SOFTWAREDEFINED-STORAGE

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1 SOFTWAREDEFINED-STORAGE The future of cloudoptimized Storage Technical Presentation Ivo GomIlšek SenIor Infrastructure ArchItect - CEE

2 CLASSICAL DATACENTER WITH STORAGE IN SILOS...

3 L P M O C COMPLEX TO MANAGE... Y T I X E

4 TO REMOVE THE COMPLEXITY, WE ADD SDS LAYER...

5 IN A SDS ENVIRONMENT, YOU CAN MANAGE EVERYTHING FROM A SINGLE LAYER

6 YOU CAN USE ANY STORAGE SYSTEMS...

7 AND YOU CAN GROW VERTICALLY & HORIZONTALLY

8 OR, YOU CAN ADD FLASH SYSTEMS TO INCREASE OVERALL PERFORMANCE..

9 OR, YOU CAN CREATE TOTALLY DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS

10 YOU CAN COMPRESS DATA ON ONE BOX/VOLUME...

11 WITHOUT PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION...

12 OR, YOU CAN ENABLE IT FOR WHOLE ENVIRONMENT

13 WITHOUT ANY DOWNTIME...

14 WITHOUT TOUCHING OR CHANGING OS OR APPLICATION LAYER...

15 We use these functionalities, to eleminate the following challenges...

16 Virtual Storage Center (VSC) Implementation of our Software Defined Storage Approach for Block Storage

17 SDS for Block = VSC

18 SDS for Block = VSC

19 Elastic Storage Implementation of our Software Defined Storage Approach for File Storage

20 SDS for File = Elastic Storage

21 IBM Software Defined Storage (SDS) is a single layer controlling I/O communication... it needs to fulfill the following criteria

22 ATTRIBUTES OF HIGH END STORAGE SUBSYSTEM

23 WHAT ARE EXPECTATIONS FROM SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE (VIRTUAL STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE)

24 VIRTUAL STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE ATTRIBUTES vs. ATTRIBUTES OF HIGH END STORAGE SUBSYSTEM

25 Let's now take a look how IBM Software Defined Storage (SDS) software stack for block storage (VSC) provides required capabilities

26 HIGH PERFORMANCE

27 CLASSICAL HIGH END DESIGN

28 VIRTUALIZATION APPROACH

29 VIRTUALIZATION I/O PATH

30 VIRTUALIZATION - LATENCY

31 VIRTUALIZATION - SCALABILITY

32 SVC CG8 SVC DH8 Cache Read MB/s 6,050 17,000 Cache Write MB/s ,000 Cache Read IOPs 800,000 1,150,000 Cache Write IOPs 300, ,000 Disk Read MB/s 5,380 14,000 Disk Write MB/s 2,800 4,000 Disk Read IOPs 365, ,000 Disk Write IOPs 115, ,000 70/30 Mixed IOPs 200,000 SUMMARY: DH8 is 2x IOPs and up to 3x MB/s of CG8 SVC tests use FlashSystem 840 and 820 backend storage controllers DH8 includes all 3 PF I/O Cards scales linearly from 1, through 3 for bandwidth Requires 2 cards for may IOPs 1 card approx half, or rouighly CG8 equivalent 395,000 REAR VIEW 2U VIRTUALIZATION PERFORMANCE (BIG NODE)

33 HIGH AVAILABILITY

34 VIRTUALIZATION - CLUSTERING

35 VIRTUALIZATION CACHE PROTECTION

36 VIRTUALIZATION QUORUM

37 SCALABILITY & FLEXIBILITY

38 VIRTUALIZATION OBJECT HIERARCHY

39 VIRTUALIZATION BACKEND SYSTEM POOLING

40 EASY TO USE & MANAGE

41 VIRTUALIZATION SINGLE LAYER MANAGEMENT

42 ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

43 VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE UPGRADE

44 VIRTUALIZATION HARDWARE UPGRADE

45 EASY ADDING NEW FUNCTIONALITY

46 VIRTUALIZATION ADDING NEW FUNCTIONS

47 SUPPORT FOR VARIOUS BACKEND SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGIES

48 VIRTUALIZATION MULTIVENDOR BACKEND SUPPORT

49 VIRTUALIZATION MULTIVENDOR BACKEND SUPPORT

50 SCALABLE ADVANCED FUNCTIONS

51 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS SNAPSHOTS/CLONES

52 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS REPLICATION

53 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS FLASH COPY CONSISTENCY GROUPS

54 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS REPLICATION CONSISTENCY GROUPS

55 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS REPLICATION CONSISTENCY GROUPS

56 Up to 256 Snapshots Up to M s or r ir VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS SCALABILITY Up to 256 Consistency Groups Up to 4096 MM/GM Up to 256 Snapshots

