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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

Zettabytes
1000 X

Exabytes
1000 X

Every day, 15 petabytes of new information are being generated: 8x more than the information in all U.S. libraries

Internet, Web 2.0 Distributed Computing Data Center Coping with scale # of producers/consumers Size of objects Retention time

Petabytes
1000 X

Terabytes
1000 X

Gigabytes
1980
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Storage budgets up only 1-5% in 2012

1990 2000 2010

Why Flash
In the last 10 years:
CPU Performance

8 - 10x increase

DRAM Speed

7- 9x
100x

Network Speed

Bus Speed

20x
and everything waits

Disk Speed 1.2X

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Source: IBM and Industry Estimates

Client Responses to Performance Gap

HDD Performance Enhancement Typical Performance Mitigation Tactics
Expensive & Ineffective for Storage Performance Issues Wasteful, Expensive & Ineffective with Storage Latency Issues

Most Costly & Volatile

Add More Memory

Add CPUs

Tune & Modify Application

Time Consuming, Very Expensive & Risky

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All-Flash is About Economics

Greater Exploitation of Flash
Improve Performance Reduce Costs Enable New Opportunities

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
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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 FlashSystem & Optimized Storage

IBM Flash Software

IBM Flash Drawers

IBM Flash Adapters & SSDs

IBM Flash Portfolio

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Disk to Flash Storage Spectrum

Flash Optimized IBM FlashSystem High capacity optimized flash storage system Flash Drawers High IOPs Performance Flash Adapters High IOPs Performance Solid State Disk I/O performance in HDD form factor Hybrid HDDs with flash Improved I/O with spinning media capacities 15k SAS Hard Disks High performance spiing media 7.2k SAS Hard Disks Capacity / Cost
Cost / GB
5-15 MilliSeconds 100 MicroSeconds

Latency

IOPS

<1 MilliSeconds

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Disk Form Factors

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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

A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage
o Storage accessible by server; appears

implementations

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

LAN SAN 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 o o o

Accelerate applications Improve response times Boost efficiency 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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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

EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer

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

AIX, IBM i, Linux supported

Ultra Dense
o 1U direct attached drawer o ZERO PCIe slots used direct connect to GX++ o High density & performance in any op environments

Most dense high performance SSD Power Systems has ever shipped

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IBM Flash Software Announcements

IBM FlashCache Storage Accelerator (IBM System x Caching) 5th Generation Easy Tier (IBM DS8870 & IBM Power 7 Cooperative Caching)

Server Cache

Disks

Close storage to CPU performance gap

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Tier data and boost storage performance with Easy Tier Server

IBM Flash Announcements

IBM FlashCache Storage Accelerator (IBM System x Caching)

Intelligent caching right out of the box Autonomous acceleration

o No tuning or data placement

Server Cache

Immediately adapts to changing workloads Dynamic allocation of VM's with support for
VMotion
o Most flexible flash caching in the industry

Disks

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

etc.

Close storage to CPU performance gap

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o Cache to local or SAN-attached HDDs o Built for VMware; supports Windows and Linux too

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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

5th Generation Easy Tier (IBM DS8870 & IBM Power 7 Cooperative Caching)

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
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Tier data and boost storage performance with Easy Tier Server
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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
IBM Server Client Driver Flash Cache IBM Storage

3. Enable cache and data sharing between multiple servers

o Leverage network storage as sharing point to support shared storage

Easy Tier Server EasyTier

SAN Storage Coherency

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

SSD
HDD

IBM Server Client Driver Flash 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

All-Flash System Storage DS8000 All-Flash Storwize Family

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

Members of the IBM Storwize V7000 family are

virtualized storage systems designed to consolidate workloads into a single storage system for
o o o o

Simplicity of management Reduced cost Highly scalable capacity Performance and high availability

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

They offer improved efficiency and flexibility

through built-in flash storage optimization, thin provisioning and non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage

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IBM FlashSystem Portfolio

Extreme Performance MicroLatency Macro Efficiency Enterprise Reliability

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

Extreme Performance

Boost enterprise productivity Improve application performance Ideal for OLTP, data warehousing and OLAP environments High availability system

IBM FlashSystem Solution

IBM FlashSystem 820 San Volume Controller (SVC)

Enterprise Features

Acceleration of applications Enterprise feature sets to ensure data protection

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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
22 Million IOPS Alternative
315 Racks Performance Optimized Disk

1 Rack
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Optimized IBM Flash Portfolio Options

Software

Option Flash in Server Flash in Storage Flash Caching Flash Cooperative Caching

Servers

Storage

Example

EXP30 Ultra SSD Drawer

Flash Adapters, SSDs, EXP30 or EXP24S Direct Attached Drawers

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

IBM High IOPS Adapters + FlashCache

Flash Server Caching w/ Flash Adapters and SSDs

EXP30 Ultra SSD Drawer + IBM DS8870 Storage System + Easy Tier Server
Flash

Advanced Tiering Software w/ Flash Drawers, Adapters, SSDs

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IBM Flash Roadmap

A Flash Enhanced IBM Portfolio 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
Enhanced Design

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

Enhanced Performance

Enhanced Efficiency

Enhanced Reliability

Flash Optimized Infrastructure

Reduced floor space

Reduced cooling

Reduced power

Reduced server sprawl

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IBM Flash Portfolio Roadmap

(Today)
Integrated PureSystems Offerings & Solutions Integrated Storage Offerings SAN Attached IBM PureSystems
IBM PureData for Operational Analytics (using IBM EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer)

2013/2014
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

Software Ecosystem Direct Attached

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

Adapters and Drawers:

New Flash Adapters New Flash Drawer

IBM Flash Drawers:

EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer for Power
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