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Sanel SamardzicSr. Systems Engineer - MIT

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VMAX All Flash

15.4TB SSD for Highest

IOP/TB/Floor Tile Density

Latency

Density

Simplicity

Engineered

Performance numbers based on 8 V-Bricks, 8k RRH

6+M IOPS, <0.5ms Latency

150GB/s Bandwidth

Appliance-Like Packaging

Software Included

Simple, Simple, Simple

One Tier, Any Skew, No HDDs


The VMAX All Flash Family

Software Package Highlights

SnapVX

Compression

F SOFTWARE

FX SOFTWARE Above +

ViPR Suite

PowerPath/VE

and more…

SRDF

D@RE

eNAS

1M IOPSRRH-8K

1PBe Capacity

64 FC/iSCSI Ports

1 to 2 V-Bricks

6.7M IOPSRRH-8K

4PBe Capacity

192 FC/iSCSI or 256 FICON Ports

1 to 8 V-Bricks

VMAX 950FVMAX 250F


VMAX All Flash 950F/FX configuration details

• V-Bricks in single increments

– Redundant dual director engine design

– 72 Broadwell CPU cores @ 2.3GHz (+ Turbo)

• Up to 3 I/O module pairs per V-Brick

– Each 4x 16Gb FC, 16Gb FICON, or 10Gb iSCSI

– eNAS 10Gb IP

• 2 DAEs per V-Brick

– 240 x 2.5” flash drives per V-Brick

• RAID 5 (7+1) or RAID 6 (14+2)


VMAX All Flash 250F/FX Configuration Details

• V-Bricks in single increments

– Redundant dual director engine design

– 48 Broadwell CPU cores @ 2.2GHz

• Up to 4 I/O module pairs per V-Brick

– Each 4x 16Gb FC or 10Gb iSCSI› NO mainframe (FICON) support

– eNAS 10Gb IP

• 2 DAEs per V-Brick (12Gb SAS)

– 50 x 2.5” flash drives per V-Brick

• RAID 5 (3+1, 7+1) or RAID 6 (6+2)


VMAX All Flash 250F/FX sample configuration

• Dual V-Brick system

– 96 cores, 4TB cache

– 80 active drives (+2 spares)

– Up to 64 host ports

– Up to 4 eNAS Data Movers

• 80 x 7.7TB flash (7+1)

– ~500TB writable

– ~1PB effective (2:1 compression)

– ~1.3PB host visible capacity (thin/allocated)

• <5 kVA, <600 lb. (w/o rack)


VMAX All-Flash Technology Refresh Example800TB usable

VMAX 20K 9 bay system

VMAX All Flash

Single bay system

10X More

Performance

40% Lower

TCO

87% Less

Energy

92% Smaller

Footprint

98% Fewer drive

Replacements

VMAX All-FlashEnterprise Data Services


VMAX All Flash Enterprise Data ServicesEXTENSIVE

ECOSYSTEM

PROVEN

PROTECTION

MANAGEMENT

AUTOMATION

MASSIVECONSOLIDATION

ENAS

BLOCK & FILE

VMWARE

VAAI & VVOLS

MICROSOFT

HYPER-V & ODX

OFFLOAD

BROADEST OS,

SERVER/DB,

CLUSTER

SUPPORT

LOCAL

REPLICATION

AT SCALE

MULTI-SITE

REMOTE

REPLICATION

SRDF/METRO:

ACTIVE/ACTIVE

PROTECTPOINT

APP RECOVERY

EMBEDDED

UNISPHERE

UNISPHERE

360

200 ARRAYS

APPSYNC

APP & DB

INTEGRATION

VIPR

STORAGE

AUTOMATION

SCALE UP

SCALE OUT

64 PORTS

64,000 LUNS

PRIORITY I/O

CONTROL QOS

CLOUD ARRAY

OBJECT / CLOUD

INTEGRATION


VMAX All-Flash Online Code Updates: True NDUUnique in the industry

• < 10 second array OS upgrade

• No component downtime

– No rolling outage upgrade

– No Failover/Failback processes involved

– No switching LUN ownership/trespass required

• Ports never drop light

– Servers never see logout/login (no fabric RSCN)

