IBM FlashSystems A9000/R presentation

Joe Krotz

IBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems

May 2016

IBM FlashSystems – Moving at the speed of your businessA Smarter Solution for a Smarter Planet

IBM FlashSyst

em 2014 & 2015 Magic

Quadrant Leader:

Solid State Arrays

IBM FlashSystem

2015

Leader: Price, Reliability &

Support All Flash InfiniBand

ArraysIBM

FlashSystem 2014

#1 in Units & Capacity Shipped

for Solid-State Arrays

IBM FlashSystem

2015 Leader: Innovation &

Reliability All Flash Fibre

Channel ArraysIBM

FlashSystem 840 2014

Product of the Year Finalist:

Enterprise All-Flash Storage Systems

IBM FlashSystem 900/V9000

2015 Top 10 Coolest Flash

Products

IBM FlashSystem2015-2016 Major Player: All-

Flash Array Marketscape

IBM FlashSystem

2015France CRIP IT

Innovation Forum Winner: Cloud, Infrastructure &

Storage Category IBM FlashSystem

V9000 2015

Product of the Year Finalist

All-Flash Systems

IBM FlashSystem

V9000 2015

Tech Innovator Award – Storage

Category (Runner Up)

IBM FlashSystem Awards and AccoladesThe Smarter Storage Approach

IBM FlashSystems Application and Cloud Accelerator

•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

IBM FlashSystems Raw Capacity Shipped

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50

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The Smarter Storage Approach IBM FlashSystems Application and Cloud Accelerator

2016

FlashSystem V9000Real Time

CompressionFlashSystem 900

57Tb usable in 2UMarket Leader

2015

FlashSystem V840Backed by IBM SDS

FlashSystem 840IBM 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 FlashSystem accelerates your route to success

Flash Everywhere: Introducing the newest addition to the FlashSystem family

Dynamic Performance for data at scale

Dynamic Performance for data intensive

workloadsFlashSystem A9000

IBM FlashSystemA9000 & IBM FlashSystem

A9000RGrid Architecture Designed for the

hybrid cloud

The leader in Flash solutions


FlashSystem A9000R


FlashSystem A9000R

Dynamic Performance for data intensive

workloads

FlashSystem A9000

• Accelerate performance for cloud service providers running mixed workloads (databases, VM, VDI)

• Optimize storage economics with data deduplication and inline compression

• Prevent “noisy neighbor” problems with quality-of-service (QoS) features that support multi-tenancy and mixed workloads

• Easily integrate with VMware, OpenStack and Microsoft platforms, and with most existing infrastructure

• Simplify storage administration with an innovative, new user interface

Introducing the FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000RGrid Architecture Designed for the hybrid cloud


• 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


• 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

• 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



The ArchitectureHow did we make something so successful even better?

The A9000 – Powered by Spectrum Accelerate!The Smarter Storage Approach


• Built with mature, proven, XIV software stack • Optimized for FlashSystem while maintaining a highly

optimized, hands off “set and forget” environment • Similar features and functions as an XIV integrated

system • Compatible with XIV system for management and

replication • Complements the FlashSystems 900, V9000 and XIV

Integrated Systems• All features and functionality included from day 1• Highly optimized data reduction technologies• Cloud enabled with OpenStack integration • Rapid build-out of test and dev environments and more…

The IBM FlashSystem 900 is the hardware foundation to make applications and data centers run faster and more efficient. IBM engineers the FlashSystem 900 with a relentless focus on lowering latency to provide the highest levels of consistent performance possible

System features and integration• Systems Management• World class GUI

engineered for ease of use, install and setup

• IBM Service Center call home and service automation

• Remote Power On• Hot-swappable Flash

Modules, Power Supplies, Batteries, Fans, Controllers w/ interface cards

Enterprise ready• Hot-swappable Flash Modules,

Power Supplies, Batteries, Fans, Controllers w/ interface cards

• Concurrent code load and concurrent maintenance

• Variable Stripe RAID which allows for NAND chip failures without Flash module failures

• V9000 virtualized for immediate cloud integration

• Native encryption at rest

Hardware SpecsDimensions: • 2U ChassisFlash Technology: • IBM Enhanced MLC• RAID 5: up to 57 TBInterfaces choices: • 16Gb FC (4/8/16GB) • 10Gb FCoE • Infiniband (QDR FC and

IB)

Performance Projections - RAID 5• 1.1M Read IOPs • Read/Write 70/30%

Split 800k IOPS• 600K Write IOPs• 10GB/sec Read

sequential 100%• 4.5GB/sec Write

sequential 100%


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.

