Fusion-io at Symantec Vision 2013

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IA B20: Why Host Based Flash is critical for SLA in Mission Critical Datacenters

Gene Ruth – Research Director, Gartner

Sumeet Bansal - Principal Solutions Architect, FusionIO

Ashish Yajnik, Director, Product Management, SymantecIA B20: Host Based Flash in Data Centers

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Agenda

IA B20: Host Based Flash in Data Centers

Market Trends & Analysis on Flash

FusionIO Flash Overview & Use-Cases

Symantec focus on In-Server Flash

Summary

Q&A

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Flash Storage Market Trends – Gene Ruth


By 2015 every enterprise storage environment will use some form of solid-state flash technology.

Strategic Planning Assumption

Reasons why SPA will be false

SSD pricing remains high

No consensus on placement of SSD in the storage stack

Poor data management software optimization

Reasons why SPA will be true

SSD price decline and margin compression

A consensus on the best practice placement of SSDs by

the industry

Better awareness of SSD benefits by IT organizations


TransactionsSecond

Latency

100s

100,000s

100,000,000s

1,000,000,000s

Picoseconds Nanoseconds Microseconds Milliseconds Seconds

Storage SSD HDD

DRAM

CPU

• Performance, latency, and bandwidth abilities can be transformational

• For certain application workloads TCO can be considerable

• Operational expenditure benefits: Server consolidation, power, cooling, space savings

• Massive competition driving innovation UP and prices DOWN

PCIeSSD

Data Center Computing Trends: The Solid-state Opportunity


SSD Placement Pros and Cons

• General workloads• Existing

infrastructure• Universally

available

Storage Array

• Dedicated workloads

• Dedicated infrastructure

• Startup community

SSD Appliance

• App specific workloads

• Disruptive to architecture

• Limited vendor selection

In-Server

Blended capacityand performance

Non-specific highperformance

Application specific performance

Infrastructure Disruptionlow high

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Server based SSD


Challenges• Expensive• Cache coherency• Cache hinting• Shared resources• Functional coordination

Hypervisor

VM VM

App App App App

Hypervisor

VM VM

App App App App

Hypervisor

VM VM

App App App App

Cache

Benefits• High performance• Improved server utilization• Virtualize backend storage

Storage array

Data Center Customer Deployment Trends

44%

56%

2012 SSD Shipments5.99M Units

ProgressiveTraditional

32%

68%

2016 SSD Shipments18.01M Units

Progressive

Traditional

• Progressive Data Centers Lead

• Inexpensive Solutions• PCIe SSD, PC SSD,

and SSD Appliances

• Traditional Data Centers Rally

• Data Efficiency Management Software

• Support and Services


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FusionIO – Designed for High Performance in Server

3 7 % O F S E RV E R S A R E U N D E R U T I L I Z E D 1

Data Supply Problem

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▸ Processing performance doubles every 18 months

▸ But storage performance has not kept up

1 Source: IDC's Server Workloads 2010, July 20102 Source: Taming the Power Hungry Data Center, Fusion-io White Paper

Server is idle 80% of the time

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The Solution

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NAND Flash Chips

LED Indicator Lights

PCI-e Carrier Card

Fusion-io Data-Path Controller

Controller Embedded

Switching

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FlashMemory

Die

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Cut-through Architecture and VSL

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▸ Sophisticated architecture• maximum performance

▸ Intelligent software• advanced features

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Application CPU and Memory HBA Switches Target

AdaptersCPU and Memory

RAID Controllers HDD/SSD

SERVERS

Active and Archive Data

STORAGE (Performance Optimized)NETWORK

Milliseconds

DatabasesVirtualizationWeb-scale

Latency and Processing TimeActive Data

Application CPUs NAND Flash Raid Controller HDD/SSD

SERVERS

Latency and Processing Time

Archive Data

Microseconds Milliseconds

DatabasesVirtualizationWeb-scale

Shared Data Decentralization

ioDrive2 – Designed for the Enterprise

CAPACITY▸ 365 GB - 3.0 TB per single

PCI-e slot

▸ Over 30TB per many commodity servers

PERFORMANCE▸ Up to 3.0 GB/s throughput

▸ Up to 1.1 Million IOPS

▸ Write latency of 15 µs

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Acceleration Solutions

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Max Acceleration Max Interoperability Max Scalability

