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IBM Flash Portfolio and Futures

Kevin Powell

Business Line Manager

IBM FlashSystem

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Smarter Systems Create an

Information Explosion

Terabytes

1980 1990 2000 2010

Gigabytes

Petabytes

Data Center

Internet, Web 2.0

Distributed Computing

Coping with scale

# of producers/consumers Size of objects Retention time

1000 X

1000 X

Exabytes

Zettabytes

1000 X

1000 X

Every day, 15 petabytes of new

information are being generated:

8x more than the information

in all U.S. libraries

Storage budgets up only 1-5% in 2012

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Why Flash

In the last 10 years:

CPU Performance 8 - 10x increase

DRAM Speed 7- 9x

Network Speed 100x

Bus Speed 20x

Disk Speed 1.2X and everything waits

Source: IBM and Industry Estimates

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Client Responses to Performance Gap

Most Costly &

Volatile

Time Consuming,

Very Expensive &

Risky

Wasteful, Expensive

& Ineffective with

Storage Latency

Issues

Expensive &

Ineffective for

Storage

Performance Issues

Add More Memory

Typical Performance

Mitigation Tactics

HDD Performance Enhancement

Add CPUs Tune & Modify

Application

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All-Flash is About Economics

Leverage the Economies of Scale of Flash Accelerate Application Performance Gain Greater System Utilization Lower Software & Hardware Cost Save Power / Cooling / Floor Space Drive Value Out of Operational Data

Greater Exploitation of Flash

Improve Performance

Reduce Costs

Enable New Opportunities

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The Economics of Flash

spectacular results; processing a huge number of transactions significantly lower response times

Saw benefits of a 10X improvement in throughput and a similar achievement in latency.

5TB in 2U of rack space vs. 1,300 disk drives providing 400K IOPs, less than 1/10th the cost

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All Flash Systems from IBM Redefine the Economics of Computing to Meet the

Demands of a Smarter Planet

IBM announces new investments to help

clients benefit from the value of flash

Investing ~$1B in flash system research & development

12 IBM Flash Centers of Competency around the world to help clients

transform their systems

IBM releases the IBM FlashSystemTM, new all-flash storage offerings

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Take Full Advantage of Flash

Flash Optimized Solutions

IBM Flash Drawers IBM Flash Adapters

& SSDs

IBM FlashSystem

& Optimized Storage IBM Flash Software

IBM Flash Portfolio

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Disk to Flash Storage Spectrum

15k SAS Hard Disks High performance spiing media

Flash Adapters High IOPs Performance

IBM FlashSystem High capacity optimized flash storage system

Solid State Disk I/O performance in HDD form factor

IOP

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Cost / GB

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Hybrid HDDs with flash Improved I/O with spinning media capacities

7.2k SAS Hard Disks Capacity / Cost

Flash Drawers High IOPs Performance

5-15

Milli-

Seconds

100

Micro-

Seconds

< 1

Milli-

Seconds

Laten

cy

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DAS versus SAN

Direct-attached storage (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between

o HDD, SSD, PCIe SSD, JBOD

o Typically not shareable or highly scalable

o Used for discrete apps or remote implementations

A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage

o Storage accessible by server; appears local

o Operates on a separate network

o File systems are built on top of SANs

o Greatest advantage is share-ability, scalability and central management

SAN

LAN

LAN

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IBM Flash Adapters

IBM offers a distinctive set of solutions for your storage performance dilemmas o Its no longer a question of if Flash will be part of your computer center, but rather when and

how theyll they be implemented.

IBMs Flash Adapters and SSDs and satisfy a need for extremely fast and reliable access to data within the server. o Included within the server. No additional rack space required.

o High IOPs performance co-located with compute processors for low latency access

o Dedicated capacity for individual server performance

IBMs Flash Adapters and SSDs unleash dramatic performance increases such that every server can now readily contain the enterprise I/O performance

o Accelerate applications

o Improve response times

o Boost efficiency

o Reduce storage latencies and eliminate IO bottlenecks

IBM Enterprise Solid-State Drive Technology is pioneering the way to new levels of price performance.

