB RAM per host up to max vsphere cluster size A FVP Cluster can mix RAM, Flash, MCS, etc Ability to hot-expand and hot-shrink RAM usage per host

15 Acceleration on the fly VM observed latency Datastore performance Point of acceleration Datastore Latency VM observed latency

16 Accelerate VM = Benefits for all In a 7 Month Period: 8 Billion Reads didn t reach primary storage 318 Terabytes of storage bandwidth not used 10 Billion Writes saw significantly low latency

17 PernixData Scorecard Performance must Be a standalone storage service Be closest to the application Be truly scale-out (like compute) Be VM-aware Be non-disruptive Be future-proof Seamlessly ride the hardware evolution Not be tied to hardware

18 Veeam/PernixData Better Together Storage I/O Offload (Backup I/O mitigated by lower latency) Lower RTO (Accelerated vpower NFS: SureBackup, Instant VM Recovery ) Hypervisor-based Management (VADP, PowerShell) Leverages hypervisor to offload operations from storage array Availability (Always-On Business ) Improvements (Veeam One, Snapshot consistency)

19 Veeam/PernixData Better Together

20 Next Steps Pernixdata.com frankdenneman.nl/pernixdata cloudjock.com Try it! Non-Disruptive 30 day Free Trial pernixdata.com/trial 10 Minute install No changes to VMs, hosts or

21 Thank you!

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