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The New Flash Era – IBM Storage Flash Technology
& Storwize Family
Panayiotis Tsamouras
Technical Manager
Cosmos Business Systems SA
Cosmos Business Systems & IBM Hellas
The New Flash Era – IBM Storage Flash Technology
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What is the role of the storage is:
?
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The role of the storage is:
to give/take data at the request of the application
Read
Data
Write
In consequence, the only impact storage has to the application
performance is the amount of time the processors must wait
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CPU performance up 10x this last decade
Storage has grown capacity but unable to keep
up in performance
Systems are now Latency & IO bound resulting in
significant performance gap
Performance
Gap
From 1980 to 2010, CPU performance has grown 60% per year*
…and yet, disk performance has grown ~5% per year during that same period**
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Understanding Application Efficiency
with FlashSystem Microlatency
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The New Flash Era – IBM Storage Flash Technology
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Understanding Application Efficiency
with FlashSystem Microlatency
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IBM FlashSystem Family
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IBM FlashSystem 720 / FlashSystem 820
High performance, low latency, high reliability solution to turbocharge your business
Designed for running multitenant heterogeneous (mixed workload)
applications that require built-in high availability features…
• Transactional (OLTP) databases
• Analytical (OLAP) databases
• Virtualization & virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
• High performance computing (HPC)
• Cloud infrastructure, private and public
Extreme Performance
• SLC (720)/eMLC (820)
• 5,10, 20 TB w/ High
Availability (6,12, 24 TB non
HA)
• 525K (720/820) IOPS
• 5 (720) / 4 (820) GB/s
Bandwidth
MicroLatency™
• Low Latency 100/25 µs (720)
110/25 µs (820) Read/Write
• Purpose-built, highly parallel
design
• Maximize host CPU efficiency
and productivity
Macro Efficiency
• 1U form factor- minimal footprint
for best of breed ROI
• Two dual-port 8 Gb Fibre
Channel controllers or dual-port
40Gb QDR InfiniBand controllers
• Hot swappable flash modules
• Low power 500 watts (720) / 450
watts(820)
Enterprise Reliability
• Variable Stripe
RAID™ to protect
against chip failure
• Redundancy for
power, data, and
management
• 2D Flash RAID
eliminates single point
of failures
• Available integrated
spare flash card
limiting down time
• Error Correcting
Code
(ECC) at chip level
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IBM FlashSystem 720 / FlashSystem 820 Architecture
Redundant Management
Control Processors
Redundant Power
Supplies
Two Dual-Ported 8 Gb/s FC
or
40 Gb/s QDR IB Interfaces
N+1 batteries
Redundant
RAID controllers
12 Flash Modules
(10+1+1)
1U Chassis
Redundant Fans
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IBM FlashSystem 710 / FlashSystem 810
Speed up critical applications and make decisions faster
Accelerate read-heavy enterprise storage area network (SAN)
applications…
• Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP)
databases
• Sequential data collection
• Large centralized databases
• Content delivery networks
• Rendering and video editing
• Modeling and simulation
Extreme Performance
• SLC (710) / eMLC (810)
• 1-5 TB or 2-10 TB
• 570K (710) / 550K (810)
IOPS
• 5 GB/s (710)/ 4 GB/s (810)
Bandwidth
MicroLatency™
• Low latency 100/60 µs (710)
and 110 / 60 µs (810)
Read/Write
• Purpose-built, highly parallel
design
• Maximize host CPU efficiency
and productivity
Macro Efficiency
• 1U form factor- minimal
footprint for best of breed ROI
• Two dual-port 8 Gb Fibre
Channel controllers or dualport 40Gb QDR InfiniBand
controllers
• Low power 450 watts (710) /
400 watts(810)
• Available hot-swapable flash
modules in 720/820
Enterprise Reliability
• Variable Stripe
RAID™ to protect
against chip failure
• Redundant power
supplies with active
failover protection
against single-source
power issues
• Error Correcting
Code (ECC) at chip
level
• Available integrated
spare flash card
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IBM FlashSystem 710 / FlashSystem 810 Architecture
Two Dual-Ported 8 Gb/s FC or
40 Gb/s QDR IB Interfaces
Management
Control
Processors
Redundant Power
Supplies
N+1 batteries
4-21 Flash Modules
(including optional spare)
Redundant Fans
1U Chassis
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Layers of Data Protection
System-level RAID 5
managed by centralized RAID controllers
Protection
Module Failure
2D Flash RAID
IBM FlashSystem 710
IBM FlashSystem 810
IBM FlashSystem 720
IBM FlashSystem 820
Layer
Module-level Variable Stripe RAID™
managed by each module across its chips
Chip-level ECC
managed by each module using its chips
Sub-chip, chip or multichip failure
Bit and block errors
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Variable Stripe RAID™
• 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, and then
data is restriped across the remaining nine chips. No system rebuild
needed!
