Executive Overview:Intel® Optane™ Technology Solution Selection GuideSeptember 2020

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Data Use Is Evolving

Explosive Growth. The world will create >3x more data over the next five years than in the previous five.1

Productivity Rising Fast. By 2024, productivity/ embedded data will comprise 29% of all global data and be exploding with a 40% CAGR.1

Cloud is Key. By 2025, 49% of stored data will be kept in the cloud (public and private).2

Real-time Rules. By 2025, 30% of data will need to be accessed as it’s created.2

1 IDC “IDC's Global DataSphere Forecast Shows Continued Steady Growth in the Creation and Consumption of Data.” May 2020. https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS462860202 IDC/Seagate “Data Age 2025” white paper. November 2018. https://www.seagate.com/www-content/our-story/trends/files/idc-seagate-dataage-whitepaper.pdf

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Three Steps ToOpportunity1. More data is moving from

clients and edge to the core.2. Bigger workloads must be

processed faster than ever.3. Speed and cost tend to rise

together – what if they could be separated?

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Gaps in the Memory/Storage Hierarchy

Capacity Gap

Access Performance Gap

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Improve SSD Performance

Intel® Optane™ Technology Fills The Gap10s GB

<100 ns

10s TB<100 ms

10s TB<10 ms

100s GB<1 μs

1s TB <10 μs

A New Class of Memory and Storage

Expand Memory Capacity

Intel® 3D NAND SSD

TAPECold Tier

DRAMHot Tier

HDD

10s TB<100 ms

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What is Intel® Optane™ Technology?

Transistor-less DesignData is written at a bit level,

so each cell's state can be changed from a 0 or 1

independently of other cells.

Intel Optane Technology Design isFundamentally Different from NAND

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Intel® Optane™ Technology is Unique

RevolutionaryMost significant memory

and storage advancement in the last 20 years

Write in PlaceSet or reset data as needed, no need to

erase media

Low Latency…together delivering

remarkably fast media

Byte-AddressableEvery memory cell can

be individually addressed

Intel Optane Technology is Not NAND

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In-Memory Database

The Imperative

Advanced Analytics

Virtualized & Hybrid Cloud

HPC Storage

Speed Time-to-Value and Insightfor Data-Sensitive Workloads

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Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory

For Memory:

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Cost-Effective Memory Expansion

Enables system memory expansion (Memory Mode) with 2nd and 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

Keeps data closer to main processor(s) with near-DRAM latency.

Reaches capacity unreachable by DRAM alone (available in 128, 256, and 512 GB).

Works on existing motherboards (in select modes) with pin-compatible DDR4 DIMM sockets.

Persistent Memory

Can be byte-addressable and handled as fast, persistent memory (App Direct Mode).

Enables fast reboot times in many applications, especially those that run in memory.

Lets developers build simpler, more powerful applications and future-proof data center investments.

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Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem) Modes

MEMORY MODE (MM)

Intel Optane PMem–aware OS/VMM

Intel Optane PMem–aware application

INTEL OPTANE PMEM DRAM

PERSISTENT PERFORMANCE AND MAXIMUM CAPACITY

Unmodified OS/VMM

Unmodified application

VOLATILE MEMORY POOL

AFFORDABLE MEMORY CAPACITY FOR MANY APPLICATIONS

DRAM AS CACHE

INTEL OPTANE PMEM

Total memory: Intel Optane PMem size Total memory: Intel Optane PMem size + DRAM size

APP DIRECT MODE (AD) STORAGE OVER AD

OS with NVDIMM driver

Unmodified application

INTEL OPTANE PMEM

(Functions as storage on Memory Bus)

DRAM

ACTS AS FAST STORAGE ONMEMORY BUS

Avoids the latency of the I/O bus

STORAGE ON MEMORY BUS

LARGE PERSISTENTMEMORY POOL

VOLATILEMEMORY

POOL

VOLATILEMEMORY

POOL PERSISTENTSTORAGE

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3 Key Reasons to Expand Memory with Optane PMem

StoragePersistent memory as storage for fast access combined with

very high endurance

PersistencePersistent memory-aware

applications for fast recovery and high data integrity

Large MemoryHaving more volatile memory

for larger datasets and denser utilization

Intel® Optane™ Technology Advantage

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Intel® Optane™ SSDsFor Storage:

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What are Intel® Optane™ SSDs?

