IBM FlashSystem Cloud Performance and Capability

IBM FlashSystem®

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Abstract

How Cloud Performance and Capability is driven by IBM

FlashSystem

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how IBM’s market-leading

FlashSystem can enhance and optimize your cloud solution. This

session will discuss how Flash technology provides the performance

capabilities to take your cloud business to the next level. Through

various cloud client examples, we will discuss how both of our newest

products, the next generation FlashSystem 900 and V9000, can be

easily implemented into your cloud storage infrastructure to provide

the performance and scalability that your business needs to outpace

your competition.

Agenda

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Cloud service models and how they can benefit from flash

– IaaS

– PaaS

– SaaS

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Introducing the FlashSystem Family

– Why Flash

– FlashSystem 900

– FlashSystem V9000

Community

Premise: Every Cloud Needs Storage

SaaS

Hybrid

PaaS

IaaS

Public

Private

BPaaS

MBaaS

SERVICE MODELS

DEPLOYMENT MODELS

But not all clouds are the same

IaaS

Mixed Workload

Utility Pricing

Offer Infrastructure

resource

Public Cloud

PaaS

Mixed Workload

Mixed Pricing

Host client’s

custom/acquired

application

Public Cloud

SaaS

Single Workload

Licensing

Vendor’s application

Community Cloud

IaaS – Why speed and efficiency matter

Performance

SLAs

Unpredictable array of

client use cases &

workloads

Noisy neighbors impact

performance

Customer

retention

Switching costs are low

Deliver a great

experience or lose

customers

High capital and

operating costs

High cost to deliver high

performance

Managing complex

infrastructure is costly

Data center space, power

& cooling are costly

Why IaaS providers use flash

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Reduce Costs

– Meet performance SLAs

– Decrease software licensing costs

– Lower cost for performance

•

Gain & Retain Customers

– Improve customer satisfaction

– Easily handle mixed workloads

– Scale performance and capacity

– Eliminate noisy neighbor problems

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Create new revenue sources

– Drive revenue expansion/upsell opportunities

with performance offerings for critical

5x increase

in VMware density

300 percent

better response time

close to 100%

hardware investment financed

by VMware license savings

Solution Components

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IBM FlashSystem 840

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IBM Storwize V5000 & V3700

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VMware

IP-Only

Nordic MSP gains efficiencies and performance

Business challenge:

A leading hosting provider in Sweden needed to create

efficiencies in their IT infrastructure to protect and grow market presence amid

significant competition.

The solution:

Dual IBM FlashSystem 840 arrays virtualized by Storwize V5000 at

two data center sites configured to Intel and VMware platforms.

Business impact:

Substantial increase in performance and VMware density

provided excellent ROI and better cost structure which protected market position.

PaaS – Why speed matters

Performance

SLAs

Unpredictable client

workloads

Noisy neighbors impact

performance

Customer

retention

Switching costs are low

Deliver a great

experience or lose

customers

Cost

management

Often highly complex

applications

Diagnosing performance

issues is hard

Data center space, power

& cooling are costly

Why PaaS providers use flash: accelerate big clients

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Gain and retain clients

– Scale as clients grow (count & size)

– Improve customer satisfaction

– Eliminate noisy neighbor problem

– Support massive concurrency

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Reduce costs

– Meet performance SLA’s

– Decrease infrastructure costs

– Easy to install and manage

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Create new revenue sources

CloudAccess.net

unthrottles performance for cloud platforms

Business challenge:

Overwhelming demand as exclusive Joomla! demo site,

pressure to keep costs low, original infrastructure not up to the task.

The solution:

The IBM FlashSystem was implemented quickly and easily and

provides a bottleneck-free storage environment. It has exceeded the requirements

CloudAccess.net had as the world’s premier hosting site for Joomla!

“. . . performance and ease-of-use has gone way beyond our expectations”

“When it comes down to flash technology, they really can’t be beaten.”

- Gary Brooks, CEO, CloudAccess.net

Over 17,000

active Joomla sites hosted

Tens of 1000s

of users supported

2 hours

to configure and implement –

quick time to value

Solution Components

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IBM FlashSystem

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Fibre Channel SAN

•

Citrix XenServer

110U

in rack space reduction

18.6kW

in power reduction

Flash CoC

Flash Center of Competency

skills were key factor for win

Solution Components

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IBM FlashSystem V9000

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IBM Flash Centers of Competency

Business Center

IBM FlashSystem V9000 infuses new life into cloud provider in Japan

Business challenge:

Successful programming and cloud provider in Japan needed

to optimize storage cost and performance in the face of increasing competition and

growing client requirements.

