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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

5Proprietary & Confidential

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?


• Databases

• Virtual Servers

• Virtual Desktops

• Big Data Analytics Processing


• Databases

• Virtual Servers


• Analytics Processing


• Databases

• Virtual Servers


• 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

Data Needs Change


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?


What And Where Should Second Tier Be?

A. On-Premises Scale-Out NAS?

B. Private Cloud (Object Storage)

C. Public Cloud


How Do We Facilitate Data Movement

A) Human Interaction


How Do We Facilitate Data Movement

A) Human Interaction

B) Automation

Avere – Reinventing Storage


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


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



Ultimate Hybrid Cloud Flexibility


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



Ultimate Hybrid Cloud – All Flash Data Center


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


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


FXT Series Product Line


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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rma

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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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