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Most dense high performance SSD

Power Systems has ever shipped

EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer

IBM Flash Drawer Ultra Performance

o Up to 480,000 IOPS (100% read)

o Up to 410,000 IOPS (60/40% read/write)

o Up to 325,000 IOPS (100% write)

o Up to 4.5 GB/s bandwidth

Ultra Enterprise RAS

o Multiple RAID options, hot-plug

o Up to 30 hot-plug SSD (up to 11.6 TB)

o Up to 48 drives & 43 TB downstream HDD

o SOD for Easy Tier capability within drawers with AIX

o Six-packs ease SSD ordering and save money

Ultra Dense

o 1U direct attached drawer

o ZERO PCIe slots used direct connect to GX++

o High density & performance in any op environments

AIX, IBM i, Linux supported

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IBM Flash Software Announcements

Close storage to CPU performance gap

Disks

Server Cache

IBM FlashCache Storage Accelerator (IBM System x Caching)

Tier data and boost storage performance with Easy Tier Server

5th Generation Easy Tier (IBM DS8870 & IBM Power 7

Cooperative Caching)

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IBM Flash Announcements

Intelligent caching right out of the box

Autonomous acceleration

o No tuning or data placement

Immediately adapts to changing workloads

Dynamic allocation of VM's with support for VMotion

o Most flexible flash caching in the industry

o Supports IBM portfolio of flash - SSD, PCIe adapters,

etc.

o Cache to local or SAN-attached HDDs

o Built for VMware; supports Windows and Linux too

Close storage to CPU performance gap

Disks

Server Cache

IBM FlashCache Storage Accelerator (IBM System x Caching)

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IBM Flash Announcements

Easy Tier Server A new IBM Easy Tier feature that automatically places a copy of frequently

accessed data on server Flash

o Drawers attached to Power7/7+ Servers running AIX

IO intensive apps realize

o 5x improvement in app performance

o Improved user experience, number of transactions,

better data insight, increased business opportunity and

revenue

o Savings in licensing costs, floor space, energy and

SAN utilization

Target apps OLTP, Analytics, Big Data

Cooperative Caching: Continuous server/storage communication to optimize hot data placement

Tier data and boost storage performance with Easy Tier Server

5th Generation Easy Tier (IBM DS8870 & IBM Power 7

Cooperative Caching)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQfNoidG3I

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Client

Driver

Flash

Cache

IBM Server

Client

Driver

Flash

Cache

IBM Server

EasyTier

Easy Tier

Server

SSD

HDD

IBM Storage

SAN Storage

Coherency

Cooperative Caching value over Caching 1. Provide, end to end, ONE point of storage data placement

2. Enable mission critical customer with storage replication (flash copy and remote copy)

o Will coordinate the server cache to support storage replication function

3. Enable cache and data sharing between multiple servers o Leverage network storage as sharing point to support shared storage

application such as vMotion or clustered DB

o With each new write, network storage will broadcast the Cache

invalidation to all registered servers to purge old copy of cache data

4. Adapt to workload changes o Based on workload storage can instruct to bypass cache

5. Leverage same API for applications to pre-stage hot data or accelerate pushing down of cold data

o Applications can instruct storage to pre-populate hot data via CLI.

Enable applications to predict the hot data and place the data in right

place before the event happens.

