webinar: exposing myths of flash storage for virtualization

Exposing The Myths of Flash Storage For Virtualization

Join Us as We Expose These Flash/Virtualization Myths

1. You Must Use All-Flash or Never Use All-Flash

2. Flash Storage is All The Same 3. Deduplication is All The Same and All You Need

4. Integration is All The Same

For audio playback and Q&A go to:

http://bit.ly/FlashMyths

On Demand

Webinar

Our Speakers

Chris has been instrumental in the success of some of the storage industry’s most key companies over the past 10 years. At Tegile, Chris is developing the product marketing strategy and competitive analysis portfolio. Chris’ background includes Sun Microsystems, EMC and Dell/Compellent where he held various roles in technical marketing, sales engineering and competitive analysis. Chris received his BS in Management Information Systems (MIS) at San Jose State University.

George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

https://www.linkedin.com/edu/fos?id=101468&trk=prof-edu-field_of_study

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:

http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

Transforming IT with Intelligent Flash Storage

Enterprise Flash Storage Vendor All-flash & Hybrid in the same system www.tegile.com

Rapidly Growing 700+ customers 1400+ systems deployed

Enabling Business Transformation Application Acceleration Infrastructure Efficiency through Data

Reduction

http://www.tegile.com/

Polling Question

What is Your Biggest Storage Challenge?

A) Reducing Costs

B) Improving Performance

C) Meeting Capacity Demands

D) Stopping Storage System Sprawl

E) All of the above

Polling Question

What is Your Biggest Storage Challenge?

Agenda

• Flash and Virtualization - The Perfect Match

• The Flash and Virtualization Myths

• The Flash Reality

• A Flash Solution

• Q&A

Flash and Virtualization

The Virtualization Problem

The IO Blender

Rotational Media

The Solution for Virtualization

The IO Blender Gets Worse

Rotational MediaStays the same

VM DensityIncreases

Flash Acts as theShock Absorber

And the Flash Myth is Born


VM DensityIncreases


How Can Flash Be Implemented?

Legacy Approach

Retrofit legacy arrays with SSDs Tiering s/w for passive migration Expensive & inefficient

SERVER

Server-Side Flash

Flash storage in server High performance VMs in server islands No shared storage No HA

SERVER

SERVER

SERVER

SERVER

Scale-Out

Clustered DAS servers SSD & HDD DAS Inconsistent performance CPU & memory shared across

apps & storage tasks

Interim Band-Aid Solution Limited Use Cases Problems at ScaleVirtualization Dependent

Hybrid Arrays

SSD for perf HDD for capacity Perf-capacity-cost

balance Managed Performance

For Most Workloads

All-Flash Arrays

High performance Cost prohibitive for all

workloads Consistent

Performance

For High-Perf Workloads

Flash MythsSeparating Fact From Fiction

● You Must Use All-Flash

● Flash Storage is All The Same

● Deduplication is All The Same

● Integration is All The Same

You must use All-Flash

The IO Blender Eliminated

No Limits to VM Density Costs Increase

You must use All-Flash

No Limits to VM Density

Alternative is Hybrid Array


All-Flash vs. Hybrid

Hybrid Arrays


balance Managed

Performance

For Most Workloads

All-Flash Arrays


workloads Consistent Performance


Beware of options that only address a limited number of use cases.

All Flash & Hybrid storage addresses a broader set of workloads.

Not All Flash-Based Arrays Are Created Equal

Periodic data migration across tiers Policy-based or ad-hoc migration Admin mediated Coarse level of granularity for migration

Legacy “Bolt-on” Tiered Storage Next-Generation Flash Storage

Intelligent Caching Real-time Fine-grained Specific Locking

Performance Layer

CapacityLayer

Implementation Differences

Type of SSD Most arrays use lower-end cMLC – endurance concerns

Caching Most arrays use flash only for caching reads Optimizing metadata access is important

Data Reduction Some arrays only provide compression – no dedupe Some arrays only dedupe data in SSDs, not HDDs

Drive Down Storage Costs with Data Reduction Inline compression and deduplication can shrink storage footprint up to 90%

