FlashSystem Portfolio Overview April 2016 w/ A9000

The Smarter Storage Approach

The IBM FlashSystem Portfolio

Joe Krotz

IBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems

IBM FlashSystem2014 & 2015Magic Quadrant

Leader:Solid State Arrays

IBM FlashSystem2015

Leader: Price, Reliability & Support

All Flash InfiniBand Arrays

IBM FlashSystem2014

#1 in Units & Capacity Shipped for Solid-State

Arrays IBM FlashSystem2015

Leader: Innovation & Reliability

All Flash Fibre Channel Arrays

IBM FlashSystem 840 2014

Product of the Year Finalist: Enterprise All-Flash Storage

Systems

IBM FlashSystem900/V9000

2015 Top 10 Coolest Flash Products

IBM FlashSystem2015-2016

Major Player: All-Flash Array Marketscape

IBM FlashSystem2015

France CRIP IT Innovation Forum Winner: Cloud,

Infrastructure & Storage Category

IBM FlashSystemV9000 2015

Product of the Year FinalistAll-Flash Systems

IBM FlashSystemV9000 2015

Tech Innovator Award –Storage Category

(Runner Up)

IBM FlashSystem Awards and Accolades

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions

The Benefits of Flash• Ultimate performance for your high I/O workloads

• Massive performance with 5x9’s reliability in a 2U chassis

• By moving your high I/O workloads to Flash, you’ll free up iOPS/bandwidth/space on your current arrays, extending the life of a customer’s current solution

• Massive benefits for databases, OLTP, high transaction workloads

• Huge benefits to end user VDI experience with consistent FlashSystems performance with the new A9000

• With the V9000 and A9000, data optimization such as deduplication and compression can save customers a significant amount of storage space

• No limit to the utilization of a FlashSystems array. Customers can move away from the 3 year rip / replace cycle of upgrades!


It’s here today!

2016

FlashSystem V9000

Real Time Compression

FlashSystem 900

57Tb usable in 2U

Market Leader

2015

FlashSystem V840

Backed by IBM SDS

FlashSystem840

IBM Data Engine for

NoSQL (CAPI)

2014

$1B IBM Flash

Investment

FlashSystem 820/720,810/710,

#1 Market Share*

2013

Acquired Texas

Memory Systems

(TMS)

19th TMS RamSan product

generation

2012

IBM FlashSystem: Keeps getting better!


IBM’s premier, fully-integrated, all-flash offering

•New record in raw capacity shipped –over 160PB for the year, and over 70PB for 4Q. More than 160% YoY growth (2.6x)

•FlashSystem V9000 made up 25% of FlashSystem capacity shipped by 4Q 2015

•First customer installation with more than 100 FlashSystem units, amounting to over 5PBs of flash capacity

•Now have multiple PB+ customers, with more than 2100 unique customers in over 70 countries.

It just keeps growing!

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IBM FlashSystems Raw Capacity Shipped

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IBM FlashSystem Portfolio

• All Flash + Software Defined Storage

• FlashSystem 900 as a storage enclosure+

Active/Active Virtualization Controllers

• Embedded SAN services

• Standalone all flash array-or- as building block

• Pass off features that increase latency, bottleneck IOPS or cap bandwidth

• Promote use of application-level services

IBM FlashSystem V9000IBM FlashSystem 900


http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/

Absolute Tier 0 SAN Performance Enterprise Tier 1 SAN storage

Introducing IBM FlashCoreIBM uses tools and technologies to drive a robust solution…

Industry Standard Interface Technology

Powered by IBM FlashCore Technology

IBM MicroLatency Module

Hardware Accelerated I/O

Advanced Flash Management

Industry Standard Chip TechnologyIBM Enhanced

Micron Technology



• IBM MicroLatency with up to 1.1 million IOPS

• FC, iSCSI, FCoE & Infiniband connectivity

• IBM FlashCore technology, our secret sauce

Technical collaboration with Micron Technology – flash chips

• IBM enhanced flash technology

• MLC NAND flash offering and Flash Wear Guarantee

Improved integration with VMware

‘Neighborhood’ management in GUI

Performance at-a-glance (57TB config)

Minimum latency

Write 90 µs

Read 155 µs

Maximum IOPS 4 KB

Read (100%, random) 1,100,000

Read/write (70%/30%, random) 800,000

Write (100%, random) 600,000

Maximum bandwidth 256 KB

Read (100%, sequential) 10 GB/s

Write (100%, sequential) 4.5 GB/s


http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/Best economics & performance!

