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STORAGE DATA PROTECTION BUSINESS CONTINUITY VIRTUALISATION Next-generation EMC VNX (“VNX 2”) Technical Overview Unleash the power of flash Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 1
VNX Hardware Core Architecture Management and Integration Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Complimentary Solutions Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 2
FLASH Transformed Storage System Design is Book-ended by Opposite Technologies 1. 2 Drive Capacity & IOPS LOWEST 400 GB 1 Drive ROI SSD $/IO SSD 6, 000 3, 000 NL-HDD 0. 6 40 X better than SSD LOWEST 600 400 NL-HDD 15 K HDD SSD 16 X better than 0. 4 15 K HDD NL HDD IOPS per $ 0. 8 GB 4000 600 400 90 180 IOPS 90 180 6, 000 0. 2 $/GB 600 GB 15 K HDD 4000 GB NL-HDD 0 0 0. 5 1 1. 5 GB per $ 2 2. 5 Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 3
FLASH Drive Reliability and Data Integrity EMC Flash = Enterprise Grade Flash • SLC (Single-Level Cell) for FAST Cache • 30 writes per day per cell non-stop for 5 years • 4, 300 writes per second for a 100 GB drive • e. MLC (Enterprise Multi-Level Cell) for FAST VP • 10 writes per day per cell non-stop for 5 years NEW • 1, 500 writes per second for a 100 GB drive • Cell over provisioning, for recovery of worn cells • Cell level sparing • Load wearing, balances cell updates • Writes are spread across all available cells • MTBF >2 Million hours (HDD~1. 5 M Hr) • SSD DRAM implements write amplification A R D Email: W A Rinfo@snsltd. co. uk E Tel: 01932 H 593943 Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 4
The New FLASH-Optimized Hybrid Array The performance of FLASH with the efficiency of tiering Controller NEW Takes full advantage of the low latency of FLASH-optimized software and data services Delivers progressively lower $/IOPS at scale SSDs HDDs Moves inactive data to NL-HDDs for lowest $/GB Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 5
The new VNX Models 2 -5 x IOPS VNX 5400 VNX 5600 VNX 5800 VNX 7600 VNX 8000 Max FAST Cache 1 TB 2 TB 3 TB 4. 2 TB Max drives 250 500 750 1000 1500** Drive types File System modules X-Blades Flash, SAS, NL-SAS 1 or 2 2 or 3 2 to 4 2 to 8 I/O slots per X-blade 3 3 4 4 5 Memory per X-blade 6 GB 12 GB 24 GB 2 Protocols Storage Processors I/O ports per SP Storage I/O slots per SP Pool modules Memory per SP SP Sandy Bridge Cores CIFS, NFS, p. NFS 2 2 2 2 2 4 5 5 5 11 16 GB 24 GB 32 GB 64 GB 128 GB 4 4 6 8 16 Protocols ** Initial support is for 1000 drives Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, i. SCSI 2 x IOPS of VNX 5300 2 x IOPS of VNX 5500 2. 5 x IOPS of VNX 5700 3 x IOPS of VNX 7500 5 x IOPS of VNX 7500 Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 6
Flexible Storage Tiers NEW Optimize TCO with tiered service levels SAS back-end connect for performance and reliability • Up to 24 Gb (4 x 6 Gb) per SAS bus • Point-to-point, robust interconnect SAS (HDD) options Host LUNs SAN LUNs Flash (SSD) options • 3. 5” drives (195 drives/ rack with 3 U DAE, 555 drives / rack with 4 U DAE) NFS/CIFS NAS Volumes second AUTOMATIC DATA OPTIMIZATION • Highest performing drives • Fast Cache SSDs (SLC) – 2. 5” and 3. 5” – 100 GB, 200 GB Flash SAS (10 K /15 K rpm) Near-line SAS (7. 2 K rpm) – 600 GB and 900 GB 10 K RPM – 300 GB 15 K – ~ 140 IO/s (10 K), ~ 180 IOs per second (15 K) • 3. 5” drives (195 drives/ rack) • FAST VP SSDs (e. MLC) – ~3, 500 IOs per second • 2. 5” Drives (500 drives/ rack) Near-line SAS (HDD) options – ~5, 000 IOs per second – 2. 5”; 100 GB, 200 GB, 400 GB – 600 GB, 900 GB 10 K – 300 GB, 600 GB 15 K – ~ 140 (10 K) to ~ 180 (15 K) IOs per Highest Good performance Highest capacity New drives for next gen – 1 TB, 2 TB and 3 TB 7. 2 K RPM – ˜ 90 IOs per second • 2. 5” drives (500 drives/ rack) – 1 TB 7. 2 K RPM; ˜ 90 IOs per second A R D Email: W A Rinfo@snsltd. co. uk E Tel: 01932 H 593943 Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 7
VNX Hardware Core Architecture Management and Integration Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Complimentary Solutions Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 8
Introducing MCx Multi-Core technology to unleash greater system performance Dynamic Multicore Optimization 100% 90% 80% Core Utilization Static Core Utilization NEW 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 0% 0 RAID 1 2 3 Core Number I/O DRAM Cache 4 5 FAST Cache 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Core Number Data Services Management Available Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 9