Leverage Flash for Meta Data and run data efficiency on flash and disk Eliminates the flash capacity can be free statement

Redundant OS images are reduced to a single instance and stored in flash

Save on rack space, power/cooling, storage sprawl

Flash Integration

Legacy Approach

Retrofit legacy arrays with SSDs Tiering s/w for passive migration Expensive & inefficient

SERVER

Server-Side Flash

Flash storage in server High performance VMs in server islands No shared storage No HA

SERVER

SERVER

SERVER

SERVER

Scale-Out

Clustered DAS servers SSD & HDD DAS Inconsistent performance CPU & memory shared across

apps & storage tasks

Interim Band-Aid Solution Limited Use Cases Problems at ScaleVirtualization Dependent

Hybrid Arrays


balance Managed Performance

For Most Workloads

All-Flash Arrays


workloads Consistent

Performance


Expensive and Inconsistent

Shared StoragePros/Cons

Networking and Scale Issues

Inconsistent andNot Cluster Ready

Shared Storage Considerations

Shared Storage Protocols

Fibre Channel may make your deployment too expensive

iSCSI and NAS may not meet your IOPS needs

An array providing SMB\CIFS enables you to consolidate storage

You need choice to meet user expectations and to drive consolidation

Hybrid Arrays for Storage Consolidation

Hybrid Flash Array

Server Virtualization Desktop Virtualization Databases


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Fixed Content

Web Apps / Streaming

Test / Dev Messaging Collaboration Warehousing Analytics OLTP

We are in the Early Stages of the Flash Revolution

Archive Data Active Data Critical Data

High CapacityHigh Latency

Medium CapacityMedium Latency

Low LatencyHigh Data Rate

Lowest LatencyMax IOPS

HDD ONLY HDD + FLASH FLASH ONLY


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Focus Areas

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Server Virtualization

VDI

5–7x performance increase

40% data reduction

VM-consistent snapshots

VM-level metrics

1000 desktops on entry-level

box

85% data reduction

Single array for desktop &

data

Boot and login storm

mitigation

33% data reduction

Pin logs in FlashVols

40,000 mailboxes; 45% data

reduction

Databases

Single platform for multiple workloads


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Tegile Intelligent Flash Arrays

Same Operating System Same Feature Set Same User

Experience

All-Flash Storage Array Balanced

performance

Very high performanc

e

Optimize Performance, Capacity & Cost

Tegile IntelliFlash™ Architecture

Hybrid Storage Array


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Tegile IntelliFlash Portfolio

Low Latency Business Critical Applications

Consolidated, Virtualized Business Workloads

ALL FLASH HYBRID STORAGE

T3100 T3200 T3300 T3400

A/A Dual Ctrl Rack Units 3U 3U 2U 2U

Max Raw Capacity 170TB 180TB 162TB 314TB

T3600 T3700 T3800

2U 2U 2U

300TB 312TB 336TB

TEST/DEV MESSAGING COLLABORATION WAREHOUSING ANALYTICS OLTP


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Compromise Nothing with Tegile Intelligent Flash Arrays

PERFORMANCE ECONOMICS PROTECTION MULTI-PROTOCOL

Patented metadata acceleration

R/W/Meta in DRAM/SSD cache

Pin data sets in all SSD pools

Sustained low-latency

Inline Deduplication

Inline Compression Zero Elimination Thin Provisioning Automatic Block

Reclamation

Dual Active/Active controllers

Multiple RAID options

VM Aware Thin Snapshots

Instantaneous Thin Clones

Block-based Remote replication

Use block & file simultaneously

Block: Fibre Channel & iSCSI

File: NFS & CIFS/SMB

All Software Features Bundled


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With Tegile, You Can…

5x—10x improvement in performance and latency

Consistent user experience

Accelerate Your Applications

50%—90% data reduction

Reduce power, cooling and rack space needs

Reduce Your Storage Footprint

25%—50% lower costs

Reduce server CPU cores and software licenses

Cut your Operational

Costs

Thank you!

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Exposing The Myths of Flash Storage For Virtualization

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