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TRANSFORMING MIDRANGE STORAGE: VNX AND VNXE Iztok Sitar Sr. Technology Consultant EMC Slovenia


60% Flash


FLASH Drives New Designs

A little FLASH Goes A Long Way

Virtualization has Changed Everything 60% Flash

VNX and VNXe is Transforming IT Lessons Learned From The Past 12 Months…


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Drive ROI 200GB SSD

600 GB 15K HDD

3000 GB NL-HDD

Storage System Design is Book-ended by Opposite Technologies FLASH Transformed Storage

GB IOPSNL-HDD 3.000 9015K HDD 600 180SSD 200 5.000

3,000

90 600 180 200

5.000

Drive Capacity & IOPS

5X better than 15K HDD

28X better than 15K HDD

SSD

15K HDD

NL HDD


Storage System Design is Book-ended by Opposite Technologies FLASH Transformed Storage

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Drive ROI 200GB SSD

600 GB 15K HDD

3000 GB NL-HDD

54X better than

SSD

15X better than

NL-HDD

LOWEST

$/IO SSD

$.99/IO

LOWEST

$/GB NL-HDD $.43/GB


Delivering Lowest $/IOPS and Lowest $/GB – simultaneously!

Optimize ROI with Hybrid Arrays

Max System IOPS

System Scale

Tran

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ions

Add SSDs for more IOPS

Add HDDs for more Capacity

FAST


IO Exhibits Preference and

DATA Activity Falls Over Time

? HOW MUCH

FLASH?

DATA SKEW

Server Virtualization has made FLASH and FAST Mandatory Virtualization DID Change Everything

SSD NL-SAS SAS

Dynamic, Self-optimizing Storage Pools

Based On Actual Data Activity

Oracle Exchange SQL OracleI ExchangeI SQLI

100% AUTOMATED

FAST Cache & FAST VP


Short Long

Data Shelf-Life

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A Little FLASH Goes a Long Way…


The Hybrid Storage Systems In Action Transformed Capacity & IOPS Ratios

CAPACITY DISTRIBUTION

TRANSACTION DISTRIBUTION

47% of IOPs is serviced by 1% of Capacity


Transforming Throughput

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6.410

SSD IOPs Non-SSD IOPs

IOP

s Throughput (IOPs)

+75%

+67%

Throughput (IOPs)

75% increase from NL to 15K 67% increase from 15K to SATA-SSD Total a 3X increase in throughput


Concentrating Workloads On SSDs Offloads HDDs Transforming Service Times

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Offloading IOPs to SSD allows NL-HDD to provide lower service times


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NL

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NL Adoption

A Dramatic Shift from 15K to Lower Cost Near-Line Storage Transforming Consumption

FAST cache introduced in Q2 2011

Near-Line growth rate increased by 147%

15K growth rate decreased by 40%


FLASH 1st Lowers Capacity Cost Transforming CapEx

2009 2010 2011* 2012

$ per GB

75% reduction in CapEx


RAID Levels Should Not be Pool-specific…

Transforming Storage Pool Efficiency

SSD NL-SAS SAS

RAID

6 RAID

6 6 + 2 RAID

6 6 + 2 + 6 2

Lowest Common Denominator Across Pool


RAID Levels Should be Tier-specific…


SSD NL-SAS SAS

RAID Levels are now Intermixed Within the Pool

38% LOWER

STARTING COST

RAID

5 RAID

6 RAID

5 4 + 1 + 6 2 4 + 1


More Usable Capacity – Less Overhead

Transforming RAID Efficiency

MORE EFFICIENT RAID 5

15K HDD or SSD

+ 1 8

MORE EFFICIENT RAID 6

7,200 RPM NL HDD

+ 2 14

4 + 1

TRADITIONAL RAID 5

15K HDD or SSD

TRADITIONAL RAID 6

6 + 2 7,200 RPM NL HDD


Mix & Match Different RAID Sets Inside Pools


SSD NL-SAS SAS

• SMALL SETS FOR SSD

• LARGE SETS FOR NL HDD

4 + 1 RAID

5 8 + 1 RAID

5 + 2 14 RAID

6

38% LOWER

STARTING COST

17% OVERALL SAVINGS


WHEN RUNNING FAST VP WHEN ADDING NEW DRIVES

FAST VP Auto Balancing™ of Tiered Drives Transforming Storage Pool Performance

2X IMPROVEMENT

FAST VP Auto Balancing™

SSD NL-SAS SAS

Better and more even resource utilization Maximum tier performance aggregation

AUTO BALANCE


Start HIGH, then AUTO-TIER

SSD NL-SAS SAS

Improved FLASH 1st Policy Transforming Storage Pool ROI

“HOT” HIGH

ACTIVITY

“COLD” LOW ACTIVITY

Dat

a A

ctiv

ity

Data Age

HIGH TEMPERATURE AS DEFAULT WEIGHT

NEW DEFAULT POLICY

Lowest $/IO and $/GB through-out data’s life


Transforming Storage Intelligence


SSD NL-SAS SAS

Transforming Application Protection

SNAPs of

SNAPs

LUN

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9:00 AM

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Dev/ Test

Backup Analysis Other

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… 10:00

AM

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE

256 SNAPs per

LUN


INTRODUCING THE VNXe3150

50% MORE PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY PER RACK UNIT


Transforming ROBO: Unisphere™ Remote Installs In Minutes. Manages More Than 1,000 VNX’s & VNXe’s.

Central IT

Remote Office


New Strategic Partnership

vCenter Operations


Transforming Storage Intelligence


FUTURE

NETWORK

5M IOPS

5M IOPS CONTROLLER

FLASH POOL

NOW

NETWORK

5M IOPS

200K IOPS CONTROLLER

FLASH POOL

PAST

NETWORK

200K IOPS

180K IOPS CONTROLLER

HDD POOL

FLASH 1st is the Only Option

FLASH Implications on Hybrid System Design


Exponentially Growing Design Centers for Midrange Storage

Transforming the Future

40K 200K

1M

5M

CLARiiON VNX VNX2 VNXFUTURE

IOPS

1 4

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64


PBs Capacity

3 12

28

112


GB/sec Bandwidth

64X MORE EACH

DECADE

64X LARGER

EACH DECADE

125X FASTER EACH

DECADE

NOW NOW NOW

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