Multi-Core Cache NEW Performance, Efficiency and Ease-of-Use Benefits Performance improvements based on: – Modularization of cache engine ▪ ▪ Delivers seamless performance, scales with cores Supports large write cache sizes (close to maximum DRAM size) – One large, shared cache, no R/W partitioning ▪ Improved read hits, fewer forced flush scenarios, no user manageable settings – Adaptive cache management and improved cache algorithms ▪ ▪ ▪ Adjusts to changing IO profiles Data can remain in Write cache after an idle flush Improved pre-fetch Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 10
Multi-Core RAID Performance Scales with Advanced Availability and Flexibility Permanent Sparing – Any unused drive is a potential hot spare – Hot Spares become a permanent part of the RAID Group, no equalization required* – 3 Policies: ▪ ▪ ▪ Recommended No Hot Spares Custom NEW Bus 2, Enclosure 0 RAID group 1 Bus 0, Enclosure 0 VAULT RAID group 2 Portable Drives – No slot to drive location dependency – Drives can be relocated between busses, shelves etc – 5 -Minute timeout before hot spare invoked – Used for bus balancing; can remove whole RAID groups for longer periods (will Fault) ▪ Have to go back in same VNX * CLI available to copy spare back to replaced drive Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 11
FAST Suite for File and Block Lower Capex with e. MLC and better FAST VP granularity FAST Cache – Caches from HDD or NL-HDD tiers to FAST Cache-Optimized SSDs at page granularity of 64 K FAST Cache, FAST VP, and File and Block LUNs SAN LUNs NFS/CIFS NAS Volumes 4, 096 times more granular FAST Cache 64 K FAST VP – Dynamically moves data between FAST VP-Optimized SSDs, HDD, and NL-HDD tiers at slice granularity of NEW 256 MB 64 K SSD HDD NL-HDD FAST Virtual Pool 256 M Deploying both together ensures maximum IO granularity LUNs may be deployed for SAN or used for NFS or CIFS Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 12
Multi-Core FAST Cache Improved Performance and Efficiency of FAST Cache Performance enhancements – New Stack Order (MCC above MCF) ▪ Reduced cache hit pass-through overhead – Increased promotion queue – Proactive clean optimization ▪ Improved responsiveness as promotions are not delayed by flush of dirty pages – Faster initial warm-up ▪ Single hit incurs promotion until FAST Cache is 80% full. NEW Upper Redirector Multi Core Cache FAST Cache Multi-Core RAID Backend Driver Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 13
VNX Series RAID Configurations New to VNX Improve storage pool efficiency Q 3 2012 17% 38% Overall Pool Savings Lower Flash Starting Cost SSD SAS NL-SAS SMALL SETS FOR SSD 4 +1 RAID 5 8 LARGE SETS FOR NL HDD +1 RAID 5 14 +2 RAID 6 Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 14
FAST VP Policies Policy ensures storage service levels are met 1 Highest Available Tier 2 Auto-Tier Maximize performance e. g. , high-performance OLTP system Optimize TCO and performance e. g. , databases with varied levels of activity among tables, or file systems with varied levels of activity across files LUN 1 LUN 2 3 LUN LUN 4 4 SSD Reduce TCO e. g. , archived or infrequently accessed data 4 HDD Lowest Available Tier Start High, then Auto-Tier Maximizes initial performance; then optimizes for TCO New to VNX FAST SUITE Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 15
Automated Pool Rebalancing Advanced pool optimization functionality 1. Storage Pool Rebalancing after pool expansion – Improves pool performance by balancing data across all drives in pool Virtual Pool ▪ Relocate within a Tier A u A to ft R er e Ex ba pa lan ns ci io ng n New to VNX ▪ Re-distributes data across private RAID groups to avoid hot spots Prior to this announcement, to address pool performance, users had to expand with the same number of drives of the original pool size 2. Load balancing within a tier EFFICIENCY – Relocate within tier, based on activity level – Occurs as part of FAST VP relocation ▪ During user-defined tiering relocation window – “No Data Movement” tiering policy WILL allow load balance within a tier Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 16