IBM FlashSystem 900

Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 0 storage

Module type 1.2 TB 2.9 TB 5.7 TB

Modules 4 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12

RAID 5 capacity 2.4 4.8 7.2 9.6 12 11.6 17.4 23.2 29.0 22.8 34.2 45.6 57.0

Raw Capacity 7.1 10.7 14.2 17.8 21.4 26.3 35.1 43.9 52.7 52.7 70.3 87.9 105.5

FlashSystem data protection schemaImproving Availability and Serviceability

• Two-dimensional Flash RAID• IBM Variable Stripe RAIDTM

• Higher resilience• Higher storage efficiency• Higher rebuild performance• Lower set uptime

• System-level RAID 5

•Non-disruptive (concurrent) code load

•Management features• Call home• Detailed logging• Remote power on

• Fully redundant and hot-swappable components

– Flash modules– I/O interfaces– RAID controllers– Management controllers– Power supplies– Batteries– Fan modules



Form Factor SSD• Flash failure = Disk failure• Requires top-level RAID• Relatively frequent hot-swaps

Enterprise Flash Drive or Memory Module• Flash failure = Degraded state within module• Performance impact on RAID set• Hot-swap to resolve

FlashSystem with Variable Stripe RAID• Preserves Flash life• Preserves performance• Re-parity data in microseconds

Parity

Parity

No Parity

Less maintenance touches while still preserving the life, protection, and performance of the Day-1 experience

Value of Variable Stripe RAIDTM

IBM Variable Stripe RAID(VSR)



•Patented Variable Stripe RAID allows RAID stripe

sizes to vary

•Maximum level of flash module data protection

•Maximum wear life

Variable Stripe RAID™Advantages:

•Protects data from a chip failure

•Dynamically re-stripes data at a sub-chip level

•Preserves life, protection and performance

IBM VSR™ protected flash modules:

Now we can build our system using far

more advanced technology than SSDs

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Two-dimensional VSR RAID• IBM Variable Stripe RAID is 1st level of

protection (module-level)

• System-level RAID protects against flash controller failure (abrupt module failure)

• RAID 5 across modules, hot swappable from front of chassis

• Two independent crossbar (XBAR) controllers

• Interface controllers stripe across XBARs

• Granular capacities configurable with 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 flash modules



Flash Module Reliability – Safety Beyond Compare• When Vendors sell flash storage, based on SSDs, it is critical those systems be able to survive double drive

failures. Customers would like to be able to survive more than two failures, but are left with no option other

than to take what they can get.

• IBM wasn’t satisfied with the limitations of off-the-shelf SSDs. We designed “true” flash systems where we

work directly with the flash chips. IBM created dedicated flash modules to provide customers with greater

performance and reliability.

In a 5.7TB FlashSystem module, a quarter of the flash chips on the module can fail before it needs to be replaced.

• 10 of the 64 flash chips in a module can fail without issue.• If the 11th chip fails, the module will issue a warning, but continue to function

• If the 17th chip fails, the module is halted and the hot spare is brought in.

At this point, the system is still online and rebuilding the parity protectionIt would take another 17+ chip failures on a different single module to see a dual drive failure

Safety beyond compare!



Health Binning and Heat Segregation – at the SUB-chip layerMost SSD providers wear all flash blocks the same

• Weaker blocks wear out faster, eating into overprovisioning and resulting in earlier replacement

FlashCore Technology continuously monitors the health of each block

• FlashCore uses several sophisticated parameters to determine health

• Hotter data is put in healthier blocks!

• FlashCore writes data together that has the same approximate access heat

• If FlashCore detects a relatively large # of stale pages for the same address, those pages get isolated into a separate set of flash blocks to reduce write amplification

• Heat bins get moved around, keeping blocks within 5% of wear

This asymmetrical wear leveling and sub-chip tiering work in conjunction

• Health binning: up to 57% improvement in endurance!

• Heat segregation: up to 45% reduction in write amplification!

Asymmetrical wear leveling results in significantly higher endurance in real life workloads!



