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Jeramiah Dooley Principal Architect, SolidFire

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The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center

Why are OpenStack Deployments Slow?

•  GOOD ANSWERS •  Different technology that requires different skillsets •  Responding to new consumption models takes planning •  Workload availability is important, risk is high •  Transformation is hard

•  BAD ANSWERS •  It’s unstable •  It’s too complex, and requires us to own the PhDs •  There are no good examples to follow •  It’s too new

What SolidFire Sees In the Field

•  About 40% of our pipeline, across both SP and Enterprise is OpenStack related

•  The OpenStack ecosystem has come a long way •  Real ecosystem: code contributors, project leaders,

champions •  ‘Fake’ ecosystem: usually hardware vendors who are just

writing drivers •  Deployment process is so (SO) much better than it has been •  Enterprises are seriously working to figure out how to integrate

OpenStack from an operational standpoint

What Do Customers Need?

1.  Help understanding the operational impact of OpenStack 2.  Help understanding which workloads are best suited for

OpenStack 3.  Examples of what works and what doesn’t

For almost every enterprise we talk to evaluating OpenStack, storage is a huge question mark!

Let’s Get Started!

•  Overview of SolidFire storage solution •  Details on SolidFire Cinder driver capabilities •  Overview of Agile Infrastructure reference designs •  Best Practices and Lessons Learned

High performance storage systems designed for large scale infrastructure

Industry Leading Quality of Service (QoS)

Scale-Out Architecture •  4 – 100 nodes •  35TB – 3.4PB Usable Capacity •  200k – 7.5M Controllable IOPS

Simple all inclusive pricing model Direct Tier 3 Support

for every customer

Industry-standard hardware •  10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC

All-flash storage platform for the next generation data center.

Scale-Out Infrastructure Agility

Guaranteed Quality of Service

Complete System Automation

In-Line Data Reduction

Self Healing High Availability

Scale-Out Agility

Performance

Capacity 200,000 IOPS 35 TB

Scale-Out Agility

Performance

Capacity

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

200,000 IOPS 35 TB Guaranteed Compatibility between all SolidFire storage nodes

•  Future-Proof your storage investment •  Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades •  Never wait 3 years for an upgrade

Linear Scale of Performance and Capacity

Expand / Contract without disruption or reconfiguration

Scale-Out Agility

Performance

Capacity

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS





Scale-Out Agility

Performance

Capacity

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS

52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS





SolidFire QoS Eliminates of traditional performance related storage problems - ESG 2015

Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)

Dynamically Allocate, Manage and Guarantee storage performance independent of capacity

Define / enforce Min, Max and Burst settings for each application / volume

Capacity & Performance

SOLIDFIRE CLUSTER 17 TB 50k IOPS

17 TB 50k IOPS

17 TB 50k IOPS

17 TB 50k IOPS

17 TB 50k IOPS

CAPACITY VIRTUALIZATION (GB)

PERFORMANCE VIRTUALIZATION (IOPS)

68 TB AVAILABLE

200 K AVAILABLE

VOLUMES

Element OS | G U A R A N T E E D P E R F O R M A N C E

Capacity & Performance

SOLIDFIRE CLUSTER 17 TB 50k IOPS

17 TB 50k IOPS

17 TB 50k IOPS

17 TB 50k IOPS

17 TB 50k IOPS

CAPACITY VIRTUALIZATION (GB)

PERFORMANCE VIRTUALIZATION (IOPS)

VOLUMES


How QoS Works

VOLUME

Per Volume QoS Se1ngs

Burst 2,000 Max 1,000 Min 100

APP BEHAVIOR Burst

Max

Min


CLUSTER

How QoS Works

VOLUME

Per Volume QoS Se1ngs

Burst 2,000 Max 1,000 Min 100

APP BEHAVIOR Burst

Max

Min

MIXED WORKLOAD ENVIRONMENT

100 Min

200 Max

300 Burst

Volume

3

1000 Min

1500 Max

2000 Burst

VOLUME

2

100 Min

500 Max 700 Burst VOLUME

1


CLUSTER

Empower Enterprise IT to deliver greater strategic value to the business •  Native REST-based API

