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HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASH STORAGEBUILT FROM THE GROUND UP FOR ENTERPRISE WORKLOADS AND I.T. PROFESSIONALS

Patrick Allaire

November 2012

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Business Intelligence Data Warehousing and

Data Mining

DRIVERS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE STORAGE

Multitasking and Multitenancy, including

Cloud Computing

Server and StorageVirtualization

Large scale Transaction Processing, Traditional and Web2.0

Digital Media Distribution including On-Demand Streaming

Big Data Management including Metadata,

Indexing

Storage devices utilizing non-volatile memories are uniquely positioned to close the I/O Gap and deliver these high-performance storage solutions

Increase in randomness of I/Os at the storage device level

Increase average throughput requirements

Increase latency and completion time requirements

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HITACHI VSP FLASH ACCELERATION RESET PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

Provide superior value compared to all flash appliances

Added performance but not the cost of a new platform?

Features but not the additional staffing to manage them?

Efficient technology but not a single–purpose product?

FIRMWARE RE-ENGINEERING RAISES SCALABILITY TO >1,000,000 IOPS

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HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASH STORAGE

Hitachi Accelerated Flash is the first custom-designed enterprise-class solid state storage option for enterprise workloads, delivering leading performance, lower cost and improved endurance

BETTER THAN SLC PERFORMANCE AT BETTER THAN MLC PRICESENTERPRISE FLASH INNOVATION FROM HITACHI

4X SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE AND

46% LOWER BIT COST OVER MLC SSD

The first custom-designed, enterprise-class solid state

storage option for enterprise workloads. Delivers leading

performance, lower cost and improved endurance.

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HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASH STORAGE

HIGHEST CAPACITY AND EXTENDED ENDURANCE FOR ENTERPRISE WORKLOAD

New flash storage option for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform(VSP)

‒ Complements 10K and NL-SAS HDD

‒ Flash chassis fits in same space as drive chassis (13U)

‒ New flash chassis is set of 4 x 2U trays, up to 12 x flash module drives each

Flash module drive (FMD)

‒ Up to 3.2TB

‒ RAID-1, RAID-5, and RAID-6

‒ Single flash enclosure scales from 6.4TB to 153.6TB

‒ Up to 4 flash enclosure per VSP – more than 600TB of flash

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HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASH USE CASES AND POSITIONING

Persistent Direct Attached

Caching Network Attached

Persistent Network-attached

Caching Direct Attached

Hitachi Accelerated Flash

Can you sustain paying a high bit price for your solid state at the rate your business is growing?

Can you continue to dedicate solid state capacity to just a few hosts? Does it make sense to use solid state caching when your cache hit is going

down due to data growth?

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HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASH IDEAL WITH HITACHI DYNAMIC TIERING

DynamicTieringVolume

High Activity Set

Normal Working Set

Quiet Data Set

Data Heat IndexHitachi Accelerated

Flash

Tier 1

Tier 2

Least

Referenced Pages

Pool

CAN YOU CONTINUE TO PAY A BIT PRICE PREMIUM FOR YOUR SOLID STATE TO KEEP STALE DATA?

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HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASHBUILT WITH NEW EMBEDDED CONTROLLER

Multi-core, high bandwidth architecture with up to 128 flash chip‒ 4x random 8K I/O

‒ >2x sequential

‒ Up to 16x capacity support

Inline write compression support‒ Faster formatting

‒ Up to 94% write reduction

‒ extended device endurance for enterprise workloads

Enhanced error correction, learning cell program-erase and data refresh‒ Superior data integrity and cell longevity

‒ Future proof for next generation flash chip

CPU and Flash Management Engine

Block / page Mapping

Wear Leveling

Data Refresh

Performance Manager

Data Compression

Endurance Manager

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Yesterday IO-intensive configuration using many 15K HDDs

VSP has 350K IOPS maximum random read capability

Requires 2 controller modules, over 1,000 HDD

HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASH IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTALS

ControllerController

Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage and VSP

flash acceleration

FlashChassis

Controller

6.4TB FMD compared to 400GB MLC SSD

8x better density (TB/rack unit)

5x better power efficiency (Watts/TB)

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HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASH:BUILT FROM GROUND UP FOR YOU

DESIGN POINT: CONSUMER

LOWEST UNIT COSTEXPECTED PERFORMANCE

REASONABLE CAPACITY

DESIGN POINT: DATA CENTER

HIGHEST PERFORMANCELOWEST BIT COST

EXTENDED ENDURANCEHIGHEST CAPACITY

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YOU NO LONGER NEED TO COMPROMISE:HITACHI ACCELERATED FLASH

Built from the ground up for enterprise workloads and extended endurance

Superior performance over SLC at better than MLC SSD prices

Unmatched capacity and environmentals

Delivers superior return on flash Investment and lower operating expense

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