Unique Business
• VSR reduces maintenance intervals caused
Benefit:
by Flash failures
Fewer Flash Module
Replacements
10 Chips
RAID
Group
…
…
FAIL
16
Planes
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Two-Dimensional (2D) Flash RAID™
• 2D Flash RAID: system-level
RAID 5 protection layered on top
of module-level Variable Stripe
RAID.
• Provides maximum data
protection and minimizes
recovery times from flash
failures, without compromising
system performance or
availability.
• Rebuilds only occur if entire
flash modules fail – Variable
Stripe RAID takes care of small
flash failures.
• System-level RAID is
implemented as 10+1 RAID 5
with 4K stripes, plus 1 module
reserved as hot spare.
• System-level RAID is managed
through active-active backplane
FPGA controllers, not software.
External
Interfaces
(FC, IB)
RAID
Controllers
RAID 5 within
Flash Modules
(9 data + 1 parity)
Unique Business
Benefit:
Maximize Data
Protection
IBM
2D Flash RAID
RAID 5 across Flash Modules
(10 data + 1 parity + 1 hot spare)
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IBM FlashSystem 840
Macro
Efficiency
Enterprise
Reliability
MicroLatency™
Extreme
Performance
• 2U form factor- minimal footprint for best of breed ROI
• Low power 625 watts
• Field upgradeable, granular capacity
- 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48
• Reduce installation and management time
with intuitive standardized GUI
• Fully redundant and hot swappable architecture:
- Flash modules, power supplies, batteries,
interfaces, fans
• Maintain business continuity with Concurrent code
load
• AES 256 HW base encryption
• Low Latency 135/90 µs R/W
• Purpose-built, highly parallel design
• Maximize host CPU efficiency and productivity
• 1.1M IOPS
• 8 GB/s Bandwidth
• Multiple connectivity interfaces
- 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel
- 40Gb QDR InfiniBand
- 10Gb FCoE
Data center optimized
to deliver extreme
performance,
flexible capacity
and total system
protection
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IBM FlashSystem 840 components
Flash Modules (12)
Battery Packs (2)
RAID Controllers (2)
Interface Modules (4)
Fan Packs (4)
Canisters (2)
Management Modules (2)
Power Supplies (2)
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IBM FlashSystem V840
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IBM FlashSystem Positioning
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IBM FlashSystem Positioning
SSD is NOT Flash Storage
 Flash inside a Disk Enclosure
 Technology designed for Disk, not Flash
 Data protection outside SSD
 Data Path handled by OS/Controllers outside SSD
 Performance is reduced and marginal
Common in hybrid arrays
Focus is to maintain functionality and consolidation
Focus on Tiering and Data Movement
SSD competes with all other disks’ for resources
When performance matters (which is ALWAYS), SSD is not the best
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IBM FlashSystem Positioning
Direct Attach Flash
(PCIe adapters, server SSDs)
provides low latency, high
performance storage for inserver applications
BUT
Less enterprise capabilities
Hybrid Storage
Systems
(Storage with SSDs & HDDs)
provide a higher
level of enterprise
capabilities with
superior capacity
However, there is a gap in the middle for all flash storage array that
provides high performance, low latency, and enterprise-class attributes
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IBM FlashSystem Positioning
IBM FlashSystem
offers extreme performance, low latency
and enterprise attributes to handle fast
moving operational data in real time
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IBM FlashSystem Use Cases
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IBM FlashSystem Use Cases
Oracle Acceleration with IBM FlashSystem™
Customer Challenge – Most Oracle applications are highly readintensive. By placing all read data on low latency flash storage,
reads will be performed much faster, boosting Oracle
performance by up to 12x over conventional disk systems with
no tuning or changes to code or system architecture.
