K.D. Polzin FlashSystems Sales Specialist - South Central 281-520-1307 kdpolzin@us.ibm.com Simon Cambridge FlashSystems Technical Specialist South Central Time Matters Think Microseconds, not Milliseconds
FlashSystem is About Economics Enable New Opportunities Improve Performance Reduce Costs Greater Exploitation of Flash Leverage the Economies of Scale Radically accelerate your most critical applications and stop crushing your disk drives at peak usage. Co-exist with, and return performance and value to your existing disk array. Gain Greater System Utilization Lower Software & Hardware Cost Save Power / Cooling / Floor Space Drive Value Out of Operational Data
Why IBM is so high on TMS? Proven Industry Leadership. Deep Domain Expertise. Global Enterprise Customers. Supplying the highest performance, highest reliability, lowest latency, and lowest power flash solutions on the market. Vetted by IBM Research 34 Year History Deep Expertise 30+ Patents Strong IP Base 300+ Customers In over 50 countries Established Solutions Repeat customers and no VC/Long Term Debt Quick Customer ROI Disruptive technology introduced in a nondisruptive architecture
TMS History RamSan-720: 5/10 TB SLC Flash, 4 FC (8 Gb)/IB (QDR) RamSan-710: 5 TB SLC Flash, 4 FC (8 Gb)/IB (QDR) RamSan-640: 8 TB SLC Flash, 10 FC (8 Gb)/IB (QDR) RamSan-620: 5 TB SLC Flash, 8 FC (4 Gb) RamSan-440: 512 GB RAM, 8 FC (4 Gb) RamSan-400: 128 GB RAM, 8 FC (4 Gb), 4 IB (4x) SAM 500: DSP/SSD, 64 GB RAM, 15 FC (1 Gb) SAM-2000: DSP system Company founded by Holly Frost 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 1997 1990 1978 RamSan-820: 12-24 TB emlc Flash, 4 FC (8 Gb)/IB (QDR) RamSan-810: 10 TB emlc Flash, 4 FC (8 Gb)/IB (QDR) RamSan-70: 900 GB SLC Flash, PCIe x8 2.0 RamSan-630: 10 TB SLC Flash, 10 FC (8 Gb)/IB (QDR) RamSan-20: 450 GB SLC Flash, PCIe x4 RamSan-500: 2 TB SLC Flash, 64 GB RAM, 8 FC (4 Gb) RamSan-320: 64 GB RAM, 8 FC (2 Gb) RamSan-210/220: 32 GB RAM, 4 FC (2 Gb) SAM-350/SAM-450: DSP system Custom systems for seismic industry CMPS: custom SSD for Gulf Oil
IBM Flash Ahead Initiative IBM announces new investments to help clients benefit from the value of flash More than $1B for Flash research & development in systems and software 12 IBM Flash Centers of Competency around the world to help clients transform their systems IBM introduces the IBM FlashSystem TM, new all-flash storage offerings
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The Right Tool For the Job Microseconds, not Milliseconds. Database: Logs (redo/undo) Tables Temp files Indexes Represent about 80% of disk or I/O activity, but only about 2-5% of all their data RamSan 60/1000 s of a millisecond (60 MICROseconds)
A Tipping Point in Systems 1 second = 1 million microseconds IBM FlashSystem 60 microseconds consistent latency 1U up to 24TB PCIe SSD Form Factor SSD < 1 millisecond Tape HDD 3-4 milliseconds Seconds 5-15 milliseconds
How to Make the World s Fastest Storage Build the system with a hardware-only data path Custom FPGA-based data movement decreases latency vs. software Distributed out-of-data-path CPU processing You cannot increase performance by adding lines of code. Our Symmetrix-VMAX Enginuity consists of millions of lines of code.
