flashsystem february 2017

The Smarter Storage ApproachThe IBM FlashSystem Portfolio

Joe KrotzIBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems

IBM Stor

IBM Flash Awards and Recognition

IBM FlashSystem

2015 - 2016 A Major Player in All-Flash Array by IDC MarketScape2IBM All-Flash Arrays

2014 #1 Market Share

Canada3

IBM FlashSystem

2014 - 2016 A Leader:

Magic Quadrant for Solid State Arrays1

IBM FlashSystem 900 2016

Best of ShowMost Innovative Flash Memory

Enterprise Business Application

IBM FlashSystem900/V9000

2015 Top 10

Coolest Flash Products

IBM FlashSystemA9000/A9000R

2016 Top 10

Coolest Flash Products

IBM FlashSystem2015

France CRIP IT Innovation Forum Winner: Cloud,

Infrastructure & Storage Category

IBM FlashSystem A9000

2016 Tech Innovator Award

FinalistStorage Category

IBM FlashSystem A9000 2016

Product of the Year Finalist: All-flash Systems

IBM FlashSystem A9000R

2016 Product of the Year Finalist:

All-flash Systems

IBM Storwize V7000F 2016

Product of the Year Finalist:All-flash Systems

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Cloud Enabled Flash Solutions

IBM FlashSystem accelerates your route to success

Introducing the IBM Storwize Flash Solutions

The IBM Storwize Family

• Over 36,000 systems purchased

• Over 80,000 total enclosures deployed

• Over 1.6 exabytes of capacity

• Extraordinary reliability – Delivering 99.999% availability

Field proven, highly efficient and super reliable

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Spectrum Virtualize with Storwize

IBM is the world leader in Software Defined Storage Environments.With the ability to virtualize over 400 different backend storage platforms as well as offer our own V5000 and V7000 platforms, IBM is the obvious choice for your storage and virtualization needs!

5x more data in the same space3x performance with only 5% flash47% less management effort30-60% lower storage growth with RTC and Thin Provisioning!

Enabling clients to do more with less!


Introducing the IBM Storwize V7000F! More powerful hardware platform with new processor and additional cache

The IBM Storwize V7000F all-flash arrays offer increased performance and connectivity, integrated compression acceleration, and additional scalability with the following features:• 128 GB cache (per system)• Integrated hardware-assisted

compression acceleration• 16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC), 10 Gb

iSCSI / Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and 1 Gb iSCSI connectivity options

Storwize V7000F is designed to support the complete range of data storage requirements, from highly utilized applications to high-capacity, low usage applications.

• The following flash drives are now available: 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB, 3.2 TB, 1.92 TB and 3.84 TB

• 2U, 19-inch, rack-mount enclosure with a three-year

warranty with customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site service

Storwize V7000F scales up to 504 drives with the attachment of 20 Storwize V7000F expansion enclosures. Storwize V7000F systems can be clustered to help deliver greater performance, bandwidth, and scalability.

A Storwize V7000F clustered system can contain up to four Storwize V7000F systems and up to 1,056 drives. Storwize V7000F systems can be added into existing clustered systems that include previous generation Storwize V7000 systems.

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software Defined Storage Solutions

Resilient Open and Accessible Virtualized

Works seamlessly with IBM SmartCloud Storage Access and IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack for self-service provisioning.

99.999%5 9’s Availability with over 1.6

Exabytes of install base

3x better network utilization with native SanSlide integration

Supports OpenStack deployments with Easy Tier and

compression enabled

Users provision storage on demand in seconds, without administrator involvement

Virtualize files globally across various IBM and non-IBM disk

systems

Up to 128 processor cores and 512Gb of cache in an 8 node

cluster

Scalable

32PbScales up to 32PB of

usable capacity without disruption

IBM RTC can reduce your disk utilization by up to 80% and reduce

costs by up to half

Efficient

Built-in virtualization, thin provisioning

increases disk utilization by 30%

Embedded IBM EasyTier provides up to 3x

performance with only 5% flash storage usage

IBM is the World Leader in Software Defined Storage!


Introducing the IBM FlashSystem Solutions


Introducing IBM’s premier all-flash offerings!

• IBM MicroLatency with up to 1.1 million IOPS

• 40% greater capacity compared to previous generation

• 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

IBM FlashSystem V9000The next generation in our software defined storage offering

IBM FlashSystem 900The Foundation in our lowest latency offering

IBM FlashSystem A9000The next generation in our grid architected storage offering

• Scalable all-flash architecture accelerates applications and entire infrastructures

• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS!• 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 Data Virtualization, Replication and RTC

• FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee

• 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

• 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 µsRead 155 µs Maximum IOPS 4 KBRead (100%, random) 1,100,000Read/write (70%/30%, random) 800,000Write (100%, random) 600,000Maximum bandwidth 256 KBRead (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


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

•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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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!



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!

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

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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 scalingScale-up (add capacity)

Scale-out (add capacity and performance)

IBM Cloud Enabled Flash SolutionsThe Smarter Storage Approach


Storage virtualizationEnduring EconomicsPreserve your existing investment in storage

ManageTierProtectCompress with Real-time Compression

Optimized performance at lower overall cost

IBM 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.

Dynamicgrowth

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



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{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

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Database

Office Files

CAD/CAM

Geoseismic

VirtualServersJPEG/

ZIP

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

TraditionalStorage

Average of65% Compression!

Real-time Compression Efficient

Half the Data Storage!

Real-time Compression, for active and inactive data

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• 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 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



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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:



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Introducing the newest addition to the FlashSystem family

The A9000/R

• 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 • 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 A9000

Up to 342TB+

8U standalone with no

switches needed

Planning to deploy first time in GA!


Scalable GridPerformance

Enterprise Integration

Tuning Free Storage


• Fully integrated system management with new neighborhood GUI• Complete VMWare integration• AES, data at rest encryption• Mixed workload consolidation• Concurrent code load

• Scale-up and scale-out!• XIV Flash Optimized Software stack• Rack is a Scalable grid architecture

Scalable from 2 to 6 building blocks• Up to 2 million IOPS• Scalable to 18 GB/s bandwidth• Sustained IBM MicroLatency™• Quality of Service

data reduction)• Flash for less than the cost of disk with

IBM RTC and Deduplication• Capacity scalable from 29TB to 342TB

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

• Self tuning Grid Architecture• Flash wear warranty• Infrastructure continuity with space

efficient snapshots, cloning and replication

FlashSystem A9000/R: Grid Architecture Simplified Dimensions of Performance

• Target workloads include VDI, Server Consolidation, OLTP, Cloud Scale and HPC

• 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 ENCLOSUREGRID CONTROLLERS

IB SWITCHES

PDUsMGMT. MODULE

IBM FlashSystem A9000RThe Smarter Storage Approach

IBM FlashSystems Application and Cloud Accelerator


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



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 outages and use IBM support more effectively


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IBM Technical Advisor for StorageNow included with FlashSystems!

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/

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