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Archived recording: http://cs.co/9005guqB Benefits of Cisco Unified Computing System Cisco Unified Computing System Introducing the Cisco UCS Invicta Series Flash Usage at AOL Initial Flash Use at AOL – Database SLA Flash is the New High Tier UCS Director Solves Infrastructure Challenges
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Uncover the Business Impact of Application Acceleration with Solid-State Systems
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Benefits of Cisco Unified Computing SystemInnovation serving 30,000 UCS Customers World Wide
Sources: Cisco UCS Changing the Economics of the Datacenter, Customer Case Studies, Cisco UCS Performance Benchmarks
Superior Economics and Operations Superior Performance
82World-Record
Application Performance Benchmarks
54%
Reduction of Power and
Cooling Costs
61%
Reduction of Ongoing
Management Costs
77%
Reduction of Cabling
84%
Reduction in Provisioning
Times
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UCS Founding Principles
Cisco Unified Computing System
Servers
UCSNetwork / Storage Access
ApplicationCentricity
OperationalSimplicity
Platform for IT Innovation
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UCS Founding Principles
Introducing the Cisco UCS Invicta Series
Servers
Flash Memory
UCSNetwork / Storage Access
NEXT GEN UNIFIED COMPUTINGIntegration of Solid-State Memory Systems into the UCS Fabric
UCS Invicta Series Solid-State Systems
ApplicationCentricity
OperationalSimplicity
Platform for IT Innovation
Address new data velocity and scale
requirements
Integrate application acceleration into the computing domain
Making Leaders Successful Every Day
Storage Media Types
SATAHDD
7200 RPM
FATAHDD
10K RPMTape Optical
SAS/FCHDD
10K RPM
SAS/FCHDD
15K RPM
FlashSSD
DRAMSSD
HighcostLow density
High performance
LowcostHigh density
Low performance
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Storage Technology Adoption In Enterprise Verticals
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August 2013 “Build Your Business Case For All-Flash Storage Arrays”
Compare The Cost Of SSD Performance To Hard-Drive Performance
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Flash Storage 1.0: Less Is More
Hybrid arrays• Rely on caching and tiering to accelerate storage workloads
• Vendors recommended 2-5% flash capacity to provide 4-6X performance boost
Host based flash (i.e. PCIe Flash Cards)• Placed flash storage close to CPU resources
• Limited scalability
• Data protection concerns
BUT DOES A LITTLE GO A LONG WAY?
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Flash Storage 2.0: More Is More
Performance sensitive buyers• Look at deployment in terms of business value
• High performance increases productivity
• Simplifies architecture by eliminating storage bottlenecks
• Key markets: Analytics, Developers, SLA sensitive workloads
Price sensitive buyers• Replace midrange disk storage with flash arrays to boost efficiency
• Mindful of facilities costs and want enterprise storage features
• Key markets: Virtualization, Service Providers
FLASH CAN BE TRANSFORMATIVE
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Business Benefits For Flash Arrays
Applications
Increased transaction
output
Reduced latency
User productivity
Workers’ time saved
Cost avoidance for additional staff
Compliance
Avoid SLA penalties and
fines
Avoid unplanned upgrades
Business decision support
Faster insights
Ability to run additional analytics
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Cisco UCS Invicta Series
Up to 1.2 Million IOPS*Up to 12 GB/s BandwidthUp to 240 TB Raw
Using Invicta OS 5.0
UCS Invicta Appliance
UCS InvictaScaling System
Scalability
Modularity
Application Acceleration
Data Optimization
Multiple Workloads
Tuning-Free Performance
250,000 IOPS1.6 GB/s* BandwidthUp to 24 TB Raw
Flash Usage at AOLDan Pollack – Chief ArchitectStorage Operations
Initial Flash Use at AOL – Database SLA
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Problem meeting billing SLA• Over time workload was added to a reporting database• Eventually a critical billing database with a strict SLA was added• Load was originally OK but eventually SLA was only met about
half of the time• Is it a storage problem?
Initial Flash Use at AOL – Database SLA
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It isn’t a storage problem but is there anything you can do?• Try flash• IO latency becomes uniform and mostly small – Less than 1ms• SLA now met 100% of the time• Can we keep it until we figure out what to tune in the database?
Flash is the New High Tier
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Flash ROI is better than disk at AOL• $/GB doesn’t tell the right story• Flash arrays 10-15% lower lifetime cost
People are required to fix performance problems• Immediate solution• Time for analysis• Removes SLA pressure
Storage virtualization enables migration of workloads• Move the poor performing devices to Flash tier• Online migration of workload by a single admin
What’s Next for Flash at AOL
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• Flash high tier storage rollout complete by 2015 – 2PB now growing to about 4PB
• All disk based arrays are for low IOPs capacity only• Flash moves down the stack as cost drops
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UCS Director
UCS DIRECTOR SOLVES INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES
Manual processes require days or weeks to deploy resources;
increases operating costs
Data center teams stay in rigid silos, with complex hand-offs between domains and teams
Static resource allocation results in under-utilization of
resources and inefficiency
Reduces resource deployment from weeks to minutes
Allows IT teams to work together; encourages teamwork resulting in competitive innovation
Delivers unified automation and management for optimum utilization and efficiencies
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Managing Compute and Solid-State Resources in a Unified Fabric
Mixed DensityRacks/Blades
UCS Director
Fabric Interconnects
Batch, Data LoadsPerformance Nodes
Routers
Stateless UCS Servers with Virtualized
Adapters
Workload Acceleration and Data Reduction
Nodes
Virtual Desktops
Data Reduction Nodes
OLTP
Analytics
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