The Flash Check - What to Consider about All-Flash Storage

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The Flash Check – What to consider about All-Flash Storage


The Flash Check

Frank Reichart

Senior Director Product Marketing Storage (Fujitsu)

René Huebel

Senior Product Marketing Manager (Fujitsu)


2016: All-flash storage becomes general purpose

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 TODAY 2018 2019 2018 2019 2021

1st generation all-flash storage: Niche deployments

High performance regardless of cost Usage in focused areas (VDI, analytics …) Proprietary flash modules Limited or non-existent HA, DR, QoS Initially only available from start-ups

2nd generation all-flash storage: The new norm

High performance at reasonable/low costs Suitable for general purpose usage Standardized flash media, SSDs Full enterprise class HA, DR, QoS Available from most storage vendors

2020 2017


Do customers trust in flash?

37%

44%

13%

Strongly agree Agree Maybe

Disagree Strongly disagree Unsure

81% Strongly agree

or Agree

24%

52%

18%

76% Strongly agree

or Agree

The durability of higher end flash technology is now inherently enterprise class

It’s nowadays possible to build resilient systems using commodity class flash

Durability and resilience are no longer seen to be weaknesses


So, will AFAs rule the universe next week?

45%

15%

26%

35%

48%

39%

16%

23%

21%

3%

11%

10%

Every significant purchase will include anelement of flash

Every significant purchase will be based on all-flash systems

Most of the storage in our data centre will beflash-based

Already the case Within a year 1 to 2 years 3 to 5 years More than 5 years Never


Pay attention to integration – no more silos

39%

25%

33%

44%

54%

45%

13%

18%

16%

Existing storage systems (e.g. SAN,NAS, etc)

Existing management tools andprocesses

Existing data protection and recoverysolutions

Mandatory Highly desirable Potentially useful


All-flash storage drivers

43%

42%

34%

53%

41%

40%

32%

36%

42%

42%

50%

38%

52%

39%

49%

42%

12%

14%

14%

8%

7%

17%

16%

19%

Improving overall quality of service / reliability

Dealing with high performance application needs

Helping to deal with evolving storage needs in general

End-of-life replacement of existing equipment

General future-proofing of the infrastructure

Reducing space for storage equipment

Reducing overall power consumption

Reducing admin overhead and optimising TCO

Yes Partially No Unsure

SERVICE MANAGEMENT

KEEPING THINGS CURRENT

DRIVING EFFICIENCY


Now suitable for a wider range of applications

26%

24%

23%

23%

33%

27%

25%

21%

20%

35%

37%

36%

44%

35%

33%

39%

44%

35%

24%

27%

26%

22%

23%

25%

22%

20%

29%

8%

9%

9%

9%

6%

10%

10%

10%

12%

Big data and analytics / OLAP

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

On premise private cloud environments

High performance computing (e.g. HPC applications)

High performance OLTP applications

File storage and management

Email, collaboration and workflow

Virtual server environments

Other ‘everyday’ application needs

5=Excellent fit 4 3 2 1=Not suitable at all Not relevant Unsure

EMERGING / SPECIALIST WORKLOADS

TRADITIONAL / CORE WORKLOADS


ETERNUS AF – Under the hood

1 Maximum raw capacity depends on available SSD types | 2 Based on deduplication/compression factor of five | 3 Part of our release plan / early 2017

ETERNUS AF650 ETERNUS AF250

CPU

Max system memory

Number of drives

Max capacity1

Interface

6 cores, 2.0 GHz 10 cores, 3.0 GHz

64 GB 256 GB

2 – 24 2 – 96

192 TB raw 960 TB effective2

768 TB raw 3,840 TB effective2

8 × FC 16G/ 8 × iSCSI 10 G 32 × FC 16 G/ 16 × iSCSI 10 G

SSD type 3.84 TB, 1.92 TB, 960 GB, 400 GB, 1.92 TB SED, TLC3: 8 TB


Customer voices

Satisfying performance demands Since we implemented the ETERNUS flash system, our dream of real-time computing has become a reality. Our response times now range from 0.1 to 1 millisecond.

Robert Gallinat, CIO GKL Marketing-Marktforschung GmbH & Co. KG

Providing business continuity Automatic failover has enabled us to fulfill one of our board’s central business continuity management requirements.

