G2M Research Multi-Vendor Webinar #2: NVMe SSDs: New Features and Form Factors

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1 RESEARCH G2M Research Multi-Vendor Webinar #2: NVMe SSDs: New Features and Form Factors September 11, 2018 Sponsored By:

2 Webinar Agenda 9:00-9:05 Ground Rules and Webinar Topic Introduction (G2M Research) 9:06-9:20 Sponsoring Vendor presentations on topic (5 minute each) 9:21-9:22 Audience Survey #1 (2 minutes) 9:23-9:36 Key Question #1 (2-minute question; 4 minutes response per vendor) 9:37-9:50 Key Question #2 (2-minute question; 4 minutes response per vendor) 9:51-9:52 Audience Survey #2 (2 minutes) 9:53-10:06 Key Question #3 (2-minute question; 4 minutes response per vendor) 10:07-10:08 Audience Survey #3 (2 minutes) 10:09-10:14 Audience Q&A (6 minutes) 10:14-10:15 Wrap-Up G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

3 Panelists Scott Shadley VP of Marketing NGD Systems Jonmichael Hands Product Marketing Manager Intel Corporation Cameron Brett Director of Marketing Toshiba Memory America Host/Emcee: Mike Heumann Managing Partner G2M Research G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

4 How Have SSDs Changed the Storage Landscape? SSDs ( Flash ) has significantly reduced storage media latency vs HDDs Reduced the need for huge RAM buffers, and eliminated the need to short-stroke hard disk drives NVMe further accelerates this trend SSDs have also significantly improved storage reliability Result: SSDs are now the mainline storage medium of choice for enterprise and consumer applications vs G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

5 What is a Solid State Drive (SSD)? A simple view of SSDs is that they are a bunch of NAND chips on a board, mounted in a protective carrier They can have more or less buffering RAM Some driver or management capabilities can also be embedded in the controller AND they have standard PC formats (2.5 drive or PCIe add-in card formats) G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

6 How are SSDs Evolving? Several new form factors have been created for SSDs that are tailored for flash media M.2 EDSFF (actually multiple form factors) AND companies are putting more capabilities into SSDs beyond just adding additional capacity or performance Computational storage Indexing and searching Increased redundancy/error correction G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

7 Why Are These New Capabilities Important? Density and Cooling Both PCIe AOC, 2.5 small disk drive, and M.2 form factors all negatively impact the number of NAND chips that can be put on those devices These form factors also result in hot spots that can impact product reliability New form factors offer higher storage densities and better cooling for internal components Lowering Overall Compute Costs For petabyte-scale analytics, data movement from storage to RAM can take several minutes This impacts the real-timeness of the analytics New features such as in-situ processing eliminate most of this data movement G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

8 G2M NVMe Webinar New Features and Form Factors Cameron T Brett, Director of Marketing, SSD and Storage Solutions September Toshiba Memory America, Inc.

9 U.3 (SFF-TA-1001) Universal Backplane Today s end-users must choose what kind of storage they want in their system and predict usage and performance needs Hardware configurations limit the number and types of SSDs that can be installed Do not allow for changing from SAS/SATA to NVMe SSDs All SAS/SATA All NVMe Limited NVMe (2 Max)??? U.3-enabled systems allow end-users to configure their storage for now and have flexibility for future growth, protecting their investment Defines universal hardware that can accept any configuration of SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs Maintains hardware compatibility for systems that can only accept NVMe SSDs SATA SSD (Any Qty) SAS SSD (Any Qty) x4 NVMe SSD (Any Qty) 2018 Toshiba Memory America, Inc. 9

10 EDSFF 3-Inch Short and Long EDSFF 3-inch Long EDSFF 3-inch Short 142.2mm EDSFF 1U Long mm 38.4mm 76.0mm 10,807.2 mm 2, 4x capacity Optimized for 2U servers 104.9mm 7,972.4 mm 2, 2x capacity Optimized for 2U servers 12,240.0 mm 2, 4x capacity Designed for 1U servers 3,511.9 mm 2, 1x capacity Designed for 1U servers EDSFF 1U Short 31.5mm Scale among form factor diagrams is approximate mm 2018 Toshiba Memory America, Inc. 10

11 NVMe-oF Enables Disaggregated NVMe Architecture Direct-attached SSD s 1 st Generation Cloud Disaggregated Storage with NVMe-oF 2 nd Generation Cloud Diskless compute nodes NVMe-oF storage node Storage local to each compute node One-size fits all leads to islands of stranded storage or compute power Disaggregates & shares fast NVMe storage at full performance Enables optimal allocation of storage capacity & performance to each node Each job gets just the right amount of high performance, low latency storage 2018 Toshiba Memory America, Inc. 11

