1© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC XtremSW Cache Performance. Intelligence. Protection.

2© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Intelligence EMC XtremSW Cache Performance Protection Dramatic improvements in latency and throughput Extends EMC FAST architecture into the server Backed by intelligent, resilient, highly available storage

3© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Supercharged Application Performance  Server-side Flash caching for maximum performance  Dramatic improvement in application performance for read- heavy workloads XtremSW Cache BaselineXtremSW Cache Baseline INCREASED THROUGHPUT (IOPS) REDUCED RESPONSE TIME (LATENCY)

4© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Extending the FAST Architecture Automated Intelligence “Hot” High Activity Data Activity Age of Data “Cold” Low Activity Performance Optimized Apply different technology as data cools Ultra-Performance Tier Hottest data resides on PCIe Flash

5© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Total Protection  Write-through caching with acknowledgement  Shareable and scalable, no stranded storage

6© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Use Cases Read-intensive workloads with small working sets Read-intensive workloads with large working sets Big Data Streaming Genetics studies Big Data Streaming Genetics studies CRMERPOLTP Web Servers ReportingAnalyticsCRMERPOLTP ReportingAnalytics Write-intensive workloads with large working sets Backups Write journals Oil & gas Data dumps Image capture Backups Write journals Oil & gas Data dumps Image capture Write-intensive workloads with small working sets Temp tables External sorts Working files Temp tables External sorts Working files Small Large Mostly ReadsMostly WritesWorkload Working Set

7© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.  Reads and writes are serviced by the storage array Flash FC / SAS SATA / NL-SAS SATA / NL-SAS 1 8 Reads (latency: 500 μs – 10 ms) Writes  Performance varies depending on back-end array’s media, workload, and network Traditional Architecture

8© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.  Reads are serviced by XtremSW Cache for  Writes are passed through to the storage array for Reads (latency: <100 μs) 2 8 Writes Flash FC / SAS SATA / NL-SAS SATA / NL-SAS XtremSW Cache Advanced Architecture

9© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. XtremSW Cache Driver extends the SAN 100% Transparent Caching XtremSF SAN HBA SAN storage ApplicationApplication XtremSW Cache Driver

10© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Read Hit Example 1.Read request from application to an accelerated array LUN 2.XtremSW Cache Driver determines a hit occurred and accesses data from Flash device 3.Data returned from the Flash device is forwarded to the application SAN HBA SAN storage ApplicationApplication XtremSW Cache Driver XtremSF

11© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Read Miss Example 1.Read request from application to an accelerated array LUN 2.XtremSW Cache Driver determines a miss occurred and accesses data from array LUN 3.Data is read from the array and returned to the application 4.Read miss data is written to Flash device SAN HBA SAN storage ApplicationApplication XtremSW Cache Driver XtremSF

12© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Write Example 1.Write request from application to an accelerated array LUN 2.XtremSW Cache driver writes data to array LUN and Flash device 3.Application write acknowledged upon array completion SAN HBA SAN storage ApplicationApplication XtremSW Cache Driver XtremSF

13© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Application Testing Results LatencyTPSLatencyTPS 7.7X FASTER 3.6X BETTER RESPONSE TIME PERFORMANCE 2.5X FASTER 3.1X BETTER RESPONSE TIME PERFORMANCE

14© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Greater economic value Inline Cache Deduplication  Better cost/GB: Effective cache size larger than physical size  Longer card life expectancy: Reduced number of writes extends Flash life Cache SizeCapacity Physical300 GB Effective (with 20% dedupe ratio) 360 GB

15© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Local Storage XtremSW Cache Split Card Mode Data 2 Data 1 Temp DB Cache

16© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. XtremSW Cache Performance Predictor  Performance acceleration prediction –Based on host side trace analysis –No card or software purchase is required –Easy to use and free of charge  Deployment planning and environment sizing –View predicted performance in LUN granularity –Choose best LUNs to accelerate

17© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. XtremSW Cache 2.0 Features  Deeper integration with EMC arrays  Interoperability with: –VMware vCenter features –IBM AIX –Any server flash hardware –Oracle RAC *  Control and efficiency via XtremSW Management Center * Available October 2013

18© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VMAXVNX  Monitor XtremSW Cache directly from Unisphere –LUN selection based on VMAX trending analysis –Integrated performance statistics reporting  Gain unmatched performance boost – Prefetching (read full track) increases IOPS by 25% – Cache coordination (optimized read miss) increases IOPS by up to 2.5X  Manage XtremSW Cache directly from Unisphere Remote –LUN selection based on VNX trending analysis –Performance and health monitoring –Discovery and configuration EMC Array Integration

19© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VMware vCenter Features Support  Transparent vMotion Support  Automatic failovers  Seamless integration with DRS, HA, SRM XtremSW Cache- enabled virtual machines VMware vCenter server ESX server VMware vSphere client XtremSF hardware and XtremSW Cache driver XtremSW Cache VSI plug-in

20© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. IBM AIX Support  IBM Power 7 servers with AIX 6.1 and 7.1  Standard edition of PowerVM  Native clustering (PowerHA active/passive)  Certified AIX SSDs supported as underlying hardware

21© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Support with Any Server Flash Hardware  Enables use of XtremSW Cache in blade servers  All form factors –SSDs: All SATA or SAS devices –PCIe Cards: ▪HHHL and HHFL ▪Devices with SATA, ATA, or SCSI bus  VMware: SCSI devices only

22© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Active-active shared storage via distributed cache coherence Oracle RAC Support*  Oracle Database 11g on Windows, RHEL, or OEL running Oracle Clusterware 11g with Ethernet interconnect  Up to eight nodes per cluster  Uses SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations to block joining node from accessing storage until XtremSW Cache approves it * Available October 2013

23© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Greater control and efficiency XtremSW Management Center  Manage multiple server flash devices  Access environment health and performance dashboards