•  Deep integration with management & orchestration platforms

•  Support development of user-facing storage controls

•  Reduce risk of human error and associated with complex administrative tasks\

•  Enables rapid deployment of applications & services


“Spin up virtual machines up to 81% faster than traditional storage” – ESG 2015

“SolidFire Automation helps lower operating expenses by up to

– ESG 2015

Create Volume API Call { "method": "CreateVolume", "params": { "name": "<Volume Name>", "accountID": 1, "totalSize": 10000, "enable512e": false, "aLributes": {}, "qos": { "minIOPS": 100, "maxIOPS": 200, "burstIOPS": 300 } }, "id": 1 }

Simplified Management

API

CUSTOM INTEGRATION INTERFACES PLUG-INS TOOLS

Self-service Portals

Homegrown Apps

User Interface Active IQ

PowerShell SDKs

VMware vCenter OpenStack CloudStack

Element OS | A U T O M A T E D M A N A G E M E N T

TIME YOUR BUSINESS

DESIGN IniQal size (GB or IOPS)

INSTALLATION OPERATING GB and IOPS required

Account CreaQon

SCALING GB and IOPS needed

UPGRADE DESIGN IniQal size (GB or IOPS)

AnQcipated growth over lifecycle of array

IOPS required lifeQme of product

Node size selecQon

RAID type, RAID grouping

Drive type (FC, NL, Flash)

Drive quanQQes and raQo

Cache requirements

Drive Sparing

Aggregate/CPG

MetaLUN and Bin file layout

INSTALLATION Bin File/RAID Layout

Aggregate/MetaLUN creaQon

Snapshot spare spacing

Vol0/quorum drive layout

Aggregate snapshot frequency

Snapshot growth limits

OPERATING GB and IOPS required

Account CreaQon

Host to HBA assignment and tracking

Host iniQator count limits

RAID type required

Primary Control Node assignment

IOPS limitaQon concerns

Snapshot growth policy

Thin Provisioning (or not)

Aggregate/CPG assignment

40% CPU limit consideraQons


Drive Shelves required

Power/floor space restricQons

Control node limitaQons (CPU storage)

UPGRADE HBA compaQbility list

CPU uQlizaQon on control nodes

Maintenance window

MiQgate risk during node outage

Storage System Tasks OTHER VENDORS


DESIGN IniQal size (GB or IOPS)

INSTALLATION OPERATING GB and IOPS required

Account CreaQon


UPGRADE

Storage System Tasks


•  Performance tuning, caching or load balancing •  Tiering, prioritization or caching to manage •  Short Stroking or over provisioning •  RAID group or spare drive management •  Fire drills to replace failed disks, shelves, or controllers •  Generational upgrades or platform migrations


NO MORE:

•  Platform Compatibility Guarantee –  Ensures that all future software &

platforms from SolidFire will interoperate with existing infrastructure

•  Unlimited Drive Wear Guarantee –  Eliminate concerns around flash

endurance –  No restrictions on use-case or workload

Never Obsolete Unparalleled Investment Protection No more forklift upgrades

▪  SolidFire Cinder driver enables all OpenStack block storage features

▪  Ability to set and maintain true QoS levels on a per-volume basis

▪  Create, snap, clone and manage SolidFire volumes directly

▪  Run OpenStack instances on a SolidFire volume

▪  Eliminates arduous management layers between OpenStack and the storage system

▪  SolidFire driver fully integrated into OpenStack - no additional features / licenses required

Customer Success Deep OpenStack Integration Validated Interoperability

The Block Storage Choice for OpenStack

SolidFire Agile Infrastructure

▪  A series of pre-validated converged infrastructure reference designs

▪  Modular design focus at all levels ▪  Built for dynamic IT-as-a-Service

consumption model ▪  Accelerating time-to-value for operators and

administrators deploying a functional cloud infrastructure

▪  Supported by a complete ecosystem of vendors, partners and community

Compute / Networking

Cloud Management Stack

OrchestraQon Layer

ApplicaQons

SolidFire Agile Infrastructure

for for

Compute / Networking

Cloud Management Stack

OrchestraQon Layer

ApplicaQons

Software Defined pools of compute, networking & storage

Operational Benefits of AI

Agile

<30 minutes to provision from bare metal to OS <30 minutes to install and configure OpenStack