Christian Jaeger, IT Manager ARA Assistance

Automating storage operations The ETERNUS has never required any additional effort, either during migration or now that it is up and running.

Joerg Luenser, System Administrator KIND Hoergeraete GmbH & Co. KG


ETERNUS AF addresses the key requirements

Flash now

Boost with Flash

Accelerate the business

Increase productivity

Create a competitive edge

Trust with Flash

Eliminate business risks

Provide continual access

Preserve reputation/trust

Optimize with Flash

Automate administration

Enable green IT

Maximize TCO results


Boost: Top performance even under full load

Latest CPU - Multicore - Multithreads

System Memory 256 GB

SAS-3 (12Gbit/s) Drive interface

32x 16G Fibre Channel

Technologies supporting world-class performance

Bottlenecks

Random I/O performance

Up to 760,000 IOPS (Block size: 4KB)

Sequential I/O performance

Up-to 21GB/s (Block size: 128KB)

Latency

Lower than 0.3ms (Block size: 4KB)

SAS-3 (12Gbit/s) SSD


Trust: Full disaster resilience

Non-stop operations Transparent failover

Automated/Manual

Transparent system failover

Replication and mirroring of business-critical data

ETERNUS Storage Cluster removes risk

All-Flash to All-Flash – all models All Flash to Disk / Hybrid Storage


Optimized: Flexible dedupe and compression

No extra license costs

Flexible configuration options Decide on application SLA (volume basis) whether to use or not

Needs five times less SSD capacity1

Boosting effective capacity of AF250 to 960 TB2

Boosting effective capacity of AF650 to 3,840 TB2

ETERNUS AF provides Inline deduplication / compression

Deduplication

1 Heavily dependent on use case | 2 Calculation based on deduplication / compression factor of five

Reduces cost for flash & Increases life span for flash


Optimized: Automated Quality of Service

High Middle Low

Business server Business server Business server

I/O bandwidth I/O bandwidth I/O bandwidth

Delivers Guaranteed Service Levels

Automates monitoring & adjustment

Prioritizes per application

Automated Quality of Services

Minimizes administrative efforts


Optimized: A clever combination

Non-Dedup Volume

Dedup Volume

Balances performance & cost

Pool #1 Pool #2

Auto QoS ensures business priorities

Dedupe & Compression reduces capacity

Guaranteed response

time

Capacity- optimized

Flexible configuration is a must

Auto Quality of Service

Switch it on to optimize capacity on volumes

Keep it off to meet performance SLAs

Guarantees response times for every application

Keeps ‘noisy neighbors’ under control


Optimized: Full management integration

ETERNUS SF

Storage

Management

DX60 S3 DX100 S3 DX200 S3

DX500 S3 DX600 S3

AF250

AF650

DX8700 S3 DX8900 S3

ETERNUS AF All-Flash Arrays ETERNUS DX Hybrid Storage Arrays


Case Study – ETERNUS AF in the public sector

The Customer

A municipal waterworks department in Japan

Mission: providing of clean water in its region

The IT Challenges

Ensure high storage response time for VMware

Make IT disaster-proof against of earthquakes

Why the customer decided for ETERNUS AF

Leading response time

Flexible use of deduplication

Disaster recovery capability with long distance replication all-flash storage to disk storage

primary site

ETERNUS AF650 All-Flash storage

ETERNUS DX500 S3 Disk storage system

WAN

secondary site


ETERNUS AF: Differentiators1

Competitors’ All-Flash Arrays Fujitsu ETERNUS AF

Focus on IOPS messages Leads in response time

Isolated system management Fully integrated in ETERNUS DX hybrid storage line

No or very poor Disaster Recovery capabilities

Full Disaster Recovery with mirroring, replication and transparent failover

Always on dedup slows performance in areas where deduplication is not beneficial

Flexible use of deduplication and compression where it makes sense

Data performance used at random by applications

Automated Quality of Service management

1 Not all differentiators apply to all comparable systems


There is one more thing

Starting at €29000

All-inclusive software licensing

Managing multiple systems from one console

Snapshots, replication, mirroring

Deduplication/ compression

Automated Quality of Service management

Product Launch promotion

12 SSDs for the price of 10

GO MAX – GO FLASH – GO ETERNUS

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