The solution:

IBM FlashSystem V9000 systems were deployed at two sites as

replacements for older spinning disk – VDisk mirror used for easy data migration.

Business impact:

Substantial results were seen in performance, maintenance

reduction, power and space reduction, and capacity optimization with compression,

all of which provided a solid basis for competitive posture and growth.

SaaS – why performance matters

Constant use

Highlights flaws

Exacerbates perception

of slowness

Customer

retention

Switching costs are low

Deliver a great

experience or lose

customers

Hard to ensure

performance

Large user base

More complex

application stack

Heavy, intricate

front ends

Complicated application

delivery chain

Why SaaS providers use flash: slow customer churn

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Gain and retain customers

– Improve customer satisfaction

– Increase application stability

– Handle more concurrent users

•

Create new revenue sources

– Drive revenue expansion/upsell

opportunities with performance offerings for

critical applications

– Add data rich features without sacrificing

performance

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Reduce costs

– Lower cost for performance

– Decrease infrastructure costs

2x faster

response times

5x increase

in system load on the 1

_{day of}

install

14x reduction

in physical rackspace for

significant cost savings

Solution Components

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IBM FlashSystem

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IBM Storwize V7000

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IBM DB2

SciQuest

Staying ahead of the competition with IBM FlashSystem

Business challenge:

New challenges for optimal performance and availability

amid growing user demand for cloud solutions, constraints around costs, energy,

and rackspace.

The solution:

Replaced a full rack of standard spinning disks with an IBM

FlashSystem occupying only 3U of rackspace.

“With IBM FlashSystem . . . we’re able to focus on bringing new customers in. . .

it’s a wonderful thing to show the performance.”

- Bill Kirchhoff, Production Infrastructure Manager, SciQuest

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Strengthen your cloud with IBM FlashSystem

SaaS

PaaS

BPaaS

*aaS

IaaS

Private

Public

Community

Hybrid

IBM FlashSystem provides many advantages for the diverse cloud landscape.

• Manage noisy neighbors

• Manage an unpredictable array of client use cases &

workloads

• Scale quickly as clients grow

• Improve customer satisfaction

• Increase application stability

• Diversify customer base with performance offerings

• Decrease infrastructure costs

• Serve more concurrent users

IBM Ranked

#1

*Calculations by IBM based on Gartner Report: Market Share Analysis: SSDs and Solid-State Arrays, Worldwide, 2014

More than 4,500 units sold

Provided 2X more value in GB/$

Global market acceptance

62 PB NAND sold, 33% of total

petabytes delivered for the year

Clear leadership position

82% more all flash capacity than

closest competitive product

for Flash Storage(SSA) Market Share, Worldwide in

both units and capacity shipped.

Introducing IBM FlashCore

™

IBM uses tools and technologies to drive a robust solution…

Hardware accelerated I/O

IBM MicroLatency™ module

Advanced flash management

Industry standard chip technology Industry standard interface

FlashCore: Hardware Accelerated I/O

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Engineered for Flash

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Hardware RAID

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Non-blocking Crossbar Switch

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Hardware Only Data Path

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Single Box Highly Available

Architecture

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Concurrent Code Load

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Concurrent Maintenance

Canister-1

Canister-2

FC-1

MC-2

MC-1

FC-3

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FlashCore: IBM MicroLatency

™

Module

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IBM Engineered

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Massively Parallel Design

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FPGAs in the Data Path

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Distributed RAM

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High Speed Interface

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Hardware-based Data

IBM MicroLatency™ Module

SSD

IBM MicroLatency

™

Module vs SSD

CUSTOM

Requires hardware

engineering

FAST

Designed for

low latency

RELIABLE

Innovative flash

management

COMMODITY

No hardware

skills needed

SLOW

Designed for

low cost

FALLIBLE

More single

points of failure

IBM Advanced Flash Management

improves MLC flash endurance 9x

over standard implementations without sacrificing latency.

FlashCore: Advanced Flash Management

“Through close collaboration between IBM research, development and flash engineering, IBM created an

advanced flash characterization platform to test thousands of flash devices over a lifetime of wear. As a

result, IBM has made major strides in advanced flash management.” – Andy Walls, IBM Fellow

Key accomplishments:

• Innovative ECC algorithm corrects very high bit error rates

• Variable voltage and read level shifting maximizes flash endurance

• Advanced Flash Management continually monitors the health of blocks

and performs asymmetrical wear leveling and sub-chip tiering:

- Health binning:

up to 57% improvement in endurance!

- Heat segregation:

up to 45% reduction in write amplification!

