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HPE 3 PAR Storage For The All Flash Datacenter James Hall EMEA Pre-Sales - Strategy
Agenda 1 Business Challanges 2 HPE Storage Strategy and Market Position 3 HPE Flash Strategy 4 TCO - The Main Driver for the All Flash Datacenter 5 HPE 3 PAR All Flash Array and Data Services Overview 6 All Flash Array Use Cases (if time permits)
Business Drivers for All Flash 3
What are the Challenges? Poor User Experience More Applications Cloud Ready Apps Mobility LEGACY STORAGE ARCHITECTURES Increased Costs Poor Effeciency Lead to…. . Missed SLAs
HPE Storage Strategy 5
To keep pace, IT must transform into a value creator Cloud Enabled, Mobile Ready Hybrid Infrastructure Traditional IT Hosting workloads & applications Rapidly creating and brokering new services Providing hardened systems & networks Predicting threats and managing risk Managing data Providing real-time insight & understanding Responding and reacting Delivering continuously Create Outcomes Contain Cost Accelerate your rate of positive change 6
Two main design centers Five key technology trends System Defined The All-Flash Data Center Software Defined Integrated Data Software-Defined Protection & Hyper-Converged Object Storage Composable Infrastructure 7
Storage in the Composable Infrastructure Unified API Software-Defined Intelligence: Federated Data Services Fabric Fluid Storage Resource Pools: DAS, SDS, SAN VSA Software Defined Storage Object/ FIle Zoned Direct Attached HPE Synergy Storage Software-Defined Storage HPE Store. Virtual VSA System-Defined Tier-1 Flash HPE 3 PAR Store. Serv 8
HPE 9
HPE 3 PAR Enterprise Flash $1 BN joint investment with San. Disk HPE Labs – Mersister Nearly 50, 000 arrays in the field 5+ ZBs of 3 PAR deployed – Multiple use cases QTR on QTR market share gain Number 1 – Gartner Critical Capabilities 10
An Evolution In Flash Improvements Dec 2012 June 2013 200 GB SLC Dec 2013 June 2014 June 2015 Thin Deduplication 920 GB MLC 400 GB MLC Oct 2014 1. 92 TB c. MLC 3. 84 TB c. MLC 11
HPE and San. Disk Relationship Dec 2013 June 2014 Oct 2014 June 2015 San. Disk Partnership = Access to New Drives San. Disk Partnership = HPE Firmware Thin Deduplication 920 GB MLC 1. 92 TB c. MLC San. Disk Partnership – Flash price erosion San. Disk Partnership – Mersister 3. 84 TB c. MLC
HPE 3 PAR – Enterprise Class Flash Day-1 flash startups Performance – 3 m IOPs Current flash startups Efficiency Optimization HPE 3 PAR Measured 5 x 9 s Established Platforms Enterprise Class Data Services 13
TCO Benefits for All Flash 14
1 5 The deployment profiles. Traditional Best Practice Over Subscription New All Flash Over Subscription
1 6 Lets consider the TCO to Store 52 TB of Data
3 PAR Technical Overview HPE 3 PAR Architecture and Features 17
HPE 3 PAR Store. Serv ‘flash first’ portfolio The same features and functionality across the portfolio 1 Operating System Architecture Management Console 8450 / 20850 8440 / 20800 8400 8200 18
HPE 3 PAR Store. Serv platform positioning Meet requirements from mid-range to enterprise with ONE platform HPE 3 PAR Store. Serv 20000 Consolidate multiple enterprise arrays SME to large enterprise customers Market-leading performance HPE 3 PAR Store. Serv 8000 All flash performance SMB to SME requirements Consolidation of mid-range arrays 19
HP 3 PAR Store. Serv Functionality Performance Optimized Always Available Management MPH Hardware Accelerated Architected for Flash Efficient and Agile Quality of Service Replication Snapshot Application Integration Online Code Upgrades Metro. Cluster Support Performance and Capacity Planning Centralised Management GUI or CLI Full Rest. API Open and Flexible
Performance - HPE 3 PAR Store. Serv Mesh-Active cluster Consistent performance through linear data paths All Nodes active for all volumes Meshed Inter Node Connect Consistent performance 21
2 2 3 PAR Virtualization Advantages Traditional Array • • 3 PAR Store. Serv • • Each RAID level requires dedicated drives Dedicated spare disk required Limited single LUN performance Dedicated pool drives All RAID levels can reside on same drives Distributed sparing, no dedicated spare drives Built-in wide-striping based on Chunklets No pools and reservation required 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R 1 R 1 R 5 R 5 R 1 R 1 R 6 R 6 3 PAR Store. Serv Controllers Traditional Controllers RAID 1 RAID 6 Set LUN 2 LUN 3 LUN 4 LUN 5 LUN 6 LUN 7 RAID 5 Set LUN 0 LUN 1 Snapshot Pool Physical drives and Chunklets Spare RAID 1 Set Spare RAID 5 Set
Optimized - HPE 3 PAR Store. Serv Efficiency Thin Provisioning Deduplication 16 TB 1. hash signatures generated inline by the ASIC 8 TB 1 TB Zero Detect 2 TB 0001100 0001101 1111100 0001100 Buffer 1111100 3. only unique data written to SSD 000000 0001101 1111100 Zero. Page Reclaim 2. bit-to-bit compare on match offloaded to ASIC Allocate storage space to applications just-in -time, avoiding unused space Keep only one copy of recurring blocks, replacing redundant copies with pointers to the unique data Removes Zeros in flight without performance impact 23