IBM MicroLatency Modules (12)

RAID Controllers (2)

Battery Packs (2)

Power Supplies (2)

Fan Packs (4)

Interface Modules (4)

Management Modules (2)

Canisters (2)

IBM FlashSystem 900 components



Protecting business’s most valuable asset

IBM FlashSystem tier-0 built-in encryption

• Industry standard AES-XTS 256 required by most leading compliance regulations such as HIPAA and FIPS

• Data-at-rest design

• Local key management



• Modern design

• Icon-based navigation, informative graphics, and visualizations

• Industry award winning interface

• CLI output for administrative tasks

• Reduce complexity

• Improve efficiency and productivity

• Neighborhood Management

• 300 days of performance history



Easy to use GUI for management!

Easily integrated into any environment• 2U Chassis

• Less power utilization than a hair dryer!

• 8Gb or 16Gb Fibre Channel

• 10Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

• 40Gb InfiniBand

• 10Gb iSCSI



IBM FlashSystem V9000

IBM introduces a fully integrated, flexible, feature rich all-flash storage system

Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 1 storage

• Scalable all-flash architecture accelerates applications and entire

infrastructures

• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS with IBM MicroLatency

• Up to 57 TB usable (285 TB effective capacity) in only 6U and scales to 456

TB usable (2.28 PB effective capacity) in only 34U

• New licensing structure to simplify ordering and planning for External Data

Virtualization, Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, and Real-time Compression

• FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee

Scalable Performance Agile IntegrationEnduring Economics

Powered by IBM FlashCore™ Technology



• Scalable to 2.2 PB effective capacity• Flash for less than the cost of disk with

IBM Real-time Compression• Low power and cooling requirements• Virtualize storage• Flash wear warranty• Infrastructure continuity with space

efficient snapshots, cloning and replication

• Fully integrated system management• Application-aware data services• AES, data at rest encryption• Tier or mirror to existing storage• Mixed workload consolidation• Non-disruptive data migrations• Concurrent code load

• Scale-up or scale-out• Scalable to 2.5 million IOPS• Scalable to 19.2 GB/s bandwidth• Sustained IBM MicroLatency™• Quality of Service

FlashSystem V9000: paradigm shift in enterprise storage Dimensions of Value

Scalable Performance

AgileIntegration

EnduringEconomics



Maximum Performance Scaled Out (100% Read, 4 Building Blocks)

Latency (4K) 200µs

IOPS (4K) 2,520,000

Bandwidth (128K) 19.2 GB/s

Maximum Performance Scalable Build Block (100% Read, Cache Miss)

Latency (4K) 200µs

IOPS (4K) 630,000


Maximum Performance

Fixed Build Block (100% Read, Cache Miss)

Latency (4K) 200µs

IOPS (4K) 526,000


Two-dimensional scaling

Scale-up (add capacity)

Scale-out (add capacity and performance)

IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions

The Smarter Storage Approach


Storage virtualizationEnduring Economics

Preserve your existinginvestment in storage

ManageTierProtectCompress with Real-time Compression

Optimized performance at lower overall costIBM Easy Tier® flash storage management

Thin Provisioning

More productive use of available storage

Across all supported host platformsWithout thin provisioning, pre-allocated

space is reserved whether the

application uses it or not.

With thin provisioning, applications can

grow dynamically, but only consume space

they are actually using.

Dynamic

growth

Busiest data extents are identified and automatically relocated to highest performing Solid-state Disks

Remaining data extents can take advantage of higher capacity, price optimized disksHot-spots due to poor data layout. Optimized performance and throughput.

AutomaticRelocation

SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs

IBM Easy Tier SSD Management

Mirror data off-site

Synchronously over Metro distances.

Asynchronously over Global distances.

Application-level consistency groups.Network

Flash FlashHDDs HDDs



EnduringEconomics

V9000 virtualizes almost any block storage!

Gold = IBM FlashSystem0.4ms response time, > 100k IOPS

Oracle & SQL

Silver = IBM V70001ms response time, ~ 30k IOPS

Exchange / VMware

Bronze = EMC disk5ms response time, ~ 10k IOPS

General Purpose

(FC, FCoE, iSCSI)

Block (SAN) storage

V9000 Tiers

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Quality of Service (QoS)Scalable Performance

• Help alleviate performance contention

• Give your application the performance it needs

• Ability to cap IOPS or bandwidth on a per volume basis




Flexible volumesAgile Integration

• Generic – fully allocated

• Thin-Provision – space consumed on-demand

• Mirror – two copies of volume• Migrate between pools or change

volume type

• Preferred read mirror between flash and legacy storage (all reads from flash)

• Thin mirror – a mirror with copies being thin

• Compressed – volumes utilizing Real-time Compression

AgileIntegration



Database Office Files CAD/CAMGeoseismicVirtualServers

JPEG/ZIP

80% 30% 5% 50% 72% 70%Compression Rate

Traditional

Storage

Average of65% Compression!

