Consolidate your enterprise workloads without creating new performance constraints

The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center

Introductions

Jeramiah Dooley, Field Architect [email protected] @jdooley_clt blog.vmforsp.com

SolidFire Solutions Architects

•  Aaron Delp, @aarondelp •  Aaron Patten, @Jedimt •  Chris Merz, @merzdba •  Gabriel Chapman, @Bacon_Is_King •  Josh Atwell, @Josh_Atwell

What Are We Talking About Today?

•  Storage in Today’s Enterprise •  Four Stages of Change

– Workload Consolidation? – AHHH!!! WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION! – Oh Wait, Cool… – How Do I Get Started?

•  What Does Tomorrow Look Like?

Why Does Everyone Hate Storage?

Why Does Everyone Hate Storage?

•  Inflexible •  Inefficient •  Ineffective •  Unsustainable •  How Did We Let This Happen?

Modern Infrastructure Consumption Models

Best of Breed

Appliance


Best of Breed

Appliance

As a Service


Best of Breed

Appliance

As a Service Converged Infrastructure


Best of Breed

Appliance

As a Service

Hyper Converged

Converged Infrastructure


Best of Breed

Appliance

As a Service

Software on Commodity Hardware

Hyper Converged


The Infrastructure Consumption Continuum

Best of Breed Appliance

Hyper Converged As a Service








Ease of Implementation Easier Harder

Degree of Vendor Lock-In More Lock-In Less Lock-In

Implementation Flexibility Less Flexible More Flexible

Cost Efficiency At Small Scale At Large Scale


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SMB / Startups Large Enterprise










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SolidFire Consumption Models

Element Opera,ng System


Agile Infrastructure


SF Series Appliances

As a Service

Scale-‐Out Infrastructure Agility

Guaranteed Quality of Service

Complete System Automa,on

In-‐Line Data Reduc,on

Self Healing High Availability

SoFware on Commodity Hardware

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High performance storage systems designed for large scale infrastructure

Industry Leading Quality of Service (QoS)

Scale-Out Architecture •  4 – 100 nodes •  35TB – 3.4PB Usable Capacity •  200k – 7.5M Controllable IOPS

Simple all inclusive pricing model Direct Tier 3 Support

for every customer

Industry-standard hardware •  10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC

Applying All-Flash in your Data Center

Performance Low

Performance and Capacity (Public / Private

Cloud, IaaS)

High

Cheap and Deep [object / file] (Backup / Archive / Video Streaming)

Performance at any cost (Transactional Processing / Trading Platforms)

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Flash V2 - All Flash Array

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Flash V2 - All Flash Array

Flash V1 PCI Flash Flash for the Next Generation Data Center






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Consolidating Workloads

Virtual Infrastructure

Database

Virtual Desktop

Cloud Orchestration

Eliminating Application Silos


Database

Virtual Desktop

Cloud Orchestration

What if you could run all applications in a single storage infrastructure?

…with guaranteed performance

All-flash storage platform for the next generation data center.

Scale-Out Infrastructure Agility

Guaranteed Quality of Service

Complete System Automation

In-Line Data Reduction


Platform Building Blocks

2405 •  8.6TB effective capacity •  50,000 guaranteed IOPS

4805 •  17TB effective capacity •  50,000 guaranteed IOPS



Scale-Out Agility

Performance

Capacity 200,000 IOPS 35 TB

Guaranteed Compatibility between all SolidFire storage nodes

•  Future-Proof your storage investment •  Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades •  Never wait 3 years for an upgrade

Linear Scale of Performance and Capacity

Expand / Contract without disruption or reconfiguration

Scale-Out Agility

Performance

Capacity

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

200,000 IOPS 35 TB Guaranteed Compatibility between all SolidFire storage nodes




Scale-Out Agility

Performance

Capacity

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS





Scale-Out Agility

Performance

Capacity

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS

52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS





•  Platform Compatibility Guarantee –  Ensures that all future software &

platforms from SolidFire will interoperate with existing infrastructure

•  Unlimited Drive Wear Guarantee –  Eliminate concerns around flash

endurance –  No restrictions on use-case or workload

Never Obsolete Unparalleled Investment Protection No more forklift upgrades

SolidFire QoS Eliminates of traditional performance related storage problems - ESG 2015

Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)

Dynamically Allocate, Manage and Guarantee storage performance independent of capacity

Define / enforce Min, Max and Burst settings for each application / volume

Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications

Decreased Performance

Noisy Neighbor


Decreased Performance

Noisy Neighbor

SolidFire QoS in Practice

500 IOPS

1000 IOPS

1200 IOPS

8000 IOPS


Boot Storm

Consolidate with Guaranteed QoS


Database

Virtual Desktop

Cloud Orchestration

Consolidate with Guaranteed QoS

•  Guarantee storage performance to every application

•  Combine a broad array of application workloads within a single storage platform

•  Increase application density and resource utilization

•  Respond to demands faster and with greater agility than ever before

Storage Platform Resources Capacity Performance with QoS

Scale-Out Agility

2405


Scale-Out Agility

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Scale-Out Agility

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Scale-Out Agility

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SolidFire Helix™ Cluster wide RAID-less data protection •  No single points of failure •  Automatic self-healing – restores

redundancy after failure •  Maintains all QoS settings regardless of

failure condition •  Non-disruptive hardware and software

upgrades

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SolidFire Helix™ Cluster wide RAID-less data protection •  No single points of failure •  Automatic self-healing – restores

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VMware & SolidFire Empowering The Software Defined Datacenter

Leading Scale-Out All-Flash Storage Architecture

Strong vSphere Storage API Support SIOC + QoS VAAI VASA VVols

API Driven Automation & Management

Delivering Guaranteed Performance to Every Application

Tier 1 Apps

vCenter Plug-in

Storage Policy Based

Management

End User Compu2ng Private Cloud Automa2on

Automation | Ops | Orchestrator PowerShell

SRM SRA

•  Real-Time Replication •  Integrated Backup and Restore •  Encryption at Rest •  Snapshots and Clones •  Consistency Group Snapshots •  VLAN tagging / Multi-tenant Networking •  SNMP Monitoring •  VAAI, VASA, VVOLs, SIOC, Horizon View, and vCenter Plug-In •  Simultaneous Multiprotocol Support (FC / iSCSI)

All Inclusive Feature Set

Today’s Legacy Enterprise Data Center

Legacy SAN

Siloed Applica,on Storage

Tradi,onal Compute

1Gb

FC

Flash

The Evolution Begins


Tradi,onal Compute

1Gb

FC

Legacy SAN

Flash

The Inflec,on Point

High Density Compute

Legacy SAN

Flash


The Next Genera,on Data Center: Phase I

Legacy SAN


The Next Genera,on Data Center: Phase I

The Next Generation Data Center: Phase II Site A Site B

Mul,-‐direc,onal Replica,on

Next Generation Data Center: Phase III Site A Site B

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Cloud Services

Next Generation Data Center: Phase IV Site X

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The Next Generation Data Center: Complete

Closing Thoughts

•  Don’t be the apes. The bananas belong to you, help each other go get them!

•  Consolidation is the only way to increase efficiency to any significant degree

•  Architecture matters, but so does integration

Thank You

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