LTFS & Storage: Today and Tomorrow Chris Wood Director of Product Management, Axiom LOB.

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LTFS & Storage: Today and TomorrowChris WoodDirector of Product Management, Axiom LOB

Agenda

LTFS: Going beyond backup

Storage Musings: More than Speeds and Feeds

Oracle Plans: Axiom and ZFSSA

LTFS

Open Format Overview

Oracle’s LTFS Offerings• Use Cases• LTFS vs. TAR • Open Edition• Library Edition

Open Formats

• How Much Confidence Do You Have in Your Archive Application?

• How Do You Get to Your Data if the Application Goes Away? Say after 100 years.

• Have You Written Your Data in an Open Format?• Hint: There is no such thing as an Open backup format!

Why Store Data in an Open Format?

Oracle is committed to the continued development of archive solutions based on open formats

Oracle Statement of Direction

LTFSWHAT IS IT?

WHAT MAKES STORAGE SELF DESCRIBING?

When a file and the index that describes that file are stored together

WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT SELF

DESCRIBING FILES?

WHY DO WE WANT SOFTWARE INDEPENDENCE?Freedom to access files without proprietary software

WHY DO WE WANT FILES TO BE ACCESSIBLE?

TWO REASONS:

1 - Easily share files2 - Retrieve files in the future

INDEX

FILE

SOFTWARE DEPENDENT

INDEX FILE

SELF DESCRIBING

Self Describing Files are independent of the OS and the

software used to create them

A SELF DESCRIBINGSTORAGE FORMAT

Access Files on Tape Just Like Disk & FlashWith Open Formats

1. Insert Flash Drive

2. Download Driver

…Access Files

To Access Files on Flash

1. Insert Tape Into Drive

2. Download Driver

…Access Files

To Access Files on Tape(Written in an Open Format)

SAME STEPS TO ACCESS FILES

What are the Open Formats?

TAR

• Open

• Self Describing

• 30+ Years of Development

• Standard

• Multiple Index Access

LTFS

Open

Self Describing

Introduced in 2010

Standardization in Progress

Single Index Access

The Linear Tape File System (LTFS) & TAR are open format specifications for storing files and an index of those files together on tape, just like disk & flash

How Does LTFS Store Files & the File Index Together?

• Tape must be LTFS formatted• LTFS formatted tapes have 2 partitions

•1st partition for the file index•2nd partition for the files

LTO-5 was the 1st generation LTO media to support partitions

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LTO-5 Partitioning with LTFS Indexing

FILE INDEX PARTITIONINDEX 1 INDEX 2 INDEX 3

LTFS with LTO

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LTFS Format on Tape

FILE INDEX PARTITIONINDEX 1 INDEX 2 INDEX 3

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TAR Format on Tape

FILE INDEX

INDEX 1 INDEX 2FILE(S) 1 FILE(S) 2…

…FILE(S) 2 INDEX 3 FILE(S) 3

Oracle is Driving LTFS Standardization

Oracle Named Co-Chair of SNIA Committee Standardizing the LTFS Specification

POSIX / CIFS / NFS

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Oracle’s StorageTek LTFS, Open

Edition

With LTFSApplications Use Standard Interfaces to Write to Tape

Oracle’s Open Format Software

• First LTFS Driver To Support:• StorageTek T10000C, HP

LTO-5, & IBM LTO-5• Oracle’s Driver is Free

https://oss.oracle.com/projects/ltfs/

Oracle’s StorageTek LTFS, Open Edition Software

NDA:Coming 2013 @ OOW:Oracle’s StorageTek LTFS, Library Edition



What are the limitations of LTFS, Open Edition?

• To see the file metadata, the tape must be mounted• Only one tape can be mounted at a time• You have 10,000 tapes, which one do I want?

What Tape is My File On?

What is StorageTek LTFS, Library Edition?

LTFS, Library Edition provides a file system interface to a tape library through POSIX, CIFS or NFS commands, just like disk or flash

But, also addresses the “What Tape(s) are my files on” problem…

Visibility Into All The Files in a Tape Archive

How Does LTFS-LE Expose a standard Interface to Tape Libraries?

LTFS Library Edition

INDEX 1

FILES

INDEX 1

INDEX 2

INDEX 3

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All File Indices Stored Within LTFS-LE

Appliance

File Index and Files Stored

Locally on Every LTFS Tape

POSIX / CIFS / NFS

Interface

Summary:

• Powerful new tool to enhance the usability of tape.• But, LTFS is just infrastructure. Archives require upper

level S/W to ingest, index, move, protect, access etc. etc.

• The wide-spread adoption of LTFS will be driven by the ISV community, not by tape vendors.

Oracle’s Broomfield, Colorado Campus225,000 square feet, $70M+ Labs, Over 50 ISV partnerships

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Oracle Plans: Axiom and ZFSSA

Is it all about Flash?

You would sure think so by listening to all the analyst

and self-appointed pundits!

Sure, it’s great stuff: Eliminated Seek and Latency,

helps to close the gap between nano-seconds (Server)

and milliseconds (Disks)

But it’s pricey (8-10X HDD’s) and it wears out• Flash is not going to catch HDD prices any time soon!

Is it all about IOPS, Bandwidth and Capacity?The “My Dad can beat up your Dad” theory of Sales.

It used to be, but not anymore• 4 TB 3.5” SAS HDD = 4 Million IBM 3330 disk packs• 16 Gbit FC = 1066 IBM S/370 Block Multiplexor Channels• 1 Million IOPS was impossible 10 years ago, now it’s

commonplace

Who really gives a damm anymore?