• Online downgrades work the same way

• Historical feature going back

many generations

DOWNTIME COST

$1.8 millionper day

$45,000 per hour

$750 per minute

“Thank you VMAX for giving me back my weekends”

“VMAX NDU is the gold standard for upgrades”

“Nobody knows its happening – it just works”


Remote Replication Gold Standard – SRDF

Synchronous AsynchronousMetro

Zero data loss

High performance

Scalable consistency

Extended distance

Multi-cycle mode

Remote link resiliency

Active/active

Automated failover/back

Non-disruptive migrations

2-site, 3-site, and 4-site replication

Simple: <2 minutes to configure

Up to 100km

1

42

3

Unlimited Distance

1

23

Witness

Up to 100km


VMAX Non-disruptive Migration (NDM)Migrations simplified

• Three simple steps:– Create, Cutover, Commit

• Customer usable & free of charge

• Application-level migrations– Large scale migrations

• VMAX VMAX All Flash

– Broad host support matrix

• Maintains existing replication– Snapshots & SRDF

Source

VMAX

(5876)

SRDF technology

Multipathing

SW

Host

(Single or Cluster)

Metro

Distances

SRDF

Technology

Target

VMAX All Flash

(5977)


TimeFinder SnapVX

UP TO 256 SNAPS

PER SOURCE

UP TO 1024

LINKED TARGETS

PER SOURCE

INCREASED

AGILITY

USER-DEFINED

NAMES/VERSIONS

CREATE GROUP

SNAPS IN ONE CLICK

AUTOMATIC

EXPIRATION

EASE

OF USE

TARGET-LESS

SNAPSHOTS

REDUCED

IMPACT

PRODUCTION

VOLUME

LINKED

TARGET

SNAPSHOT

SNAPSHOT

SNAPSHOT


ProtectPoint Storage-integrated ProtectionDramatically faster backup and recovery

Faster

backup & recovery

Eliminate

application impact

Reduce

cost and complexity

20x Faster

Backup

10x Faster

Recovery


VMAX All-Flash Storage EfficiencyReduces TCO

I n l i n e c o m p r e s s i o n

S n a p s

T h i n p r o v i s i o n i n g

Z e r o s p a c e r e c l a i m

4:1S t o r a g e E f f i c i e n c yC o m p r e s s i o n

2:1*

* Compression rates vary depending on customer applications and environments.

2:1 compression ratio is expected for typical OLTP workloads.

B l o c k

F i l e

Introducing XtremIO X2


Why XtremIO?

Consistent Performance Inline, all the time data services with no performance impact

App Integrated CopiesRich Application Integration. No Compromise Copy services.

Unmatched EfficiencyMaximize Efficiency with Deduplication and Compression.


Flash Optimized w/ Multi-Dimensional Scalability

New Multi-

Dimensional

Scalable HW

SW-driven

Performance/

Efficiency

Improvements

iCDM Use Case

Enhancements

New Simple

HTML-5 UI

New Metadata-

Aware Native

Replication

HTML

5

Mid

-2

01

8


Thin Provisioning

All volumes

thin; optimized for data saving

Deduplication

Inline –block

written once

No post-process

XtremIO

Virtual Copies

Super efficient –in-memory meta data

copy

Compression

Inline –compressed blocks only

No post-process

D@RE

Always-on Encryption

with no perf impact

XtremIO

Data Protection

Single “RAID model” double

parity w/ 89%

usable

XtremIO In-Line, All-The-Time Data Services


XtremIO Scale Out Capabilities

Scale-up X-Brick to

138TB

Scale-out a cluster to 8 X-Bricks of

1.1 PBu

Assumes 6:1 data reduction

Active Controller

Active Controller

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

Active Controller

Active Controller

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

Active Controller

Active Controller

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

….........

