TechTarget Event - Storage Architectures for the Modern Data Center - Jeramiah Dooley
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The document discusses the evolution of storage architecture towards all-flash arrays designed for modern data centers, emphasizing consumption models like best-of-breed appliances, hyper-converged infrastructures, and software on commodity hardware. It highlights the importance of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency, while introducing SolidFire's offerings, which include guaranteed quality of service and comprehensive management features. The content also addresses challenges in data services and operational costs, providing a roadmap for organizations navigating these changes.
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Performance and Capacity
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TechTarget Event - Storage Architectures for the Modern Data Center - Jeramiah Dooley
- 1. Hello Storage Architecture and Data Services: The Real Flash Revolution
- 2. The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center Jeramiah Dooley Principal Flash Architect @jdooley_clt Now Part of NetApp
- 3. What Are We Talking About Today? • Consumption Models • Architecture Matters…But Why? • What Happened to Storage? • The Big Question • Are We There Yet?
- 4. Modern Infrastructure Consumption Models Best of Breed Appliance As a Service Hyper Converged Converged Infrastructure Software on Commodity Hardware Now Part of NetApp
- 5. The Infrastructure Consumption Continuum SMB / Startups Large Enterprise Hyperscale / SP Best of Breed Appliance Hyper Converged As a Service Software on Commodity Hardware Converged Infrastructure Ease of ImplementationEasier Harder Degree of Vendor Lock-‐InMore Lock-‐In Less Lock-‐In Implementation FlexibilityLess Flexible More Flexible Cost EfficiencyAt Small Scale At Large Scale
- 6. SolidFire Consumption Models Element Operating System Converged Infrastructure Agile Infrastructure Best of Breed Appliance SF Series Appliances As a Service Scale-‐Out Infrastructure Agility Guaranteed Quality of Service Complete System Automation In-‐Line Data Reduction Self Healing High Availability Software on Commodity Hardware element
- 7. Flash V2 - All Flash Array Flash V1 PCI Flash Flash for the Next Generation Data Center Requirements constantly changing Consumes the most capital and time Applying All-‐Flash in your Data Center PerformanceLow Performance and Capacity (Public / Private Cloud, IaaS) High Cheap and Deep [object / file] (Backup / Archive / Video Streaming) Performance at any cost (Transactional Processing / Trading Platforms) # of Applications
- 8. Architecture Matters. But Why? Photo Credit: http://www.storagereview.com/emc_vnx5200_review
- 9. Fuel Management is Everything
- 10. Data Services Are Expensive
- 11. New Tech, Same Problems Operational Costs Data Center Costs Efficiency
- 12. What Happened to Storage? VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESXi Resource Pool Physical Servers
- 13. New Tech, Same Problems Operational Costs Data Center Costs Efficiency …we could address any size pool of storage the business needed? What If…
- 14. 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
- 15. • Replication (synchronous / asynchronous) • Integrated cloud backup • Snapshots & clones • Global efficiencies • 256-bit encryption-at-Rest • Comprehensive logging • Cloud based monitoring • Secure multi-tenancy (VLAN support, volume access groups) • Simultaneous multiprotocol support (FC / iSCSI) • Deep integrations: VMware, OpenStack, CloudStack All Inclusive Feature Set
- 16. Platform Building Blocks 2405 • 5 to 10TB effective capacity • 50,000 guaranteed IOPS 4805 • 10 to 20TB effective capacity • 50,000 guaranteed IOPS 9605 • 20 to 40TB effective capacity • 50,000 guaranteed IOPS 9010 • 20 to 40TB effective capacity • 75,000 guaranteed IOPS SolidFire’s Effective capacity calculation accounts for Helix data protection, system overhead and global efficiencies including compression, deduplication and thin provisioning. SolidFire customers typically achieve an effective capacity range of 5x to 10x the raw capacity depending on application workloads.
- 17. Scale-‐Out Wins Performance Capacity 43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS 60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS 52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS 200,000 IOPS35 TB PERFORMANCE VIRTUALIZATION (IOPS) CAPACITY VIRTUALIZATION (GB)CPU RESOURCES (CORES) SYSTEM MEMORY (GB)
- 18. CAPACITY PERFORMANCE CPU MEMORY Building Blocks of Resources NODES NON-DISRUPTIVE GRANULAR MIX NODES SCALE OUT/IN NO FORKLIFT UPGRADES SO LIDFIRE CLUSTER 1 SO LIDFIRE CLUSTER 2 SO LIDFIRE CLUSTER 3 2405 Gen X Element OS | S C A L E O U T 4805 CAPACITY PERFORMANCE CPU MEMORY CAPACITY PERFORMANCE CPU MEMORY
- 19. How QoS Works VOLUME Per Volume QoS Settings 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 VO LUME 2 100 Min 500 Max 700 BurstVO LUME 1 Element OS | G U A R A N T E E D P E R F O R M A N C E CLUSTER
- 20. Tech Fixed, What About Operations
- 21. Simplified Management 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 API
- 22. TIME YOUR BUSINESS DESIGN Initial size (GB or IOPS) INSTALLATION OPERATING GB and IOPS required Account Creation SCALING GB and IOPS needed UPGRADEDESIGN Initial size (GB or IOPS) Anticipated growth over lifecycle of array IOPS required lifetime of product Node size selection RAID type, RAID grouping Drive type (FC, NL, Flash) Drive quantities and ratio Cache requirements Drive Sparing Aggregate/CPG MetaLUN and Bin file layout INSTALLATION Bin File/RAID Layout Aggregate/MetaLUN creation Snapshot spare spacing Vol0/quorum drive layout Aggregate snapshot frequency Snapshot growth limits OPERATING GB and IOPS required Account Creation Host to HBA assignment and tracking Host initiator count limits RAID type required Primary Control Node assignment IOPS limitation concerns Snapshot growth policy Thin Provisioning (or not) Aggregate/CPG assignment 40% CPU limit considerations SCALING GB and IOPS needed Drive Shelves required Power/floor space restrictions Control node limitations (CPU storage) UPGRADE HBA compatibility list CPU utilization on control nodes Maintenance window Mitigate risk during node outage Internally Automated Storage System Tasks OTHER VENDORS Element OS | A U T O M A T E D M A N A G E M E N T
- 23. VDI Initiative Dev/Test Initiative Application Start With One Project … Transform As You Go Nodes IT Projects Automation SOLIDFIRE CAPACITY PERFORMANCE vCenter Power- Shell SPBM vRealize VDI Initiative Database Cloud Initiative Application Self-Service IT
- 25. Fuel the Software-‐Defined Data Center with SolidFire INTEGRATION SOLIDFIRE AUTOMATION BUSINESS VALUE Automated Management Guaranteed Performance Global Efficiency Scale-‐Out Data Assurance vCenter Plug-in PowerShell Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) End User Computing Infrastructure Delivery Application Deployment SIOC + QoS VAAI VASA VM SRM VVol Virtualization Platform Business Value vRealize Suite
- 26. Thank You