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The New Flash Era – IBM Storage Flash Technology & Storwize Family Panayiotis Tsamouras Technical Manager Cosmos Business Systems SA

3. What is the role of the storage is:
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What is the role of the storage is: ?

4. The role of the storage is:
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The role of the storage is:
to give/take data at the request of the application
In consequence, the only impact storage has to the application performance is the amount of time the processors must wait
Read
Data
Write

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CPU performance up 10x this last decade
Storage has grown capacity but unable to keep up in performance
Systems are now Latency & IO bound resulting in significant performance gap
Performance Gap
From 1980 to 2010, CPU performance has grown 60% per year*
…and yet, disk performance has grown ~5% per year during that same period**

6. Understanding Storage Performance
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The New Flash Era – IBM Storage Flash Technology & Storwize Family
Understanding Storage Performance

7. Understanding Storage Performance
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The New Flash Era – IBM Storage Flash Technology & Storwize Family
Understanding Storage Performance

8. Understanding Storage Performance
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The New Flash Era – IBM Storage Flash Technology & Storwize Family
Understanding Storage Performance

9. Understanding Application Efficiency with FlashSystem Microlatency
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The New Flash Era – IBM Storage Flash Technology & Storwize Family
Understanding Application Efficiency with FlashSystem Microlatency

10. Understanding Application Efficiency with FlashSystem Microlatency
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Understanding Application Efficiency with FlashSystem Microlatency

11. IBM FlashSystem Family
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IBM FlashSystem Family

12. IBM FlashSystem 720 / FlashSystem 820
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IBM FlashSystem 720 / FlashSystem 820
High performance, low latency, high reliability solution to turbocharge your business
Designed for running multitenant heterogeneous (mixed workload) applications that require built-in high availability features…
Transactional (OLTP) databases
Analytical (OLAP) databases
Virtualization & virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
High performance computing (HPC)
Cloud infrastructure, private and public
Extreme Performance
MicroLatency™
Macro Efficiency
Enterprise Reliability
Low Latency 100/25 µs (720) 110/25 µs (820) Read/Write
Purpose-built, highly parallel design
Maximize host CPU efficiency and productivity
1U form factor- minimal footprint for best of breed ROI
Two dual-port 8 Gb Fibre Channel controllers or dual-port 40Gb QDR InfiniBand controllers
Hot swappable flash modules
Low power 500 watts (720) / 450 watts(820)
Variable Stripe RAID™ to protect against chip failure
Redundancy for power, data, and management
2D Flash RAID eliminates single point of failures
Available integrated spare flash card limiting down time
Error Correcting Code
(ECC) at chip level
SLC (720)/eMLC (820)
5,10, 20 TB w/ High Availability (6,12, 24 TB non HA)
525K (720/820) IOPS
5 (720) / 4 (820) GB/s Bandwidth

13. IBM FlashSystem 720 / FlashSystem 820 Architecture
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IBM FlashSystem 720 / FlashSystem 820 Architecture
Redundant Management Control Processors
Redundant Power Supplies
Two Dual-Ported 8 Gb/s FC or 40 Gb/s QDR IB Interfaces
N+1 batteries
Redundant
RAID controllers
12 Flash Modules
(10+1+1)
1U Chassis
Redundant Fans

14. IBM FlashSystem 710 / FlashSystem 810
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IBM FlashSystem 710 / FlashSystem 810
Speed up critical applications and make decisions faster
Accelerate read-heavy enterprise storage area network (SAN) applications…
Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) databases
Sequential data collection
Large centralized databases
Content delivery networks
Rendering and video editing
Modeling and simulation
Extreme Performance
MicroLatency™
Macro Efficiency
Enterprise Reliability
Variable Stripe RAID™ to protect against chip failure
Redundant power supplies with active failover protection against single-source power issues
Error Correcting Code (ECC) at chip level
Available integrated spare flash card
SLC (710) / eMLC (810)
1-5 TB or 2-10 TB
570K (710) / 550K (810) IOPS
5 GB/s (710)/ 4 GB/s (810) Bandwidth
Low latency 100/60 µs (710) and 110 / 60 µs (810) Read/Write
Purpose-built, highly parallel design
Maximize host CPU efficiency and productivity
1U form factor- minimal footprint for best of breed ROI
Two dual-port 8 Gb Fibre Channel controllers or dual-port 40Gb QDR InfiniBand controllers
Low power 450 watts (710) / 400 watts(810)
Available hot-swapable flash modules in 720/820

15. IBM FlashSystem 710 / FlashSystem 810 Architecture
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IBM FlashSystem 710 / FlashSystem 810 Architecture
Management Control Processors
Redundant Power Supplies
Two Dual-Ported 8 Gb/s FC or 40 Gb/s QDR IB Interfaces
N+1 batteries
4-21 Flash Modules
(including optional spare)
1U Chassis
Redundant Fans