12 RESEARCH Intel Introduction Jonmichael Hands, Product Marketing Manager

13 PCI Express* SSD Form Factor Evolution M.2 U.2 AIC EDSFF *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. M.2 initially designed for client and mobile use. Used in data center for boot or compute nodes, but lacks hot-plug support and requires carrier cards / heatsinks to manage thermals U.2 2.5in x 15mm and 7mm supports hot-plug and serviceability, designed to share physical dimensions with HDDs for hybrid HDD/SSD server designs. Mainstream PCIe* SSD form factor PCIe* low profile add-in-cards have broadest compatibility with the most mature ecosystem and compliance. Shares same form factor with network cards, graphic cards, etc. Built for data center racks High per drive, per server and per rack capacity Improved manageability and serviceability Efficient thermal design Integrated enclosure, latch, LEDs 13

14 Edsff. Formed by industry leaders. Enterprise and Data Center SSD Form Factor Workgroup 1 working A group of 15 companies together 1 2 industry Goal is to limit storage form factor proliferation by defining revolutionary standard form factors Broad, dynamic range of solutions that scales with new interface 3 speeds 7

15 EDSFF Addressed the Hurdles General Purpose Scalable connector Flexible: Multiple orientations, widths, Gen 5+ support Supports interoperable specs (EDSFF, OCP Mezz, Gen Z, etc.) SFF-TA-1002 Break legacy to Optimize for SSDs % increase in media package sites Improved thermal efficiency 2-3x less airflow needed Or support higher power devices Source Intel. Comparing airflow required to maintain equivalent temperature of a 4TB U.2 15mm Intel SSD DC P4500 to a 4TB 1U.L form factor for Intel SSD DC P4500. Source Intel. Comparing airflow required to maintain equivalent temperature of an 8TB U.2 7mm Intel SSD DC P4500 to a 8TB EDSFF 1U-Short form factor for Intel SSD DC P4510. Results have been estimated or simulated using internal analysis or architecture simulation or modeling, and provided for informational purposes. Simulation involves three drives for each form factor in a sheet metal representation of a server, 12.5mm pitch for Ruler form factor, 1000m elevation, limiting SSD on case temp of 70C or thermal throttling performance, whichever comes first. 5C guard band. Results used as a proxy for airflow anticipated on EDSFF spec compliant Ruler form factor Intel SSD P

16 EDSFF Form Factors E1.L (SFF-TA-1007) x 38.4 mm Supports > 40W Up to 48 Standard NAND sites Same Protocol: NVMe Same Interface: PCIe Same Connector: SFF-TA-1002 Same Pinout and Functions (hot plug, serviceable) Different Usages, Same Expectations! E1.S (SFF-TA-1006) x 31.5 mm Supports >12W Up to 12 Standard NAND sites E3 (SFF-TA-1008) (104.9/142.2) x 78mm Supports up to 70W Up to 48 Standard NAND sites 16

17 E1.L: Optimized for Storage System-optimized NVMe* drives for 1U rack space More media sites and board real estate enables higher capacity drives vs. U.2 Purpose built systems optimized for TB/rack unit Enables dense JBOF and disaggregated storage Key Benefits: High capacity per drive and per rack U Scalable bandwidth, drives and PCIe* lanes Thermally efficient design Fully serviceable with hot-plug support Maximizing capacity per rack unit, thermally efficient design, with built in manageability and serviceability lead to lower data center TCO *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. 17

18 1PB in 1U at FMS live Intel E1.L /w QLC Supermicro 18

19 EDSFF at FMS: New Flexible Form Factors for Enterprise and Datacenter SSDs How Form Factors Will Help Shape Tomorrow's Data Center World, Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow, Intel Corporation EDSFF: Mainstream NVMe for the (Datacenter) Masses, Jonathan Hinkle, Principal Researcher, Lenovo EDSFF - The Future of Enterprise Storage and Beyond, Paul Kaler, Advanced Storage Technologist, HPE Datacenter Designs Using the EDSFF Form Factors, Mark A Shaw, Principal Hardware Engineering Manager, Microsoft EDSFF is Here, Panel, Cliff Smith, Sr Product Line Manager, Micron Micron Microsoft WD HPE Intel Lenovo Micron Dell EMC Toshiba Memory Demos for E1.S and E1.L from AIC, Inventec, Celestica, Quanta, Supermicro, Lenovo EDSFF long announcements and demos from Liteon, Marvell, Microsoft Azure, WD, and more 19