So what is it all about?

People and Money

It’s really about money: • “Stuff” is cheap, people are not.• “Healthcare” for Stuff is a whole lot cheaper than Healthcare for

people• “Stuff” does not take vacations, cause HR problems, goof-off,

make stupid mistakes etc.

The real value add of future storage has to be about

maximizing the effectiveness of the most expensive

resource: People

Wouldn’t it be nice if storage could:

Accept a single command from an application and

provision itself, locate all paths to the application,

constantly self-tune itself as workloads change, do

whatever is necessary to protect data, never allow

silent corruption etc. etc.

This is what Oracle is working on right now.• The power of developing both hardware and software has

never been greater than right now.

Interesting Comments:

“Our goal is to eliminate, to the greatest extent possible, all People from the day to day operation of our data centers. We

simply cannot afford the TCO of humans anymore.”

Storage CTO Ebay & PayPal

“We simply can’t run a competitive service business which relies on significent human interaction to manage the equipment we host for

others and/or the equipment we own that hosts our managed service offerings.”

SVP - Rackspace

The Future?

8.5% Unemployment; the New Normal.

“Any Storage sale under a Petabyte should probably go

through the Channel.” • Executive at a very large Computer Company

“Silicon Valley adding jobs while the rest of California

stagnates”• 2012 California “State of the State” report

Agenda



Oracle Plans: Axiom, ZFSSA & Tape

The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

Safe Harbor Statement

Oracle Enterprise Tape Technology Roadmap

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

T10000B Enterprise Tape Drive

1 TB Capacity

T10000C Enterprise Tape Drive

5 TB Capacity

T10000D Enterprise Tape Drive

8 TB Capacity

Gen5 Enterprise Tape Drive

12 - 20 TB Capacity

SL8500 Enterprise Tape Library

100 PB Capacity


500 PB Capacity


700 – 900 PB Capacity

SL8500 Enterprise Tape

Library

1.4 – 2.4 Exabyte CapacityDelivered

In the Lab

5 Year Trajectory

Tape Capacity 12 – 20x

Archive Capacity 14 – 24x

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

7S Storage OS Storage OS

Unified StorageAnalyticsHybrid Storage Pool (HSP)Data ServicesOracle Eng. Integration(HCC, EM, etc.)

Engineered integration and global management

• Global Name Space Scale• HSP Advancements• Database Dynamic-Tuning (OISP)

Dynamic management and security

• Global Load Balancing• Oracle Application Provisioning• Database QoS and Analytics (OISP)• Secure Multi-tenancy

Dynamic, multi-tenantsystem management

• Elastic Scale• Global Analytics• Application Auto-Tuning

7x20 Series2TB DRAM4TB Read Flash10TB Write Flash2.5PB Storage Capacity2-node Systems

10GB/s130K IO/s

Oracle ZFS Storage Roadmap

Z3-32x Faster2x More ScalableFull Redundancy

Storage OS Storage OS

Z3-52x Faster2x More Scalable3x More Read Flash

Z3-71x Faster3x More Read Flash

Z4-72x Faster2x More Scalable




Delivered Planned

Note: ZBA is pre-racked and tested configuration of the Z*-7 system.

2013 2014 2015

R5.x Storage Services F1 Storage Services OS F1 Storage Services OS F1 Storage Services OS• QoS• Storage Domains• MaxMan• Copy Services• Replication• Application Profiles• Oracle Integration • (HCC, EM, etc.)

QoS-Driven Adaptive Tiering and Application Storage Tuning

• Enhanced QoS for NAS + SAN• MaxRep 3.0 w/ new HW• Oracle Business Application Profiles• VMware SRM, VASA, VAAI• Unified (SAN + NAS) in all Systems

Single Model Agile Scale Out with Infiniband

•Multiprotocol: FC, IP, iSCSI and IB on every system•MaxRep 3.1: One Button Site Failover

•Unified (SAN + NAS + IB)

Single Model Expanded Scale Out with Hardware Refresh

• Multi-node Redundancy• Symmetric Cache• Auto Load Balance • TP Space Reclaim

Axiom 6002–8 CU 1-64 SSD/HDD Shelves12 – 832 Drives2 - 128 RAID Ctlrs192GB Cache70k SPC-1 IOPS

Oracle Axiom / F1 Flash Storage System Roadmap

F1-102 All Oracle Hardware Base2 CU1-30 SSD/HDD Shelves24 - 720 DrivesUp to 12 Host 10g/16g Interfaces80 to 416 GB RAM Cache650k SPC-1 IOPSUp to 1M IOPS3PB Capacity

17.4GB/s (Sequential Read)11.5GB/s (Sequential Write)

DeliveredF1-108

2-8 CUs2 - 96 SSD/HDD Shelves24 - 2304 DrivesUp to 48 Host Interfaces416 to 1664GB Cache2.4M SPC-1 IOPSUp to 4M IOPSIB-Enabled9.2PB Capacity

70GB/s (Sequential Read)45GB/s (Sequential Write)

F1-216 2 - 16 Control Units 2 - 192 SSD/HDD Shelves24 - 4608 DrivesUp to 96 Host Interfaces416 to 6656 GB Cache5.8M SPC-1 IOPSUp to 8M IOPSHardware Refresh 28PB Capacity

140GB/s (Sequential Read)90GB/s (Sequential Write)

2014 2015 2016

Planned

LTFS & Storage: Today and Tomorrow Chris Wood Director of Product Management, Axiom LOB.

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