16. Layers of Data Protection
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Layers of Data Protection
Layer
Protection
System-level RAID 5
managed by centralized RAID controllers
Module Failure
Module-level Variable Stripe RAID™ managed by each module across its chips
Sub-chip, chip or multi-chip failure
Chip-level ECC
managed by each module using its chips
Bit and block errors
2D Flash RAID
IBM FlashSystem 720 IBM FlashSystem 820
IBM FlashSystem 710 IBM FlashSystem 810

17. Cosmos Business Systems & IBM Hellas Unique Business Benefit:
The New Flash Era – IBM Storage Flash Technology & Storwize Family
Variable Stripe RAID™
Patented Variable Stripe RAID allows RAID stripe sizes to vary.
If one die fails in a ten-chip stripe, only the failed die is bypassed, and then data is restriped across the remaining nine chips. No system rebuild needed!
VSR reduces maintenance intervals caused by Flash failures
Unique Business Benefit:
Fewer Flash Module Replacements …
16 Planes
10 Chips
RAID Group
FAIL

18. Two-Dimensional (2D) Flash RAID™
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Two-Dimensional (2D) Flash RAID™
2D Flash RAID: system-level RAID 5 protection layered on top of module-level Variable Stripe RAID.
Provides maximum data protection and minimizes recovery times from flash failures, without compromising system performance or availability.
Rebuilds only occur if entire flash modules fail – Variable Stripe RAID takes care of small flash failures.
System-level RAID is implemented as 10+1 RAID 5 with 4K stripes, plus 1 module reserved as hot spare.
System-level RAID is managed through active-active backplane FPGA controllers, not software.
External Interfaces (FC, IB)
RAID Controllers
RAID 5 within Flash Modules (9 data + 1 parity)
IBM
2D Flash RAID
Unique Business Benefit:
Maximize Data Protection
RAID 5 across Flash Modules
(10 data + 1 parity + 1 hot spare)

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IBM FlashSystem 840
2U form factor- minimal footprint for best of breed ROI
Low power 625 watts
Field upgradeable, granular capacity
4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48
Reduce installation and management time with intuitive standardized GUI
Macro Efficiency
Data center optimized to deliver extreme performance, flexible capacity and total system protection
Fully redundant and hot swappable architecture: - Flash modules, power supplies, batteries, interfaces, fans
Maintain business continuity with Concurrent code load
AES 256 HW base encryption
Enterprise Reliability
Low Latency 135/90 µs R/W
Purpose-built, highly parallel design
Maximize host CPU efficiency and productivity
MicroLatency™
1.1M IOPS
8 GB/s Bandwidth
Multiple connectivity interfaces
16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel
40Gb QDR InfiniBand
10Gb FCoE
Extreme Performance

20. IBM FlashSystem 840 components
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IBM FlashSystem 840 components
Flash Modules (12)
Battery Packs (2)
RAID Controllers (2)
Interface Modules (4)
Canisters (2)
Fan Packs (4)
Management Modules (2)
Power Supplies (2)

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IBM FlashSystem V840

22. IBM FlashSystem Positioning
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IBM FlashSystem Positioning

23. IBM FlashSystem Positioning
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IBM FlashSystem Positioning
SSD is NOT Flash Storage
Flash inside a Disk Enclosure
Technology designed for Disk, not Flash
Data protection outside SSD
Data Path handled by OS/Controllers outside SSD
Performance is reduced and marginal
Common in hybrid arrays
Focus is to maintain functionality and consolidation
Focus on Tiering and Data Movement
SSD competes with all other disks’ for resources
When performance matters (which is ALWAYS), SSD is not the best

24. IBM FlashSystem Positioning
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IBM FlashSystem Positioning
Direct Attach
Hybrid Storage Systems
Direct Attach Flash (PCIe adapters, server SSDs) provides low latency, high performance storage for in-server applications
BUT
Less enterprise capabilities
Hybrid Storage Systems (Storage with SSDs & HDDs) provide a higher level of enterprise capabilities with superior capacity
However, there is a gap in the middle for all flash storage array that provides high performance, low latency, and enterprise-class attributes

25. IBM FlashSystem Positioning
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IBM FlashSystem Positioning
Direct Attach
All Flash Arrays
Hybrid Storage Systems
IBM FlashSystem offers extreme performance, low latency and enterprise attributes to handle fast moving operational data in real time