• Micron Technology provides special access to the chip

Backed by IBM’s Flash Wear Guarantee!

9.4X Endurance Improvement

FlashCore vs. the Competition

• Commodity SSDs

• Most likely using open source OS,

open source SCSI layer, and

off-the-shelf interfaces

• Many use software RAID which

often cripples RAID 5 performance

• IBM MicroLatency Module with

Advanced Flash Management

• No software in the datapath

• Two-dimensional flash RAID

The Competition

IBM FlashCore technology

• IBM MicroLatency

_{with up to 1.1 million IOPS}

• 40% greater capacity compared to previous generation

• IBM FlashCore

_{technology, our secret sauce}

Technical collaboration with Micron Technology – flash chips

• IBM enhanced flash technology

• MLC NAND flash offering and Flash Wear Guarantee

Improved integration with VMware VASA and VAAI UNMAP,

OpenStack Cinder

Performance at-a-glance

Introducing IBM’s premier all-flash offering

IBM FlashSystem 900

the next generation in our lowest latency offering

Minimum latency Write 90µs Read 155µs Maximum IOPS 4 KB Read (100%, random) 1,100,000 Read/write (70%/30%, random) 800,000 Write (100%, random) 600,000 Maximum bandwidth 256 KB Read (100%, sequential) 10GB/s Write (100%, sequential) 4.5GB/s Module type

1.2TB

2.9TB

5.7TB

7 year 24x7 Support:

Up to 7 years support available with

optional price protection and flash

media retention offerings

NEW

Enterprise Class Services

Data Reduction:

Flexible

– up to 5:1 storage efficiency

savings, based on Comprestimator results

NEW

Estimate-free

– sight unseen 2:1

guarantee for rapid workload deployment

Endurance:

Flash memory will be

covered for read/write

endurance while you are

under warranty or

maintenance

Peace of Mind:

No Charge, Complimentary IBM

services for all Tier 1 opportunities.

NEW

IBM FlashCore™ Forever program:

New controller included with 3 year

maintenance extension

Performance:

IBM MicroLatency™

performance

IBM & BP Only

FlashSystem V9000 makes applications faster

Scalable Performance

Scalable Performance

CPU Utilization

& App. Efficiency

4%

Total application

processing yime

5,200

μs (5.2ms)

5,000

μs (5ms)

200μs (.2ms)

Application

processing time

Time

waiting

for I/0

(Waiting for array)

Time

processing

data

(Server CPU)

Disk/Hybrid

SW-based SSD

HW-based

solution

CPU utilization

& app. efficiency

50%

Total application

processing time

400

μs (.4ms)

200

μs (.2ms)

200μs (.2ms)

What will you do with

the Extra Time?

Maximum Performance

Scaled Out

(100% Read, 4 Building

Blocks) *

Latency (4K)

200µs

IOPS (4K)

2,520,000

Bandwidth (128K)

19.2 GB/s

Maximum Performance

Scalable Build Block

(100% Read, Cache Miss)

Latency (4K)

200µs

IOPS (4K)

630,000

Bandwidth (128K)

6.2 GB/s

Maximum Performance

Fixed Build Block

(100% Read, Cache Miss)

Latency (4K)

200µs

IOPS (4K)

526,000

Bandwidth (128K)

6.2 GB/s

Scale up and scale out

Scalable Performance

Scale-up

(add capacity)

Scale-out

(add capacity

and performance)

FlashSystem V9000 options for deployment

Scalable Performance

• Great for multiple mixed

workloads that drive huge I/O

• Scale out for more all flash

capacity, IOPS and bandwidth

• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs

• Up to 228TB usable, 1.1PB

Effective

Mixed Workload Accelerator

• Great for data centers with

heterogeneous storage

• Extends core feature set to

other storage arrays

• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs

• Up to 32PB virtualized by a

single FlashSystem V9000

Virtualized Data Center

• Great for database and VDI

workloads

• Accelerate, migrate, tier,

clone, snapshot, replicate,

compress existing storage

• Up to 630K IOPS, 200µs

• Up to 57TB usable, 285TB

effective

Small Data Center

Scalable Performance

• Great for tier 1 disk

replacement

• Scale up and out for

more processing, more

capacity and more I/O

• Up to 2.5M IOPS,

200µs

• Up to 456TB usable,

2.2PB Effective

Public or Private Cloud

• Great for large data sets with

big I/O requirements and

needing storage services

• Scale up for more all flash

capacity

• Up to 630K IOPS, 200µs

• Up to 285TB usable, 1.4PB

Effective

Quality of Service (QoS)