57 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS REPLICATION PROTOCOLS

58 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS QoS

59 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS SUB VOLUME TIERING

60 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS SUB VOLUME TIERING MDISK LOAD PARAMETER

61 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS SUB VOLUME TIERING LOAD DISTRIBUTION

62 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS VOLUME LEVEL TIERING

63 ABILITY TO PERFORM FAST BACKUPS

64 VIRTUALIZATION ADVANCED FUNCTIONS SNAPSHOTS/CLONES FLASH COPY TO DEDICATED I/O GROUP / BACKEND

65 ACTIVE/ACTIVE LUN ACCESS

66 VIRTUALIZATION - ACTIVE/ACTIVE IO READ CACHE HIT

67 VIRTUALIZATION - ACTIVE/ACTIVE IO READ CACHE MISS

68 VIRTUALIZATION - ACTIVE/ACTIVE IO WRITE (ALWAYS CACHE HIT)

69 LOW TCO / FAST ROI

70 ... this is technical presentation commercial topics are out of scope today...

71 ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF IBM's STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

72 VIRTUALIZATION I/O OPTIMIZATION

73 VIRTUALIZATION DUAL LAYER CACHE

74 VIRTUALIZATION CACHE IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

75 VIRTUALIZATION COMPRESSION & DEDUPLICATION

76 VIRTUALIZATION COMPRESSION

77 VIRTUALIZATION COMPRESSION BENEFIT

78 VIRTUALIZATION STRETCHED CLUSTER

79 VIRTUALIZATION STRETCHED CLUSTER

80 VIRTUALIZATION STRETCHED CLUSTER DETAILS

81 MetroMirror Mirror between Clusters MM StretchCluster Mirror Cluster in VIRTUALIZATION SYNC REPLICATION vs. STRETCHED CLUSTER

82 MetroMirror Mirror between Clusters Host Cluster Needed MM License Needed No automatic Failover DownTime needed for Failover MM StretchCluster Mirror in Cluster Single Host data can be mirrored No additional license needed Automatic Failover No DownTime for Failover Both of the Sites/Storages can be used VIRTUALIZATION SYNC REPLICATION vs. STRETCHED CLUSTER

83 MM / GM 3-Site Disaster Recovery Single Host data can be mirrored No additional license needed Automatic Failover No DownTime for Failover Both of the Sites/Storages can be used Protects against site failures VIRTUALIZATION STRETCHED CLUSTER + GM/MM 3 - SİTE DİSASTER RECOVERY

84 VIRTUALIZATION PREFERRED READ

85 VIRTUALIZATION HIGH END FROM MR

86 VIRTUALIZATION HIGH END FROM MR

87 VIRTUALIZATION NON-DISTRUPTIVE VOLUME MOVE

88 VIRTUALIZATION NON-DISTRUPTIVE VOLUME MOVE

89 One of the most important part of SDS is, Monitoring and Analytics

90 MONITORING CAN BE A NIGHTMARE IN A BIG AND HETEROGENOUS ENVIRONMENTS

91 BUT IN AN SDS ENVIRONMENT..

92 YOU JUST MONITOR THE SDS LAYER...

93 SO, YOU CAN COLLECT DATA FROM ALL VENDOR S SYSTEMS, ANALYZE AND MOVE BASED ON RULES

94 SAN VOLUME CONTROLLER TRANSFORMS EVERYTHING IN THE SOFTWARE-DEFINED-STORAGE

95 SAN VOLUME CONTROLLER TRANSFORMS EVERYTHING IN THE SOFTWARE-DEFINED-STORAGE

96 IBM SYSTEMS FOR BACKEND STORAGE

97 IBM DS8000 the race horse Up to 99,9999% availability Low latency Highest security, Protection

98 IBM XIV the working horse Self-Tuning Ease of Use Fastest Raid rebuild

99 IBM Storwize the pony horse Uses SVC SW stack Built in Virtualization Simplified Management Non-disruptive Migrations

100 IBM Flash a must in every data centre Extreme Performance Cut IO Wait Time IBM MicroLatency Servers, Applications and Databases are FASTER! Latency 80%+ Under 100 Microseconds Go FROM 7 milliseconds to 700 microseconds IOPS Macro Efficiency No application Or architecture Changes Enterprise Reliability Benefts & economics outweigh disk Highest Reduce floor space, Reliability levels power & cooling Micro Latency Tier 0 Storage Purposed-built, Enterprise Architecture

101 IBM Tapes Tape as Storage Tier Lowest TCO Long Shelf Life 30ys

102 And at the end...

103 Why IBM? Proven technology SVC installations IBM was first in industry with Storage Virtualization SVC since 2003 (development started in 1999) IDC ranked IBM No#1 in SDS Multivendor Support +260 Storage models All functions in a single SW stack IBM help you to achieve optimized cloud enabled storage infrastructure

104 THANK YOU! Discussion Questions