26. IBM FlashSystem Use Cases
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IBM FlashSystem Use Cases

27. IBM FlashSystem Use Cases Oracle Acceleration with IBM FlashSystem™
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IBM FlashSystem Use Cases
Oracle Acceleration with IBM FlashSystem™
Customer Challenge – Most Oracle applications are highly read-intensive. By placing all read data on low latency flash storage, reads will be performed much faster, boosting Oracle performance by up to 12x over conventional disk systems with no tuning or changes to code or system architecture.
IBM FlashSystem shared flash storage systems will
Decrease I/O wait time in mission critical Oracle workloads
Deliver the lowest latency available on any SAN platform
Accelerate commonly I/O-bound workloads, including transactional, batch and complex analytics
Delivers Extreme Performance, Macro Efficiency, and Enterprise Reliability for

28. Performance Scenario: Oracle RAC, 4 Nodes
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Performance Scenario: Oracle RAC, 4 Nodes
~4,000 IOPS per RAC node
16,000 IOPS total
12.25 mins to complete with 4 nodes running
2 million queries
40,000 IOPS per RAC node
160,000 IOPS total
1.3 mins to complete with 4 nodes running
2 million queries
Over 9X reduction!
12m 15s
1m 20s

29. Virtual Servers and VDI with IBM FlashSystem™
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IBM FlashSystem Use Cases
Virtual Servers and VDI with IBM FlashSystem™
Customer Challenge - Virtualized servers and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) push conventional storage systems to their performance limits. The result? Poor application response times and a bad customer experience.
IBM FlashSystem shared flash storage systems will
Eliminate I/O density and hot spot issues that are common to highly virtualized environments
Control and mitigate ‘log on’ or ‘boot’ storm performance issue
Deliver storage consolidation without sacrificing performance, thus driving a higher V:P ratios thus increasing server utilization
Delivers Extreme Performance, Macro Efficiency, and Enterprise Reliability for

30. SAP Acceleration with IBM FlashSystem™
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SAP Acceleration with IBM FlashSystem™
Customer Challenge –SAP is pushing clients to accelerate performance by adopting the HANA in-memory database architecture. This often leads to a significant re-architecture of the entire SAP infrastructure, which drives high cost and a risk of disruption in service delivery.
IBM FlashSystem shared flash storage systems will
Eliminate I/O bottlenecks in mission critical SAP workloads
Provide the lowest latency with IBM MicroLatency™
Support a phased approach to HANA adoption by delivering consistently higher performance for SAP BW workloads with no re-architecture required
Delivers Extreme Performance, Macro Efficiency, and Enterprise Reliability for
&

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In the past Storage Arrays used to be: +

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In the past Storage Arrays used to be:
Today Storage Arrays are more than that: + +
software-defined storage
(SDS)

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IBM Storwize Family
Buy Less
Storage
Award winning simplicity
Deploy Quickly & Flexibly
Embedded Analytics
Improve What
You Have
IBM & non-IBM
Flash Optimized
Start Small
& Scale-up

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IBM Storwize Family

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IBM Storwize Family Offerings

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IBM Storwize Family Features
Automated Tiering
External Virtualization
Real Time Compression
Data Replication
Source
Volume
Destination
TCP/IP Network

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IBM Storwize Family Functionalities
Intuitive GUI is Truly Integrated
One administration interface for block and file data
Not a launcher for two different interfaces
Integrated data protection
Built-in NDMP and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client

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IBM Storwize Family Functionalities
Summary

40. IBM FlashSystem + IBM Storwize Smart Solution
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IBM FlashSystem + IBM Storwize Smart Solution

41. Easy Tier Case Study: Insurance Client
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Easy Tier Case Study: Insurance Client
Challenge
Customer is an IBM client in need of an automated tiering solution to reduce DB batch run times
Solution
FlashSystem virtualized to provide both capacity in an Easy Tier pool and native capacity for TSM Log files.
Flash Deal: IBM FlashSystem 820 (10 TB)
Also included upgrades to V7000‘s
Benefit
Reduced batch run times
Improved TCO for customer
Decreased power and cooling costs
Low latency
IBM Storwize V7000
IBM FlashSystem TB
Servers

42. Oracle Case Study: Telecommunications Client
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Oracle Case Study: Telecommunications Client
Challenge
A telecommunications client with a
very good relationship to a third party storage vendor needed to improve DB efficiency
Solution
IBM FlashSystem 810 (2TB)
Other IBM components include a V7000
FlashSystem based in preferred read using AIX LVM during the PoC
FlashSystem and customer‘s storage behind V7000 in the production
Benefit
Speed up Oracle application
Allowed for greater amount of savings
Energy comsumption was much lower than traditional HDD array
Happy users 
Simple and easy integration with customer‘s environment
SAN Environment
Preferred Read
Writes
Reads & Writes

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Thank you !
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