Scalable Performance

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Help alleviate performance

contention

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Give your application the

performance it needs

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Ability to cap IOPS performance

on a per volume basis

Scalable Performance

•

Improve workforce productivity

•

Simplify management

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Single name space

Fully integrated system management

Agile Integration

Agile Integration

Flexible volumes

Agile Integration

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Generic – fully allocated

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Thin-Provision – space consumed on-demand

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Mirror – two copies of volume

– Migrate

between pools or change

volume type

– Preferred read mirror

between flash

and legacy storage (all reads from flash)

•

Thin mirror – a mirror with copies being thin

•

Compressed

– volumes utilizing Real-time Compression

Agile Integration

Non-disruptive data migrations

Agile Integration

Non-disruptive data migration

• Maintain concurrent I/O access

• Externally virtualize the existing

storage system

• Move data off older storage

onto flash storage

Agile Integration

Mixed workload consolidation

Agile Integration

ERP / SCM

Transaction

Big Data

Virtualization

Cloud

Qualities needed for

mixed workloads:

•

Capacity scaling

•

Performance scaling

•

Automatic tiering

•

Quality of service

•

Strong mixed R/W

performance

FlashSystem + VMWare

®

: an ideal fit

Agile Integration

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Redefine tier 1 performance

for workloads with diverse I/O

patterns

•

Optimize your data tier with

thin provisioning, snapshots,

and real-time compression

Area

Integration

Value

Management

vCenter plug-in

• Storage visibility

• Self-service provisioning with controlled

delegation

Business

Continuity

SRA for Site

Recovery

Manager

• Automated Storage and Host

• Failover

• Failover testing

• Failback

Performance

VAAI

• Hardware accelerated VM copy/migration

• Hardware accelerated VM initiation

• Accelerate VMFS (no SCSI reservation)

Driving efficiency, performance, flexibility

& scale in virtualized environments

Agile Integration

No shared storage

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1-to-1 mapping of VM’s drives to FlashSystem V9000 volumes

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No IO contention or VMFS overhead

Automation

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vVols are created/deleted automatically when required

Hardware acceleration

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Off-loading snapshot & cloning functionality to the storage level

Granularity

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More granular visibility, isolation and adjustment of VM storage

Policy Based Storage Management

•

Shorten provision cycle with simpler automation

•

Improve SLAs with application aware storage provisioning, monitoring, and optimization

= speeds things up

FlashSystem + VMWare®: vSphere 6.0 vVols

Agile Integration

Flash for less than the cost of Tier 1 disk

Enduring Economics

Database

Office Files

JPEG/ZIP

Geoseismic

_Servers

Virtual

CAD/CAM

80%

30%

5%

50%

_72%

_70%

Compression

Rate

Traditional

Storage

Average of

65% Compression

Real-time Compression Efficient

Half the Data Storage

Real-time Compression, for active and inactive data

Enduring Economics

Storage virtualization

Enduring Economics

Preserve your

existing

investment in storage



Manage



Tier



Protect



Compress with Real-time Compression

Optimized performance at lower overall cost

IBM Easy Tier

_{flash storage management}

Automatic

Relocation

Flash

HDDs

Flash

HDDs

Metro Mirror – Synchronous

– Updates are committed to both sites

before acknowledged to server

– Supported up to 300 km, adds

additional latency to hosts

Global Mirror – Asynchronous

– Server update acknowledged in

parallel to update to remote site

– Supported up to 80ms of round-trip

latency, distance dependent upon

network quality

FlashCopy Options

• Full or “thick”

• Thin nocopy

• Incremental

• Cascading

• Multi-target

• Consistency groups

• Reverse

Infrastructure continuity

Enduring Economics

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Snapshot

– Instant space-efficient,

thin provisioned copy, capture state

of volume before a change

•

Clone

– Creates a complete

one-time replica of source, testing data

or attaching to other servers

•

Backup

– Complete point in time

replica that can be incrementally

refreshed

Full set of

disaster recovery tools:

Enduring Economics

Enduring Economics

Introducing IBM HyperSwap®

Enduring Economics

• Provides highly available, concurrent access

to a single copy of data from data centers

up to 300 km (186 miles) apart

• Enables non-disruptive storage and virtual

machine mobility between data centers

• Works with standard multipathing drivers

• Groups multiple volumes together for high

availability

What is next?

Drive

new business opportunities

with FlashSystem V9000

Run Mixed

Workloads

Lower the

Cost of Flash

Protect your

Investment

Enable Data

Center

Consolidation

Simplified

Management

Improve

Workforce

Productivity

Accelerate

Applications

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