FlashSystems 2016 update

The Smarter Storage Approach

The FlashSystem 900 and V9000

Joe Krotz

IBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems

January 2016

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions

Ibm.com/cloud-computing

Think it.Strategize how to use IBM cloud enabled storage solutions to drive revenue growth and efficiencies.

Build it.IBM storage is built from the ground up to integrate and run your private or hybrid cloud.

Tap into it.Utilize IBM cloud services delivered from IBM SmartCloud.

Software defined Hardware optimized Massively scalable

*Calculations by IBM based on Gartner Report: Market Share

Analysis: SSDs and Solid-State Arrays, Worldwide, 2013

**Source: IDC, 2014

Shipped more capacity in 2014 than the two closest competitors combined**

Global market acceptance#1 with 25% market share

Clear leadership position44% greater revenue than next closest competitor*

IBM Ranked #1 for Flash Storage(SSA) Market Share, Worldwide based on revenue for 2013 and shipment data for 2014

What have we achieved?


http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/

Introducing IBM FlashCoreIBM uses tools and technologies to drive a robust solution…

Industry Standard Interface Technology

Powered by IBM FlashCore Technology

IBM MicroLatency Module

Hardware Accelerated I/O

Advanced Flash Management

Industry Standard Chip TechnologyIBM Enhanced

Micron Technology



IBM MicroLatency Module SSDIBM 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

Better Performance Better Reliability Better Density Lower $/IOPS



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 cripples RAID 5 performance

• Hard to add storage services without killing performance

• Most likely from marketing focused vendors

• IBM MicroLatency Module

• Hardware accelerated I/O (no software in the datapath)

• Two-dimensional flash RAID

• Advanced Flash Management

• Most likely from engineering focused vendors

The CompetitionIBM FlashCore technology



Extreme Performance with IBM MicroLatency

Enable business to unleash the power of performance, scale, and insight with microsecond response times for applications to drive services and products to market fast

• Faster decision making

• Increase revenue

• Accelerate cost savings

• Eliminate wait time

• Scale performance with capacity

1 microsecond : 1 second :: 1 second : 11.5 days

Cut IO Wait Time

80%+ LatencyUnder100Microseconds

The value of performance

3XIncrease IOPS



• 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

‘Neighborhood’ management in GUI

Performance at-a-glance

IBM’s Tier-0 All-Flash offering

IBM FlashSystem 900The next generation in our lowest latency offering Announcement: February 19

General availability: March 20

Minimum latency

Write 90 µs

Read 155 µs

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) 10 GB/s

Write (100%, sequential) 4.5 GB/s

Module type 1.2 TB 2.9 TB 5.7 TB

Modules 4 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12

RAID 5 capacity 2.4 4.8 7.2 9.6 12 11.6 17.4 23.2 29.0 22.8 34.2 45.6 57.0

Raw Capacity 7.1 10.7 14.2 17.8 21.4 26.3 35.1 43.9 52.7 52.7 70.3 87.9 105.5



FlashSystem data protection schemaImproving Availability and Serviceability

• Two-dimensional Flash RAID• IBM Variable Stripe RAIDTM

• Higher resilience• Higher storage efficiency• Higher rebuild performance• Lower set uptime

• System-level RAID 5

•Non-disruptive (concurrent) code load

•Management features• Call home• Detailed logging• Remote power on

• Fully redundant and hot-swappable components

– Flash modules– I/O interfaces– RAID controllers– Management controllers– Power supplies– Batteries– Fan modules



Form Factor SSD• Flash failure = Disk failure• Requires top-level RAID• Relatively frequent hot-swaps

Enterprise Flash Drive or Memory Module• Flash failure = Degraded state within module• Performance impact on RAID set• Hot-swap to resolve

FlashSystem with Variable Stripe RAID• Preserves Flash life• Preserves performance• Re-parity data in microseconds

Parity

Parity

No Parity

Less maintenance touches while still preserving the life, protection, and performance of the Day-1 experience

Value of Variable Stripe RAIDTM

IBM Variable Stripe RAID(VSR)