20 Enterprise & Data Center SSD Form Factor (EDSFF) Specs are complete! SFF-TA-1002: Protocol Agnostic Multi-Lane High Speed Connector SFF-TA-1006: Enterprise and Datacenter 1U Short SSD Form Factor SFF-TA-1007: Enterprise and Datacenter 1U Long SSD Form Factor SFF-TA-1008: Enterprise and Datacenter 3 Media Device Form Factor SFF-TA-1009: Enterprise and Datacenter SSD Pin and Signal Specification 20

21 Bringing Intelligence to Storage NVMe Computational Storage More Intelligence Better Results Scott Shadley VP Marketing NGD Systems, Inc - G2M NVMe Webinar - Sept 2018 Bringing Intelligence to Storage

22 A Real World Problem Managing Data bandwidth mismatch by >60X 22 09/11/2018 NGD Systems, Inc - G2M NVMe Webinar - Sept 2018 Bringing Intelligence to Storage

23 Solution Moving Compute Closer to Data Reduce data movement across storage/network/memory/cpu for compute Host Platform Standard NVMe Protocol Intelligent Standard SSD Bringing Intelligence to Storage Key Attributes: Maintain familiar methodology (no new learning) Use standard protocols and processes (no new commands) Minimize interface traffic (power and time savings) 23 09/11/2018 NGD Systems, Inc - G2M NVMe Webinar - Sept 2018 Bringing Intelligence to Storage

24 Delivering the Solution NGD Systems NVMe SSD Family New Rack-Scale Form Factors Traditional Storage Form Factors 8TB / 8W 32TB / 12W 16TB / 12W Up to 64TB 16 flash channels 64TB / 13W 24 09/11/2018 NGD Systems, Inc - G2M NVMe Webinar - Sept 2018 Bringing Intelligence to Storage

25 Key Tenants of NGD NVMe Solutions Finding the Needle Faster Support Bigger Pipes Feed Smaller Ones Execution Smarter Storage Does Work Requires Intelligent Controllers ONFI/Toggle, TLC/QLC greater than 64TB Power is Factor - Always Newport Platform Provides On Drive Linux OS, Container Dedicated Compute Cores Mitigating Data Movement Optimizing Application Partnerships for Success Real World Implementation Flash Agnostic 16 Channels - Capacities.35 16TB 25 09/11/2018 NGD Systems, Inc - G2M NVMe Webinar - Sept 2018 Bringing Intelligence to Storage

26 Bringing Intelligence to Storage Thank You NGD Systems, Inc - G2M NVMe Webinar - Sept 2018 Bringing Intelligence to Storage

27 Panel Question #1 Over the past several years, flash storage capacities have grown exponentially, while prices continue to drop, making flash the de facto mainline storage medium. What do you see as the biggest challenge in the future to flash storage usage? Toshiba Intel NGD Systems G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

28 Audience Survey Question #1 What is are the greatest concerns your organization has for the adoption of flash storage, both in servers and in storage systems? (check all that apply; 72 responses): Cost (as measured in $/GB): 71% Reliability: 49% Impacts on Application Performance: 33% Storage Management: 32% Avoiding Vendor Lock-In: 25% Difficulties Migrating from Hard Disk Drives: 11% Other: 14% G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

29 Panel Question #2 The Enterprise Data Center Form Factor (EDSFF) for flash solves the physical form factor problem for now. What can the industry do to better match flash capacity growth (which grows as the square or better of feature size) with I/O speed (which grows linearly to clock speeds)? Intel NGD Systems Toshiba G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

30 Audience Survey Question #2 Who will you primarily look to for guidance when considering adopting a new flash form factor (choose one; 63 responses): Server Vendors: 17% Storage Systems Vendors: 24% My System Integrator (SI) or reseller: 5% End-User Focused Analysts (Gartner, IDC, Forrester, etc.): 10% My peers in the industry: 24% SSD Vendors: 17% Other: 3% G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

31 Panel Question #3 The concept of computational storage holds significant promise to eliminate the problem of data movement from storage to the CPU. What do you see as the hurdles to its adoption, and are there alternatives that provide similar benefits? NGD Systems Toshiba Intel G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

32 Audience Survey Question #3 What would be your biggest concerns when considering computational storage (choose all that apply): Porting Applications: 40% Lack of Interoperability across computational storage devices: 52% Computational Storage Vendor Maturity/Stability: 40% Lack of a clear potential ROI: 18% Lack of support from application vendors: 42% Vendor Lock-In: 27% Other: 3% G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

33 Audience Q&A G2M Communications, Inc.. All rights reserved. RESEARCH

34 Thank You For Attending RESEARCH

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