Real-time Compression Efficient

Half the Data Storage!

Real-time Compression, for active and inactive data EnduringEconomics



Mixed workload consolidationAgile Integration

Performance Scaling

Strong MixedR/W Performance

Quality of ServiceAutomatic Tiering

Capacity Scaling

ERP / SCM Transaction Big Data Virtualization Cloud



AgileIntegration

• Improve workforce productivity

• Simplify management

• Single name space



Fully integrated system managementAgile Integration

FlashSystem + VMWare®: an ideal fitAgile Integration

• Redefine Tier 1 performance for workloads with diverse I/O patterns

• Optimize your data tier with thin provisioning, snapshots, and real-time compression

Area Integration Value

Management vCenter plug-in • Storage visibility• Self-service provisioning with controlled delegation

BusinessContinuity

SRA for SiteRecovery Manager

• Automated Storage and Host •Failover•Failover testing •Failback

Performance VAAI • Hardware accelerated VM copy/migration• Hardware accelerated VM initiation• Accelerate VMFS (no SCSI reservation)

Driving efficiency, performance, flexibility & scale in virtualized environments



AgileIntegration

Metro Mirror – Synchronous

–Updates are committed to both sites before acknowledged to server

–Supported up to 300 km, adds additional latency to hosts

Global Mirror – Asynchronous

–Server update acknowledged in parallel to update to remote site

–Supported up to 80ms of round-trip latency, distance dependent upon network quality

FlashCopy Options

• Full or “thick”

• Thin nocopy

• Incremental

• Cascading

• Multi-target

• Consistency groups

• Reverse

Infrastructure continuityEnduring Economics

• Snapshot – Instant space-efficient, thin provisioned copy, capture state of volume before a change

• Clone – Creates a complete one-time replica of source, testing data or attaching to other servers

• Backup – Complete point in time replica that can be incrementally refreshed

Full set of disaster recovery tools:



EnduringEconomics

IBM FlashSystem accelerates your route to success

Flash Everywhere:

Introducing the newest addition to the FlashSystem family

• Intuitive user interface• Redirect on Write Snapshots• Asynchronous Replication• Synchronous Replication• VMware integrated• Linked to OpenStack and SoftLayer• REST API

FEATURE RICH

• Flash-optimized data deduplication and compression lower TCO

• Thin provisioning and snapshots maximize storage efficiency

EFFICIENT

• IBM FlashCoreTM technology• Consistent low latency even with full-

time data reduction

FAST

Purpose-built for the cloud

• Hyper-Scale framework• QoS supports mixed workloads• Multi-tenancy• Modular

CLOUD OPTIMIZED

SECURE• IBM FlashCore technology with IBM

Variable Stripe RAIDTM protection• Non-disruptive upgrades• Five 9’s availability• Survive controller failures without

performance degradation

Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000A highly parallel all-flash platform for the cloud-scale business

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM FlashSystems Application and Cloud Accelerator


• Scale out to multiple petabytes to quickly accommodate your growth

• Scale capacity and performance

FEATURE RICH

SCALABLE

EFFICIENT AUTOMATED

FAST

SECURE

• Flash-optimized data deduplication and compression lower TCO

• Thin provisioning and snapshots maximize storage efficiency

• IBM FlashCoreTM technology• Consistent low latency even with

full-time data reduction at scale

• Intuitive user interface• Redirect on Write Snapshots• Asynchronous Replication• Synchronous Replication• VMware integrated• Linked to OpenStack and SoftLayer

• IBM FlashCore technology with IBM Variable Stripe RAIDTM protection

• Survive controller failures without performance degradation

• Grid-scale automatically redistributes across all resources available

• No hot spots, zero tuning

Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000RA grid-scale, all-flash storage platform designed to drive your business into the cognitive era



Architecture & Building Blocks

Two Models – Pod and Rack

Rack is a Scalable grid architecture

Scalable from 2 to 6 building blocks

Each building block consists of 2 compute nodes & 1 Flash drawer

Capacity scalable from 29TB to 342TB

Effective capacity is 1.7PB (using 5X data reduction)

Fully redundant without SPOF – Including Flash

All enclosures have dual redundant BBUs

• System x3650 M5

• XIV Flash-Optimized SW stack

• IBM FlashSystem 900

• 2D RAID5

• 12 x 2.9TB or 12 x 5.7TB

• FlashCore Enhanced MLC Flash

• Redundant Infiniband switches

• FDR 56Gbps

Cloud-Scale Infrastructures

OLTP Databases

Virtual Infrastructures

Analytical Apps/OLAP

HPC

Computational Applications


Introducing FlashSystem Advanced Grid Storage

• Superior ease of use and out of the box experience!

