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Using The Cloud To Create a True All-Flash Data Center
1. The All-Flash Array Challenge
2. The Hybrid Array Challenge
3. The Cloud Answer
4. 3 Steps to a True All-Flash Data Center
Tuesday April 28th, 2014, 1:00pm EDT and 10:00am PDT
In this webinar learn about:
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Logistics
● Be on the look-out for polling questions
● You may ask questions at any time during the presentation by using the Q&A box
○ On-Demand Viewers please tweet us questions @averesystems #allflash
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Our Speakers
Ron Bianchini is the President, CEO, & Co-Founder of Avere Systems and has a long record of accomplishments in building and leading successful companies that deliver breakthrough technologies. Prior to Avere Systems, Ron was senior vice president at NetApp, CEO and founder of Spinnaker Networks, and VP of product architecture at FORE Systems, co-founder of Scalable Networks, and started his career as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?
Company Overview
• Mission– Reinvent storage with Hybrid Cloud NAS that provides complete
flexibility to deploy and scale compute and storage in the cloud or on premises, wherever it makes most sense.
• Founders– Ron Bianchini, CEO: NetApp, Spinnaker Networks, FORE, Scalable, CMU
Prof.
– Mike Kazar, CTO: NetApp, Spinnaker Networks, IBM, Transarc, CMU PhD
• Who Uses Avere– Vertical industries: media, tech/quant/science apps, web, MSP– Horizontal cloud apps: cloud bursting, file serving, active archive
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Polling Question
How Are You Using Flash?
A) I am using flash in my servers
B) I have a hybrid flash array
C) I have an all-flash array
D) I would like to use flash but it is too expensive
Agenda
• The Type of On-Premises Flash Solutions
• Pros / Cons of on premise flash Solutions
• Using the Cloud to Eliminate the “Cons”
• Overcoming Cloud Latency
• Q&A
Polling Question
Where Are You On Your Cloud Journey?
• Our data in the cloud? No-way!
• We are just now starting to consider cloud for storage/compute
• We use the cloud for backup/archive
• We use the cloud for production data
The All-Flash Data Center
Why go all-flash anyway?
• All-Flash allows for denser configuration of storage and servers
• More IOPS per GB reduces the number of drives needed
• Consistent High Performance reduces storage management time
• Increases user and customer satisfaction
Where has All-Flash Been Successful?
Where has All-Flash Been Successful?
• Databases
• Virtual Servers
• Virtual Desktops
• Big Data Analytics Processing
Where has All-Flash Been Successful?
• Databases
• Virtual Servers
• Virtual Desktops
• Analytics Processing
Where has All-Flash Been Successful?
• Databases
• Virtual Servers
• Virtual Desktops
• Analytics Processing
• Consistently Active
• Typically Random I/O
• Moderate Ingest Rate
• Slowest Capacity Growth
Where has All-Flash Not Been Successful?
• Backup
• Archive
• Machine Data
• Sensor Data
Where has All-Flash Not Been Successful?
• Backup
• Archive
• Machine Data
• Sensor Data
• Inactive For Long Periods of Time
• Rarely I/O demanding
• Potentially High Ingest Rate
• Largest Capacity Growth
Reality Strikes The All-Flash Data Center
The Real Data Center Needs Two Types of Storage
Reality Strikes The All-Flash Data Center
The Real Data Center Needs Two Types of Storage
Reality Strikes The All Flash Data Center
The Real Data Center Needs Two Types of Storage
Data Needs Change
The All-Flash Data Center
Two Questions
A. What and Where Should That Second Storage Tier Be Located?
B. What Should Handle The Movement of Data Between The Two Tiers?
The All-Flash Data Center
What And Where Should Second Tier Be?