IBM Flash Storage Focus Areas Do More, Do it Faster Transact More Business OLTP Databases Financial, gaming, real-time billing, trading, real-time monitoring, query acceleration Cloud-scale Infrastructures VDI, Consolidated virtual infrastructures, user profiles Computational Apps, HPC Simulation, modeling, rendering, FS metadata, scratch space, video on demand, thread efficiency Analytical Apps Business intelligence, batch processing, ERP systems, reporting, massive data feeds Virtual Infrastructures On-demand computing, content distribution, web, caching, metadata, active file management
PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
FlashSystem 710 FlashSystem 810 FlashSystem 720 FlashSystem 820 SLC Flash emlc Flash SLC Flash emlc Flash 1-5TB Field upgradeable in 1TB increments. 2-10TB Field upgradeable in 2TB increments. 5 or 10TB (12TB w/o 2D Raid) 10 or 20TB (24TB w/o 2D Raid) 400K IOPS 450K IOPS 500K IOPS 450K IOPS 5 GB/s 4GB/s 5 GB/s 4 GB/s 100/25 us R/W Latency 100/25 us R/W Latency 1U rackmount 4x 8Gb FC ports 4x 40Gb QDR InfiniBand
Introducing the IBM FlashSystem Solutions Extreme Performance with Enterprise Capabilities SAN Volume Controller with FlashSystem 820 Business Continuity with Copy Services Flash Copy for Backup & Optimal Workload Availability $/TB Value with Thin Provisioning & Real Time Compression Drive Storage Efficiency with Easy Tier IBM FlashSystem 820 Extreme Performance with IBM MicroLatency All Flash 20TB RAIDed data capacity Macro Efficiency 1U form factor Variable Stripe RAID and 2-D RAID for Enterprise Reliability
TYPES OF FLASH & RELIABILITY
Best in Class Durability Superior Technology Using the Right Flash Program / Erase Cycles 100 K 3X Superior Engineering Longer Life Variable Striping Restriping at the Die Level No System Rebuild 80 K 60 K 40 K 20 K 0 K 10X MLC emlc SLC Within & Across Flash Modules Deep Engineering Innovation Wear Leveling; Voltage & Timing Adjustments +++ Source: IBM Estimates
2D Flash RAID (RamSan-720/820) External Interfaces (FC, IB) Interface Interface RAID Controllers RAID Controller RAID Controller RAID 5 within Flash Modules (9 data + 1 parity) TMS 2D Flash RAID RAID 5 across Flash Modules (10 data + 1 parity + 1 hot spare)
Variable Stripe RAID, (VSR) Patented VSR 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. Higher availability; Fewer maintenance events due to flash failures; Preserves performance over time 10 Chips 16 Planes FAIL
CASE STUDIES
UFC knocks out video production bottlenecks with Flash storage Business challenges Fast delivery requirement of massive amounts of video in hundreds of derivatives (130 platforms). Operations affected by heavy transcoding load. Constraint on amount of content UFC can transcode and deliver to its partners. Overall production output affected by disk slowdown. Solution Implemented the RamSan-710. Deployed into production environment within a day. Benefits Reduced load on disk storage that was impacting other operations by 40 percent. Time for transcoding jobs dropped by up to 70 percent. Within a day we were able to get it running in a production environment without a huge change in the infrastructure. There was nothing we had to change in code or workflow. We just pointed all the transcoders to the new StorNext volume on the RamSan instead of volumes on the spinning disk arrays. The fact that it played so nicely with StorNext was a huge benefit. Danny Gold Vice President, Strategy and Solutions Levels Beyond
Penn State slashes backup time by 80 percent IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) Business challenges RCC needed to speed up nightly backups. Solution Use of Flash array (RamSan 810 for metadata) instead of continuing to increase the number traditional disk spindles. Backup Time 80% Benefits Instant 6 times performance increase in nightly backup. Two 1U Flash arrays replaced 200 power-hungry 15K hard disks. Reduced power consumption by 90 percent. Flash delivers affordable high speed and reliability. Requires less power to operate, produces less heat, and consumes less rack space. Power 90% Response Time 80% With the RamSan we literally just turned it on and that s all the performance tuning we did. It just worked out of the box. Michael Fenn Systems Administrator Penn State it made sense to go with a Flash media array rather than continuing to throw traditional disk spindles at the problem. Jason Holmes Vlead systems administrator Penn State