Modernizing Your Datacenter with Hybrid Storage

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David Davis George Wagner

Today’s Speakers

David Davis ▸  Video Training Author for www.Pluralsight.com, Blogger, Speaker

▸  CCIE, VCP, vExpert, and Former IT Manager of an enterprise datacenter

▸  My blog is www.VirtualizationSoftware.com

George Wagner ▸  Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Fusion-io ioControl

▸  17 years IT experience. Former Novell administrator and IT Manager

▸  Focused on storage solutions for virtualized environments

The Storage I/O Challenge

▸  Datacenter managers and storage admins face many challenges today:

•  Align IT with the business •  Do more with less •  More applications + More users = More storage demands •  What will your datacenter storage look like tomorrow?

Datacenter Storage of the Future

▸  Storage of the future: ▸  Provides greater throughput and

less latency (obviously) •  Connects storage to the

business •  Allows you to do more with less •  Makes your life easier

Datacenter Storage of the Future

▸  New innovations in storage include: •  All flash arrays •  Server-side caching •  Software-defined storage •  Hybrid storage

What is Hybrid Storage?

▸ Affordable shared flash •  Low flash capacity •  High disk capacity

PCIe

Processor

NIC

SAS

SAS Controller

SSD

Disk

PCIe

Processor

NIC

SAS

SAS Controller

Disk

ioMemory

ioMemory

ioMemory

ioMemory

Data Path Intelligence Meta-data operations Parity calculations Data layout

Data Path Intelligence Meta-data operations Parity calculations Data layout

Storage QoS

Data Reduction

I/O Statistics

Data Placement

X

X

X

X

X

Application Servers Application Servers

BOTTLENECK

BOTTLENECK

BOTTLENECK

Disk

Flash Integration for Hybrid Storage

Traditional Architecture ioControl Architecture

Architecture and Data Path Matters

Traditional Hybrid

Next Generation Hybrid High  Priority  Data  

Low  Priority  Data  

• SSD sacrifices performance and capacity • SSD used for reads only

• PCIe maximizes performance and capacity • Flash used for all writes, and for read cache

Giving the Apps What They Need

•  More and more VMs are being added to the datacenter

•  More and more latency-sensitive applications are running in the datacenter

•  Managing flash to meet business needs

Giving the Apps What They Need

•  More and more VMs are being added to the datacenter

•  More and more latency-sensitive applications are running in the datacenter

Legacy: Can’t Control Performance

Mission Critical

Business Critical

Non- Critical

Hybrid Flash/Disk Ratio

Eliminate Contention with QoS

ioControl: Manage Performance

Capacity 250 GB 500 GB 900 GB Performance 4 ms 10 ms 50 ms

10 Gb/s 4 Gb/s 2 Gb/s

30,000 IOPS 25,000 IOPS 5,000 IOPS

Guaranteed Minimum

Performance Mission Critical Business

Critical Non-

Critical

Exchange SQL Reports File Share

Quality of Service in Action

Performance Levels Maintained

Controlled Performance Impact

VDI Boot Storm

Maximizing Storage ROI

▸  Storage struggles: •  Maximize performance and reliability •  Minimize waste •  (All while providing more IO for more demanding apps)

Maximizing Storage ROI

Architectural Barriers

$/IO

$/GB 0 $/GB

0 $/IO

All-Flash Arrays

$100/IO

$100/GB

Tiered SSD + 7K

15K Disk

7K Disk

Capacity Focus/Backup

Performance Focus

General Purpose/ Heterogeneous Environments

Mechanics and connectivity

limits IO

Scarce controller and bus resources

limit capabilities

Better

Worse Cloud

High cost of ALL SSD

limits dedupe benefits

Questions?

Thank you!

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