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IBM Flash Optimized Storage

The IBM System Storage DS8000 series is designed to manage a broad scope of storage workloads doing it effectively and efficiently. IBM System Storage DS8870 is the ideal storage platform for enterprise class environments. The DS8870 delivers: o Flexibility, reliability, scalability and performance o Optimized Flash technology for dynamic performance

and operational analytics

Additionally, the DS8000 includes a range of features that automate performance optimization and application quality of service, as well as provide the highest levels of reliability and system uptime

All-Flash System Storage DS8000

Members of the IBM Storwize V7000 family are virtualized storage systems designed to consolidate workloads into a single storage system for o Simplicity of management o Reduced cost o Highly scalable capacity o Performance and high availability

They offer improved efficiency and flexibility through built-in flash storage optimization, thin provisioning and non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage

All-Flash Storwize Family

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Extreme Performance

IBM FlashSystem Portfolio

Macro Efficiency MicroLatency Enterprise Reliability Extreme Performance

Boost enterprise productivity

Improve application performance

Ideal for OLTP, data warehousing and OLAP environments

High availability system

Acceleration of applications

Enterprise feature sets to ensure data protection

IBM FlashSystem Solution

IBM FlashSystem 820 San Volume Controller (SVC)

IBM FlashSystem IBM FlashSystem 820 IBM FlashSystem 720 IBM FlashSystem 810 IBM FlashSystem 710

Enterprise Features

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1 Petabyte, 1 Rack, 22M IOPs. What it means

1 Petabyte: 1 Floor Tile

100 microsecond latency

22 Million IOPS

210 GB/s

12.6 KW power Less power than the

average 200TB array

315 Racks Performance

Optimized Disk

1 Rack

22 Million IOPS Alternative

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Optimized IBM Flash Portfolio Options

Flash Cooperative Caching

EXP30 Ultra SSD Drawer + IBM DS8870 Storage System + Easy Tier Server Advanced Tiering Software w/ Flash Drawers, Adapters, SSDs

IBM FlashSystem Flash Optimized Systems, All-Flash, Hybrid Flash,

Servers

Flash

Storage

EXP30 Ultra SSD Drawer Flash Adapters, SSDs, EXP30 or EXP24S Direct Attached Drawers

IBM High IOPS Adapters + FlashCache Flash Server Caching w/ Flash Adapters and SSDs

Software

Flash in Server

Flash in Storage

Flash Caching

Option Example

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IBM Flash Roadmap A Flash Enhanced IBM Portfolio

Flash

Optimized

Infrastructure

Enhanced Performance

Enhanced Efficiency

Enhanced Design

Enhanced Reliability

Reduced server sprawl

Reduced

power

Reduced

floor space

Reduced cooling

Future IBM portfolio IBM will leverage Flash technology across our systems portfolio:

Flash based appliance platform for groups like IM and AIM that offers

leadership performance

Integrated technology element for PureFlex and other IBM STG

Systems, providing the benefits of flash in integrated systems

Flash-optimized storage systems to integrate with and complement our disk-optimized storage products

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IBM Flash Portfolio Roadmap

(Today) 2013/2014

IBM PureSystems IBM PureData for Operational Analytics (using IBM EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer)

IBM PureSystems Future PureData Systems Next Generation FlashSystem for PureFlex

IBM FlashSystem Solution IBM San Volume Controller (SVC) and FlashSystem 820 for bundled solution

Integrated FlashSystem Storage Next Generation FlashSystem Solution IBM DS8000 w/ Flash acceleration enhancements

IBM FlashSystem IBM FlashSystem 720/820 IBM FlashSystem 710/810 Intelligent Cluster IB FlashSystem enablement

Next Generation IBM FlashSystem Greater Capacity Leadership Performance Easy Maintenance Cloud Storage Ready

IBM Flash Software IBM Easy Tier Server (DS8k, Power) IBM FlashCache (x86)

IBM Flash Software Caching and Cooperative Caching SW across multiple host platforms

IBM Flash Adapters: SSD PCIe SAS Adapter for Power High Speed Adapters for x

IBM Flash Drawers: EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer for Power

Adapters and Drawers: New Flash Adapters New Flash Drawer

Integrated PureSystems Offerings & Solutions

Integrated Storage Offerings

SAN Attached

Software Ecosystem

Direct Attached

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