NetApp: Solving I/O Challenges. Jeff Baxter February 2013

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1 NetApp: Solving I/O Challenges Jeff Baxter February

2 High Performance Computing Challenges Computing Centers Challenge of New Science Performance Efficiency directly impacts achievable science Power and Space limit options A Flood of Big Data Data Driven Analysis Creates Need Demands More data that we know what to do with Science is gated by system ability to process data Systems have to adapt over time Will your storage set the pace, or struggle to keep up? 2

3 Broad and Deep Customers And Partners Enterprise Customers OEM Partners Alliance Partners

4 Lawrence Livermore National Lab Sequoia - designed to be the fastest supercomputer and storage combination on the planet Supercomputer storage to support twenty thousand trillion arithmetic operations per second with access speeds up to 1 TB/sec 55PB of usable storage Science in the national interest Nuclear weapon viability simulations Counter Terrorism Energy Security Understanding Climate Change Press Release: 4

5 What keeps you up at night? Data Client Compute Nodes 1 250K Parallel File System Data Nodes IB, SAS, FC Metadata Parallel File System Data Nodes IB, SAS, FC Performance Get bigger jobs done in a shorter amount of time Get more jobs done in the same amount of time Address widening gap between compute & storage Reliability Minimize system downtime Enable data integrity and availability Storage efficiency Performance density, capacity density, power density Cost Acquisition cost Operating expense Block Storage Block Storage 5

6 What will let you sleep? How to Solve which would you prefer? Rack U Rack Scalable Building Block Scalable Building Block Scalable Building Block or This? Modular block Low power Small footprint Efficient This!!! This? Large increments Power hungry Large footprint Inefficient Rack U Rack Monolithic Solution 6

7 Measurable Benefits Rack U Rack Scalable Building Block Scalable Building Block Scalable Building Block Up to 40% fewer drives 50% vertical space 50% the power Dramatically better write density Dramatically better read density Improved performance under controller failure 7

8 Massive Bandwidth Performance Up to 6GB/sec sustained read bandwidth Up to 3,600MB/sec sustained write bandwidth Modular scalability addresses any performance requirement Single 4U system delivers 6GB/sec Two systems deliver 12GB/sec Five systems deliver 30GB/sec 8

9 Bandwidth Flexible Scalability Scalable Building Block Monolithic Solution Scalable Storage Unit Increments

10 Achieving Scalability IPC Network IPC Cluster Connect IPC file System Nodes InfiniBand File System Nodes Block Storage High performance, low latency block IO InfiniBand SAS Purpose built storage Robust Resilient 10

11 HPS Rack Fully Integrated HPC Storage Solution Based on NetApp E-Series storage Deploy in one day Integrated Lustre file system Simple, single point System Manager Linearly scales performance Up to 3.1GB/sec writes per OSS/OST Scales to tens of petabytes Up to 180TB per 4U High availability, reliability, data integrity Over 300,000 system in production Worldwide maintenance and support NetApp High-Performance Storage Rack 11

12 Enabling the Path to High-Performance Computing Smart Design Easy to deploy Simplifies Management Streamlines complex operations Optimized for Greater Efficiency Integrated solution Analyze Performance Shortens time to results NetApp High-Performance Storage Rack 12

13 Performance Dynamic Disk Pools Delivering New Levels of Performance and Protection Consistent Performance Performance Impact of a Drive Failure Acceptable Improved Data Protection RAID Rebuild Extreme Versatility Time Unacceptable Time DDP Dynamic Rebuild RAID DDP 13

14 Flash Changes Everything Applications go faster, more responsive Drives greater IOPS & MBps Reduces time applications wait Business operations finish sooner Shorter run cycles & time to market Quicker response to customers IT efficiency increases Lower $/IOPs Less space & power needed But where to deploy flash? Can exist in many locations Offerings may overlap New buying factors to consider 14

15 Freedom of Choice for Flash Technology More choices to address workload performance requirements Shared Storage (Data ONTAP) Dedicated Storage (SANtricity) Server level: Flash Accel Fusion-io (resell) Controller level: Flash Cache All-SSD: Persistent storage Array level (hybrid): Flash Pool (persistent cache) Flash Aggregates (persistent) E5400 (hybrid): SANtricity SSD Cache (persistent cache) SSD volumes (persistent) 15

16 SSD Cache Utilizes one or more SSD drives to extend controller read cache Scales to 5TB Implemented on a volume-by-volume basis Hot data promoted automatically Improves responsiveness for transactional applications Enables broader implementation of lower cost, high capacity drives without sacrificing performance

17 Intelligent, reliable performance is paramount Modular is optimal Purpose built a must Flash changes everything 17

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