• Lowest latency• Smallest footprint• For I/O intensive

applications

• Drop-in SAN/NAS acceleration

• Storage workload reduction

• Greater VM density

• Multi-protocol• Platform independent• For clustered

architectures

DIRECT CACHING SHARED

x2 x2 x2 x2

x2

Comprehensive Customer Success

1650+ case studies at www.fusionio.com/casestudies

April 13, 2023

F I N A N C I A L S M A N U FA C T U R I N G / G O V E R N M E N T

W E B T E C H N O L O G Y R E TA I L

FASTER DATA WAREHOUSE QUERIES40x

FASTER UPDATE QUERIES20x

FASTER DATABASE REPLICATION30xFASTER DATA

ANALYSIS5x FASTER QUERIES15x


Symantec Storage Foundation – Optimized for In-Server Flash

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Storage Foundation Flash Strategy –Achieve the right $/IOPS with Flash/SSD

Optimize SSD

• App aware Storage Tiering• Optimize Storage with

Compression & Deduplication• Migration to ANY storage

DAS - Eliminate SANSSD closest to CPUAvoid SAN

Server Flash as CacheLower latencySAN for efficiency

Optimize R+W Perfomance

• Remove logjams in SAN• Rely on commodity SAN storage• Optimize Read & Writes

Enable True DAS

• Mix of SATA & Flash for SLA• Benefits of SAN in DAS• Linearly scale as need grows

Server Flash as TierApplication DrivenSAN for efficiency

Storage Foundation Optimizes Flash/SSD in ANY form factor

Futures Futures


Optimized for Server based Flash:Accelerate I/O Performance with Storage Foundation

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Read I/O Acceleration

Write I/O Acceleration

• Write-back Caching for low latency• Clustered Cache Coherency & Warming• High availability with reflected cache

• Read I/O Acceleration with Caching• Pin files for proactive acceleration• Application aware heuristics

Storage Foundation SmartIO

PCIeFlash

Application

Transparency & Heterogeneity

• Transparent setup, discovery of Flash• Optimized for each flash vendor• Less reliance on Tier1 storage

FS/CFS Caching

PCIeFlash

CFS/SFHA Distributed Caching Layer

Futures

Latency HDD SSD

Reads 3-10ms ~100µs

Writes 3-10ms ~200µs ANY SAN Storage


I/O Flushing

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Optimized for Server based Flash:Accelerate I/O Performance with Storage Foundation

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Read I/O Acceleration

Write I/O Acceleration

• Write-back Caching for low latency• Clustered Cache Coherency & Warming• High availability with reflected cache

• Read I/O Acceleration with Caching• Pin files for proactive acceleration• Application aware heuristics

Storage Foundation SmartIO

PCIeFlash

Application

Transparency & Heterogeneity

• Transparent setup, discovery of Flash• Optimized for each flash vendor• Less reliance on Tier1 storage

FS/CFS Caching

PCIeFlash

CFS/SFHA Distributed Caching Layer

Futures

Latency HDD SSD

Reads 3-10ms ~100µs

Writes 3-10ms ~200µs ANY SAN Storage

I/O Flushing

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Business Value of SmartIO + In Server Flash:Leverage commodity storage in backend

FC

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$/GB

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$/IOPs

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IOPs Today

c

IOP Futures

Without SmartIO + Flash --> High Cost, low performance

FC/IB

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IOPs Today

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IOP Futures

Symantec SmartIO

Tier 2/3

High Density

With SmartIO + Server Flash + Cheap SAN Storage







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Enable DAS with Cluster File SystemHigh performance & Increased Agility

$/GB

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$/IOPs

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IOPs Today

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IOP Futures

“Shared Nothing” Architecture High Performance & Appropriate SLA

Increased Agility

• Enable DAS with SAN features• No lock-in to SAN infrastructure• No functional coordination required

• Mix of Flash + SATA for optimal cost• Low latency with no SAN• High IOPS with distributed CFS

Low Cost

• Time to provision applications: Low• Scale linearly for low cost• Less reliance on Tier1 storage

CFS Global Namespace

Internal Storage: Flash + SATA

Futures


Summary Promise of Flash with Optimal Software Stack

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Promise of In Server Flash + Optimal S/W Stack

Traditional Storage Arrays & Appliances

VM VM VM Unix WinLinux

Poor SAN Utilization

Application SLAs unmet

Storage Bottleneck

ANY Workload, ANY OS, ANY Virtualization

I/O Bottleneck

• Performance bottleneck with traditional storage arrays

• Low latency needs for Apps on the rise• Reliance on Tier1 storage can increase $$$• High availability of data essential with Flash

Unmet Performance & SLA needs

• FusionIO Cards provide upto 3GB/sec throughput

• >1.1m IOPS with in-server flash

• SF SmartIO designed to boost read & writes

• High availability of data with data reflection

• Reporting, Visibility of Performance & characteristics

Fusion IO & Storage Foundation SmartIO & Flexible Storage

Storage Foundation

Thank you!

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