Fusion ioMemory Flash for SQL Server 2012

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IOMEMORY FLASH FOR SQL SERVER 2012

Sumeet Bansal, Principal Solutions Architect, Fusion-io

FLASH SUCCEEDS NEAR THE CPU

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Nanoseconds - Microseconds ACCESS DELAY Milliseconds

ioMemory L1, L2 & L3 CPU Cache

DRAM

Storage Area Network

FLASH SUCCEEDS NEAR THE CPU

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Check out this video if you don’t believe me…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-_Hr5f7QHw

MS SQL SERVER DEPLOYMENT METHODS

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Max Acceleration Max Cost Optimization Max Scalability •  Lowest latency •  Smallest footprint •  For I/O intensive applications

•  Drop-in SAN/NAS acceleration •  Storage workload reduction •  Greater VM density

•  Multi-protocol •  Platform independent •  For clustered architectures

STAND ALONE VIRTUAL CLUSTERED

FLASH OPTIMIZATION


STAND ALONE deployments ▸  ioMemory is used to create logical volumes to contain the data

and the log files. If needed specific files can be placed on ioMemory based volume

▸  directCache can be used to work with existing SAN

▸  Best read and write performance is delivered

▸  Mirroring or SQL server 2012 Always On for High Availability is used

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AVAILABILITY GROUP FOR HA AND DISASTER RECOVERY

Synchronous Mirror

Asynchronous Mirror

Primary (server 1)

Secondary (server 2)

Secondary (server 3)

Primary Data Center Disaster Recovery Data Center

Availability Group


IOMEMORY AS DIRECTCACHE

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▸  Place large tables and active data on the cached LUN •  directCache accelerates reads

▸  Use ioMemory as block storage for data requiring fast writes •  log files, tempdb, indexes,

partition tables …

▸  Need to keep them in separate ioDrives or use ioDrive Duo

▸  Manage both modes with ioSphere

ioMemory as Block and Cache Storage

Database Application

•  Logs •  Temp DB •  Indexes

Primary Tables

Cached Blocks



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FLASH OPTIMIZATION


VIRTUAL deployments ▸  Brings bare-metal performance to Virtualized environments

▸  Use ioMemory with ioTurbine to cache virtual guests on VMware

▸  Continue to use existing SANs

▸  ioTurbine is compatible with vMotion


EXTERNAL STORAGE FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES TOO COSTLY

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Virtual environments demand IOPS, but centralized storage cannot deliver

Virtual machine density and physical host density drastically reduce shared IOPS

External storage challenges ▸  Fixed IOPS ▸  High $/IOP ▸  Must be shared

SAN/NFS Storage IOPS

200,000 IOPS Total

10,000 IOPS (assuming 20 hosts)

1,000 IOPS (assuming 10 SQL VMs)


IOTURBINE DELIVERS IOPS TO HOSTS AND VIRTUAL MACHINES


Fusion-io ioDrives and ioTurbine Software scales IOPS for virtual machines

Plentiful IOPS at host ▸  7,500 per virtual machine ▸  75,000 per host ▸  1,500,000 IOPS in aggregate

Significantly reduce external storage costs ▸  Tune for capacity, not performance $

1,500,000 IOPS in aggregate

(assuming 20 hosts)

Tune for capacity, not IOPS

75,000 IOPS per host

7,500 IOPS per SQL VM

SAN/NFS Storage

IOPS



VMware vCenter

ioTurbine Management Server

vCenter integration

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SAN/NFS Storage


SQL VMs


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FLASH OPTIMIZATION


CLUSTERED deployments ▸  ION Data Accelerator provides a very fast shared storage

▸  ION can be accessed via FC, IB, iSCSI

▸  Can be purchased as just a piece of software that can transform a server with ioMemory into ION Data Accelerator or as a pre-assembled kit

▸  Completely open source without any vendor lock-in


BEFORE

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RAID

MS SQL Server Cluster

Fibre Channel Switch

AFTER

MS SQL Server Cluster

Fibre Channel Switch

ION Data Accelerator

▸  2x-20x Increase in application performance

▸  Higher IOPS

▸  Very Low Cost

▸  Open systems server hardware

▸  Break vendor lock-in

BENEFITS

Entire Database

Entire Database HA


ION DATA ACCELERATOR HIGH AVAILABILITY

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LUN 0 LUN 0

LUN 1 LUN 1

LUN 0 LUN 1

40Gb


HOW TO GET FEET WET

▸  Caching solutions - directCache or ioTurbine ▸  Tempdb acceleration using ioMemory (even for a cluster)

▸  Gradually move towards a more deeper integration


HERE ARE SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT I CAN SHARE


BEFORE YOU LEAVE…


1 MS SQL Server 4 1.2 ioDrive2

25 Billion Transactions/Day

Number of estimated Credit card transactions around the globe in a single day

http://www.fusionio.com/blog/powering-global-commerce-with-sql-server-iomemory/

T H A N K Y O U

Sumeet Bansal Principal Solutions Architect [email protected]

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