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2 Flash.Next: Zero To One Million IOPs Karthik Pinnamaneni Sr. Systems Engineer Karthik.Pinnamaneni@emc.com
3 An Order Of Magnitude Better Performance 2000 IOPS/GB 0.5 IOPS/GB 150 IOPS/GB 4000X FASTER THAN HARD DRIVES Hard Disk Drive Array Flash PCIe Flash
Capacity Cost Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 4 New Deployment Models ALL FLASH ARRAY XtremSW Cache HYBRID ARRAY FLASH SSD XtremSF FLASH CARD Storage Network Server Network Isilon VNX VMAX Transaction Performance
EMC s Flash Portfolio 20μs Software XtremSW Cache: array acceleration Hardware XtremSF: high performance DAS 100 μs Server-centric SAN-centric 500 μs XtremIO Scale out block, In-line de-dup, MLC flash, Consistent low latency 1ms VMAX / VNX Tiering, caching Isilon Scale-out file store 20ms Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 5
6 Introducing EMC XtremSF PCIe flash card deployed in the server to dramatically improve application performance by reducing latency and accelerating throughput Use cases: Local storage device for read and write acceleration Caching device for read acceleration with data protection 550GB emlc 1.4TB emlc 350GB SLC 700GB emlc 2.2TB emlc 700GB SLC
7 Server-Based Flash Deployments Use XtremSW: For mission-critical data To accelerate reads For small working sets For data protection Use XtremSF: For temporal data To accelerate reads and writes For large working sets Cache Tier 1 Data Local Store Temp DB
8 XtremSW Split Card Mode Cache Direct- Attached Storage Data 1 Data 2 Temp DB
9 Software-Defined Non-Proprietary Hardware Inherently Balanced Linear Scale-Out Architecture Flash-Optimized Sub-millisecond Data Services
10 X-Brick Scaling Unit Battery Backup Unit Battery Backup Unit Controller High Availability True Active/Active 25 Slot DAE emlc Flash Controller (1U X86 Server)
XtremIO X-Brick Specifications Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 11 Feature Physical Specification 5U (6U for first X-Brick) Power Host Ports Unique Usable Capacity 750W 4 x 8Gbps Fibre Channel 4 x 10Gbps iscsi 7.5TB (stay tuned!)
12 XtremIO Performance 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000 Fully Random <1ms I/O - 100,000 100% Write 150,000 250,000 50/50 100% Read Functional IOPS Single X-Brick 4KB Performance
XtremIO Scale-Out Achieve any performance or capacity level IOPS 4X 3X 2X 1X 1 2 3 4 <1ms Latency Consistently Low Latency Linear Performance Scalability Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 13
14 Consistent, Predictable Performance 100% write performance at 97% full Two X-Brick cluster
15 DATA SERVICES FLASH OPTIMIZED ALWAYS ON, ALWAYS PERFORM
16 So you ve heard about XtremIO Incredible Performance with Flash optimized Data Services INLINE DATA REDUCTION THIN PROVISIONING DATA PROTECTION WRITABLE SNAPSHOTS Never Write Duplicate Data 4KB Allocations Optimal Utilization Flash-Optimized Zero Configuration Instant Copies Full Performance
17 XtremIO Architecture Benefits Extends flash endurance Always maximum performance No setup or tuning Foundation for advanced array functionality
Full VMware VAAI Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 18 Full VAAI support Easy-to-manage multi-tb volumes Accelerated formatting Enhanced copy services (VAAI + Data Reduction) XCOPY Redefined!
19 Full Copy with VAAI X-Copy command Full Clone One X-Copy Round Trip A B A C D D A B A C D D Addr +4k +8k +12k +16 k Storage Array +20k New Addr +4k +8k +12k +16 k +20k
20 Full Copy on Addr +4k +8k +12k +16 k +20k Full Clone X-Copy command New Addr +4k 1 X-Copy Round Trip +8k +12k +16 k +20k Metadata in RAM Ptr Ptr Ptr Ptr Ptr Ptr Ptr Ptr Ptr Ptr Ptr Ptr A B C D Data on SSD
XtremIO configures in minutes One Screen Zero Planning, Zero Tuning Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 21 1 3 CREATE VOLUMES 2 MAP VOLUMES CREATE INITIATOR GROUPS
Data reduction for full clones Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 22 Thin Provisioning & Data Reduction savings 150 full clones (40GB each) fit in 20GB of flash! Remaining 192GB was other test data
23 Flash Reduces Latency, Increases IOPS Performance 100μS XtremSF 500μS 1mS XtremIO Isilon VNX VMAX Low Service Level 2mS High Service Level
24 There are a few things in history that have a significant impact on advancing technology. XtremIO is one of those things. - Craig Englund Storage and Virtualization Architect XtremIO VDI customer