Introducing NetApp FAS2500 series Marek Stopka Senior System Engineer ALEF Distribution CZ s.r.o.
Complex data storage portfolio Corporate Data Centers Cloud Data Centers Flash Arrays for extreme performance Clustered Data ONTAP - for shared infrastructure E-Series for performance & price per GiB StorageGRID global object oriented storage 2
FAS2500 Overview
Next Generation Entry Platform System FAS2520 Replaces FAS2220 FAS2552 Replaces FAS2240-2 FAS2554 Replaces FAS2240-4 Setting a New Standard for Value with Entry Hybrid Arrays 5x more hybrid flash (4TB) 2x cluster size (4 nodes) 3x more memory (18GB) 40% more storage (84 drives) 5x more hybrid flash (4TB) 2x cluster size (8 nodes) 3x more memory (18GB) 5x more hybrid flash (4TB) 2x cluster size (8 nodes) 3x more memory (18GB) Enhanced system architecture increases useful system life, minimizing acquisition costs 3x more memory, new I/O profile (10Gb Base-T on 2520, UTA2 on 255x) 4 10Gb Base T and 2 1GbE ports 4 UTA2 and 2 1GbE ports 4 UTA2 and 2 1GbE ports Extended 1 1GbE hybrid management capabilities portincreases capacity, 1 1GbE management performance, port delivering an 1 improved 1GbE management ROI port 5x 2 more 6Gb SAS hybrid ports flash; already industry-leading 2 6Gb performance SAS ports (4x faster than competitors) 2 6Gb SAS ports Increased scale-out support, simplifies growth and eliminates risk of downtime via NDO 2x more nodes; sets groundwork for clustered Data ONTAP moving forward 4
Entry Platform Positioning FAS2240-2 FAS2552 SAS/SSD FAS2240-4 SAS/SSD FAS2554 SATA/SSD FAS2220 SATA/SSD FAS2520 SATA/SAS/SSD SATA/SAS/SSD 36GB memory vs. 12GB 3x increase 4GB NVMEM vs. 2GB 2x increase 4TB vs. 800GB Flash Pool limit 5x increase 5
FAS2500 Technical specification
FAS2552 and FAS2554 - HA Pair Leverages same PCM 2U and 4U form factor 36GB memory 32GB physical memory + 4GB NVMEM Four 64-bit cores running at 1.73GHz Single dual-core processor per controller Offers I/O flexibility with onboard Unified Target Adapters (UTA2)* Ability to configure for Ethernet or FC NFS, CIFS, iscsi, FC, and FCoE are supported GbE management port Faster install with System Setup New bezel *Also known as converged network adapter (CNA) ports FAS2552A FAS2554A 7
FAS2552 and FAS2554 Controller I/O Console Port LNK LNK e0c 0c e0d 0d e0e 0e e0f 0f e0a A LNK LNK LNK LNK LNK NV 0b 0a SSN MAC e0b B NV SAS DC AC UTA2 USB port Private Management Port GbE 1 4 x Unified Target Adapter (UTA2) ports 10GbE Ethernet 16Gb/s FC or 8Gb/s FC 2 x GbE ports 2 x SAS ports x2 2 1 x GbE management port 1 x private management port 1 x USB port (disabled) 1 x console port 2 8
FAS2520A HA Pair 2U form factor 36GB memory 32GB physical memory + 4GB NVMEM Four 64-bit cores running at 1.73GHz Single dual-core processor per controller Offers low-cost 10G Base-T ports NFS, CIFS, and iscsi are supported GbE management port Faster install with System Setup New bezel FAS2520A 9
FAS2520 Controller I/O Console Port LNK LNK e0c e0d e0e e0f e0a LNK LNK LNK LNK NV 0b 0a SSN MAC e0b SAS 10GBaseT USB port Private Management Port GbE 4 x 10GBaseT 2 x GbE ports 2 x SAS ports 1 x GbE management port 1 x private management port 1 x USB port (disabled) 1 x console port 10
Supported Internal Drive Configuration FAS2552 FAS2554 FAS2520 Maximum Internal Drive Internal Drive Orderable Configuration 24 24 12 0 or 12 or 24 0 or 12 or 24 0 or 6 or 12 Performance HDD (SAS) 600GB, 900GB, 1.2TB N/A 600GB, 900GB, 1.2TB Capacity HDD (SATA) N/A 2TB, 3TB, 4TB 2TB, 3TB, 4TB SSD 200GB*, 400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB 200GB*, 400GB (for Flash Pool ) 200GB*, 400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB NSE Drives 900GB NSE 4TB NSE Data ONTAP Version 8.2.2 RC1 + 900GB NSE, 4TB NSE 11