Up to

5.5PBof

effective capacity


100TBEnvironment

25TB on XtremIO

4:1 Reduction

20TB on X2

5:1 Reduction

Increased Storage Efficiency

25 better data

reduction(average)

%


PCIe NV-RAM UnitReplaces BBU in X1

• Used for data and metadata vaulting

• Increased reliability

• Reduced complexity

• Reduced cabling

• Reduce overall cluster RUs

• Leverages super capacitor

• Allows odd X-Brick supportSuper-Cap


XtremIO Virtual Copies Are Busy !XTREMIO VIRTUAL COPIES HANDLE ~40% OF IO WORKLOAD

41% 40%

59% 60%

Total Read IOs Total Write IOs

IOs to Snapshots IOs to Volumes

XtremIO Virtual Copies v/s Volumes: IOs from Entire Install Base


XtremIO Metadata-aware native replication

• Uses XtremIO in-memory snapshots

• Wizard based

• Full operational disaster recovery

• RPO as low as 30 seconds

• Immediate RTO

• Up to 1000 recover points

• “Fan-in” configurations

• Supports XtremIO High Performance

• Efficient Metadata-aware Replication

• Efficient replication - Compression

aware

Easy Operation Best Protection Superior Performance


XtremIO native replication

75%Data reduction

RPOsas low as

30seconds

=S1S2

DELTA(S1, S2)

222

Primary Site DR Site

Deduplicated and net new

blocks transferred

Just pointer

updates for

existing blocks

With up to…


4000Virtual Desktops hosted

per X-Brick

33%Lower $/desktop

25%Faster Boot Times

Up to

40%More VDI Users

80%Better application latency

2XBetter copy operations

25%Better data reduction

2X# of XtremIO Virtual Copies

4Xbetter rack density

Improved

Performance

TCO Savings

Per X-BrickImproved

Efficiency

1/3rd

Lower $/GB

Up to

Why XtremIO X2?


Emergent Non-volatile Media ImpactAddresses memory/storage latency/capacity gaps

10ns 1us 10us1ns 100ns 100us 1ms 10ms

HDD

Medium NV Media(DRAM)

(Processor

SRAM)

Memory access semantics

IO block access semantics

Low Speed Storage

Access

Latency

Re

lative

ca

pacity

(no

t to

sca

le)

Capacity/Latency Gap Fill

Faster

NV Media

$$$$ $$$ $$ $ < $ << $

Emergent Memory Domain

MLCSLC

TLCQLC

High Speed Storage

(NAND Flash)

Slower NV Media


NVM Express and I/O Latency

Source: Storage Technologies Group, Intel. Comparisons between memory technologies based on in-market product specifications and internal Intel specifications.

Latency

HDD+ SAS

NAND+ SAS

NAND+ NVMe

Drive

Latency

Controller

Latency(i.e. SAS HBA)

Software LatencySCM

+ NVMe

NVMe drives down connection latency

Storage-Class Memory technology offers ~10xlatency reduction versus NAND

NAND technology offers ~100x latency

reduction versus HDD

Slide credit: Intel and NVM Express


Dell EMC Storage Technology Evolution

Dell EMC is working closely with NVMe and Storage-Class Memory suppliers and will be a leader in integrating, optimizing, and delivering next generation flash solutions

SCSI + HDD

1988

Industry’s first Intelligent Cached Disk Array combining cache and commodity HDDs

SAS + SLC

2008

Industry’s first Enterprise Array to

support SSD Flash and automated tiering

NVMe + NAND

Next

Leadership for Enterprise Array delivering NVMe-connected SSDs

NVMe + SCM

Future

Leadership for Enterprise Array delivering NVMe-connected SCM

~15->1 ~1.2->1 ~5->1

Thank you

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