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Why Host Based Flash is critical for SLAs in Mission Critical Datacenters

Ryan Jancaitis – Product Management

Arun Balakrishnan – Product Marketing

Mike Reynolds – Product Marketing

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Agenda

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Market Trends & Analysis on Flash

Symantec focus on In-Server Flash

Summary

Processing Power

• Client sprawl strains shared storage infrastructure

• Concurrent & blended IOs aggravate the I/O bottleneck

• 8% of all data requires low latency, high IOPS

• NextGen applications are designed for low latency

Data Processing Challenges – Data centers need to evolve

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Substantial Data Growth

• Data is increasingly more decentralized/compressed/deduped

• Tiering data is a focal point

• Big Data analytics require temporary data moves

• Network latency is no longer acceptable

Mixed Workloads

• Tier 1 I/O competes with Dev and Test workloads

• Majority of start-up market is focused on virtualization acceleration

• Increase in virtual storage appliances adoption

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Flash storage solutions provide significant improvements over current technologies

Fibre channel SAN (7 ms)

FAST FASTER FASTEST

SSD Arrays (0.1 ms)

PCIe Flash (25 µs)

• Moves active data closer to the CPU

• Increased server consolidation

• 5-10x increase in per machine VM density

• Spike-free low latency and balanced read/write performance

• Consumes 80% less space and power than HDD performance storage

• 15,000 RPM disk provides only ~150 random IOPS

• High access time delays

• Increased failure rates due to moving parts and wear and tear.

In-server Flash poses new challenges for enterprises

Challenges • Expensive • Cache coherency • Cache hinting • Shared resources • Functional coordination

Hypervisor

VM VM

App App App App

Hypervisor

VM VM

App App App App

Hypervisor

VM VM

App App App App

Cache

Benefits • High performance • Improved server utilization • Virtualize backend storage

Storage array

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• Traditional Data

Centers Rally

• Data Efficiency

Management Software

• Support and Services

• Progressive Data

Centers Lead

• Inexpensive Solutions

• PCIe SSD, PC SSD,

and SSD Appliances

Data Center customer deployment trends

44%

56%

2012 SSD Shipments 5.99M Units

Progressive

Traditional

32%

68%

2016 SSD Shipments 18.01M Units

Progressive

Traditional

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1 Source: Gartner Data Center conference, Dec 2012

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Business value of in-Server Flash: Leverage commodity storage in backend

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FC

…

$/GB

$$

$/IOPs

$$$$$

IOPs Today

c

IOP Futures

Without in-server Flash --> High Cost, low performance

FC/IB

…

$/GB

$$

$/IOPs

$$

IOPs Today

c

IOP Futures

Symantec Stack

Tier 2/3

High Density

With software + Server Flash + Cheap SAN Storage

Oracle 11gR2 1.4 TB Data Files

2000 Warehouses 100 Users

Management software + Best-in-class hardware: Managed Performance

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512GB

80 Cores

Data Volumes: 8k 3-way Stripe

3700 Series 800 GB

Redo Logs: 4k

Storage Foundation 4.5x SAN performance

20% SAN Cost*

* Pro-rated cost for EMC VMAX 20K using 1/5th of Available Capacity

But… What about redundancy? What about high availability? What happens if hardware fails?

Data Volume: 8k 3-Way

Stripe/Mirror

Redo Logs: 4k Mirrored

Management software + Best-in-class hardware: Managed Performance

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IB

Cluster File System

Oracle 11gR2 1.4 TB Data Files

2000 Warehouses 100 Users

With… Full Data Redundancy Fast-failover capabilities Disaster Recovery App/Server Administrator Control

4x SAN performance

22% SAN Cost*

* Pro-rated cost for EMC VMAX 20K using 1/5th of Available Capacity

Oracle Exadata

Large financial replaces Exadata with Cluster File System and Violin Memory array

Veritas Cluster File System and Violin V3000

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• Storage Saturation

• No flexibility

• Oracle Exadata acquisition costs

• HA/DR overhead

• Expensive snapshots

• Not optimized for Online transaction processing (OLTP)

• 2x performance improvement

• 66% cost reduction

• No SSD saturation

• No HA/DR overhead

• Space-optimized, cost-effective snapshots

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