A. On-Premises Scale-Out NAS?
B. Private Cloud (Object Storage)
C. Public Cloud
The All-Flash Data Center
How Do We Facilitate Data Movement
A) Human Interaction
The All-Flash Data Center
How Do We Facilitate Data Movement
A) Human Interaction
B) Automation
Avere – Reinventing Storage
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Traditional NAS NAS Optimization Hybrid Cloud NAS
Challenges Benefits Benefits
Poor Performance Scaling Unlimited Performance ScalingUnlimited Performance with the
Cloud
High CAPEX & OPEX Lower TCO (less disks & power)Lowest TCO (less admin & data
centers)
Management Silos Consolidated NAS – GNS Consolidated Object & NAS - GNS
Global Access via Complex Replication
Global Access via WAN Global Access via Cloud
NFS & CIFS
ClientWorkstations
Compute Farm
FXT Series Edge Filer
PublicObject
Private Object
FlashCloudTM
WAN
Legacy NASAmazon & Google
Amplidata & Cleversafe
FXT Series Edge Filer
Storage Cloud(near infinite capacity)
Compute Cloud(near infinite performance)
Hybrid Cloud is Attractive - BUT Presents Challenges
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Cloud challenges
1. Disk storage is slow
2. Unfamiliar object-based interface
3. High latency to remote storage
4. No easy on-ramp to cloud storage
5. Cloud gateways do NOT scale
On-Prem Storage
NAS Object
On-Prem Compute
Latency of 10-100ms or more
Single-nodeGateway
Single-nodeGateway
Storage Cloud(near infinite capacity)
Compute Cloud(near infinite performance)
Ultimate Hybrid Cloud Flexibility
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Virtual FXT Cluster• Scalable NAS architected
for the compute cloud• Auto move active data to
RAM & SSD tiers• Hide latency to on-prem
and in-cloud storage• For cloud bursting and
permanent IT infrastructure
Physical FXT
Cluster• Scalable NAS
performance• Low latency• Save cost, store data
where it makes most sense
• Global namespace• Data mobility
Bucket 2
Bucket n
Bucket 1
Physical FXT
On-Prem Storage
NAS Object
On-Prem Compute
Virtual FXT
Virtual Compute Farm
Storage Cloud(near infinite capacity)
Compute Cloud(near infinite performance)
Ultimate Hybrid Cloud – All Flash Data Center
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Cloud repository• Leverage disk-based
cloud storage• Hide latency to on-prem
and in-cloud storage
All Flash Data
Center• Scalable NAS
performance• Low latency• Save cost, store data
where it makes most sense
• Global namespace• Data mobility
Bucket 2
Bucket n
Bucket 1
Physical FXT
On-Prem StorageOn-Prem Compute
Avere Benefits
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Customer Needs Avere DeliversLow-latency file access ANDLow-cost capacity scaling
Edge-Core architecture
Familiar NFS & SMB/CIFS interfaces Edge Filer local termination of file system protocols
Support for NAS and object repositories Native NAS support and FlashCloud for object store
Manage as a single pool of storage GNS, FlashMove®
Scalable performance and HA Scale-out clustering
On-prem and in-cloud flexibility Physical and virtual solutions
Data protection Cloud snapshots, FlashMirror®
High security AES-256 encryption
Efficiency Compression
Lowest TCOSupport for Amazon, Google, Amplidata, Cleversafe & Legacy NAS
Comparing 1,000,000 IOPS Solutions*
EMC Isilon$10.7 / IOPS
NetApp$5.1 / IOPS
150ms
Avere$2.3 / IOPS
Avere 32-node FXT cluster
Core Filer-NAS-Public object-Private object
Avere Cloud NAS – Spec SFS Results*
• Avere is first and only vendor to provide low-latency, scalable NAS performance for cloud storage– Performance with cloud equivalent to that with legacy
NAS (note ZFS column below)
• Cloud storage provides infinitely scalable capacity with lowest cost, simplest management, and highest reliability
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FXT Series Product Line
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Hardware n1-highmem-8 r3.2xlarge r3.8xlarge FXT 3200 FXT 3850 FXT 4850
DRAM (GB) 52 61 244 96 288 288
SSD (TB) 4 4 8 - 0.8 4.8
SAS (TB) - - - 4.8 7.8 -
Total Capacity (TB) 4 4 8 4.8 8.6 4.8
Network Bandwidth 10GbE High 10GbE 2x10GbE, 6x1GbE
Virtual FXT Physical FXT
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4850
r3.2xlarge
r3.8xlarge
3850
3200n1-highmem-8
Google AWS
AWS
• Protocols– To Client: NFSv3 (TCP/UDP), CIFS (SMB1.0 & 2.0); To Core Filer: NFSv3 (TCP), S3 API
• Clustering– Cluster from 3 to 50 FXT nodes for performance and capacity scaling– HA failover, mirrored writes, redundant network ports & power
• Management– GUI, analytics, email alerts, SNMP, XML-RPC interface, policy-based management
• Licensed Software– FlashCloudTM for Amazon, Google, Amplidata/HGST, and Cleversafe– NAS Core (for connecting to on-prem NAS filers), FlashMove®, and FlashMirror®
Included with all FXT models
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