Automated

Linear Scalability of compute & storage nodes Scalable

Maintain consistent performance via guaranteed QoS Predictable

Integrated Efficiency with cluster wide dedupe & compression 27U rack footprint - 360 cores, ~1000 vCPUs, 250k IOPS, 40TBs

Efficient

AI for OpenStack Logical Framework

▪  Modularity at every level ▪  Built on vendor and

community best practices

▪  Deep integration up the management stack

▪  Support for 3rd Party Tools

5 Networks to segregate traffic and provide security: •  Administrative Network •  Data Center Network •  OpenStack Service Network •  Storage Network •  Private network

AI for OpenStack Network Topology

Physical Network Layout to Allow Scalability in Any Vector •  Add OpenStack Nodes •  Add SolidFire Nodes •  Add Upstream Bandwidth •  Add Racks •  Add Data Centers

AI for OpenStack Network Topology

Optimized for Mixed Workloads

Software Development Lifecycle •  Test / Development •  QA, Staging, Production

•  3-Tier Apps •  Example: LAMP stacks

Large Scale Web Applications

Persistent Block Storage

Databases

•  On Premise Versions of Amazon Elastic Block Storage •  Provisioned IOPS (e.g. pIOPS)

•  Database Consolidation •  Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

Sample Use Cases Examples

•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Certification Test Suite •  Tempest Test •  Deployment

–  Provision from bare metal to operating system 17 nodes within 30 minutes –  Install and configure OpenStack on the same 17 nodes in less than 30 minutes

•  Scalability –  Verify the ability to scale block storage and compute instances –  Dynamically add compute nodes into the environment

•  Resource Agility –  Time to deploy 1000 Instances: 2.5 hours –  Time to delete 1000 Instances: 11 minutes –  Time to boot 1000 volumes as new Instances: 2.25 hours –  Time to delete 1000 instances and volumes: 17 minutes

Validated and Tested Use Cases

•  Quality of Service (QoS) –  Demonstrate the QoS merits of the SolidFire storage system by showing multiple

applications running in parallel on the same shared storage infrastructure •  database •  file/web server •  general operating system IO •  readonly •  writeonly •  80/20 mixed read/write

–  Allow users to specify the IO requirements for a volume at create time

Validated and Tested Use Cases (Cont.)

General OpenStack Best Practices and Lessons Learned •  Really understand what you want to accomplish •  Storage choices are complex and critical •  Use a trusted distro to cover your weaknesses •  OpenStack is not a VMware replacement.

Seriously! •  Think big, start small: stick with defcore, graduate

into Big Tent •  Don’t roll beta/dev/test into production. Please? •  What are you leaving for the next guy?

•  For more on building an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure visit SolidFire.com/OpenStack

•  For more on accelerating your OpenStack adoption with Agile Infrastructure visit Solidfire.com/AI

•  To see OpenStack and SolidFire in action, request a demo -- SolidFire.com/Get-Started

Want to learn more?

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Global

Enabling Customer Success •  Founded 2010 •  Funding $150M, Series D •  GA Product since Nov 2012 •  Over 2500 nodes shipped •  More than 45PB under mgt •  Fueling over 58,000 business

Proven

Updated 1/30/15

#1 ALL-FLASH ARRAY CC 2014

#1 ALL-FLASH ARRAY CC 2015

The Most Complete AFA Feature Set •  Scale-out Architecture •  Self Healing High Availability •  Guaranteed QoS •  Complete System Automation •  In-line Data Reduction •  3 Replication Options

•  3rd Generation of Hardware •  8th Generation of Software

Innovative

•  Real-Time Replication •  Integrated Backup and Restore •  Encryption at Rest •  Snapshots and Clones •  Consistency Group Snapshots •  VLAN tagging / Multi-tenant Networking •  SNMP Monitoring •  Simultaneous Multiprotocol Support (FC / iSCSI)

All Inclusive Feature Set

Platform Building Blocks

2405 •  8.6TB effective capacity •  50,000 guaranteed IOPS

4805 •  17TB effective capacity •  50,000 guaranteed IOPS



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