Webinar: The All-Flash Data Center, Myth or Reality?

The All-Flash Data Center, Myth or Reality?

In this Webinar

You Will Learn:

1. The Return on Investment (ROI) of All-Flash Arrays

2. Techniques for Reducing the $ per GB of All-Flash Arrays

3. The Role of Disk in the All-Flash Data Center

For audio playback and Q&A go to:

http://bit.ly/AllFlashDC

Our Speakers

Narayan Venkat is Chief Marketing Officer at Tegile Systems. In this role, he leads the overall

marketing organization that includes product marketing, product management, corporate

communications, channel marketing and demand generation. Narayan has 20+ years of marketing

and product experience with enterprise storage, virtualization and data management. Before joining

Tegile, Narayan served as Vice President of products and marketing for Violin Memory. Prior to Violin,

he was Vice President of the cloud infrastructure business unit at VMware, Earlier leadership

experience include senior marketing roles at LSI Corporation’s Engenio Storage Group, OnStor,

NetApp and Intel.

George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the

subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is

widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash

arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.

He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

● Analyst firm focused on storage,

cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is

gained through product testing and

interaction with end users and

suppliers

● The results of this research can be

found in the articles, videos,

webinars, product analysis and case

studies on our web site:

http://storageswiss.com

Storage Swiss Background

Transforming IT with Intelligent Flash Storage

Enterprise Flash Storage Vendor All-flash & Hybrid in the same

system www.tegile.com

Rapidly Growing 700+ customers 1400+ systems deployed

Enabling Business Transformation Application Acceleration Infrastructure Efficiency through

Data Reduction

Polling Question

Where are you on your Flash journey?

A) No Flash deployed yet

B) Installed Flash in Server

C) Installed a flash based

server network (VSAN)

D) Installed a Hybrid Array

(HDD and Flash)

E) Installed an All-Flash Array

Polling Question

Where are you on your Flash journey?

Polling Question

What is your top concern about deploying All-

Flash?

A) Price

B) Reliability

C) Network Problems

D) Integrating with Legacy

Storage

E) Security

Polling Question

What is your top concern about deploying All-

Flash?

State of Solid State

Initial Wave

• Point based - solve a specific

problem

• HDD Assistance - a.k.a.

Hybrid

Next Wave… All-Flash

• Shared, Strategic Purchase

• Removes predictability

problem

• Focus is on driving down cost

while maintaining

performance

The ROI of All-Flash

The Hard Disk Performance Problem

• Stuck at 15k RPM for over a

decade

• Performance improvement

achieved by:

● Using lots of HDDs

● Short stroking those drives

● Performance was improved by adding

drives - wasted capacity

● Controllers judged by how many

drives could it sustain

● Lead to scale out architectures

● Increased Complexity

The Flash Advantage

• Capacity and performance are

addressed separately

• Reduction or elimination in HDDs

can sometimes pay for All-Flash

• Cost and Storage System design

becomes key issue

The Flash Advantage

• Features like deduplication and

compression reduce cost per GB

• All-Flash enables data efficiency

with minimal, if any, performance

impact

• Rebuilds from drive failure much

faster

• Performance is predictable, no

cache misses

Net Results: Increases Density of

Everything

• Databases

• VDI

• Virtual Servers

• More users per application or

environment

Driving Down Flash Cost

Hybrid - The Flash Gateway

• Combine small flash area with high

capacity HDDs

• Delivered an effective cost per GB

• But causes some performance

predictability concerns

• Flash area should be super-sized

Data Efficiency

• Compression and Deduplication are

assisted by flash

• Compression and Deduplication

complement each other

• Should be done “in-line” - saves flash

life

• Thin Provisioning, clones also perform

well with flash

• Also could work in a hybrid

environment

All-Flash Arrays Are Cheaper Than

Performance Storage

• Less drive sprawl - performance is

not tied to capacity

• Less storage system sprawl - single

array can handle more workloads

with greater variety

• Data efficiency should work better

All-Flash Arrays Are Cheaper Than

Performance Storage

• Less drive sprawl - performance is

not tied to capacity

• Less storage system sprawl - single

array can handle more workloads

with greater variety

• Data efficiency should work better

• But, All-Flash Arrays are NOT

cheaper than capacity storage

Performance

Data Copy Data,

Archives

Not All Data is Created Equally

• The All-Flash Data Center will be

All-Flash for active data only

• In most data centers this is less

than 15% of the total data set

• Copy data can be as much as 50%

of the total data set

Disk Has A Role To Play in the All-

Flash Data Center

• Inexpensive tier for inactive data

and copy data

• Decision to be made: do you want

to manually move that data or do

you want it automated

All-Flash: Myth or Reality?

• Reality: Data Center will be All-

Flash for production data, HDD for

inactive and secondary data

• Reality: Data Efficiency has a role to

play for both Flash and HDD

• Reality: Many data centers will find

it attractive to start out all-flash and

then add disk later (if the system

supports)

Fixed

Content

Web Apps /

Streaming

Messaging Collaboration Warehousing Analytics OLTP

Business Criticality determines Storage Spend

Archive Data Active Data Critical Data

High Capacity

High Latency

Medium Capacity

Medium Latency

Low Latency

High Data Rate

Lowest

Latency

Max IOPS

HDD

ONLY

HDD +

FLASH

FLASH

ONLY

$$$$$$$$$Storage

Spend

$/GB

HybridBalanced

performance arrays

All Flash

High

performance

arrays

Same Operating System Same Feature Set Same User Experience

Optimize performance, capacity &

costCapacity media

(HDD, TLC, MLC)

Performance media

(Mem, SLC, eMLC)

Tegile Intelligent Flash Arrays

Tegile Intelligent Flash Array Portfolio

ALL FLASHHYBRID STORAGE

HA2100HA2100

EPHA2300 HA2400 T3400

A/A Dual Ctrl Rack Units

3U 3U 2U 2U 2U

Max Effective Capacity (5X multiplier)

503TB 476TB 476TB 336TB 1090TB

T3600 T3700 T3800

2U 2U 2U

1490TB 1560TB 1680TB

ANALYTICSTEST/DEV MESSAGING COLLABORATION WAREHOUSING OLTP

IntelliFlash – One OS to Rule ‘em All

With IntelliFlash you can:

Dial up or down the amount of flash and hard disks

Meet specific performance and economic requirements of applications.

Deploy hybrid & all-flash array configurations with:

Same OS

Same feature set and

Same user experience

Compromise Nothing

High performance of flash with economics of disk storage

Comprehensive, inline data reduction & management

Enabling Business Transformation

Server Virtualization Desktop Virtualization Databases

5x – 10x performance gain

40% - 75% data reduction

VM-consistent snapshots

VM-level metrics

3x – 20x improvement in application response time

30% - 75% data reduction

2x – 5x faster data ingest

10x better user experience

75% - 95% data reduction

No boot or login storms

2x better economics

Compromise Nothing with Tegile IntelliFlash™

PERFORMANCE DATA REDUCTION DATA

PROTECTION

MULTI-PROTOCOL

Patented metadata acceleration

R/W/Meta in DRAM/SSD cache

Pin data sets in all SSD pools

Sustained low-latency

Inline Deduplication

Inline Compression

Zero Elimination

Thin Provisioning

Automatic Block Reclamation

Dual Active/Active controllers

Multiple RAID options

Instantaneous Thin Snapshots

Instantaneous Thin Clones

Block-based Remote replication

Use block & file simultaneously

Block: Fibre Channel & iSCSI

File: NFS & CIFS/SMB

No Additional Cost for Software or Features

SAN

NAS

With Tegile, you can …

Accelerate your

applications

5x – 10x improvement in

performance and latency

Consistent user

experience

Reduce your storage

footprint

50% - 90% data reduction

Lower your CAPEX

Reduce power, cooling

and rack space

Cut your Operational

Costs

25% - 50% lower costs

Reduce server CPU cores

Reduce software licenses

Thank you!

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The All-Flash Data Center, Myth or Reality?

For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the

On Demand Version at:

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