NVMe and Flash – Make Your Storage Great Again!
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The document discusses a webinar on optimizing storage solutions using NVMe and flash technologies, addressing key challenges such as performance, cost, and integration into existing environments. It highlights the rapid growth in data and the need for cost-effective flash storage options, while also presenting case studies showcasing significant performance improvements and cost savings. The webinar encourages organizations to consider flexible deployment options and to engage with solution architects for tailored integration strategies.
NVMe and Flash – Make Your Storage Great Again!
- 1. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. WEBINAR NVMe and Flash – Make Your Storage Great Again! Alfons Michels Senior Product Marketing Manager Alex Best Director, Technical Business Development
- 2. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 2 Data and Performance Requirements grow much faster than Budgets 2012 2017 2022 Your data nearly doubles every 2 years Your storage budget growths around 5% per year Mind the gap!
- 3. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. • What are my pain-points? • Performance • Rackspace / Operational cost / Energy • Where does Flash help me? • 10% of Data generate 90% of I/Os • A Flash TB is still x-times more expensive than an HDD TB • What is the performance guarantee? • What is a sustainable / expandable entry into Flash? 3 What should You Consider when You Plan to change to Flash/SSD Storage?
- 4. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 4 • How to integrate the new technology into my existing environment? • Which new processes are necessary to manage my new investments? • Does each application needs its dedicated flash-storage? • How to ensure essential operational capabilities like high availability or transparent failover? • What tools are available in regard to data migration, tiering and thin provisioning? Integration and Management Typical Challenges with Flash-Integration Availability of Functionality Shared usage of Flash Storage
- 5. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 5 • Dedicated insertion of Flash • Cost Effective • Measurable • Seems to be simple to integrate • Does generate (many) Islands to Manage • Cost Effective • Performance Improvement • Seems to be difficult to be Realized • Does it really help My most Demanding Apps? • Seems to ensure best Performance Results • Very cost intensive • No exactly predictable Performance Advantage • Entire Migration Needed The most common ways to add Flash to Your Application(s) Isolate Applications – use Local Flash Rip and Replace towards All Flash Use Hybrid (tiered) Storage (x% Flash)
- 6. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 6 • Shared usage of Flash between server and application • Minimized downtimes and risk at integration • Simple expansion of flash at any time • Real path to all flash integration options • Complete set of all storage services also for flash • Auto-Tiering on block- level Simple Integration and Shared Usage of Flash by leveraging DataCore SDS Hyperconverged Environments Performance Acceleration Layer Dedicated Flash Storage
- 7. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 8 Flash is Fast, but what about its Connection? - 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 Flash in traditional hybrid-array Min. Latency Avg. Latency Max. Latency Min. Read Latency Avg. Read Latency Max. Read Latency Min. Write Latency Avg. Write Latency Max. Write Latency - 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 Flash using DataCore SDS transport Min. Latency Avg. Latency Max. Latency Min. Read Latency Avg. Read Latency Max. Read Latency Min. Write Latency Avg. Write Latency Max. Write Latency
- 8. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 9 Serial Scheduling DataCore Parallel I/O Concurrent tasks End-to-End Parallelism with Parallel I/O NVMe takes advantage of parallel, low latency data paths to underlying media, Parallel I/O takes advantage of multi-cores to remove serial I/O bottlenecks prior to controllers/data paths
- 9. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 10 Data-Caching and -Tiering Less active data will be stored on cost-effective storage Active data will be stored on faster storage Flash/ SAS SAS/ SATA Flash/ NVMe Cloud Hot ColdWarm Archive RAM-Cache Burst
- 10. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 11 Auto-Tiering on Block-level • Not all Tier-1-Applications have data which needs the most performant storage • DataCore predictable ensures that only the most challenging data are stored in Tier-1-Storage Application Data Often Accessed Normally Accessed Rarely Accessed Tier-1 Tier-2 Tier-3 Tier-4 / Archive
- 11. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Live Demo 12
- 12. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 13 Live Demo Setup V-Cluster-2V-Cluster-1 Centos7-1 Centos7swarm Flash Storage DataCore Server Group
- 13. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Real Life Example 14
- 14. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 16 • Provider of Cloud Services & Software for Accounting • Approx. 1000 employees, own datacenter • Business Requirements • Overcome Performance Complains at peak times, e.g. with VAT declarations • Plan to grow Cloud Business 4 Times • Budget Constraints • Initial Situation (storage) • 2 x 90TB HDD (Raid 5 each, mirrored) + 2% SSDs as cache Real Life Example
- 15. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 17 The Solution Application Layer Cloud Services (unchanged) Tier 1: 2x DataCore SDS 2x SN260 NVMe (12,8TB) Tier 2: Classical Flash 2x 2U24 All Flash (SAS SSD, Raid 5, 184 TB) Tier 3: Classical HDD 2x Ultrastar Data60 (HDD, Raid 5, 360 TB)
- 16. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Compared to previous storage setup, this customer achieved: • 600% more capacity • >10 times better Performance • 10TB rebuild with less than 1hr at bandwidth greater 1.5GB/s • Measured using GrafANA test platform • 30-40% lower TCO (over 5 years) • Compared to continuing (w/o extension!) with the old infrastructure 18 Customer Benefits Achieved
- 17. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Summary and Next Steps 19
- 18. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 20 • All-Flash • 80 TB Flash With an assumed HW-Price difference (NVMe Flash vs. SAS HDD) of $900 per TB, You could save (64 x $900) $57,600! • Hybrid (20% flash) • 16 TB NVMe Flash • 64 TB SAS HDD Pointed usage of NVMe Flash: Full Performance, tremendous HW Savings
- 19. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 21
- 20. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 22 Various Deployment Options Traditional Converged (Server-SAN) Hyperconverged Hybrid-Converged With seamless migration between them during regular business operation!
- 21. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. • Schedule a Meeting with our Solution Architects (just click the Link) to figure out, how to integrate Flash via NVMe: • Low Initial Investment and high investment protection . . . • Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and simple management . . . • More Flexibility with Flash and NVMe simply be integrated. . . • Better Economic Efficiency. . . • High Performance for business-critical applications. . . 23 Next Step
- 22. Copyright © 2018 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Questions? info@datacore.com www.datacore.com