•IBM FlashSystem shared flash storage systems will
– Decrease I/O wait time in mission critical Oracle
workloads
– Deliver the lowest latency available on any SAN
platform
– Accelerate commonly I/O-bound workloads,
including transactional, batch and complex analytics
Delivers Extreme Performance,
Macro Efficiency, and
Enterprise Reliability for
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IBM FlashSystem Use Cases
Performance Scenario: Oracle RAC, 4 Nodes
 ~4,000 IOPS per RAC node
 16,000 IOPS total
 12.25 mins to complete with 4
nodes running
 2 million queries
 40,000 IOPS per RAC node
 160,000 IOPS total
 1.3 mins to complete with 4
nodes running
 2 million queries
12m 15s
1m 20s
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IBM FlashSystem Use Cases
Virtual Servers and VDI with IBM FlashSystem™
Customer Challenge - Virtualized servers and Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI) push conventional storage systems to their
performance limits. The result? Poor application response times
and a bad customer experience.
•IBM FlashSystem shared flash storage systems will
– Eliminate I/O density and hot spot issues that are
common to highly virtualized environments
– Control and mitigate ‘log on’ or ‘boot’ storm
performance issue
– Deliver storage consolidation without sacrificing
performance, thus driving a higher V:P ratios thus
increasing server utilization
Delivers Extreme Performance,
Macro Efficiency, and Enterprise
Reliability for
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IBM FlashSystem Use Cases
SAP Acceleration with IBM FlashSystem™
Customer Challenge –SAP is pushing clients to accelerate
performance by adopting the HANA in-memory database
architecture. This often leads to a significant re-architecture of the
entire SAP infrastructure, which drives high cost and a risk of
disruption in service delivery.
•IBM FlashSystem shared flash storage systems will
– Eliminate I/O bottlenecks in mission critical SAP
workloads
– Provide the lowest latency with IBM MicroLatency™
– Support a phased approach to HANA adoption by
delivering consistently higher performance for SAP BW
workloads with no re-architecture required
Delivers Extreme Performance, Macro
Efficiency, and Enterprise Reliability
for
&
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In the past Storage Arrays
used to be:
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In the past Storage Arrays
used to be:
+
Today Storage Arrays are more
than that:
+
software-defined storage
(SDS)
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IBM Storwize Family
Buy Less
Storage
Award winning
simplicity
Deploy Quickly
& Flexibly
Embedded
Analytics
Improve What
You Have
IBM & non-IBM
Flash
Optimized
Start Small
& Scale-up
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IBM Storwize Family
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IBM Storwize Family Offerings
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IBM Storwize Family Features
Automated
Tiering
External
Virtualization
Real Time
Compression
Data Replication
Source
Volume
TCP/IP
Network
Destination
Volume
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IBM Storwize Family Functionalities
Intuitive GUI is Truly Integrated
 One administration interface for block and file data
– Not a launcher for two different interfaces
 Integrated data protection
– Built-in NDMP and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client
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IBM Storwize Family Functionalities
Summary
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IBM FlashSystem + IBM Storwize
Smart Solution
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Easy Tier Case Study: Insurance Client
Servers
Challenge
Customer is an IBM client in need of an
automated tiering solution to reduce DB batch
run times
Solution
FlashSystem virtualized to provide both
capacity in an Easy Tier pool and native
capacity for TSM Log files.
IBM Storwize V7000
• Flash Deal: IBM FlashSystem 820 (10 TB)
• Also included upgrades to V7000‘s
Benefit
IBM FlashSystem 820 10TB
•Reduced batch run times
•Improved TCO for customer
•Decreased power and cooling costs
•Low latency
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Oracle Case Study:
Telecommunications Client
SAN Environment
Challenge
A telecommunications client with a
very good relationship to a third party storage vendor
needed to improve DB efficiency
Solution
Preferred Read
• IBM FlashSystem 810 (2TB)
• Other IBM components include a V7000
• FlashSystem based in preferred read using AIX
LVM during the PoC
• FlashSystem and customer‘s storage behind V7000
in the production
Benefit
• Speed up Oracle application
• Allowed for greater amount of savings
• Energy comsumption was much lower than
traditional HDD array
• Happy users 
• Simple and easy integration with customer‘s
environment
Thank you !
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