© Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 1 File-Based Data on Traditional Storage COMPLEXITY AND COST! OpEx Storage Management -Staff Tremendous Inefficiencies: Increased storage management Poor system utilization 100’s of File Systems 1000’s of Mount Points Limited Scalability Limited Throughput Over-provisioning of space, energy and cooling Licensing and re-licensing software applications Downtime for data migrations and upgrades CapEx Over-provision acquisition Application Licenses © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Managing downtime for multiple business units 2 •Utilization rates vary across islands •QOS headroom •Performance considerations = Net Utilization 50% - 65% © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. File System Volume Aggregate (~ 16TB) RAID 3 Traditional Performance OneFS > Linear w Scale Controller Performance CAPACITY PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE N-Nodes CAPACITY “With traditional storage, my best day is always my first day…” © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 4 Traditional Scale-Up Scale Capacity Natural Bottlenecks Controlle r Disk Shelves Controllers & trays of disk Many systems or 2-way clusters Many file systems/volumes Many points of management N-Storage Islands © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Power of Parallelism ENTERPRISE (Intra-cluster Infiniband) CLASS ISILON IQ NODES Up to 144 nodes, 20+ PB OneFS™ distributed file system Single file system/namespace Single point of management N-Way Symmetrical Cluster 5 EMC Isilon Scale-Out Innovation Massive Scalability • • • • • • © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Scale-Out vs. Scale-Up File Systems Volumes Aggregates RAID Isilon OneFS Traditional NAS Management • 1 volume, 1 file system • Single volume up to 15 PB • Multiple RAID, volumes, file systems • Single volume up to 16 TB (100 TB in some cases) Economics • 80%+ utilization, <1FTE • Business agility • Investment protection • 57% utilization, Multiple FTE’s • Silos, limitations • Forklift upgrades © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 7 What Makes Isilon Unique? Scalability Scale both capacity and performance together, or scale only capacity or performance independently Ease of Management Install in less than 1 hour, capacity and/or performance in less than 5 minutes never need to do any raid, volume management or performance tuning Investment protection You will never have to do a migration or forklift upgrade with Isilon - when you need more capacity, just add it to the existing cluster Utilization and Efficiency Achieve 80+% storage utilization; eliminate hot spots and bottlenecks Data Protection Dynamically set and adjust data protection ( N+1, N+2, N+3 and N+4) at the directory or file levels Tiering File system tiring that does not change file placement or disrupt data access © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 8 © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 9 Modular, Node-Based Architecture OneFS™ Distributed File System Modular, self-contained nodes each include: Standard GigE and 10 GigE front-end network High-performance, low-latency back-end network Hexa-core Intel processors 4-192 GB global read/write cache Hot-swappable disks, power supplies, and fans; virtual spares © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 10 Isilon Node Types CREATE & CAPTURE PROCESS ARCHIVE NL-Series High-transactional and IO-intensive applications High-concurrent and throughput applications Cost-effective, long-term and high capacity storage Isilon IQ X200 Isilon IQ S200 Isilon IQ NL400 Isilon IQ X400 Isilon S-Series SAS (16TB – 2PB) © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Isilon X-Series SATA (18TB – 20PB) Isilon NL-Series SATA (108TB – 20PB) 12 Fast, Non-Disruptive Upgrades OneFS™ scales from 15 TB to over 15 PB in a in a single file system • • © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 13 Using Software to Improve Storage Efficiency AutoBalance Automated data balancing across nodes reduces costs, complexity and risks for scaling storage BALANCED EMPTY FULL BALANCED • AutoBalance migrates content to new nodes while system is online and in production EMPTY FULL BALANCED EMPTY FULL BALANCED EMPTY • Requires NO manual intervention, NO reconfiguration, NO server or client mount point or application changes FULL BALANCED • Eliminate “Hot Spots” EMPTY © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 14 No More Data Migrations to New Hardware New Way LAN Old Way © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 15 Useable Efficiency Grows with the Cluster 3 Node Cluster • N+1 Parity 6 Node Cluster • N+1 Parity 10 Node Cluster • N+1 Parity 66% 83 % 90% 33% 17% 10% Addressable Capacity © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Addressable Capacity Addressable Capacity 16 N+M File Striping and Protection Flexible Data Protection • Multi-parity, “software-based RAID” - not disk-based RAID • File-based protection (defined at cluster, directory and/or file level) • Files striped across N nodes, protected against M failures OneFS Industry Simultaneous Protection RAID5 Survive one drive/node failure N/A Survive two drives or one node failure RAID-DP Survive two drive/node failures N+3:1 N/A Survive three drive or one node failure N+3 N/A Survive three drive/node failures N+4 N/A Survive four drive/node failures N+1 N+2:1 N+2 © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 17 Full Suite of Enterprise Software Options • Combine multiple storage tiers into a single file system • Simple, scalable and flexible data protection • Policy-based client load balancing with NFS failover • Quota management and thin provisioning • Fast and flexible file-base asynchronous replication • Analytics platform to maximize performance and resource utilization • WORM functionality enforces file-level retention © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 18 Single File System for Multiple Tiers Automatic Data Movement File-Level Granularity Performance/Layout Protection Settings © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Archive Policy-Based Movement Transparent Reallocation NO application-changes Infiniband Core Network Single File System Scale Any Application Tiers of Performance MB/s Single Point of Management I/Ops Technical Innovation 19 Load Balancing with Failover it.omrf.com Example Zoning hpc.omrf.com •10 GigE dedicated •Accelerator X nodes •NFS Failover required Illumina GA2 •Full access, maintenance interface •Corporate DNS, no SC •Static (well-known) IPs required 10 GigE VMware Dynamic IPs 10.20.25.125 10.20.25.126 10.20.25.127 10.20.25.128 10.20.25.129 10.20.25.130 10.20.25.131 1 GigE 10.20.25.132 Hosts - iSCSI 10.30 File Services © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 20 Scale-Out Analytics Platform Technical Insights Rich Visualizations Elaborate Drill-Downs Historical and Real-Time Virtual Appliance Performance Analytics CPU/Network Utilization Cluster, Node, Interface, Client Protocols, Operations, Disk Per-File/Directory Performance File System Analytics Directory/File Visibility © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 21 Summary © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 22 What Makes Isilon Unique? The Benefits of Isilon Storage Scalability HIGH CONCURRENCY ENVIRONMENTS LARGE CAPACITY REQURIEMENTS Ease of Management MANAGING MORE STORAGE WITH LESS PEOPLE Investment protection NO NODE LEFT BEHIND – NO DOWNTIME TO SCALING Utilization GREATER ROI ON RAW to USABLE Data Protection RECOVERY AND STABILITY IN LARGE DATA ENVIRONMENTS BETTER THAN DIY SYSTEMS Tiering LOWER COST TO KEEP DATA ONLINE while MEETING PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS MEETING THE 80/20 RULE (INACTIVE/ACTIVE DATA) © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 23 Thank You © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 24