… 16 Planes

10 Chips

FAIL

RAID Group

Value of VSR• Unique Business Benefit:

Fewer Flash Module Replacements = Less maintenance touches while still preserving the life, protection, and performance of the Day-1 experience• IBM Patented Technology:

No other manufacturer provides the resiliency or reliability

Protection Within And

Across Flash Modules

No system rebuild needed!


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 protection

It would take another 17+ chip failures on a different single module to see a dual drive failure

Safety beyond compare!



Flash Everywhere: Technical Deep Dive

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

• “Tuning – Free” consistent and high Performance with MicroLatency™

• Designed for best and Fastest Data Reduction• Deduplication and

Compression always on; always optimizing

• Combines XIV Grid scale with Flash Fine Grain Grid architecture

IBM FlashSystem A9000R

IBM FlashSystem A9000

IBM FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000RBenefits


• Enterprise grade High Availability and Security• Building off a legacy of high quality from both products• Hardware Acceleration with FlashCore Technology• Rich set of Tier 1 proven advanced function and Multi

Tenancy functions for Cloud functionality!

……IBM Spectrum Accelerate running on customer-choice

HWIBM XIV Gen 3 IBM Spectrum Accelerate

running on Softlayer

FlashSystem A9000 &

FlashSystem A9000R

Let’s dive deeperIBM FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R


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 Encryption Enabled FlashCore Enhanced MLC Flash Redundant Infiniband switches FDR 56Gbps

Cloud-Scale Infrastructures

OLTP Databases

Virtual Infrastructures

Analytical Apps/OLAP

HPC

Computational Applications


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ACTIVE

ACTIVE

ACTIVE

Enclosure Level Raid 5

Incoming IO triplicates across

192Gb of cache for maximum resiliency

Redundant Infiniband

Switches for intra-node

communication

Patented per module protection with VSR

The A9000 Architecture

IBM Variable Stripe RaidTM


Data optimization constantly

tuning FlashCore MicroLatency Modules

• Ships as fully integrated rack • Scalable grid architecture• Capacity scales from 300 TB to 2 PB (using up to 6X data

reduction)• Up to 1.8M IOPs while utilizing data reduction • Sub mS response time WITH 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 ENCLOSUREGRID CONTROLLERS

IB SWITCHES

PDUsMGMT. MODULE

The A9000R ArchitectureThe Smarter Storage Approach


• Redirect on write design• Global and Metro Mirror, High Performance Snapshots, Thin

Provisioning, Rich VMWare integration, and more coming!• Hyper-Scale Mobility

PATTERN REMOVAL+

DEDUPLICATIONSPACE-EFFICIENT

SNAPSHOTSCOMPRESSION SNAPSHOTSTHIN PROVISIONING

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IBM FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000RRobust Advance Functions


Trace Dedupe Compression Dedupe + compress

Restore 1.03:1 5.6:1 5.7:1Restore + 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 50:1Creation + Performance 16:7:1 2:1 33:1


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 ValueManagement vCenter plug-

in• Storage visibility• Self-service provisioning with controlled

delegation

Business Continuity

SRA for Site Recovery 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

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions

AgileIntegration

More than 80% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud architectures

by 20171

More than 50% of IT spending will be cloud-based by 20181

Source: IDC FutureScape: WorldWide Cloud 2016 Predictions – Mastering the Raw Material of Digital Transformation

Hybrid cloud is emerging as the springboard in this era


iSCSI & FC ConnectivityHyperscale functionality to migrate data concurrently from unit to unitREST APIs

QOS ceiling per pool, volume or host (16K volumes)Minimum volume size to support Docker Containers

CLOUD FUNCTIONALITY

IBM FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000RCloud Functionality

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 uptimeContinued assistance from one specialist can resolve high-severity problems more quickly• Enhance efficiencyWork with IBM to promote staff productivity through support protocols and critical-problem management techniques• Avert problemsYour consultant can offer time-tested methods tohelp you prevent outages and use IBM support more effectively

Scalable Performance

AgileIntegration

EnduringEconomics

IBM Technical Advisor for StorageNow included with FlashSystems!


1. Disaggregated servers with triple redundancy on cache! 2. A server fail does not result in any rebuild of storage3. Ruggedized software stack4. Checked flash drawer, 2D RAID, redundancy everywhere5. Consistent performance regardless of data pattern . . . OR how full

system is. . . OR. . . . how old it is. . . . OR . . .6. Superior caching and aggregation algorithms tailored for data reduction!7. Designed from the get go for the Cloud! World class QOS8. Flashcore™ technology with worry free endurance9. Simply efficient, simply consistent, simply reliable

Top 9 reasons to choose FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R


For more information: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/

IBM RedBooks

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

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