Compaction – what counts! Roughly Speaking……. 100 TB of Hybrid 3 PAR – 5% SSD> 30% SAS> 65% NL 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 5: 1 compaction 65 TB to 70 TB of All Flash 3 PAR Same or very similar Capital or FCS model Flash TCO will be 60 -80% lower over 3 -5 years Capacity planning and management is easier on flash Increased performance and lower latency 24
Optimized - Agility and Choice Requirement Solution Absolute Performance Fully or Thinly Provisioned Oversubscription and performance Thin Provisioned Optimised for cost - Virtual Machines Thin De-dup enabled Optimised for cost -Database Compressed De-dup enabled (Future)
Optimized - HP 3 PAR Priority Optimization Manage noisy neighbours and top talkers. Before Performance After DB 1 DB 2 DB 3 DB 4 Limit DB 1 DB 2 DB 3 DB 4 Manage Performance Use Priority Optimization to prioritise or restrict workloads 26
Optimized -Federation and Online Import 3 PAR with Federation Deployment Native and Built-in Management • One-Step • One Interface Efficiency Thin Aware Performance No Impact 1 Online Import 27
Always Available - Enterprise Data Services Remote. Copy Replication for All Use Cases Synchronous Replication S Asynchronous Replication S P P 3 PAR S 3 PAR Periodic Snapshot Replication S P P 3 PAR S 3 PAR Remote Copy sync 3 PAR Remote Copy async High Availability across metro distances (up to 5 ms RTT) Disaster Recovery across long distances (up to 10 ms RTT) Disaster Recovery across continental distances (up to 200 ms RTT)
Always Available - Enterprise Data Services Point In Time Snapshots and Clones Intermediate Snapshot Full Copy
Always Available - Enterprise Data Services Snapshot Integration Recovery Manager Central for v. Sphere • Create application consistent snapshots for local test and recovery • Move snapshots directly to Store. Once for remote recovery from RMC • Only delta blocks need to be copied to Store. Once ta subsequent backups Recovery Manager for SQL, Exchange & Hyper-V Recovery Manager for Oracle • Fast point-in-time snapshot for backups of databases • Recovery from snapshot • Exporting of database backups to other hosts • Fast point-in-time snapshot for backups of databases • Increases efficiency of recoveries • Allows Cloning and Exporting of new databases
Always Available - Enterprise Data Services Snapshot Integration with Backup ISVs
Always Available - Enterprise Data Services Peer Persistence Automated Failover OS Min. 3 PAR OS Host Connectivity VMware v. Sphere 5. 0, 5. 1 3. 1. 2 MU 2 FC VMware v. Sphere 5. 5 3. 1. 3 3. 2. 1 FC FC, i. SCSI, FCo. E Windows 2008 R 2, 2012 R 2 3. 2. 1 FC, i. SCSI, FCo. E RHEL 6 3. 2. 2 FC, i. SCSI, FCo. E HP-UX v 3 3. 2. 2 FC, FCo. E 3. 1. 3 FC IBM AIX 6. 1, 7. 1 1)
Management - Encryption - DAR Self Encrypting Drives Internal or External Key Management FIPS Certified No Performance Impact 33
Management – 3 PAR CLI and REST API Dashboard: Health, Performance, Capacity at a glance Aggregation of information from up to 32 HPE 3 PAR Store. Serv arrays Search: Instantly find what you want Find objects in seconds with intelligent search that remembers previous queries Proactive tools: Identify capacity and performance issues early 1 -click templates to asses system performance health with remediation actions provided Federation: Run workloads at the right cost and SLA One-click data mobility via Storage Federation The entire HPE 3 PAR Store. Serv portfolio managed through one single console (SSMC) 34
All Flash Reduces Complexity Simplify your storage Flash SAS Flash NL Complex Management High Power Consumption Poor IOPS/GB Unpredictable Price Parity 1. 5: 1 Simple Efficient High Performance Very Predictable
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Use Cases 3 PAR Store. Serv AFA 37
General Purpose Storage Use Case 1 Flash SAS Flash NL Complex Management High Power Consumption Poor IOPS/GB Unpredictable Simple Efficient High Performance Very Predictable
Database Consolidation or DB as a Service Use Case 2 Requirement Solution Massive Performance / Low Latency AFA delivers consistent low latency and high IOPs Resilience and availability 3 PAR and HP XP 7 - 6 or 7 x 9 s Capable Strict RPO and RTOs 3 PAR and XP Rich Data Services Database Integration 3 PAR Express Protect for Databases
Database Dev. Ops Use Case 3 Solution AFA Allows 100 s of Dev. Ops to share a platform Copy Data Management Copy Management allows ultra flexibility for Dev. Ops Hyper-Visor All Flash provides better TCO vs. old hybrid assets Less database licenses – eliminate CPU wait time
Reduce Database Licensing Costs Use Case 4 Reduce CPU wait times by up to 50 -70% - Reduce CPU Core Licensing Flash SAS Flash NL Complex Management High Power Consumption Poor IOPS/GB Unpredictable Simple Efficient High Performance Very Predictable
Virtual Desktop Use Case 5 Consistent User Experience Uses less HW Lower TCO Less management Meet SLAs
Massive DC Consolidation Use Case 6 3 x EMC VMAX 40 K 12 PBs Usable 21 Racks 90% HDD / 10% SSD 1 x 3 PAR Store. Serv 208 x 0 7 x Less space Less power Less cooling 12 PBs Usable 3 Racks 100% SSD 43
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