VNX Block Deduplication NEW Reduce CAPEX by 50% or More Deduplication of data at 8 KB granularity User Changes – Deduped LUNs are Thin LUNs Settable per pool LUN Read De-dupe LUN – De-dupe Engine Index Database Free Pool Storage Pool Thick, Thin and Deduped LUNs supported in a single pool Freed up blocks/slices are available for re-use within storage pool Deduplication occurs out of band to minimize I/O impact • Improves VDI efficiency • Reduce $/VM deployment costs Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 17
EMC VNX Active-Active for Block NEW Lower risk with increased availability within data centers Eliminate application time-outs – No trespass Load balancing delivers up to 2 X performance – All paths are active LUN Available for block on Classic LUNs – Ideal for apps that need highest level of availability and do not require advanced data services like FAST Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 18
Virtual Data Mover (VDM) Enhancements Lower risk with online file migrations during Tech Refresh VNX B VNX A Data Mover Migrate VDM 1 (f/o) VDM 1 Config Data Mover FS Replicator VDM 2 VDM File Systems are replicated with VNX Replicator – VDM 3 Config Data Fsids, log, config, context etc maintained Migrates paused Snap. Sure snaps Transparent to clients in most cases – – Config Data RPO set to minimum ~ 30 secs Automated migration process initiated – Config Data NEW Windows, Hyper-V, VMware, etc Failover time from 30 seconds Intended to address planned down time scenarios – Not a DR or mobility solution initially Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 19
VNX Hardware Core Architecture Management and Integration Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Complimentary Solutions Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 20
Improve Management Productivity New Unisphere Management Suite UNISPHERE Intuitive, task-based systems management Managem ent Suite UNISPHERE REMOTE Manage Xtrem. SW Cache and thousands of VNX/VNXe VNX MONITORING & REPORTING Powerful insights and planning ahead Also includes Unisphere Quality of Service Manager and Analyzer Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 21
Optimized for VMware v. Sphere Seamless virtualization experience and acceleration VAAI* offload Storage Administrator Unisphere Manage storage and VM resources in unison 10 X Less net I/O More VMs Faster response Control offload functions and integrated replication * VAAI = VMware v. Storage APIs for Array Integration v. Center Server Integration and VASA** Virtual Server Administrator Manage storage and VM resources in unison Control offload functions and integrated replication **VASA = VMware v. Storage APIs for Storage Awareness Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 22
Optimized for Microsoft Hyper-V Seamless virtualization experience and acceleration API/ODX* Storage administrator Unisphere 7 x Copy Acceleration ESI/SCOM Integration System administrator 30 x Lower CPU Utilization Manage storage and VM resources in unison Control offload functions and integrated replication Automatic Space Reclamation VM/Storage Management End-to-End Monitoring New to VNX Orchestration Automation Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 23
Full Hyper-V ODX Support Virtual Windows 8 and Server 2012 deployments New to VNX Array Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) – Offload functions to storage system to free up host cycles Improvements to SMB protocol(3. 0) 1 st in Market Copy data twice as fast with no network overhead – Multi-Channel, Branch Cache v 2, in-flight encryption increase performance and protection – Hyper-V over NAS for added flexibility Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 24
VNX Hardware Core Architecture Management and Integration Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Complimentary Solutions Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 25
VNX Snapshots for Block New to VNX Enterprise Scalability and Functionality with New Use Cases Scalability – – 256 writable snaps per LUN Thinly provision many copies High performance on writes Snap space consumed from virtual pool Source LUN Mon Advanced functionality – – – Branching (Snap of a Snap) Clone support Consistency Groups Supports delete out of order Instant Restore Packaging – Included in Local Protection Suite and Total Protection Pack SAP team 1 Dev/Test Copy Wed Tue SAP team 2 Backup … … Reporting /Analysis Other. . Proof Points • Up to 90% space savings • Use up to 256 copies Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 26