• Designed for best and Fastest Data Reduction

• Deduplication and Compression

• “Tuning – Free” Consistent Performance with Micro Latency!• Up to 2M IOPs WITH Data Reduction on!!!

• Sub mS response time WITH Data Reduction on!!!

• Combines XIV Grid scale with Flash Fine Grain Grid architecture

• Enterprise grade High Availability and Security

• Building off a legacy of high RAS from both products

• Hardware Acceleration with FlashCore Technology

• Rich set of Tier 1 proven advanced function

• Rich set of Multi Tenancy functions for Cloud functionality!IBM FlashSystem A9000R

Up to 2PB Capacity

IBM FlashSystem A9000Up to 342TB+

8U standalone with no switches needed

Planning to deploy first time in GA!


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Enclosure Level Raid 5

Incoming IO triplicates across cache for maximum

resiliency

2D RAID provides baseline protection

Patented per module protection

A9000 Redundancy at multiple levels protects like no others can

IBM Variable Stripe RaidTM



• Ships as fully integrated rack

• Scalable grid architecture

• Capacity scales from 300 TB to 2 PB (using up to 6X data reduction)

• Flash Optimized XIV software stack

• Next Generation Server is disaggregated from storage

•Larger Caches, Innovative tiered cache structure

•Server failure takes out no flash cards

• Flash enclosure with code to enable seamless integration

• IB Network with RDMA for fast message and data passing

FLASH ENCLOSURE

GRID CONTROLLERS

IB SWITCHES

PDUs

MGMT. MODULE

IBM FlashSystem A9000R



Trace Dedupe Compression Dedupe + compress

Restore 1.03:1 5.6:1 5.7:1

Restore + Test 1.02:1 4.2:1 4.2:1

Dedupe Effectiveness - Database• TPCC benchmark

• DB restore stage (1.2TB written data)

• TPCC Test (~0.5TB written data)

* Dedupe will be found if a DB is copied


Dedupe Effectiveness- VDI• VMWare View Planner

• 100 VMs deployment

• VM size is ~16 GB

• Includes the VM creation phase and the performance benchmark

Trace Dedupe Compression Dedupe + compress

Creation 25:1 2:1 50:1

Creation + Performance 16:7:1 2:1 33:1


IBM FlashSystem tier 1 guarantee

Performance: IBM MicroLatency Flash Modules provide world class performance!

Endurance: Flash memory will be covered for read/write endurance as long as you are under warranty or maintenance.

7 year 24 x 7 Support: Up to 7 years support available with optional price protection and flash media retention offerings.

Peace of Mind: No Charge, Complimentary IBM services for all Tier 1 opportunities: 40 hours for 228+ TB solutions up to 556 TB, or 80 hours for 556+ TB solutions, Lab Services delivery in 2015.

IBM FlashSystem – GUARANTEED!!! http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/


Data Reduction: The eligible machine, using compression, will achieve a system level storage efficiency savings rate of at least 3:1, based on Comprestimator performance modeling results, within the guarantee period.


Improve storage uptime and simplify support efforts with personalized assistance

Complex storage issues can cause downtime. And that can obstruct your business operations. How do you efficiently resolve these costly and high-impact problems?

Of course, your storage device service agreements with IBM enable you to access robust support to help resolve high-severity storage challenges. But without a technical advisor, your staff still needs to know how to access help and determine the issue.

With a technical advisor for storage from IBM, you can gain continued technical support for critical issues—as well as proactive advice for problem prevention.

• Improve uptime

Continued assistance from one specialist can resolve high-severity problems more quickly

• Enhance efficiency

Work with IBM to promote staff productivity through support protocols and critical-problem management techniques

• Avert problems

Your consultant can offer time-tested methods tohelp you prevent outagesand use IBM support moreeffectively


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IBM Technical Advisor for StorageNow included with FlashSystems!

Websites: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/

Product Pages:http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/storwize/http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/xiv/

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