FAS2500 Flash Pool Flash Pool size increased to 4TB per HA pair More Flash Pool configured options SSD + SATA SSD + SAS Additional Flash Pool features: Aggregate-level read and write cache SSD as cache for random reads and overwrites Consistent performance across HA events Random overwrite data is cached RAID4 with hot spare RAID-DP with no spare in case of SSDs Combination of RAID-DP and RAID 4 supported Other features common with Flash Cache 4KB block granularity, real-time caching Works with key Data ONTAP features 12
Drive limits with Flash Single and HA Controllers Max Drives SSD + SAS/SATA Max SSD Drives Max SAS and SATA Drives FAS2552 96 96 144 FAS2554 96 96 144 FAS2520 84 84 84 13
FAS2500 Designed for Clustered Data ONTAP
Shared S Enterprise storage development Earlier C 15
Supported Clustered Data ONTAP Types of Cluster Interconnect FAS2552 FAS2554 FAS2520 Single-node cluster Two-node switchless cluster interconnect Switched cluster interconnect Max. nodes in Cluster Up to 8 nodes (4 HA pairs) Up to 8 nodes (4 HA pairs) Up to 4 nodes (2 HA pairs) Mixed node configuration 16
FAS2500 Software Bundles Data ONTAP Essentials included with FAS2500 Includes ALL protocols (no FCP for FAS2520) Performance optimization: FlexShare Storage efficiency: thin provisioning, deduplication, compression, Snapshot Core management: System Manager, Operations Manager, Provisioning Manager, Protection Manager High availability: cluster failover, RAID-DP, Snapshot, DSM/MPIO, SyncMirror, OSSV Secure multi-tenancy: MultiStore 17
FAS2500 Preliminary Performance Approximately 25% performance increase for NFS file services Leverages increased total memory of the system Minor gains for Random Writes Minor loss for Sequential Read/Write Improved IO flexibility with UTA2 ports with slight impact on sequential performance 18
NetApp Virtual Storage Tiering NetApp Approach Competition Automated Data Migration Flash Flash FC/SAS FC/SAS SATA SATA Simple Efficient Real-time Less granular Time delayed I/O and CPU intensive Less efficient 19
Virtual Storage Tier Technologies Flash Cache Flash Pool Performance Capacity Performance Capacity + PCI-e Cache HDD HDD What is it? Controller-based PCIe card Plug and play FAS3xxx, 6xxx What does it do? Per controller cache: hot volumes on multiple aggrs Caches random reads What is it? Storage-level RAID-protected cache FAS2xxx, 3xxx, 6xxx What does it do? Specific to aggregates Caches random reads and overwrites Cached data persistence through failovers 20
Server Level PCI-e flash on the host SSD on the host Flash Accel and Server Cache Partners Controller Level Flash-based caching storage acceleration Flash Cache Array Level SSD: persistent caching Flash Pool Flash Array More than 35PB of flash deployed, accelerating over 2 exabytes of storage 21
NetApp OnCommand Management Software Control OnCommand System Manager OnCommand Report My AutoSupport Automate OnCommand Unified Manager SnapManager Software Single Mailbox Recovery Snap Creator Framework SnapManager for Exchange SnapManager for Microsoft SharePoint Server SnapManager for SAP SnapManager for Oracle SnapManager for Microsoft SQL Server SnapManager for Hyper-V SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure SnapDrive for UNIX SnapDrive for Windows Analyze OnCommand Insight Insight Balance Insight Assure Insight Perform Insight Plan 22