Intel® Optane™Memory Media

+High Drive Writes Per Day Endurance

More Responsive Under LoadImproved latency

Predictably Fast ServiceQoS

Excellent PerformanceIOPS

10,000

0

25

50

75

100

125

150

175

100

HDD(SAS/SATA)

NAND SSDs(SAS/SATA)

NAND SSDs(NVMe)

Intel® Optane™SSDs (NVMe)

Drive Latency

Software Latency

Controller Latency (i.e., SAS, HBA)

Building Blocks End-User Value Low Latency1

Improve Storage OpportunitiesSee appendix for footnote 1.

µS

Intel Interconnect IP

Intel Software

Intel Memory & Storage Controllers

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Deliver High Write Endurance

Intel endurance ratings for P4800X are available at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-brief.htmlIntel endurance ratings for P4600 are available at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-dc-p4600-brief.html?wapkw=p4600

More data can be written over the life of the drive

20xUp to

INCREASEDENDURANCEwith Intel® Optane™ SSDs over 3D NAND

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Intel® Optane™ SSDs Deliver Low Latency

<10µs (typical) read/write access is several times faster than most NAND SSDs, enabling near-DRAM-class access performance from mass storage via the PCIe bus.

Maintains consistent performance for mixed read/write workloads under write pressure.

No garbage collection or write amplification.

Opens a range of tiering and application acceleration possibilities.

Achieve higher IOPS than NAND SSDs at low queue depths, where most enterprise workloads operate.

See appendix for footnote 1.

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Intel® Optane™ Technology Example Usages

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Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem)

Intel® Optane™ Solid State Drive (SSD)

Intel® Optane™ Technology Example Usages

Real-TimeAnalytics

Content Delivery Network

Comms

Live Stream/Hot VoD

AI/Analytics

SAS VIYA

Apache Spark

Storage

Traditional(dual port)

Dell EMCPowermax

PureStorage Flash Array//X

IMDb/NoSQL/RDBMS

Database

SAP HANA

RedisLabs/Redis

Aerospike

KX

Oracle Exadata

Both PMem and Intel® Optane™ SSD Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI)1 Database

VMwarevSAN

expandedmemory

(ESXi)

caching

(vSAN)

and

CiscoHyperFlex

PMem under evaluation

caching

and

Nutanix

PMem supportin v5.19

Caching

(coming soon)

and

MySQL

expandedmemory

Caching

(coming soon)

and

MS-SQL

expanded memory

(coming soon)

Caching

(coming soon)

and

Azure StackHCI

expanded memory

caching

and

Oracle DB

expanded memory

(Database In-Memory,

coming soon)

accelerating or tiering

(coming soon)

and

VM Density

File System Tiering

Scratch &I/O nodes

HPC

Flex Storage Node2

Infrastructure

Linux KVM

VDI

NetApp MAX Data

Microsoft Hyper-V

VMware vSphere

Software-Defined Storage (SDS)

Appliance

Ceph Block/Object

Hadoop YARN temp

VAST Data

Red Hat Ceph

1 HCI = Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: software-defined IT infrastructure that virtualizes all elements of conventional "hardware-defined" servers, typically including compute, storage, and networking. 2 HPC Flex Storage solution utilizes Intel® Optane™ DC SSD P4800X with Intel® Memory Drive Technology to enable use of SSD as storage or memory.

Intel Optane Technology delivers benefits across many workloads

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Access your hottest data fasterOptimize your

infrastructure investmentModernize your data

center with confidence

The Intel® Optane™ Technology Advantage

intel.com/optane

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Appendix: Footnote 1Source – Intel-tested: Average read latency measured at queue depth 1 during 4k random write workload. Measured using FIO 3.1. Common Configuration - Intel 2U Server System, OS CentOS 7.5, kernel 4.17.6-1.el7.x86_64, CPU 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6154 processor @ 3.0 GHz (18 cores), RAM 256 GB DDR4 @ 2666 MHz. Configuration – Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X 375 GB and Intel® SSD DC P4600 1.6 TB. Latency –Average read latency measured at QD1 during 4K Random Write operations using FIO 3.1. Intel Microcode: 0x2000043; System BIOS: 00.01.0013; ME Firmware: 04.00.04.294; BMC Firmware: 1.43.91f76955; FRUSDR: 1.43. SSDs tested were commercially available at time of test. The benchmark results may need to be revised as additional testing is conducted. Performance results are based on testing as of July 24, 2018 and may not reflect all publicly available security updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product can be absolutely secure. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more complete information visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.

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