IBM Variable Stripe RAID (VSR)

• Patented Variable Stripe RAID allows RAID stripe sizes to vary

• If one die fails in a ten-chip stripe, only the failed die is bypassed, then data is restriped across the remaining nine chips

• VSR reduces maintenance intervals caused by flash failures

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Two-dimensional RAID• IBM Variable Stripe RAID™ is 1st level

of protection (module-level)

• System-level RAID protects against flash controller failure (abrupt module failure)

• RAID 5 across modules, hot swappable from front of chassis

• Two independent crossbar (XBAR) controllers

• Interface controllers stripe across XBARs

• Granular capacities configurable with 2, 4, 8 or 12 flash modules



IBM MicroLatency Modules (12)

RAID Controllers (2)

Battery Packs (2)

Power Supplies (2)

Fan Packs (4)

Interface Modules (4)

Management Modules (2)

Canisters (2)

IBM FlashSystem 900 components



• Fully redundant and has

no single point of failure

• Data path is entirely independent

of the control path

Maximize Business UptimeCanister-1 Canister-2

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IBM FlashSystem tier-0 availability Concurrent Code Load (CCL) and Maintenance



Protecting business’s most valuable asset

IBM FlashSystem tier-0 built-in encryption

• Industry standard AES-XTS 256 required by most leading compliance regulations such as HIPAA and FIPS

• Data-at-rest design

• Local key management



• Modern design

• Icon-based navigation, informative graphics, and visualizations

• Industry award winning interface

• CLI output for administrative tasks

• Reduce complexity

• Improve efficiency and productivity

• Neighborhood Management

• 300 days of performance history



Easy to use GUI for management!

Easily integrated into any environment• 2U Chassis

• Less power utilization than a hair dryer!

• 8Gb or 16Gb Fibre Channel

• 10Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

• 40Gb InfiniBand

• 10Gb iSCSI



IBM FlashSystem V9000

IBM introduces a fully integrated, flexible, feature rich all-flash storage system

Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 1 storage

Announcement: February 19

General availability: April 24

• Scalable all-flash architecture accelerates applications and entire

infrastructures

• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS with IBM MicroLatency

• Up to 57 TB usable (285 TB effective capacity) in only 6U and scales to 456

TB usable (2.28 PB effective capacity) in only 34U

• New licensing structure to simplify ordering and planning for External Data

Virtualization, Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, and Real-time Compression

• FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee

Scalable Performance Agile IntegrationEnduring Economics

Powered by IBM FlashCore™ Technology



• Scalable to 2.2 PB effective capacity• Flash for less than the cost of disk with

IBM Real-time Compression• Low power and cooling requirements• Virtualize storage• Flash wear warranty• Infrastructure continuity with space

efficient snapshots, cloning and replication

• Fully integrated system management• Application-aware data services• AES, data at rest encryption• Tier or mirror to existing storage• Mixed workload consolidation• Non-disruptive data migrations• Concurrent code load

• Scale-up or scale-out, independently• Scalable to 2.5 million IOPS• Scalable to 19.2 GB/s bandwidth• Sustained IBM MicroLatency™• Quality of Service

FlashSystem V9000: paradigm shift in enterprise storage Dimensions of Value

Scalable Performance

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FlashSystem V9000 makes applications fasterScalable Performance


CPU Utilization

& App. Efficiency

4%

Total Application

Processing Time

5,200μs (5.2ms)

5,000μs (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

Solutions

CPU Utilization

& App. Efficiency

50%

Total Application

Processing Time

400μs (.4ms)

200μs (.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


Maximum Performance

Fixed Build Block (100% Read, Cache Miss)

Latency (4K) 200µs

IOPS (4K) 526,000


Two-dimensional scalingScalable Performance




FlashSystem V9000 options for deploymentScalable 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 228 TB usable, 1.1 PB