Continuous Protection with VNX & Recover. Point Data protection, replication, and disaster recovery solution • Increased performance as replication processing is handled off the array • DVR-like recovery to any point in time • Up to 90% WAN bandwidth reduction • Dynamic switching between synchronous and asynchronous replication Recover. Point Family CDP: Local Protection CRR: Remote Protection New for VNX 1 & 2 CLR: Concurrent Local and Remote Protection T 0 T+90 • Point-in-time recovery with VMware v. Center Site Recovery Manager • More affordable with free virtual RPA and synchronous replication over IP Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 27
Continuous Operations with VNX & VPLEX Eliminate downtime within and across data centers Improved availability APP APP APP OS OS OS Nondisruptive migrations and zero downtime for planned and unplanned outages Increased asset utilization VPLEX Encapsulated LUN Active-active data access, load balance and extend local VMware and clustering functionality over distance VPLEX Encapsulated LUN Flexible business operations Granular storage acquisition (pay-as-you-grow), isolate workloads and spread your investment Instance A Active Domain Instance B Active Domain Nearly 50% of VPLEX deployments have a VNX VPLEX allows for the SAME information to be READ/WRITE accessible at the SAME time in two SEPARATE locations Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 28
Application Protection with App. Sync 1. 5 Lower cost with self-service protection SIMPLE SLA-DRIVEN SELF-SERVICE New for VNX 1 & 2 GOLD SILVER BRONZE Æ Dynamic Application Protection—Optimized for Virtual Apps Protect and restore critical applications in minutes Receive alerts when SLAs are not met Enable application owners to drive protection EMC App. Sync supports VMware, Exchange 2010 and 2013, SQL 2008 and 2012, Block storage, NFS file Shares, Recover. Point, VNX Snapshots, and NAS snapshots and replication Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 29
VNX Hardware Core Architecture Management and Integration Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Complimentary Solutions Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 30
EMC Xtrem. SF and Xtrem. SW Cache PCIe flash card deployed in the server to dramatically improve application performance by reducing latency and accelerating throughput Use cases: – Local storage device for read and write acceleration – Caching device for read acceleration with data protection using Xtrem. SW Cache 550 GB e. MLC 700 GB e. MLC 1. 4 TB e. MLC 2. 2 TB e. MLC 350 GB SLC 700 GB SLC Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 31
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance Simple, scalable, policy-based file tiering, archiving, and migration Reduce Cap. Ex and improve utilization of primary storage AUTO-TIERING FAST VP EMC VNX ARCHIVING Lower Op. Ex for infrastructure Reduce backup windows and improve performance Public cloud NAS EMC Data Domain EMC VNXe MIGRATION Only auto-tiering solution for in-the-box, between boxes, and to the cloud NAS EMC VNXe Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 32
EMC Syncplicity for VNX ANDROID i. PHONE i. PAD File Synchronisation and Sharing with a Consumer-grade user experience and Enterprise-grade file protection OUTSIDE FIREWALL MACBOOK AIR i. PHONE i. PAD Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 33
EMC VNX Next-Generation - What’s New? • Sandy Bridge CPUs and PCIe Gen 3 – 40 Gb. E and 16 Gb FC ready • Multi-Core Optimisation (MCx) for RAID, Cache and FAST Cache • �Increased cores, memory, drive count and FAST Cache capacity • Scaling to one million 8 k read IOPS • �Support for 100 GB, 200 GB and 400 GB lower-cost e. MLC Flash drives • De-duplication of block LUNs included as standard • Adaptive Cache management with a shared pool for reads and writes • Improved FAST Cache performance and warm-up times • Active/Active LUN access for improved performance and availability • �More granular FAST VP segment sizes – down from 1 GB to 256 MB • Permanent drive sparing and drive portability • �VNX Monitoring and Reporting included as standard • Automated online file system migrations from Celerra and VNX systems • Drives and DAEs (not data) can be re-used from existing VNX systems Tel: 01932 593943 Email: info@snsltd. co. uk Web: www. snsltd. co. uk © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 34
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