Hybrid Storage: The Proof is in the Performance

Copyright © 2014 Fusion-io, Inc. All rights reserved. January 23, 2014

Agenda

▸ Introductions

•  John Tolly, Director of Engineering, The Tolly Group

▸  ioControl Hybrid Storage overview

▸ Tolly Group test results

▸  ioControl SPX test results

▸ Housekeeping

•  Use the Chat feature to ask questions throughout

Fusion ioControl Hybrid Storage

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iSCSI Hybrid Solution

ioControl Software

Data Reduction

Data Protection

Dynamic Data Placement

Service Levels

Quality of Service

PERFORMANCE 10x

DATA CENTER FOOTPRINT 1/3

CAPACITY 2x Active-Active HA

ioMemory and Disk Drives

Up to 300,000 IOPS

Up to 192 TB CAPACITY

Transformational Hybrid Design

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Incremental Innovation

•  Active-passive •  Sacrifice capacity for performance •  Performance is bottlenecked by RAID controller •  Solid-state for reads only

Other Hybrids Architectural Leap

•  Active-active •  ioMemory runs at CPU and RAM speeds •  Capacity is maximized •  ioMemory for reads and writes

85% lower OPEX

50% lower $/IOPS

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Provision Performance With QoS

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Eliminate Contention with QoS

Manage Performance

Capacity 250 GB 500 GB 900 GB Performance 4 ms 10 ms 50 ms

10 Gb/s 4 Gb/s 2 Gb/s

30,000 IOPS 25,000 IOPS 5,000 IOPS

Guaranteed Minimum

Performance Mission Critical Business

Critical Non-

Critical

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Prioritized Performance in Degraded Mode

Impose Service Levels

Guaranteed Minimum

Performance

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Mission Critical

Business Critical

Non-Critical

No Impact

Impact is prioritized

Intelligent Read and Write Caching

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Dynamic Data Placement

High  Priority  Data  

Low  Priority  Data  

Execution Queue

Real-Time Data Path Decisions Mission Critical

Business Critical

Non- Critical

I/O Blocks

Prioritize Mission Critical I/O

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End-to-End Scalability

Max Host Acceleration •  Lowest latency •  Directed performance boost

Max Shared Performance •  Double shared performance •  Zero footprint increase

Max Capacity •  Scale in 48TB increments •  Online expansion

Scale Host Performance Storage Capacity Storage Performance

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Hybrid Hybrid

Test  Overview    Fusion-­‐io  ioControl  n5  Hybrid  Storage  Architecture

 

Ê   Fusion-­‐io  commissioned  Tolly  to  evaluate  the  performance  of  its  ioControl  Hybrid  storage  approach  against  a  similarly-­‐equipped  conventional  NVRAM+SSD+Disk  hybrid  solution.  

Ê   Tolly  found  the  Fusion-­‐io  solution  to  offer  high  performance  and  scalability.  In  block  level  access  tests,  Fusion-­‐io  provided  up  to  700%  better  performance  than  the  conventional  NVRAM+SSD+Disk  solution  under  test.  

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Fusion ioControl n5 Random Read/Random Write Performance vs. Conventional Array

Fusion ioControl n5 Simulated VM Density and Latency vs. Conventional Array

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Notes: Testing consisted of 2x Spirent 10GbE ports, each generating 5 Gbps of Layer 3 traffic. Test runs lasted 5 minutes.

Fusion ioControl n5 Aggregate VM Read Throughput

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Fusion ioControl n5 VDI “Boot Storm” VM Ready Time

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Fusion ioControl n5 Test Bed Topology

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Summary    

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The  Fusion  ioControl  n5  Hybrid  Storage  Architecture:  

Ê  Provides,  on  average,  160%  higher  virtual  machine  (VM)  density,  with  60%  less  latency  than  conventional  arrays  

Ê  Delivers,  on  average,  740%  more  64K  random  read  IOPS  and  53%  more  64K  random  write  IOPS  

Ê  Leverages  “Active/Active”  PCIe  flash  architecture  to  provide  high  bandwidth  to  applications  

Ê  Provides  in  excess  of  1500MBps  of  read  throughput  to  I/O-­‐intensive  activities  such  as  virtual  desktop  infrastructure  (VDI)  “boot  storms”  

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ABOUT  TOLLY  Currently in their 24th year, Tolly is a leading global provider of independent, third-party validation services for vendors of IT products, components and services. Due to Tolly’s unique visibility into the industry, we also provide consulting on product design, quality assurance and Alpha/Beta Testing. For more information, visit www.tolly.com or e-mail sales@tolly.com.

New ioControl n5-SPX Solutions

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•  Server Performance eXtension solutions deliver ~5x more VMs with same footprint •  The first hybrid solution to include server caching •  End-to-end (host-to-storage) memory-attached flash infrastructure •  1 part number, 1 vendor, 1 support organization, pre-tested, pre-sized for simplicity

•  3.9 TB flash (1.5 TB in 2 servers, 2.4 TB in hybrid) •  48 TB ioControl shared storage •  ioCache Direct for 2 servers •  Simplified, single part number HA for application clusters •  3 or 5 year 24x7 support included

•  4.7 TB flash (2.3 TB in 3 hosts, 2.4 TB in hybrid) •  48 TB ioControl shared storage •  ioCache Virtual for 3 servers •  vMotion, VMware FT, VMware HA, managed by vCenter •  3 or 5 year 24x7 support included

n5-SPX for 2-Server Application Clusters n5-SPX for 3-host VMware Clusters

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Hybrid Storage

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Server Cache

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Hybrid Storage

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Server Cache

Virtualization Performance Results

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VM Workload (64k, 50% random, 50% read)

Other Hybrid n5 SPX

Conventional Hybrid

(NVM+SSD+Disk)

ioControl n5-100 (PCIe+Disk)

ioControl n5-SPX (Server Cache+PCIe+Disk)

Virtual Machine Workload 360% More IOPs

vs Conventional Hybrid

170% More IOPs vs Conventional Hybrid

Database Performance Results

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Other Hybrid n5 SPX Other Hybrid n5 SPX

380% More IOPS vs Conventional Hybrid

250% More IOPS vs Conventional Hybrid

Learn more: Download the full Tolly report: http://get.fusionio.com/iocontrol-tolly-white-paper Join our live webinar/demo: http://www.fusionio.com/learn/iocontrol/

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