Effective

Mixed Workload Accelerator

• 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 285 TB usable, 1.4 PB

Effective

Application Accelerator

• 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 456 TB usable, 2.2

PB Effective

Public or Private Cloud

• Great for data centers with

heterogeneous storage

• Extends core feature set to

other storage arrays

• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs

• Up to 3 Exabytes virtualized

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 57 TB usable, 285 TB

effective

Small Data Center




Quality of Service (QoS)Scalable Performance

• Help alleviate performance contention

• Give your application the performance it needs

• Ability to cap IOPS performance on a per volume basis




• Improve workforce productivity

• Simplify management

• Single name space

Fully integrated system managementAgile Integration




Flexible volumesAgile Integration

• Generic – fully allocated

• Thin-Provision – space consumed on-demand

• 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

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Non-disruptive data migrationsAgile Integration

Non-disruptive data migration

• Maintain concurrent I/O access

• Externally virtualize the existing storage system

• Move data off older storage onto flash storage



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Mixed workload consolidationAgile Integration

Performance Scaling

Strong MixedR/W Performance

Quality of ServiceAutomatic Tiering

Capacity Scaling

ERP / SCM Transaction Big Data Virtualization Cloud



AgileIntegration

FlashSystem + VMWare®: an ideal fitAgile Integration

• 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

BusinessContinuity

SRA for SiteRecovery 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



AgileIntegration

Flash for less than the cost of Tier 1 diskEnduring Economics

Database Office Files CAD/CAMGeoseismicVirtualServers

JPEG/ZIP

80% 30% 5% 50% 72% 70%Compression Rate

Traditional

Storage

Average of65% Compression!

Real-time Compression Efficient

Half the Data Storage!

Real-time Compression, for active and inactive dataEnduring

Economics



Storage virtualizationEnduring Economics

Preserve your existinginvestment in storage

ManageTierProtectCompress with Real-time Compression

Optimized performance at lower overall costIBM Easy Tier® flash storage management

Thin Provisioning

More productive use of available storage

Across all supported host platformsWithout thin provisioning, pre-allocated

space is reserved whether the

application uses it or not.

With thin provisioning, applications can

grow dynamically, but only consume space

they are actually using.

Dynamic

growth

Busiest data extents are identified and automatically relocated to highest performing Solid-state Disks

Remaining data extents can take advantage of higher capacity, price optimized disksHot-spots due to poor data layout. Optimized performance and throughput.

AutomaticRelocation

SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs

IBM Easy Tier SSD Management

Mirror data off-site

Synchronously over Metro distances.

Asynchronously over Global distances.

Application-level consistency groups.Network

Flash FlashHDDs HDDs



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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 continuityEnduring Economics

• 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:



EnduringEconomics

IBM FlashSystem tier 1 guarantee

Performance: IBM MicroLatency Flash Modules provide world class performance!

Endurance: Flash memory will be covered for read/write endurance as long as you are under warranty or maintenance.

7 year 24 x 7 Support: Up to 7 years support available with optional price protection and flash media retention offerings.

Peace of Mind: No Charge, Complimentary IBM services for all Tier 1 opportunities: 40 hours for 228+ TB solutions up to 556 TB, or 80 hours for 556+ TB solutions, Lab Services delivery in 2015.

IBM FlashSystem – GUARANTEED!!! http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/


Data Reduction: The eligible machine, using compression, will achieve a system level storage efficiency savings rate of at least 3:1, based on Comprestimator performance modeling results, within the guarantee period.


Improve storage uptime and simplify support efforts with personalized assistance

Complex storage issues can cause downtime. And that can obstruct your business operations. How do you efficiently resolve these costly and high-impact problems?

Of course, your storage device service agreements with IBM enable you to access robust support to help resolve high-severity storage challenges. But without a technical advisor, your staff still needs to know how to access help and determine the issue.

With a technical advisor for storage from IBM, you can gain continued technical support for critical issues—as well as proactive advice for problem prevention.

• Improve uptime

Continued assistance from one specialist can resolve high-severity problems more quickly

• Enhance efficiency

Work with IBM to promote staff productivity through support protocols and critical-problem management techniques

• Avert problems

Your consultant can offer time-tested methods tohelp you prevent outagesand use IBM support moreeffectively


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IBM Technical Advisor for StorageNow included with FlashSystems!

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